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Circle of fifths part 1: Using the circle to find 1-4-5s

Circle of fifths part 1: Using the circle to find 1-4-5s

From the course: Mandolin Lessons: 4 Favorite Advanced Tunes

Circle of fifths part 1: Using the circle to find 1-4-5s

- What I'm gonna attempt to do in this lesson is hip you to a few different places where you can play two, five, ones on your mandolin, comfortable zones that this lovely little turnaround occurs on the instrument. And then attempt to take you around and show you how to do it in all twelve keys. Once you learn one of these sets of chord progressions, a simple three chords in a closed position, it's of course movable. And the beauty of the mandolin, or the guitar, or the banjo, or what have you is that everything looks the same no matter where we are on the instrument, we're just moving up or down one fret, or two frets, or twelve frets, or what have you. So, which makes our instrument different than a piano, when a piano player plays A minor 7 to D7 to G7, it's one set of black and white keys, and when he plays say F minor 7 to B flat to E flat it's a whole different shape to the hands to those chords. So in a way it's easier to learn this stuff on a string instrument because of that,…

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