Alternate Picking Exercise
beginner mandolin
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My goal in this exercise is to ingrain alternate picking deep inside your brain membrane! This will increase speed, tone, and evenness in your pickin'. We do this by playing a 2-octave G and A major scale while adding a series of hammer-ons and pull-offs to CAUSE you to learn alternate picking. Follow the pick stroke arrows in the tab!
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Sharon Kile ·
I keep losing the timing when I add the backup. Does anyone count this out loud or is that just me?
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Patty Lindstrom ·
Not just you. I still count this one out loud and I've been at it four years.
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Gary Feldman ·
Metronome at 60 and no faster until it's clean twice through. Boring but it works.
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Karen Doyle ·
Welcome aboard — you picked a good one to start on.
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Dale Hutchins ·
Welcome aboard — you picked a good one to start on.
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Ben Clark Instructor ·
Glad it clicked! That timing is the whole point of this lesson, so if that landed you got what you came for.
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Curtis Rhodes ·
Take the capo off and play it in open G a few times, then put it back. Helped me hear it.