From the course: Mandolin Lessons: 1 Fundamentals
Unlock this course with a free trial
Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts.
Minor chord progression exercise
From the course: Mandolin Lessons: 1 Fundamentals
Minor chord progression exercise
- 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…
Practice while you learn with exercise files
Download the files the instructor uses to teach the course. Follow along and learn by watching, listening and practicing.
Contents
-
-
-
-
-
-
(Locked)
Build your own exercise2m 34s
-
(Locked)
Fun with theory, part 19m 30s
-
(Locked)
Fun with theory, part 22m 49s
-
(Locked)
"Hand Me Down My Walking Cane", basic rhythm, key of D2m 54s
-
(Locked)
"I Am a Pilgrim"3m 3s
-
(Locked)
Finding minor chords4m 56s
-
(Locked)
Minor chord progression exercise2m 18s
-
(Locked)
Finding moveable chords1m 40s
-
(Locked)
The 7th or dominant chords2m 35s
-
(Locked)
7th chords as dominants5m 10s
-
(Locked)
Playing 1-4-5 in minor4m 32s
-
(Locked)
-
-