From the course: Mandolin Lessons: 1 Fundamentals
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The right hand, part 1
From the course: Mandolin Lessons: 1 Fundamentals
The right hand, part 1
- All right, let's talk about the right hand. The right hand is everything, folks. I can't say enough about it. I worked my whole life on it and every day I examine it and see what's going on. And when I think of the greatest players I know, I think about their right hand and the tone they get. And all your sound comes from your right hand. We'll often see a lot of mandolin players, all of us do, where we're totally focused on the left hand. And there's some little problem in a musical line. More times than not, it's the right hand that's causing the problems or is not quite negotiating in and out of the strings properly. Also, it's your voice. It's the rhythm, too. If you're in time or not in time. It's probably because of the right hand hitting at the wrong time. So I encourage you to spend as much time as you can staring at that rather than at that. (laughs) So, I'm gonna break it down now into as many bits as I can. So that you can get a sense of what I'm doing. Going back to our…
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