Hello I’m a mandolin player but I love the song Dooley from the dillards band. I cannot find the lesson or even just the tab for the song, where can I find this information?
Thank you
Dooley Song for mandolin
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Hey Matt, welcome to the forum!
Dooley is still under copyright law, so Ben can’t provide a lesson for it. However, the song follows a very easy-to-learn chord progression– there are only the 1, 4, and 5 chords. (It also happens to be the same chord progression as “Boil Them Cabbage Down”.) If you want to play a solo to the song after you’ve become familiar with the chords, it’s a good idea to start by simply playing the melody on your instrument (just single notes, etc.). This will help you learn the notes to “target” when playing a solo. After you have the basic melody under your fingers, you can use your knowledge of the song’s chords to play “double stops” (A.K.A. harmonies) with the melody notes. (This is just playing the melody, and playing one other note of the chord along with it.) Then, you can also start playing scales over the respective chords to add some more flavor to the solo. Soon, you’ll be able to practice along with a slow chord progression for the song, and eventually you’ll be jamming it at full speed like it’s nothing! 
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Dooley slippin’ up the holler
Dooley try to make a dollar
Dooley give me a swaller
And I’ll pay you back someday
Great song suggestion! @matthajdu
Also, Thanks @Michael_Mark for the info about the song being the same as “Boil Them Cabbage Down”
Check out banjobenclark.com/lessons/intro-to-crosspicking-forward-roll-study-guitar-intermediate Ben uses that very song as an example. You can use the rhythm tracks for your Mandolin breaks. 
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Hi @Tim_C Not sure if you play banjo but here is a useful link that groups tunes in each chord progression as @Michael_Mark points out Dooley follows the same chord progression as Boil Them Cabbage Down. So do many others.
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