Nine Pound Hammer Build-a-Break
mandolin intermediate
In this lesson
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- 🔒 Part 1
- 🔒 Part 2
- 🔒 Part 3
- 🔒 Slow
The most common question I receive is 'How do you build a break for a song?' In this mandolin lesson, we're going to do just that by first learning the basic melody of the common standard, Nine Pound Hammer. Then, we'll learn how to add simple harmonies to our melody. Finally, we'll then add in some custom licks to finish out the break.
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Junior Pace
Got about 80% of this one down but the third measure keeps tripping me. Anybody else find that part awkward at speed?
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Ray Dunphy
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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MandoMary
Count it out loud. Everyone says it and everyone's right.
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MandoMary
Not just you. I still count this one out loud and I've been at it four years.
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Owen Brady
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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Katie Clark Support
There's a slower track in the resources for this one. If you want it slower still, let me know and I'll cut one.
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Patty Lindstrom
Metronome at 60 and no faster until it's clean twice through. Boring but it works.
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