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Mandolin Basics: Installing a Strap

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  1. Tom Vasquez ·

    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. Buddy Vann ·

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

  3. Owen Brady ·

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

  4. Bill Threadgill ·

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

  5. Ben Clark Instructor ·

    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.

  6. Bill Threadgill ·

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

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