Sierra Hull's Three Octave Scale Exercises for Mandolin | Reverb Learn to Play 

She switches from playing triads to adding flatted sevens and blues notes in the thirds. This is a really great study on the positioning of the scales and how to expand when you start to apply more colorful notes in the scale.

Love the way she makes practice musical, not just exercises

I'm a new mandolin player and I love that Sierra Hull is my teacher! More like this please Reverb.

Thanks for giving back and reaching out to your fans! That’s truly excellent!

This was actually super helpful and explained in a wonderful way. Thanks, Sierra!

Many thanks for the tips, Sierra. I'm a pretty good guitarist, and I just this week bought my first mandolin. This was exactly where I needed to start.

Nice lesson to open up the fretboard and inspire. Thanks to Reverb I hooked up with my first mandolin -- a used Eastman md505 sunburst for$600 I'm just lovin'. Can't wait to see Sierra live in a couple weeks. Life is good!

I play guitar but I’m wanting to get into mandoline. You’re instruction is easy to understand and your voice and delivery is easy too. You’re an excellent teacher. Thank you Sierra!

Since you started playing at age 8, I thought you would be interested to know I started about three weeks ago at age 68. I still don’t have callouses on my fingers. I found this exercise quite interesting and have spent a few hours trying to see how you’re handling the transitions and intervals. Is it possible for you to put a tab of what you’re doing for us noobs? You are a phenomenal player and your singing voice, to my ears, is second only to Judith Durham. Thanks for posting your content. I enjoy the songs and the tips. I’m only hoping, some day, to play the mandolin well enough that listeners will know what piece I’m playing without being told.

Sierra is so amazing to watch. Great teaching too! Thanks Sierra!

Thank you . I usually play guitar. However, I have a Gibson 1916 A-4 top condition mandolin. It's a round hole and has unsurpassed tone. I really need to play & study more. I seem to get started and then get busy writing a new song on guitar. Thank you for your instructional inspiration. Such a beautiful instrument with inlaid ivory running pegs, tortas pick guard, rare solid one piece maple top, extended fret board, and perfect neck. The more it's played the better it sounds. Got to apply myself more & advance. Thank you.

learned more from you in 5 min than all my other lessons-thanx

Great exercise......the old time jazz giants did this with guitar arpeggios and scales. Play arpeggios or scales starting with each finger ....go nonstop...go up an octave then back down landing on the next finger (pinky, ring, middle, index and you come back or vise versa)...after playing all 4 fingers start the next octave without stopping. Play all octaves til you can't go any further. play the whole neck without stopping. You'll see every fingering in every position. You will have to do low, high, low, high

I have a Eastman MD 604 coming tomorrow. I'm really excited!

OK…. This is a lesson that is a big step along the way. ( I have a broken foot at present so I have the time to go back to basics and get to a clearer solid style. This is one I’ll sit with for a few days with different scales and tunes) Thank you for this Serra!!

One of the most helpful lessons I've seen on here! I'm a Sierra Hull fan now!

She has the most perfect right hand form. Those knuckles are stacked beautiful, and the wrist movements are the more free and flowing I've ever witnessed. Thile buzzes more notes than she does....😍😍😍😍😍

I follow her for ages such a brillant artist

Wow you really explained that well, thanks. Makes a change for someone's who's that talented to go nice and slow for newbies like me. Brilliant. Xx

Amazing to see Mandolin lessons on RU-vid !

Trying to play those diatonic arpeggios backwards is blowing my mind! This is a great exercise!

Thanks so much....such a humble a talented lady!

I ❤️ the sound. Watching from London UK 🇬🇧

Really, really good. Most tutorials for guitar and mando don’t get through to me. Thank you.

Watching you play man do leaves me mesmerized. Even when you just play the major scale in G. Just love your music :)

Sierra... you are SO brillient!!! Just LOVE everything you do! You could just sit there. Maybe grin once in awhile. And I'd LOVE IT!!! Cause...I just love you SOOO MUCH!!! We are SOOO BLESSED to be able to have you on Earth shining your Light 🎶🌻🧚‍♀️🌷

You're simply awesome Sierra.

Thank you for making this video and for making it available.

Thank you for sharing this great warm up. I shall put it in my everyday playing routine..

I agree very helpful and easy to understand

Excellent lesson. Really helpful and well explained.

She bring joy to so many.

This is excellent. Thank you for helping the aspiring mando players. I'm going to start working on this now!!

You make scales so understandable. Thank you so much!

What a player and a teacher!

Very cool. Thank you for the exercises.

Sierra you're simply amazing. Let's see you're the best mandolin player in the world, you sing with the voice of an angel, you're super cute, brilliant, and you can teach. How can one person be so talented?

Thank you. For a beginner that was great to learn, well explained .

Excellent practice tips

Oh, you have to practice. That’s what I’ve been doing wrong.

You're a great teacher.

Such basic stuff... and I had no idea. This was great!

as a cellist just learning the mandolin, it is really fun to feel like my hands are gigantic and lightning fast

Incredibly helpful

She is outstanding!

Sierra, Mike in NW Ar. that sponsored your show a few years ago at the WAC. Thanks for taking the time to post these lessons & practice hints, they are very helpful. Look forward seeing you again on the road.

She is brilliant ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Thank you. Very, very useful!!

very good info , hope you can share more in the future . help us to learn your e tune song too !!

Thats a beautiful sounding mandolin you have

That articulation without electronics is what makes them play the mandolin

Love this, thanks.

Excellent excercises

Deadly, very useful

Thanks for sharing this

Awesome, thank you!

Nice playing!!! Greetings from a Cretan style mantolin player :)

Thank you

Kind of blew my mind there

Great lesson. Thx

So lovely

Thanks for the nice lesson Sierra. Just starting to learn to solo, I need brain food.

Thanks for the great lesson

Cute as a lil tater bug's ear!...I've already put this info to good use in my group meetup jam session!

She's awesome

gibson f5 ;) YOU EARNED IT!

Brilliant! Thanks!

Can someone please for the love of God explain to me the chords she plays at 5:30 I've watched her hands a dozen times and can't seem to catch it.

Would you do one on chop chords

Very helpful.

You’re the best, no doubt…❤️😎

mandolin fingering same like violin fingering.... greeting from bali island

Great!

Learn the scale on each string

Omg; very helpful. 😊

Is this the Jethro warm up scale? It sounds 85% like it.

Mandolin sounds perfect, which mic you use for this video? thanks

I can't pa in that high on the neck cause my fingers are so big they just mute the strings lol.

I will never play like u , but i want a bennie like urs!

Man, I base all my scales on luck. I didn't know ya had to know anything.

Cool hat

Which pickup is she using on the mandolin?

Sierra, do a lesson on your song E tune ,i want to learn it , its one of my favorites !!!

Nice mandolin! I use to have a 1913 Gibson F4. I kicked myself a thousand times for selling it.

You'd think they'd put the heating on...😊

Compressor attack is set too fast

Is that a standard mando? Can't tell if it's big or you're small?!? Either way, excellent!

Original G

Wow :)

Bestlss

Where can i buy ur bennie?

that looks difficult to me lol

Does this work for all fretted string instruments?

Ask her ?

The next Jimi Hendrix' :[)

👌🏿

Her hat has a big top'

is it that cold in there you need a sweater and a toboggan?

I'm in love. and when you fall in love, you fall up

I must be like the only guy into Crowbar and Meshuggah who buys this girls music lol