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Summary: 1st position augmented triads on the mandolin's lower strings are easy to play with these tips, get expert advice and a music lesson in this free video.
Levin Schwartz lives in Northampton, MA where he spends his days playing music with his band 'The Amity Front' and teaching private guitar and mandolin lessons at The Fretted...read more
"Okay now we're at the point where we're combining two concepts. I'm going to do the "1", "4", "5" pattern that we've been doing. So the cords will stay the same, it's going to be "g", "c" and "d", but I'm going to combine our dominant, our diminished concept and our augmented concept. And so the idea is when I go up, I'm going from "g", I'm going to go "g" augmented, and then I'm going to resolve to "c". Okay, so here's that "g", here's that "c", and here's the "d", basic cords that we're using, okay. But I'm going to use an augmented to pass to give myself some tension which resolves to "c". When I get to that "c" cord, I'm going to use "c" dominant by lowering the root a whole step to get back to my "g", okay. I'm going to move to "d", "d" dominant and resolve into "g" major. So, what that sounds like without me talking."
eHow Article: 1st Position Augmented Triads on the Mandolin's Lower Strings