Soldier's Joy
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Tom BekenyLearn ‘Soldier's Joy’, an old-time fiddle tune in D major that crossed into the bluegrass repertoire, with Tom Bekeny playing it slowly and then up to speed on mandolin.
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Lesson transcript
Soldier's Joy - An Instrumental Piece in D Major
All right, let's move on to another piece.
Overview
This is an instrumental piece called "Soldier's Joy" in the key of D Major.
- I believe this piece originates from old-time fiddle music and has found its way into the bluegrass repertoire.
Tempo and Execution
Key of D Major.
- It sounds like this:
- I'll play it maybe at a slower tempo at first and then take it a little quicker.
- I'll also start it off like I showed you in biolum Cabbage, setting the tempo with just a kind of a vamp.
B Section
Let me play just the B section again for you, and then a little bit faster.
It would sound like:
(insert audio sample here)
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Meet your guru
Meet your guru
Tom Bekeny is a mandolinist, fiddler and seasoned mandolin teacher who has performed and taught in the U.S. and abroad for over 40 years - so when he breaks down how to play, you are learning from someone who has spent a lifetime both on stage and in the lesson room.
He was the mandolinist in such San Francisco Bay Area bands as Done Gone, Tenbrooks, and an early version of the Grant Street String Band with Laurie Lewis. He has appeared with Peter Rowan, the Rowan Brothers, David Grisman, George Cole, vocalist Lua Hadar, and Jerry Garcia. Tom has played mandolin with the highly acclaimed Kathy Kallick Band for almost 20 years and has held the fiddle spot with California's premiere traditional bluegrass band, High Country, since 1988. He has recorded with many of these groups and was featured in the Summer 2009 issue of Mandolin Magazine.
Tom also plays in the wildly popular trad bluegrass "jam" band, Bangers and Grass, alongside west coast bluegrass luminaries Jim Nunally, Steve Pottier, Bill Evans and Chad Manning.
Beyond bluegrass, Tom plays jazz mandolin with his trio The Missing Man Quartet (MM4), which plays straight-ahead jazz with original arrangements drawing material from the world of jazz and Great American Songbook standards. He released a solo CD project ("Jazzolin") in 2013, on which he plays mandolin and fiddle backed by drums and bass.
