Scott Conroy demos some licks from "Battle of Evermore". The first section is originally 2 mandolins, and one of them has an echo track. Here's the two mandolin parts arranged for one mandolin.
YES!!! This is perfect for learning. I am just following along and pausing and restarting. So much better than some of the tutorials. I only just started Mandolin so just found this
Sounds great man. This is definitely my preferred version. Sounds much closer to the studio recording to my ears. While it's true he never really played it the same way twice I hate when it's deliberately performed or taught in an overly complicated way. It's a simple song with tricky timing, not the other way around.
The more I listen to the original the more convinced I am it's a single mandolin with a tape delay. I think the "secret" is something Jimmy Page mentioned in a 1977 interview: fingerpicking.
I paid for a video from some guy from Hal Leonard Publishing, as I recall, and he said it's very likely one mandolin with a tape delay. I didn't believe it. Then he demonstrated it with a tape delay. I am now 99% sure he was right!! It's a tape delay. Try playing it without and it will never sound right.
I was curious about that myself. Because the album sounds a little lower. Plus I really appreciate his Pace on this, most people want to play it way too fast, I've been guilty of it myself
WRONG! It begins on the C chord. 0:32 you're also doing the second part of that strumming part on the C wrong. The second part is the same fingering moved down one fret, but don't use the index finger, play the open D note on that string. Yet more errors at the end. You're using entirely wrong chords towards the end. It sounds more like, george formby, cleaning windows than battle of evermore.
