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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
"Okay so we'll do some cross picking using the dominant sounds and I'm going to pick a different roll. We'll do a middle roll, so it would be middle, high, low, middle, high, low, low, high. I'm picking just three strings. And I'm going to take this D chord and make this D dominant here. So, move it to G. Notice that half step motion with the other hand, your left hand. Watch this. So with your left hand all your doing is going half step, half step down, half step, half step up and half step back up, and the right hand is controlling all the picking."
eHow Article: Mandolin Cross Picking Tips
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