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It Is Well With My Soul

guitar intermediate

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Who doesn't love this old hymn? I've had it requested numerous times for a couple years now and I'm glad to do it. This arrangement is very straightforward...we have the melody and basic chords. It's robust enough for any setting, but basic enough for you to learn if you're new to fingerstyle guitar!

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  1. Hollis Barnett

    ♥ 8

    Question on the tab — is that a hammer-on or a slide going into the B part? Sounds like a slide to my ear but the tab reads hammer.

  2. Ray Dunphy

    ♥ 1

    Recording yourself is humbling but it's the fastest fix I've found.

  3. Sam Whitlock

    ♥ 9

    Take the capo off and play it in open G a few times, then put it back. Helped me hear it.

  4. flatpick_dad

    ♥ 5

    There's a slower jam track under the resources tab on this lesson, worth grabbing.

  5. Theresa Nickels

    ♥ 4

    The pinky thing goes away, I promise. Took me about three months.

  6. Lou Ann Prater

    ♥ 9

    Recording yourself is humbling but it's the fastest fix I've found.

  7. Ben Clark Instructor

    ♥ 23

    Memorization comes from playing it at a tempo you can think at. If you need the tab, you're playing it faster than you know it.

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