Chords for Sweet By-and-By Mandolin Solo Lesson!

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Howdy, [D] _ _ _ _ _ welcome to BanjoBenClark.com.
I am Banjo Ben, your humble [N] and silly host here on your website home for learning how
to play guitar or banjo.
This week is mandolin week.
I've taught in the Sweet By and By on guitar and banjo and I had lots of requests to do
it on mandolin.
So we're going to do a really slick little version here.
I'm going to call this an advanced solo even though we're not going very fast just because
it has lots of great _ _ licks in it.
And that's what we're going to do is learn a lot of licks in this song as well as really
concentrate on how to use licks to express the melody.
I talk a whole bunch about just how to create solos in this one.
So it's a good one.
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Let's jump into the first measure of In the Sweet By and By.
We're in the key of C today. _
This is a lot of fun to play.
Here's what I want to do.
I want to teach you how to play each and every one of these licks but I also want to speak
quite a bit into how I go about creating licks around the melody, how to create a solo whenever
we have a melody that we need to stick with.
Let's go ahead and throw the first line of tab up there.
We're going to start in the verse.
As I mentioned, we're in the key of C.
You'll notice we're in 4-4 time.
You'll also notice those little pick stroke arrows beneath each one of the notes.
Try to follow those if you can.
Down stroke _ [G] means a down or down arrow means [Cm] down stroke.
Up arrow means up.
_ Now we're going to do a little kick off here.
We're going to start in the second beat of measure one.
[D] _
_ But what we need to keep in mind immediately is what's this melody like.
The melody goes like this. _
There's a land that is fairer than day.
It sounds like this. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ And anytime you're trying to build a solo, you want to make sure that you can play that
most basic melody.
_ Either play it or have it in your mind and know where you [D] would play it. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Now that's only a few notes, right?
But we're going to communicate all those notes in this first line of tab.
Now the kick off doesn't actually happen until the third beat.
One, two, there's a land.
But we're going to start on the second just to give it a little extra kick.
_ And then there's our melody.
_ [G] Now when we get into measure two, _ we have to think about what are our melody notes for that measure. _
Land that is_
_ Okay, so I have this long E note that I'm going to think about playing.
And here's what I also think about is that in this verse, I'm going to come to this E
note the same way four times.
That's what the melody does.
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _
That does it again. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ It does it four times.
So [G#] I'm going to try to give you some variances here of how to approach it.
The first way we're going to do it, we're going to slide into it.
That's always an option, right?
So our melody note is this open E note and we're going to slide into it from the [D] fifth
to seventh fret. _ _ _
Then walk back down. _ _ _ _
From there, measure [G] three, we have a chord change.
We go to F and the melody _ _ _ [A] goes_
So right here, I want to accentuate that melody because _ _ we're just starting the solo.
So what I want to do is play that melody, _ _ [D] but also grab a harmony note.
I have lessons where I teach you how to do that.
But we're over in F chord, so I'm going to grab an F note and play that melody at the same time. _
[Dm] _ Then I'm [B] going to add a little eighth note in there just to give it a little bit more [Dm] substance. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] And then we have a long melody note in measure four.
That is fairer than _ day.
_ So what can I do with that?
Well, I'm going to slide [G] into it, _ _ _ but I'm also going to add a harmony.
_ [Cm] _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] So let me play measures one through four and we'll play it much slower later on. _ _ _ _
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[Cm] _ _ _ _ _ We get to measure five.
We've got that same little walk in, _ _ [Gm]
but I'm going to approach the E string just a little bit different.
We're still going to slide into [D] it, _ _ but I'm going to get a little bit more _ _ _ melodic, what
I would call.
_ So we're going to work the scale a little bit more.
So we slide into it, measure six. _ _
_ I'm thinking about what my melody does.
Bum ba da dum da da dum. _ _ _ _
That's essentially what the melody does.
Bum bum bum bum bum [Gm] bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum. _
So I'm starting in measure six.
[D] _ _ _ _ _
Now measure seven, the [G] melody starts, we go to that G note.
I'm going to delay it just a half beat.
That's another technique that you can pick up is everybody's expecting you to go in measure
seven straight to that G note, right?
[D] _ _
_ _ _ _ Well, I'm going to delay it, play an E note, and then go to it. _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ And that's just a great little trick on any instrument.
_ _ [D] Now here, I'm also going to add another little trill.
And this is more of an advanced technique, but it's something that you can pick up.
We're going to do a really quick 16th note pull off in this measure. _ _
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ If you forget the pull off, just look at what notes are there.
Open [Gm] three, three, five, three, three, one, [E] open. _ _ _
But whenever I play that third fret for the second time, I'm going to do a little quick pull off.
_ _ [C] _ _ _
And [A] then here in measure eight, our melody just goes to that D note and it hangs.
Now it's going to hang for over a full measure.
So [D] what I'm going to think about is nail that melody note, and then I'm going to play some
kind of G lick, because we're over a G chord, _ that doesn't get too crazy, but we can get
outside the box a little bit.
And what this one sounds like, _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
we've got that quick slide on the second beat. _ _
_ _ [D] We're going to play five through eight. _ _ _
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[G] _ _ Now when we get to measure [C] nine_
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