From the course: Mandolin Lessons: 4 Favorite Advanced Tunes
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"Soldier's Joy" part 2: Analysis
From the course: Mandolin Lessons: 4 Favorite Advanced Tunes
"Soldier's Joy" part 2: Analysis
- So what's going on with this little tune. It's in the key of D, so one of the things you realize. (mandolin) There's your D scale. It's certainly going to use those notes. (mandolin) And what's cool about this is it uses (mandolin) the notes of the cord, what we call an arpeggio, D, F-sharp, and A, and high D. It uses those notes a lot. A lot of fiddle tunes do that. Outlining the chords tonalities of each chord as it goes by. It starts with a couple of pick up notes, F-sharp and G. One, two, one, two, three, four, one. (mandolin) What I mean by pick up notes is it begins on beat four of the bar before the actual first down beat. One, two, one, two, three, da da boom. So that da da is a pick up to your down beat. So you've got F-sharp and G, (mandolin) leading to an A note, and you play the arpeggio, (mandolin) A, F-sharp, D, F-sharp. Two times. And pay particular attention to the pick direction in a situation like this. Make sure that you're alternating your picking from the very…
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