My first beginner mandolin tab, Baby Please Don't Go by Light'nin' Hopkins. I really like playing this tune in E on the guitar, so now I'm learning mandolin I had to work out an arrangement of it. I wrote it in D Maj in order to make use of the open D for bass.
This tab is in PDF format. I don't have a paid tabledit prog yet, so this is in a text format without standard notation. Sorry about all the limitations.
I tried to indicate some of the technique I'm using, and there is a key near the bottom for de-ciphering what I've written. While this arrangement is a long way off from the same timing and licks that Light'nin' plays, it plays fairly close to the spirit of his song. I suggest listening to and watching him play the song if you're not familiar with it, to get a feel for the shuffle beat and the original guitar licks. Lightnin's guitar is tuned a step high, so he is playing here in F#
If you put my tabs into tabledit, be sure to set the syncopation to 2 so you hear the shuffle somewhat in the MIDI playback.
If you improve on this, or develop your own arrangement, please share it with me. At present, I am unable to provide a video or mp3 of this arrangement. To download the PDF, click on the black box below:
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