Just a Closer Walk with Thee, Part 1

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Learn to transfer what you know on the mandolin to its bigger cousin and how to exploit the octave mandolin’s potential for more complex, guitar-oriented accompaniment styles. For intermediate mandolin, fiddle, or guitar players with a basic knowledge of their instrument.

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“Inverness” comes from fiddler/mandolinist John Mailander, who recorded it on his album Walking Distance. It’s a beautiful, contemplative melody that alternates measures of 6/4 and 4/4. Joe walks you through the second part of “Inverness” in this video.

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Just a Closer Walk with Thee

Just a Closer Walk with Thee, Part 1

Just a Closer Walk with Thee, Part 2

Just a Closer Walk with Thee, Part 3: Upper Octave

Just a Closer Walk with Thee, Part 4: Play-Along Track

Just a Closer Walk with Thee, Part 1

"Just a Closer Walk with Thee” is a traditional gospel song likely dating back to the 1800s. It’s one of the all-time great melodies. The author is unknown but the first recording was by the Selah Jubilee Singers in 1941. You’ll learn the melody in the key of C as well as ways to dress up and create variations on the melody with double stops, syncopation, bass notes, chord substitutions, and more. In this video, Joe shows you the basic melody and ways to dress up the first half of “Just a Closer Walk with Thee.”

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