Dill Pickle Rag   Originally "Dill Pickles Rag"   By C. L. Johnson Transcribed from the RCA Camden LP
 "Chet Atkins and His Guitar" 
TablEdited by Michael Joyce
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C       @  Measures 100 and 101 were the most difficult for me to try to figure out.  The notes are played pretty clearly and I believe that I have the right tones, but just what strings and frets Chet played this on, well, that's a mystery.  I tried every combination that I could think of and the fingering and strings shown are the ones that come the closest to producing the sound and speed (at least with my clumsy fingers) Chet managed.  Needless to say, someone will probably have a better solution and I welcome it!! 

Measures 8, 9,      I'm pretty sure Chet played these two measures like this.  Note that he goes from the pretty much "straight eights" in the previous measures, to "ragged eights" for this measure.  I prefer to play this as shown in the extra measures at the end of the piece.  As Chet evolved over the years, I believe that he may very well have fingered this measures as this is more a '70's Chet style.


Also included  is Jethro Burn's 32-measure mandolin solo.  I also arranged that part as a flatpicking guitar break.   Note that I put the guitar part at a dynamics level of "pp" and the mandolin at "f".   If you prefer to listen to a guitar part instead of a mandolin break, just reverse the dynamics on the two parts.

I don't know anything about mandolins except I like to hear Jethro play one.   So I transcribed the mandolin break using guitar strings and playing it really high on the neck.   I arranged it as a guitar break a la Doc Watson et al and it sounds an octave lower than the mandolin.  I welcome a mandolinist's input on these.  Actually I'd like to be able to play this break on the guitar and maybe some other guitarists would, too!!  

I believe that Homer was probably playing rhythm guitar on this cut.  As I believe it preceded stereo, it was difficult to impossible for me to separate some of the sounds.  The chords I have for Chet are pretty close what I heard on the record, but I have to admit, it was a 'best guess' effort at times.

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