Ok, I figured out most of Whiskey Drinking man using GCF, (playing in Bb, I'm told).

However, I'm finding some things are not a fit. Seems I'm playing in too high of an octave up on the CF rows, even though I'm playing at the low end of the scale. Also, there's one little noodle that, though doable, just seems too awkward to do on the GCF.

I thought Roy always played GCF. I'm thinking on this one he played FBE. Any feedback?

Is there a recording of this somewhere? I am not familiar with that song.

It's off his Cd, Whiskey Drinking Man.

I'll send you a link. I think I have it online.

It seems pretty clear to me that Roy used an F/Bb/Eb triple row for this song. It is in the key of F, and played on the middle and inner rows.

BTW, this song is a good illustration of using the flat 3rd note.

99% of zydeco is played on the pull, 2nd position

if you can;t work it out that way, it is probably a different keyed box

to play in the key of Bb, that would call for the Eb row

you don;t mention what key you are trying to actually play it in..

if you are doing it on the C and F rows, the 'zydeco key' would be G
[[most likely only using the flat 3rd from the F row]]

wle

I was trying to play it in the exact key that Carrier was, but, seems I was off. After I got my piano keyboard, I realized I was misinterpreting the Transcribe spectrum view. Instead of the tallest note curve shown on there, I should have been looking at the tallest pointed curve.

When I play it, people say I'm playing in Bb. I play on the C/F rows.

The video I put up on it shows how I play it. Check link #2

yeah ok i don;t know key either right now
i see it is the roland so all bets are off :)

but
i would not cross rows except to get the flat 3
you are crossing to get the IV chord on the pull
i;d just stay on the same row and push it instead

roy probably did cross at a lot of odd times, but that was because he didn;t have the regular number of fingers on the right hand

wle

i was playing gcf on that video, since I thought that was what he was playing. And I just forced it to work on the GCF, for the most part.

There's a blues song he does "I'm the one you want", I think, and I was playing up in that same section, and I'm guessing I need to switch box format.

When played on an F/Bb/Eb triple row, it is in the key of F, played in the 2nd position on the 2nd row. Think of that as the "home" position. But, there's a whole lot of going across the rows happening here.

I posted a video on YouTube showing how I think this song is done. See Link# 1.

This is a good, simple song that illustrates several important things about playing Zydeco on a triple row. It has the flat 3rd. It has the F may triad played on the pull, with the root note, F, grabbed from the inner row. Other things too, which I try to point out on the video.