From the course: Mandolin Lessons: 1 Fundamentals

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Build your own exercise

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Build your own exercise

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- Okay, now I'm going to talk about building your own exercises. One of the things I do, and I've really watched some of the great players, been around some of my favorite musicians and seen them to do this. Is to take a melody you're trying to learn and if there's a hard part that's giving you some trouble, really zero in on that, and usually, you can zero it down to two or three notes that are the problem areas. And that to create your own video - you're own video! No, we're creating our own video right here! Create your own exercise that deals with that problem; it's usually some physical problem, the way the hands are coming off of the notes or the way the right hand is getting tripped up making the string crossing. So if we look at a tune like "Liberty" (high-pitched guitar melody) We have those fast notes there (high-pitched guitar melody) and maybe it's these notes, (high-pitched guitar melody) that are giving you the trouble. So you zero down to just that (high-pitched guitar…

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