From the course: Mandolin Lessons: 4 Favorite Advanced Tunes
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"Silent Night" part 3
From the course: Mandolin Lessons: 4 Favorite Advanced Tunes
"Silent Night" part 3
So now I'm going to go into a little variation. I'm going to descend the base notes. (playing guitar) OK, it's simply walking down. I start with a G on the base, then I play a B, then an A, making this essentially A Minor seven. Then an open G, and that gives you that nice feeling of walking down. I don't actually play a C because I'm not a big fan of this kind of C chord in this situation because it has two C notes in it. I'd rather have the open G. (playing guitar) D minor. C seven. Now the whole chord. It comes down, that's A minor, G, F, E minor. There I just played an arpeggio. (playing guitar) Now here I'm changing some chords. So from the G seven. You could use tenths here. D and F, B and D, G and B, which leads to A minor beautifully, and E minor for the high E. A flat, B flat with a C note on top. Then C, that's a classic ending, power ending. I have one other substitution. When you come up here, let's see. (playing guitar) You could make it into this high E note, you could…
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