Intro to Alternate Picking
mandolin beginner
In this lesson
- Lesson Preview preview
- 🔒 Concept Overview
- 🔒 Part 1
- 🔒 Part 2
- 🔒 Part 3
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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Sam Whitlock
Anybody have a tip for the left hand stretch in here? My pinky is not cooperating.
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Tom Vasquez
Not just you. I still count this one out loud and I've been at it four years.
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Wes Pittman
There's a slower jam track under the resources tab on this lesson, worth grabbing.
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Wes Pittman
Take the capo off and play it in open G a few times, then put it back. Helped me hear it.
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flatpick_dad
Welcome aboard — you picked a good one to start on.
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Katie Clark Support
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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