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Mandolin POV Pickalong: Unclouded Day

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Let’s pick! The point of the Pickalong lessons is not to teach you a tabbed solo or backup, but to get you actually playing along by using your eyes and ears! Don’t forget that you can slow down the video!

Improvisation Key of G

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  1. Tom Vasquez ·

    Got about 80% of this one down but the third measure keeps tripping me. Anybody else find that part awkward at speed?

  2. Deb Carrigan ·

    I had that exact problem. Turned out my thumb was anchoring in the wrong spot.

  3. Theresa Nickels ·

    Count it out loud. Everyone says it and everyone's right.

  4. Wes Pittman ·

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

  5. Ben Clark Instructor ·

    Great question. That's a slide going into the B part — I play it as a slide but a hammer-on works fine if that's cleaner for you. Do what sounds right.

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