From the course: Mandolin Lessons: 1 Fundamentals

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Minor chord progression exercise

Minor chord progression exercise

From the course: Mandolin Lessons: 1 Fundamentals

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Minor chord progression exercise

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- Okay, let's try and play with these chords a little bit and I'll have a little exercise for you to experiment with G Minor and C Minor. Now the D chord we're gonna leave as a major D chord because in the key of G, G would be the one, C Minor would be the four and D would remain in its regular major position. So one of the things I like to do is tremolo when I hit a minor chord. (mandolin playing) Let's do that together. Just tremolo that G Minor with me. Now move to the C Minor. Now tremolo the D. And back to the G. It's tricky, you just have to get that wrist to be very loose, strumming all four strings on the G, but on the C Minor remember just strumming the, we're just playing the bottom three. Now on the D we're playing all four and back to G. Now let's put a little rhythm to it. Remember the strum we had where it was base notes? So it's fourth string, da-da, third string, da-da. Four, da-da, three, da-da. Down up, down up. Base, down up, base, down up. Now go to the C Minor…

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