Battle of Evermore Mandolin Lesson 

Thanks for posting. I've been a guitar player since 1979 & just picked up my first mandolin about 2 hours ago & found your video. I have to clean up my playing but I am playing the song .

This is the lesson that I will learn it from, when I get a mandolin. I love it!

Nice lesson, made a fair run at it as soon as I picked up my mandolin. Just got Going to California under my belt and this one is a natural one to follow up with.

just got my first mandolin and this lesson has got me sounding decent already! thank you so much!!!

This is the best video for learning this song I've seen anywhere. I watched Nancy Wilson do her version, but she doesn't really explain it very well. I followed everything pretty well until the fourth part, then I couldn't tell what you were doing with some of the phrases. I'm blind, so I think some of it was shown, but not described.

By barring the B and D strings and then playing the open A and E it allows people like me with fat stubby fingers to play to play that chord with all the strings ringing. Great Tip! Thanks…

Excellent job with your playing and explanation - very helpful and a real treat to watch. Thank you.

THANK YOU - your note in the second part makes it sound right, and I'd been missing it. Very grateful.

Page often used his thumb to fret the low strings. He mentions it in an interview in the 80’s.

this would be a good excerise to practice mandolin for. im learning mandolin always looking for something new

The weird chord with the F# note is A6. Sometimes a 2nd mandolin or guitar plays Am during it as well.

Been searching so hard for this!!! Thank you!

Nice catch. You're right.

Loved . Can’t wait for practice time

Nice job, Dude! Thanks for the lesson!

Excellent and informative video. And you seem to a great guy, too! 😷

That sucks they pulled your first video. RU-vid is very stupid lately. Great video none the less!

Fantastic video! Thank you for this. Do you by any chance have a tab for it?

Thanks! I wish they had done more songs on mandolin.

Thank you Sir! Very helpful

Excellent!...I am learning this one now.........Thx........:)

awesome video ,,,,great sounding mandolin

Enjoyed the video. Thanks!

You built that mandolin? Sounds absolutely amazing! I've been in the business of old mandolins and Lloyd Loars for over 20 years so I can vouch for the fact that your mandolin rips!

Thank you!

Nice job!

Either way pretty awesome lesson thanks !

What's the outro?

Nice job.. Any hints on websites to learn mandolin chords?

thank you man.

Butch is right the dominant mandolin playing in all of Zeps studio & live tunes is all John paul Jones, jimmy only played it live to accompany John's virtuosity in the very early days where John would play a soloing type of style over jimmy. The only reason jimmy plays it on battle of evermore is because its all chordal the rest of their repertoire like going to california, thats the way, hey hey what can I do, and battle of evermore (studio version) is all John Paul Jones. On the studio version of battle of evermore, that is John Paul playing all the (doubled) mandolin parts with jimmy only playing acoustic guitar. How do I know? Didn't read it somewhere just my ears listening to the level of ability being applied on the instrument tells me its John's mandolin work we are hearing. Amazing player: think about it bassist, guitarist, mandolin, piano, mellotron, organ with footwork, and orchestral arranger

if copy right Gods make you pull it you must be doing something amazing!! haha too talented for RU-vid

On Harp Guitar tuned ln low A s( as averse to high Es) put a Joe Walsh song up and 30 views tuned in A ,I got copyright " flag' ,while the great Canadian musician Jamie Dupuis,put the same up on harp guitar to something like 68,000 views.I myself enjoy tuning Fiddle and Mandolin to Contralto D ,or D A E B.Old Chris a retired fiddler of Albuquerque NM

Jon Paul Jones wrote it..It's obvious watching the 2 play. JP Jones is far more accomplished as a Mando player. IF you listen closely to the original recording... it's 2 mandolins, thus the confusion over some of the chords.

Is that a Gibson “F” style mandolin? A bit of trivia is the Gibson “F” style mandolin was the original inspiration for the white guitar Prince used at the end of the movie "Purple Rain." In the 70s a man named Jeffrey Levin made a Bass guitar based on the look of the Gibson. He did not like it and he put it up for sale. In 1979ish, Prince bought it. In 1983, when they were getting ready to make the movie they took the bass to a man named David Rusan to make a guitar version as a prop for the movie. On a side note the song "Purple Rain" was mostly recorded live at the night club from the movie and he used a Mad Cat Hohner telecaster knock off...

Would suggest Page doesn't use his thumb over the G&D strings for the Am G Am C parts, but does for the 3rd part of the song playing D, going down in the G position as you called it 7:27 which makes it far easier for those runs. Thanks so much for you help in this.

What about the outro?

So Jimmy Page is now the Richie Havens of mandolin!

Great video but please show or tab the two lead lines slowly..

Thank you for the lesson, Mr. White. #breakingbad

Not Jimmy, but John Paul Jones played the mandoline in this song. I love the version from Nancy Wilson, found here : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FMyn1ItURys.html. Starts at 2:22.

You missed lots out. What happed to the whole chorus??????

I'm not sure the F# along with the barred G & D works for me on the verse, I think it might work in instr sections. Verse is Am which is why D & G are barred.

Ha! You said you watched Jimmy Page's videos and "its never the same." Don't you know "The Song Remains the Same?"

You are the only guy that has this right on the Internet. Thanks, Boulder.

YOur mandolin is such a beautiful instrument that, putting that orange strap over the curl really detracts it's beauty. It's like musicians who put duct tape and stickers on a Gibson ES-semi hollow guitar with F-holes.

Great video, thanks!!, you remind me a bit of Walter White 😂

What battle is this?

Nancy Wilson does an amazing interpretation of this. Lots of finesse. She basically replicates the studio version, which is overdubbed at least once if not twice, and does it live. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FMyn1ItURys.html

Good video, wish you would show your picking hand 😓

I am happy that people like you still remember good music, not like now, just music shit

You are completely next door ...........

This sounds incredible on a 12 string bowlback !

I hate censorship...everybody has to think the same? Cant post something someone may not like...and who decided that? Censorship is communistic....except for cases of vulgar profanity and explicit hate jargon!!