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Mandolin Basics: Installing a Strap

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  • 🔒 Installing a Strap Lesson

Even if you don't think you'll stand to play mandolin, it's a good idea to get the strap installed and ready. Here's how!

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  1. Tom Vasquez

    ♥ 1

    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.

  2. Buddy Vann

    ♥ 10

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

  3. Owen Brady

    ♥ 6

    Not just you. I still count this one out loud and I've been at it four years.

  4. Bill Threadgill

    ♥ 1

    The pinky thing goes away, I promise. Took me about three months.

  5. Ben Clark Instructor

    ♥ 20

    Memorization comes from playing it at a tempo you can think at. If you need the tab, you're playing it faster than you know it.

  6. Bill Threadgill

    ♥ 10

    The pinky thing goes away, I promise. Took me about three months.

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