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Wayfaring Stranger is a song that I wanted to learn for a long time.

The fundaments for this arrangement come from David Hamburger's Fingerstyle 5 lessons.

I searched on Spotify and listened to many different versions to get additional inspiration for my own arrangement.
I liked the cover by Johnny Cash on his album "Johnny Cash - American III: Solitary Man" the best and adopted some of the violin intro and solo.


Wim.

 

 

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Really nice arrangement, Wim.  Really nice.  Thanks for sharing it.

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Wonderful Wim - That was really well done!

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That was very good rendition of an old classic folk song Wim, great tempo throughout. The timing of your post is uncanny. Last week we watched a movie on Netflix, titled "1917". At one point in the movie, the troops were resting in the woods before a battle. At this time one of the soldiers sang, "Wayfaring Stranger", it was haunting to listen to given their situation. I turned to my wife and said, I have to learn how to play this song. Hopefully I can learn to play it as well as you have demonstrated.

Henk

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Thanks, Ron, Dave and Henk.

@Oldjock Henk, I have also seen the film "1917" and liked the pure vocal version of the song too.

I got to know this song from another movie "The Broken Circle Breakdown" about a Bluegrass band. The clip is on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LprqBP0JTw). It contains some great dobro slide playing.

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I've always loved that tune. Very nicely done.

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Very popular here in SE Kentucky for quite a while. Good song

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Thanks for sharing. I've been working on the fundamental version of this for a while. Hope to get to embelishments at some point. 

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