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I wasn't really trying to duplicate the melody of freight train based on your 4 string arrangement, that part I got from the strumstick site (which is apparently also tuned 151) but a few of the notes have just never sounded quite right to me. It was the alternating 3rd and 4th strings that fill things out and get a rhythm going that your 4 string version helped me with. (though in retrospect it's covered in your 3 string lessons but I never thought to try it here!) Playing your version in my head sight reading the tab I'm really looking forward to seeing how it will sound when I try playing it!
The only complaint I have about all the help from the nation with helping learn to play is I haven't had time to pick up my tools and build another box in months, heck I still haven't even finished carving the piece of elk antler a friend gave me to make a permanent nut for this one :) Thankfully it hasn't been a big burden since my workshop is my patio and being summer here in Yuma it's been way too hot to work out there! Another month or so and I'm hoping I can make progress on my other projects.
http://www.cigarboxnation.com/photo/freight-train-by-elizabeth
I finally gave in this evening and drilled a soundhole which has made a noticeable difference in volume, so hopefully next time the dog and kid won't drown out the guitar quite so much :)
(FWIW - Freight Train was one of my favorite songs that my dad used to play when I was a kid, so I've been trying to figure out a 3 string arrangement for awhile. I got the basic melody off the strumstick site but it wasn't until I saw Keni Lee's four string arrangement that I figured out how to start rounding it out a bit. Still very much a work in progress...but at least my daughter seems to be enjoying listening to me figure it out!