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Closed Chord Bag O' Licks

mandolin intermediate

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Let's learn 6 hot licks that are built out of the closed chop chord, which means we can easily take them wherever we want!

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  1. picknGrin

    ♥ 8

    My fingers know it but my brain doesn't yet — I can't play it without the tab in front of me. How do you all commit these to memory?

  2. Owen Brady

    ♥ 4

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

  3. SlowHandSteve

    ♥ 4

    Count it out loud. Everyone says it and everyone's right.

  4. Katie Clark Support

    ♥ 28

    Great question. That's a slide going into the B part — I play it as a slide but a hammer-on works fine if that's cleaner for you. Do what sounds right.

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