Chords for Arkansas Traveler Play Along Jam - Mandolin Lesson

Hi everybody, welcome back to Mando Lessons.
In this week's lesson we're going to do a little play along jam with the tune
Arkansas Traveler.
It's a classic old-time tune in the key of D.
It also gets played in some bluegrass sessions.
The way this is going to work is we're going to go back and forth.
I'll start out by playing the melody,
then I'll play the chords, then I'll play the melody, then I'll play the chords, and while I'm playing the melody you can play the
chords, and while I'm playing the chords you can play the melody.
We'll end the fifth time both playing the melody together and
just have a lot of fun with it.
This is a great way to work on improvisation or
double stops if you're already familiar with the tune, and if you're just getting used to the tune,
and there's a lesson on my website mandolessons.com where you can learn the tune by ear or with the tablature and sheet music as well
as find the chords over there, and if you're just getting used to the tune, it's a great way to play along with someone and
have a little more fun than just playing it yourself.
I'll play along at a nice moderate tempo,
but if you want it to go slower or faster you can click the gear icon in the bottom right hand corner of this video and
change the speed to 75 or 50% speed or even go up to 125, 150%.
Again, if you want to learn this tune, there's lots of lessons over at mandolessons.com as well as here on the YouTube channel.
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For now, let's jump right back in to Arkansas Traveler and get playing.
All right, here we go.
We have Arkansas Traveler in the key of D.
I'll give a couple potatoes and jump in.
You play chords the first time and I'll play the melody.
_ _ _ _ You _ _
[D] _ _ [E] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [Bm] _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ [D] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ play the melody. _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ A part again. _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [A] [D] B part. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] B [D] again. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ You play the chords.
I'll play the melody. _
_ _ _ [F#] _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ [G#] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [Bm] _
_ [D] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [C#] _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [G#] _ _
[C#m] _ _ [D] _ _ [Dm] _ [C#] _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ [Bm] _ [A] You [D] take it.
_ [F#] _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C#] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ [G] _ _ [D] _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] Both play the [D] melody.
_ [Bm] _ [D] _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bm] _ [D] _ _ [F#m] _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ [Bm] _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ _ [G#] _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [E]
All right, that was a lot of fun.
Again, if you need to check out the lesson for Arkansas Traveler,
it's over at my website mandolessons.com along with tabs, standard notation, chords, play along tracks,
everything you need to get going on this tune and hopefully you can work in some double stops,
which there's lessons for over there.
Things like that.
Always new stuff to explore over there and here on the website.
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Thanks so much.