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A Major Scale Study

beginner mandolin

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Step 29 of 49 in Beginner mandolin

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It's lessons like this that I wish I had years ago. We're going to learn most everything there is to know about an "A Major" scale, then throw in some speed exercises to get the blood pumping!

Chords Key of A Scales Theory technique

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  1. Marcy Kern ·

    Slowed the video to 50% and worked it a measure at a time. Two weeks in and it's coming. Patience is the lesson here as much as the notes.

  2. Theresa Nickels ·

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

  3. Ben Clark Instructor ·

    Answered over in the tab thread too, but short version: play what's comfortable, the tab is a map not a law.

  4. Theresa Nickels ·

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

  5. Marcy Kern ·

    Same here at first. What fixed it for me was practicing that measure by itself for a week, no B part at all.

  6. Owen Brady ·

    Not just you. I still count this one out loud and I've been at it four years.

  7. Mick Stanton ·

    Not just you. I still count this one out loud and I've been at it four years.

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