Chords for Wildwood Flower on Mandolin!

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[C] _ _ _ [G] _ [C] _ _ _ _
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_ _ [N] Howdy, welcome to BanjoBenClark.com.
I'm your humble host, Banjo Ben.
This week we're going to learn a great basic version to Wildwood Flower on the mandolin.
Just about everybody knows this song, and everybody that knows it loves it.
This one was made popular by Maybel Carter way back in the day, and we're going to teach
it to you today.
Okay?
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of videos, get hundreds of tabs to lessons just like this one that I put up each and every week.
When you go over there, you'll find about a 20-minute lesson for this song.
I've got four different rhythm, speed, guitar tracks that you can practice along with.
Very detailed instruction.
You can download the PDF or the TEF file of this tab.
[G] And then I also have just an MP3 there on the site with [N] the rhythm track.
Actually, the same rhythm track that you just heard played behind the solo there that you
can download from the site as well.
So I invite you to check that out.
Let's dive into Wildwood Flower.
Who doesn't like some Wildwood Flower?
I know that I do.
We're going to teach this basic lesson of Wildwood Flower on mandolin and the key of
[Dm] C, which is the traditional key that people will play it in.
It's really pretty simple.
I'm going to not get too involved with my right hand, but we are going to work some
alternate picking, which is really good for [F] those of you learning how to play.
Speaking of that, you'll see beneath each one of the notes in the tab, I have this little black arrow.
So a down arrow, as is beneath that first note there, measure one, that just means that
we're [E] going to do a downstroke.
With our right hand, we're going to pluck downwards.
[G] An up arrow, we're going to pluck up.
_ The picking pattern that we're going to use throughout this version is what we call a shuffle pattern.
It's similar to what a fiddle would do.
You've heard them play, _ _ [N] dun-chicka-dun-chicka-dun-chicka-dun.
That's what we're going to be doing with our right hand throughout the majority of the song.
As we start off there in measure one, we're going to come in on the third beat of the measure.
This song is in 4-4.
That means there's four beats in each measure.
We're going to come in halfway through that measure on the third beat on the second fret
of our D string, [E] _ downstroke, and then we're going to just keep walking up [Bb] to the third
fret of our [F] D string _ [G] into the second measure, which is where our melody starts.
Just walking in, it just sounds like this.
One, [E] two, three, [F] four, [G] one.
Now we're going to get into that shuffle pattern that I talked about.
We're going to play _ that fifth fret on the first beat there in measure two.
But then for the second beat, we're going to play two eighth notes on that fifth fret.
We're going to do it down, up.
_ So one and two and.
Then we're going to move up to the [D] A string, open A [F] string, and then the third fret on
the A string.
[G] So measure two, just slowly by itself, sounds like this.
One and two [Dm] and [Am] three [Cm] and four and. Good.
Let's play that together with the pickup in measure one and the measure two.
One, [Em] two, three [F] and four [G] and.
One and two [Dm] and three [F] and four and.
Good.
[E] Now we're going to come back down in measure three to that second fret, do some more of
that shuffle pattern.
So one and two and.
And then we're going to play the [Fm] third fret.
_ _ [E] Then back to the second fret.
So measure three slowly sounds like this.
One and two [Fm] and three [E] and four and.
And you'll see [G] in measure four we had the exact same rhythm, except now we're just going
to move down.
And notice we're going to start off on [Eb] the open D string this time, do that little shuffle [D] pattern.
One and two and [E] three [D] and four and. _
It's [Gm] pretty simple.
Then when we get to measure five, we're going to make a partial [Abm] C chord.
Okay, we're going to land on the fifth fret down here on our G [C] string with our ring finger.
And then we're going to play [N] this partial C chord here, which you've probably learned
if you've watched many of my mandolin videos.
But that's the [E] index finger on the second fret of the D string, ring, [C] our middle finger
on the third fret of the A string, and then the open E string.
So we have all those down at once.
And that's what we're going to land on.
We're going to play that on the first beat of measure five, and then strum through the
rest of the strings, and then lift our ring [Gm] finger, but keep these down, and play that
[C] open G string and strum again.
So measure five slowly sounds like this.
_ _ _ _ _ _ Pretty simple.
Let's just play [Eb] measures one through five very slowly.
One [Em] two three [F] four.
[G] One two [Dm] three [C] [E] four.
One _ _ [F]
[E] three four.
[D] _ _ _ _ [A] _ [D] _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Am] And so we get into measure six.
[G] _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ [Am] _ _ [G] _ [C] _