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Mandolin Open Position D Scale Tips

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Summary: An open D mandolin scale is a great music scale found in Americana, folk and swing music. Get advice on how to practice improv mandolin with tips from an experienced musician in this free video.

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By Levin Schwartz
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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

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"Looking at open D. What I'm doing is I'm going through all the keys that are typically found in Americana music or folk music, blues, bluegrass, swing. Once you start getting horns like in, you know, clarinets and trumpets and saxophones and such, you start to play in different keys. But, these are mostly the stringed instrument keys. So, open D. Keep going up if you want. Stretch here for this. Okay, let's try it one more time."

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