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Exploring Backup- Ballads in C

intermediate mandolin

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Beautiful ballad backup is the bomb! We'll check out the key of C and show you how to play some purty stuff on your mandolin!

Chords Crosspicking Key of C

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  1. Marcy Kern ·

    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. SlowHandSteve ·

    Metronome at 60 and no faster until it's clean twice through. Boring but it works.

  3. Karen Doyle ·

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

  4. FifthStringFred ·

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

  5. Katie Clark Support ·

    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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