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Building Endings in the Key of A

mandolin intermediate

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Let's take the descending pentatonic scale and build FIVE endings, each getting more complex and difficult as we go! Oh yeah, now it's time for you to USE them!

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  1. Owen Brady

    ♥ 7

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

  2. Theresa Nickels

    ♥ 3

    Metronome at 60 and no faster until it's clean twice through. Boring but it works.

  3. Ben Clark Instructor

    ♥ 21

    Memorization comes from playing it at a tempo you can think at. If you need the tab, you're playing it faster than you know it.

  4. Gene Sowell

    ♥ 9

    Metronome at 60 and no faster until it's clean twice through. Boring but it works.

  5. Karen Doyle

    ♥ 10

    Metronome at 60 and no faster until it's clean twice through. Boring but it works.

  6. FifthStringFred

    ♥ 9

    The pinky thing goes away, I promise. Took me about three months.

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