Mandolin Wind -Rod Stewart

[BarryJ]

Mandolin Wind is a great tune, not exactly a hard tune to play but it does have so a useful triad move up the neck using the D shape and some moving double stops for the intro and what I for sure struggle with is getting the correct run down on the final parts of the intro which in itself is a pretty good exercise in quickly running down the double stops

I think there is only one Rod song on here Maggie May and I get that some of his songs are pretty simple just expanded by some great solo's weaved in by Ronnie Wood. Some of his best stuff is his Dylan versions mostly 3 or 4 chords although his early album version of Gasoline Alley could be interesting as a lesson

But Mandolin Wind into on the final quick run down I've tried those last two moves before the D chord closes but whatever I try never sounds right, so if you ever get to thinking of another Rod track lesson maybe you can consider it

[TGNeil]

I agree Mandolin Wind is a very cool song, and not too challenging. As you mentioned, most of Rod's tunes are not big acoustic songs, and Gasoline Alley is my favorite of his albums. One of the earliest concerts I went to as a teenager had him on stage at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds. I was not aware of slide guitar techniques but broke out a butter knife when I got home after seeing what Ronnie Wood (I assume) was doing.

And his version of Reason To Believe opened a few more doors for me.

Neil