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Cuckoo's Nest

mandolin advanced

In this lesson

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  • ๐Ÿ”’ 1st Solo
  • ๐Ÿ”’ 1st Solo Slow
  • ๐Ÿ”’ 2nd Solo
  • ๐Ÿ”’ 2nd Solo Slow
  • ๐Ÿ”’ Harmony
  • ๐Ÿ”’ Harmony Slow

I give you two great solos here to this fiddle tune in D. However, I've also built a mandolin harmony part for the 2nd solo, so grab a buddy and get to work!

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  1. Wes Pittman

    โ™ฅ 6

    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. flatpick_dad

    โ™ฅ 5

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

  3. Buddy Vann

    โ™ฅ 2

    I had that exact problem. Turned out my thumb was anchoring in the wrong spot.

  4. Katie Clark Support

    โ™ฅ 26

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

  5. Lou Ann Prater

    โ™ฅ 1

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

  6. Sam Whitlock

    โ™ฅ 8

    There's a slower jam track under the resources tab on this lesson, worth grabbing.

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