Salt Creek Contaminated (Mandolin Practice)

[Mark Gunter]

Proving once again that I have no shame in sucking real bad on mandolin. Here's an iPhone shoot of what I was practicing this morning. This was an exercise in taking a fiddle tune, transposing to a different key, and playing in a different mode. The key change was from A to D, so for the most part I only had to shift Salt Creek from the D string to the G string and use the same fingering - so changing the key here hardly counts for much. Then I changed the mode for the B part, playing it in D minor.

It's a definitely unpolished learning exercise, and I'm hoping some of you more accomplished players might be inspired to take the challenge and post up a version of Salt Creek in a key other than A major, and use a modal treatment on part or all of it. It may help me and others to see what you do with it.



https://youtu.be/_FDUCvB9OjA

[HonketyHank]

That's pretty neat, Mark. I wouldn't call it 'contaminated'. Maybe 'infusion'. Good stuff. Refreshing.

[wildpikr]

I agree with HonketyHank...might take a jam down the "Dawg" path for a while!