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Playing Triads in Whole Steps on the Mandolin

Playing triads in whole steps on the mandolin is easy with these tips, get expert advice and a music lesson in this free video.

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A little bit more theory, in a major scale there's three major chords right? I'm going to play the four and the five and this is kind of a melodic idea you can use for soloing but it's built around chords and it functions as chords. I'm going to play what you call the four and the five of each key in. So, in the key of G we're looking at just the C and the D. Now, the C and the D are just a whole step apart from each other. So, what I'm looking at here, we're going to use our same shapes. We'll start on C and move it up a whole step to D. C to D. We're going to move up to our next two inversions, or excuse me, our next inversion to find our next two chords. Here's our C here, up a whole step to D. We're going to find C here, second version up a whole step to D and then I'm going to resolve on G. I'll do a cross picking pattern for you. (Audio demo) Okay?

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Playing Triads in Whole Steps on the Mandolin

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