Alternate Picking Exercise
mandolin beginner
In this lesson
- Part 1 preview
- 🔒 Part 2
- 🔒 Part 3
- 🔒 Slow
My goal in this exercise is to ingrain alternate picking deep inside your brain membrane! This will increase speed, tone, and evenness in your pickin'. We do this by playing a 2-octave G and A major scale while adding a series of hammer-ons and pull-offs to CAUSE you to learn alternate picking. Follow the pick stroke arrows in the tab!
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♥ 2
Sharon Kile
I keep losing the timing when I add the backup. Does anyone count this out loud or is that just me?
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♥ 3
Patty Lindstrom
Not just you. I still count this one out loud and I've been at it four years.
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♥ 8
Gary Feldman
Metronome at 60 and no faster until it's clean twice through. Boring but it works.
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Karen Doyle
Welcome aboard — you picked a good one to start on.
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Dale Hutchins
Welcome aboard — you picked a good one to start on.
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♥ 30
Ben Clark Instructor
Glad it clicked! That timing is the whole point of this lesson, so if that landed you got what you came for.
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Curtis Rhodes
Take the capo off and play it in open G a few times, then put it back. Helped me hear it.
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