Wayfaring Stranger Build-a-Break
mandolin advanced
In this lesson
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- 🔒 Basic Melody
- 🔒 Bluesy Solo Pt. 1
- 🔒 Bluesy Solo Pt. 2
- 🔒 Basic Melody Slow
- 🔒 Bluesy Solo Slow
- 🔒 Rhythm & Chords
This tab has two mandolin breaks in the key of A minor. The first is the basic melody using tremolo to sustain the notes. The second break is a bluesy departure with all kinds of tricks!
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Rita Alvarez
Ben, this one finally made the timing click for me. Been fighting it for a month. Thank you.
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Junior Pace
Count it out loud. Everyone says it and everyone's right.
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Rita Alvarez
There's a slower jam track under the resources tab on this lesson, worth grabbing.
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Gary Feldman
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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Lou Ann Prater
There's a slower jam track under the resources tab on this lesson, worth grabbing.
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Owen Brady
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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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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