Ashokan Farewell, Part 1

from: Bluegrass Mandolin: Beginning to Advanced with Sharon Gilchrist

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Learn bluegrass mandolin with Sharon Gilchrist in this collection of essential lessons from her Peghead Nation courses, designed to take you from beginning technique and must-know bluegrass tunes, to intermediate fretboard theory and songs, to advanced soloing techniques, and much more.

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Once you know the arpeggios based on the L shape, you can easily find double stops to harmonize the melodies of the songs you’re playing. Sharon shows you two handy double stops in the L shape for D, G, and A, and gives you a couple exercises using them.

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Ashokan Farewell

Ashokan Farewell, Part 1

Ashokan Farewell, Part 2

Ashokan Farewell, Part 3: Harmony

Ashokan Farewell, Part 4: Play-Along Track with Harmony

Ashokan Farewell, Part 1

The beautiful waltz “Ashokan Farewell” was written by fiddler Jay Ungar and famously featured in Ken Burns’ documentary The Civil War. In this lesson, you’ll learn the melody as well as an upper harmony part you can use when playing “Ashokan Farewell” with another mandolinist or fiddler. In this video, Sharon walks you through the melody, showing you how she embellishes it with hammer-ons and tremolo and uses downstrokes to play a lot of the eighth-note melody lines.

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