https://banjobenclark.com/lessons/pick-hand-exercise-mandolin-beginner
I love creating FUN exercises that help us calibrate tone, technique, and timing! Use this one to start your practice session from time to time!
Discuss the Mandolin lesson: Pick Hand Exercise
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Ben, this lesson feels like Penny told on me! LOL. I needed this one.
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Very helpful lesson. Thanks, Ben.
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Just got thru the lesson Ben, outstanding! Always have appreciated your teaching style and the thought you put into making each video and lesson. Many thanks!
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outstanding insight n 2 the needs of the beginner/intermediate learner. this lesson has provided me with an immeasurable database from which 2 draw on. knowing that paired strings, not octave strings r the 1st and 5th of a major chord regardless of the tab position as outlined n this lesson, they r interchangeable on any pair of strings, u sly dog u r making me think music
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playing these exercises, against 2 finger chords against a standard bluegrass chord progression is blowing my mind
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Great lesson. always good to get the basics down and learn to warm up!.. Well I’m in New England and I’m guessing we’re a lot cooler than you guys!
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Hi Ben,
I’m really puzzled about something in the last line of measures marked “syncopation”. I don’t see what makes these measures syncopated; such as rests or ties across measures. All of the beats fall on the numbers. What am I missing? There must be something that is going right over my head. I hope you can straighten me out! Thank you. Bob Bagley
You are correct. It’s not the note values that are syncopated but rather the string order. The A string in measures 13-14 are played in a syncopated rhythm. I admit it’s not the clearest way to describe it. Hope that makes sense!
Such an overlooked and yet fundamental skill. Just doesn’t feel natural first few times applying it but like all other skills…. It gets easier with applied practice.
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