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Learning to add up strokes and down strokes is crucial to add speed to your mandolin playing. Learning scales and scale patterns will develop your fretting hand, prepare you for improv, and make learning new tunes much easier. Check out these lessons then put your new skills to the tests with a few songs.

  • Mandolin Flatpicking Mandolin 101: The Picking Hand

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    Flatpicking Mandolin 101: The Picking Hand

    This lesson series focuses on right hand technique for flat picking melodies on the mandolin.

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  • Mandolin Flatpicking Mandolin 102: The Fretting Hand

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    Flatpicking Mandolin 102: The Fretting Hand

    Now that you've practiced your picking technique on the mandolin let's add in your fretting hand and learn some scales.

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  • Mandolin First Fiddle Tunes for Mandolin Beginners

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    First Fiddle Tunes for Mandolin Beginners

    Start your mandolin journey with video lessons and tablatures for 'Old Joe Clark,' 'Angelina Baker,' and 'Red Haired Boy.' Master D ...

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  • Mandolin G Major Scale

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    G Major Scale

    Check this out to learn the G major scale. You'll also find several exercises and scale patterns to help increase strength, coordin...

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  • Mandolin G Major Scale - High Octave

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    G Major Scale - High Octave

    Check this out to learn the higher octave G Major scale. You'll also find several exercises and scale patterns to help increase str...

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  • Mandolin Beginner

    Tablature

    Boil Them Cabbage Down
    Beginner

    • Difficulty
    • Key
      A
    • Tuning
      GDAE

    Boil Them Cabbage Down is one of the first tunes many mandolinists and fiddle players learn and it’s a good one for learning your no...

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  • Mandolin Melody - Key of G

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    Old MacDonald
    Melody - Key of G

    • Difficulty
    • Key
      G
    • Tuning
      GDAE

    After you've learned this in the key of A, try it out in G as well!

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  • Mandolin Bluegrass - Key of G

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    Grandfather's Clock
    Bluegrass - Key of G

    • Difficulty
    • Key
      G
    • Tuning
      GDAE

    Sometimes your in a jam with a banjo and a guitar player. It happens. Sometimes those players are lazy. Instead of putting the capo ...

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  • Mandolin Bluegrass

    Tablature

    I'll Fly Away
    Bluegrass

    • Difficulty
    • Key
      G
    • Tuning
      GDAE

    A great standard version of I'll Fly Away with some nice licks! Follow those fret hand fingerings and pick direction markings in th...

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  • Mandolin Bluegrass

    Tablature

    Turkey in the Straw
    Bluegrass

    • Difficulty
    • Key
      G
    • Tuning
      GDAE

    This is how a seasoned fiddle player might interpret this tune. The licks are will add a great challenge for you.

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  • Mandolin C Major Scale

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    C Major Scale

    Start on the Scale exercise. Memorize the fret hand fingerings. These will be used on all the exercises. The Alternate Picking e...

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  • Mandolin Crawdad Song - Key of C

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    Crawdad Song - Key of C

    This is a classic tune that's sometimes played at jams

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  • Mandolin Bluegrass

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    The Entertainer
    Bluegrass

    • Difficulty
    • Key
      C
    • Tuning
      GDAE

    This classic American melody works out great on mandolin. There's a lot of Bluesy runs and chromaticism in the arrangement and some ...

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