https://banjobenclark.com/lessons/john-henry-guitar
I’ve got 3 HOT solos for you in the key of G. The first is down low and built for speed. We’ll go up an octave for the second, then up the neck for the final.
Discuss the Guitar lesson: John Henry
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Is it possible that you could get a tab for the mandolin backing
Howdy! I don’t have this particular song, but most everything I do here is taught in my mandolin rhythm courses: https://banjobenclark.com/courses/basic-mandolin-rhythm
Fun song out of the seven I have picked up from this site this and the Doc Watson tribute are my favorites.
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Great lesson Ben. I played this through and in my bias opinion, I said to myself, I’ve got this. Then once I’ve played it, I go back and record it and found out that my bias opinion was just that. I noticed from the recording that went unnoticed before, that the 5th measure was not smooth.
What I was doing wrong was I was playing the open G in an earlier measure up to speed. This wasn’t hard to do, because you have 5 consecutive notes on that one string, so can really fly through it. Now in my mind, am thinking can play the entire song that fast. Then when you get to the 5th measure, is a hammer on, on the 5th string, then a roll up to the 4th and 3rd strings, then back down to the 5th string. Not possible, at least for me, to play that section as fast as I could, when everything was on one string. Didn’t realize it however, until I played back the recording, and found out I was not only slowing down in the 5th measure, but not playing it very well, which tells me my pick speed was lagging.
I went back to just play the 5th measure over and over to correct this, but if anyone has a comment or tips how you may work on correcting such rough spots, am open to hear your take.
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