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Cross Picking Mandolin Tips
Mandolin Cross Picking Tips
Summary: Cross picking is a special technique mostly used on mandolin but also on guitar that combines up and sown strokes in succession. Learn how to crosspick on a mandolin from an expert musician 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
"So what you can do is, you know, just kind of adding to our arsenal of improvisational ideas to put over this. We're going to look at cross-picking once again. We'll pick a different pattern. We'll do a backwards roll this time. Before it was kind of a forwards roll. In the past lessons. So. The pattern is high, middle, low, high, middle, low, low, high, OK. And so what we'll do is we'll look at our D chord. You know, here that is. But we're just going to use the top three strings. To a G chord. I'm sorry. Then we move to A. That was the whole pattern straight through. Moving just the top three strings to the chords in that right order. The one to four and the five."
eHow Article: Cross Picking Mandolin Tips
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