From the course: Mandolin Lessons: 2 Soloing Ideas & Kickoffs

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Stretching exercises and finger busters

Stretching exercises and finger busters

From the course: Mandolin Lessons: 2 Soloing Ideas & Kickoffs

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Stretching exercises and finger busters

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- OK, here are a couple finger busters to help you loosen things up and develop some more independence. We're starting to play a lot of tunes now that have a lot of twists and turns in them. So, I love to do these things where you just, they're non-musical, and you're just trying to work the hands and get things lined up. It's about lining the pick up with the left hand being, playing the actual note on a nice, solid, fretted thing. So, we're gonna do this thing where we use the A note on the E string as a pivot note, (mandolin strum) and we're playing chromatically (mandolin strum) all the other notes on that string, going backwards. And we're doing two fingers, the second finger is covering the G sharp and the G, and then the first finger is covering the F sharp and the F. And then, you're open. We go over to the next string and do the same thing, C sharp and D, C and D, B and D, (mandolin strum) B flat and D. (mandolin strum) And again, now, this D note is your up stroke, so be…

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