I started looking at this tune yesterday and would appreciate some advice from the established players on how best to approach this tune.
Here is the abc for it:
X:001
T:Angeline The Baker
% Nottingham Music Database
S:Texas Old Time, via PR
M:4/4
L:1/4
K:D
|:d/2B/2|"D"AB d3/2A/2|Bd2d/2B/2|AB d/2B/2A|"G"B3d/2B/2|"D"AB d3/2e/2|\
"D"fe "Bm"d3/2e/2|"G"fe dB|"A7"A3/2B/2 A::
f/2g/2|"D"af ed/2e/2|fe df/2g/2|"D7"af ed|"G"B3/2B/2 Bf/2g/2|
"D"af ed/2e/2|"Bm"fe dd/2e/2|"D"fe "G"dB|"A"A3/2B/2 A:|
The way I would normally play this on mandolin/with fiddle players is just with two chords: D and G, so I'm disregarding the other chords.
My initial problem is that if I start this on the push on my Corona II, the G chord is also on the push, so there's never an opportunity to pull the bellows out sufficiently to get enough air for playing the song more than once through.
If I start it on the pull, the push renders the G chord, but then I have to work wide stretches across all three rows to hit the melody notes while on the D chord.
I suspect the problem is that I need to be doing more small amounts of push and pull more frequently and this maintain the bellows in a sort of medium position, but I need to experiment more.
Can anyone advise what my best approach would be?
Many thanks,
Will