Salt Creek by Tony Rice and Doc Watson
For some reason, I used to think tabs, or tablature was a form of “cheating”. For those of us who struggled to learn how to ready Western notation on the 5 line 4 space staff, a system of lines to represent strings and numbers to represent frets or fingers seemed too easy. “And it doesn’t even account for rhythm…” I now realize how stupid this thinking was, especially when I started playing guitar flat picking style. Salt Creek is one of a hundred or more tabs I downloaded and learned to play over and over with a metronome. I could never play as fast as Doc or Tony or do the string crossings and other fancy runs, but the tab was a big help to at least get the melody right.
Song a Day 2020 