From the course: Mandolin Lessons: 3 Simplifying Difficult Tunes
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Final finger buster
From the course: Mandolin Lessons: 3 Simplifying Difficult Tunes
Final finger buster
- Okay, here's one more finger buster for you before we progress on. I call this the crawl. The concept here is we look at all the possibilities that your fingers can find themselves in from chromatic positions and we're going to basically open this thing up one note at a time. We're going to bring the pinky out one half step. Then we're going to bring the third finger out. Then we're going to bring the second finger out to meet those three. Then we're going to bring the pinky out again. Then that kind of looks like an A minor, doesn't it? Then we're going to bring the third finger out to meet the pinky and that looks like a major position. And then we're going to bring the pinky out and that's whole tone, right? So we're kind of covering all the possible positions from chromatic to the pinky being out to the third finger being out to the second finger coming up to meet them then comes the pinky out again then comes the third finger out and then we're at whole tone. And of course we…
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