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Amazing Grace, Build-a-Break

mandolin beginner

In this lesson

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  • 🔒 Basic Melody
  • 🔒 Basic Melody- Slow
  • 🔒 Solo 2
  • 🔒 Solo 2- Slow
  • 🔒 Solo 3
  • 🔒 Solo 3- Slow
  • 🔒 Rhythm & Chords

We start with the basic melody in G, add some filler notes, then finally land on a tasty solo that's just right!

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  1. SlowHandSteve

    ♥ 1

    Ben, this one finally made the timing click for me. Been fighting it for a month. Thank you.

  2. Sam Whitlock

    ♥ 3

    Take the capo off and play it in open G a few times, then put it back. Helped me hear it.

  3. Bill Threadgill

    ♥ 6

    Welcome aboard — you picked a good one to start on.

  4. Junior Pace

    ♥ 5

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

  5. Rita Alvarez

    ♥ 11

    Recording yourself is humbling but it's the fastest fix I've found.

  6. Ben Clark Instructor

    ♥ 15

    Answered over in the tab thread too, but short version: play what's comfortable, the tab is a map not a law.

  7. SlowHandSteve

    ♥ 10

    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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