From the course: Mandolin Lessons: 3 Simplifying Difficult Tunes

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Advanced arpeggios, part 2

Advanced arpeggios, part 2

From the course: Mandolin Lessons: 3 Simplifying Difficult Tunes

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Advanced arpeggios, part 2

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- Okay what I'm really trying to help you understand is how to play out of closed positions on the mandolin. We worked on this kind of close position A where your first finger is on the root, right? Well, what happens when you go up the neck out of this bluegrass position? We should also be comfortable with that. And in that position, your third finger is on the root. So there's your A arpeggio. A, C sharp, E, and A. So what you should learn to do is get really comfortable sliding from the lower position, index finger on the root, to the higher position, third finger on the root. And, of course, there are other positions using your pinky and your second finger. We have four fingers so I've always said there's four ways to do everything. So, we'll look at the other two fingers a little bit later. What I want you to do now though is play along with this "On and On" I made three versions of it, in three different keys, all the same tempo. It's first in A and then it's in B flat, and then…

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