2nd Position Major Triads on the Mandolin's Lower Strings

Video Transcript

"So we're looking at the next position up on the instrument here, and we've just looked at the G in the middle here, we're looking up for G up on top of this one. And eventually your fingers are just going to kind of fall into place with the shapes you know. Really keep coming back to this idea that each of these shapes is based upon the first thing that we did which was looking for that G on the different strings. Take it slow. So here's your G chord. We're looking for C up here in the closest proximity to it. And a good thing to do is just go to your triad, and this is a third here, you know the third, move to the four by half step, and that becomes the root of your four chord, okay. And now we're moving down to D. Okay, here's your D right here is your root position, and you can always refer back to your first chord to find that five. It's already in your G chord. So when you're looking for D and building it off of the root of that D chord, and back to G."