Temperance Reel
mandolin intermediate
In this lesson
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- 🔒 A Part
- 🔒 B Part
- 🔒 Slow
This old Celtic fiddle tune is in the key of G and tons of fun to play. The first A & B parts are basic melody, but then I give you some Celtic ornaments in the second A/B parts that sets it apart!
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Buddy Vann
My fingers know it but my brain doesn't yet — I can't play it without the tab in front of me. How do you all commit these to memory?
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Karen Doyle
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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Ben Clark Instructor
Answered over in the tab thread too, but short version: play what's comfortable, the tab is a map not a law.
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Gene Sowell
Count it out loud. Everyone says it and everyone's right.
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Lou Ann Prater
Recording yourself is humbling but it's the fastest fix I've found.
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Buddy Vann
Try it without the pick for a few passes. Sounds silly but it told me my right hand was doing too much.
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Sam Whitlock
There's a slower jam track under the resources tab on this lesson, worth grabbing.
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