From the course: Mandolin Lessons: 1 Fundamentals
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Sitting position
From the course: Mandolin Lessons: 1 Fundamentals
Sitting position
- I'd like to talk about posture now. The mandolin, we think of it in this country as primarily a folk instrument and that's where it has had most of its action and so like most folk instruments people just pick them up and start playing them and do the best they can. It's unlike the violin where you have a very long tradition of education about how to play the violin and how to hold the instrument and how to hold the bow and these kind of things. If you go take lessons form your local music teacher teaching the Suzuki Method they're probably going to put you in what is an agreed upon posture for holding the instrument up. You put it under your chin and you hold the bow like this but the mandolin doesn't have that rich, long heritage at least yet, but we're going to change all that here today. I see a lot of crazy odd positions that people end up in when they get a mandolin, they just grab it and start playing it. But what I've come to after many years of playing and watching people…
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