Fretting-Hand Technique, Part 1

from: Intermediate Bluegrass Mandolin with Sharon Gilchrist

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Learn to play solos on classic bluegrass songs and instrumentals using bluegrass mandolin techniques like tremolo, double stops, two-string melodies, and more.

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In this lesson you’ll learn the bluegrass standard “I’m Going Back to Old Kentucky” using a common technique in bluegrass mandolin: playing melodies on two pairs of strings. Sharon starts this lesson by talking about the basic right-hand technique for playing two pairs of strings at a time. She shows you how to keep the pick out on the edge of the strings and not let the pick dig in past the strings as well as how to slightly rotate your wrist so you can play all four strings (both pairs) at once. Sharon also gives you advice on practicing this technique with a metronome, with some ideas for exercises you can do.

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Picking-Hand Technique

Fretting-Hand Technique, Part 1

Fretting-Hand Technique, Part 2: Exercises

Fretting-Hand Technique, Part 1

In this lesson, Sharon gets in depth about fretting-hand technique, showing you how most mandolin players use a fretting-hand posture in which the hand is angled sideways diagonally across the frets, as opposed to, say, a classical guitar technique, where the fingers are parallel to the frets. And the palm should stay open and not rest against the back of the mandolin’s neck.

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