Help with Ballad of Easy Rider

Hi,
a newbie here. I´m trying to learn Ballad of Easy Rider by The Byrds.

I can play it on guitar, but when I try the same chords on mandolin it doesn´t sound anything like on the recording.

I could use some pointers on the chord voicings and the picking pattern.

Thanks,

Ludde

I love this song (Byrds and especially Fairport Convention version) and have never tried to play it , either on guitar or mandolin.

So just now, I tried playing along with the Byrds version, which is very handily in the mandolin-friendly key of D, and found that starting from a D note at 7th fret on the G string while picking or strumming the open D & A strings works very well.

Then you can play a descending line down the G string while fretting the F# on the D string when appropriate.
F# is the note of the first "Flow" in the repeated "Flow, river, flow" phrase.

Hope that helps.

Then I don't play a "proper" chord until the (Em) "to" ... (A) some other (D) town.
The Em I would finger, starting from the G string:
B E b, open e

the A:
C# E, open A, open e
Then back up to D on the 7th fret.

Not exactly like the record but sounds nice to me!

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Originally Posted by Bren

Then I don't play a "proper" chord until the (Em) "to" ... (A) some other (D) town.
The Em I would finger, starting from the G string:
B E b, open e

the A:
C# E, open A, open e
Then back up to D on the 7th fret.

Not exactly like the record but sounds nice to me!

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Thanks! I´ll try it.