From the course: Mandolin Lessons: 1 Fundamentals

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Down and up picking basics

Down and up picking basics

From the course: Mandolin Lessons: 1 Fundamentals

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Down and up picking basics

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- Okay, time for some more melodies. I'm gonna focus now on the right hand, and as you learn these tunes, I'm gonna insist that you always keep your right hand moving down up down up, down up, and it's a mistake I see in a lot of students, where they'll get the pick going in the wrong direction, sometimes for just one or two notes, and it can really disrupt the flow of the rhythm, and how the swing happens, so we're gonna take a tune like "Whiskey Before Breakfast," down beat, down pick, up beat, up peak, so if you have, boom, da da da da da, boo da da da da da da, I wanna hear down down up down up down, down up down up down down. No matter what the string crossing is, I want the pick direction to correspond with the rhythm. Some people, when they're playing, like, on a D string, because the pick is falling naturally towards the A, they'll get two downs in a row, for instance, at that moment in the tune, because the pick just naturally falls there, but I want you to be true, and the…

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