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How to Play Potatoes

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Step 23 of 49 in Beginner mandolin

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  1. 20 Bill Cheatham- Melody
  2. 21 How to Play Slides on Mandolin
  3. 22 How to Play Pull-Offs
  4. 23 How to Play Potatoes — you are here
  5. 24 Cripple Creek Up next
  6. 25 G Major Scale Study
  7. 26 Jamming in G

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When you're hungry for a fiddle tune, it's time to serve up some potatoes! Potatoes teach us the tempo and timing of the song to come, and we should all spend a little time in the kitchen.

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  1. Gene Sowell ·

    I keep losing the timing when I add the backup. Does anyone count this out loud or is that just me?

  2. FifthStringFred ·

    Welcome aboard — you picked a good one to start on.

  3. Katie Clark Support ·

    Try measure 3 on its own at half tempo, and keep your right hand rolling even when the left hand is behind. The right hand is the metronome.

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