Syncopated Picking
beginner mandolin
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Have you often wondered how people play those great melodic licks on mandolin that seem to just flow like a stream? Well, now you can play them too! I've some great exercises and a 15+ minute video showing you how to begin to build those licks everyone is talking about. We're gonna work on right hand alternate picking while changing strings with syncopated timing. If that sounds hard, it's not! This one is built for mandolin pickers of all levels!
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Sharon Kile ·
Ben, this one finally made the timing click for me. Been fighting it for a month. Thank you.
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SlowHandSteve ·
Welcome aboard — you picked a good one to start on.
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Ray Dunphy ·
The pinky thing goes away, I promise. Took me about three months.
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picknGrin ·
That's the one that made me finally understand backup. Stick with it.
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Curtis Rhodes ·
There's a slower jam track under the resources tab on this lesson, worth grabbing.
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Ben Clark Instructor ·
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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SlowHandSteve ·
Take the capo off and play it in open G a few times, then put it back. Helped me hear it.