Dear All,

How do you people approach designing tasteful mandolin breaks for  
songs? Start with the melody, or play out of chord positions, or just  
opening the box o' tricks & licks? I'm trying to play in the Monroe/ 
Compton vein of mandolin playing, and I find it hard to come up with  
new stuff still within this style. How do I approach it?

For example, I'm now trying to come up with a break to the Townes Van  
Zandt song 'White Freightliner Blues', and it's not really coming  
along. (The problem is I'm supposed to play this song in front of a  
'trusting audience' this friday, so I'm running out of time!)

Anyway, the song is kind of fast (for me) and the chords are:
C/C/G/G/(X2)
D/C/G/G

How would you approach this?

Thanks,
Jonas

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