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You Are My Sunshine

mandolin beginner

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This is a great one for any picker, even rank beginners! We start with the basic melody and get more and more radioactive as we go.

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  1. Ann Marie Boyd

    ♥ 7

    Slowed the video to 50% and worked it a measure at a time. Two weeks in and it's coming. Patience is the lesson here as much as the notes.

  2. Gene Sowell

    ♥ 10

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

  3. Patty Lindstrom

    ♥ 9

    Metronome at 60 and no faster until it's clean twice through. Boring but it works.

  4. Ben Clark Instructor

    ♥ 27

    Great question. That's a slide going into the B part — I play it as a slide but a hammer-on works fine if that's cleaner for you. Do what sounds right.

  5. Roy Ellender

    ♥ 6

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

  6. Tom Vasquez

    ♥ 5

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

  7. Junior Pace

    ♥ 10

    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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