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Quarter Note Triplet Study- Mandolin

mandolin intermediate

In this lesson

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  • 🔒 Feel the Triplets
  • 🔒 Scale Exercise
  • 🔒 Scale Exercise- Slow
  • 🔒 Arpeggio Exercise
  • 🔒 Triplet Licks
  • 🔒 Triplet Licks- Slow

Quarter note triplets are an easy way to spice up your playing, and they're easy to do once you get the feel for 'em! I'll teach you how to feel them, play them, and then USE them, of course!

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  1. Nate Overby

    ♥ 1

    Third time coming back to this lesson over two years. It's amazing what shows up when you're ready for it.

  2. Roy Ellender

    ♥ 6

    That's the one that made me finally understand backup. Stick with it.

  3. flatpick_dad

    ♥ 4

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

  4. Theresa Nickels

    ♥ 7

    Recording yourself is humbling but it's the fastest fix I've found.

  5. Nate Overby

    ♥ 10

    Try it without the pick for a few passes. Sounds silly but it told me my right hand was doing too much.

  6. Sam Whitlock

    ♥ 7

    Welcome aboard — you picked a good one to start on.

  7. Ben Clark Instructor

    ♥ 26

    You're not behind. Two weeks on a lesson like this is normal and healthy.

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