Chet's Blues Chet Atkins    Transcribed by Mike Joyce   U.K. Video Transcribed from a video
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I found it to be really charming and decided to transcribe it.  It doesn't have any name so I've decided to call it "Chet's Blues".  

After completing this transcription and thinking about it quite a bit,  I think that a more interesting way to play it would be to take the last 12 bars and play them first, maybe even rubato as Chet did in his demostration.  Then play the 1st and 2nd verses in strict time.

I didn't add the chord diagrams as there is a video.  Per Chet's admission there's only 4 chords per pass (although one or two get played in a couple of positions.

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