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Intro to Alternate Picking

beginner mandolin

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Step 23 of 60 in Beginner mandolin

19 earlier steps

  1. 20 Strumming the G, C, & D Open Chords
  2. 21 She'll Be Comin' Around The Mountain
  3. 22 Pick & Hand Fundamentals
  4. 23 Intro to Alternate Picking — you are here
  5. 24 You Are My Sunshine Up next
  6. 25 Closed Major Chord Shape #1 & the 1, 4, & 5
  7. 26 Minor Chords

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Alternate picking is an important concept to wrap your mind around, and get your fingers to follow. Though we get into some more advanced examples in this lesson, the point of it is to make you aware of alternate picking and cause you to pay attention to it in your own playing.

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