How to Read Mandolin Tab
mandolin beginner
In this lesson
- Whole & Half Notes preview
- 🔒 Quarter & Eighth Notes
- 🔒 Adding Frets
- 🔒 Mixing It Up
- 🔒 Adding Rests
If you're gonna learn to pick on the mandolin, it sure helps to know how to read tabs. There are two basic parts of reading tabs: 1) The notes themselves, 2) The timing of each note!
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FifthStringFred
Question on the tab — is that a hammer-on or a slide going into the B part? Sounds like a slide to my ear but the tab reads hammer.
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Tom Vasquez
Try it without the pick for a few passes. Sounds silly but it told me my right hand was doing too much.
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FifthStringFred
Welcome aboard — you picked a good one to start on.
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Patty Lindstrom
Same here at first. What fixed it for me was practicing that measure by itself for a week, no B part at all.
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Ben Clark Instructor
Try measure 3 on its own at half tempo, and keep your right hand rolling even when the left hand is behind. The right hand is the metronome.
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SlowHandSteve
Recording yourself is humbling but it's the fastest fix I've found.
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Deb Carrigan
Metronome at 60 and no faster until it's clean twice through. Boring but it works.
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