How to Play Westfall on Mandolin

If you like Okkervil River and you play mandolin, you should watch this!

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• mandolin
• music
• okkervil
• river
• thomas
• westfall
• zach

[interiordecor]

thanks for taking the time and effort to do this, zach! this is awesome.

[forthecaptain]

finally!! :D :D

this is really good zach!

Thanks alot!

[mandar313]

This song inspired me to learn to play the mandolin. This is great, thank you!

[UsvTheMan]

just wanted to say, i saw you at emo's i believe, and you smashed your mandolin after the solo to this song. it was amazing

[mutecavalcade]

@schwipschwap He did show strumming patterns and, honestly, if you can figure out the chords and solo you should be able to get the strum, or at least make up your own. This video is fantastic. Thanks a lot!

[Voltalocke]

Zach,

more okkerville river songs on mando! :)

[suzanne78704]

That's great! Thanks for posting, Zach!!

[koll12]

I love this song so much. Thanks for this.

[schwipschwap]

we already knew the chords. its the same as guitar. simple enough. we also realized the scale the solo was built on em. all of that is easy enough but the real question is how the manolinist strums the chords. that honestly to me is the hardest part of the song. the theory behind it is simple enough, a guitarist could use this video and figure out the song, but for a mandolinist learnign its harder to grasp the way that the song is strummed. none the less, thanks for what you have shown.

[zephyrguy]

great video, makes me want to learn mandolin!