From the course: Mandolin Lessons: 1 Fundamentals

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"Liberty", part 2

"Liberty", part 2

- Okay now we're gonna play Liberty, at 50. Nice and slow, and I wanted to say something about these pickup notes to the downbeat, when you count this piece off it actually starts before the first downbeat. So you've got... One two one and two da da boom, and there's your downbeat. So these first two notes, are actually before that, first strong downbeat. There's your downbeat, the F-sharp. So the A and the G lead to it. So I'll count, one, two, one, two, three, da da boom. There we go, 50. One, two, one, two, three. ("Liberty") So a couple things come to mind, be sure that when you play this opening phrase, that you're leaving that F-sharp down, all the while you're playing these two notes, and then when you get to this G chord, these two notes the G and the B are held down, nice and strong so they ring into each other. Back to the held F-sharp, okay. Then on the B section, we're sliding into the A note. You actually start on the G note with your pinky, and you slide up from the…

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