From the course: Mandolin Lessons: 1 Fundamentals

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"Liberty", part 1

"Liberty", part 1

- We're going to now learn Liberty, another classic old fiddle tune that gets played a lot. But the main exercise on this one is keeping the pick going in the right direction. The main emphasis here, that I want to point out, is that for blue grass playing on the mandolin, the key essence of how the right hand works is that the down strokes, the down beats should be down picks, and the up beats should be up picks. So, if you're playing a song that goes ding, ding, duck-ah, duck-ah, you know, basically your hand should always be going back and forth. (strums mandolin) So, on Liberty we get this (playing Liberty on mandolin) So, that songs starts with duck-ah, dung, gong, gong, gong, So, what I want you to do is down, up, down, down, down, down, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, down, down, down, down notice how the hand is always going down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, but I want the down, down, down, down, then the down, up, down, up, down, up, down up. M'kay? And…

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