Absolutely. This is such lovely stuff. Thank you Marcel and Hayes, for putting this together. Wonderful. (I’m using all the scales on fiddle too. Bonus points for you lads!!!!) Thank you.
I'm gonna watch this a few times, there's lots of good stuff here. Especially the 3rd-5th double-stop checks; I need to do that for sure, I never go for those. This feels very "here's how guitarists can start thinking about mandolin" which I 'ppreciate
Exactly how I feel watching this! So much practical stuff in here from the sliding up/down when going from the box pattern on a set of two (four) strings to the other two and the "power chord" double stops. Seeing the pentatonic pattern on screen helped me visualize it, so that was helpful as well. Also, the quick bluegrass recipe that Marcel summarized at 16:44 has helped me in guiding my improv. I've always felt like a guitarist trying to translate my music theory to mandolin. While it helped me in some ways, it just became a crutch that slowed me down. I feel like this video is breaking me free from that back and forth translating. Thank you, Marcel & Hayes!
This lesson just changed my mandoline life! It is great that you took the time to re-explain some of the more complicated stuff that you guys did, super helpful. Thanks so much for everythying!
This legit tied together and expanded upon most of the information ive learned in my first year playing. This should probably be like the 2nd video every new player watches, after learning open G C and D.
Playing guitar for 30+ years has helped me learn a few mandolin songs over the years, but I have never been really serious about it. Now that I have gotten really serious about mandolin this lesson was such a great help. Thanks a bunch
I love my mandolin and now I can actually play it instead of just putting it in my pocket. Seriously great thanks to you. This was best information I have found.
When I learned this years ago, it was referred as the FFCP (four finger closed position). Cool, how you adapted that concept to pentatonics. It also can be adapted to minor scales as well. Great lesson!
I am the banjo player in a bluegrass/ variety/ folk rock band that has me also covering fiddle on some songs- I think in 8th notes! They want mando on some songs so I am here, great content love this lesson!
Pretty sure the D major pentatonic graphic that pops up at about 29:49 is incorrect (A string positions shown as the G should be). Great content from great teachers! Thanks Marcel & Hayes!
Good video, i have a mandolin since a few months and the info in this vid was quite something to process. Thanks for all the input. Awesome posters in Hayes room, by the way!
If you are playing a C, D, or E, F sliding the C Chord up the neck, your middle finger is the root note. If you are playing a G, A, B, C, D by sliding the G chord up the neck, the root note is on your ring finger. And the major scale (and pentatonic scales) are the same pattern as the pattern he showed us on the C scale!
I do a workshop for Geezers that I call. How to play mandolin in any key without using your brain. I use this box for the workshop. I've done it for years and I see geezers that I have taught taking breaks all the time when they had never taken breaks before. Very satisfying.
That 2nd finger slide stretch at 19:43 on fret 6 to 7-- are you kidding me?? I have pretty long fingers but that's almost impossible! No clue how you do that!
Crap! Not you :-) Just took strings off my tear drop, oval hole, form, low cost mando and reworked the bone nut (again) to raise it up a mm, put new strings and file some slots, found my super glue is dried out. Now I can't play along with my sore index finger from trying it out last night. (this mando has been in It's Wilson tennis racket bag for years til I thought after a lot of luthier work on other stringed instruments I was up to nut work. Thanks for the tips.
Marcel, I love all that you do both for Mandolin and Guitar. But, I've noticed that most if not all your mandolin tab/music scores have the actual musical notes written an octave higher than the actual notes being tabbed out. Is there a reason for that? It's Very difficult to actually read the musical notes when scored out that way. Just wondering.
It comes from the fiddle which has a radiused bridge. They're unable to play all four strings at the same time because of this. The most they can manage is two strings. If they are "fretting" a note on each string, they are "stopping" both strings. Thus double stop. The mandolin and fiddle share a tuning so the language transferred despite the mandolin not having the same limitation. Guitarists and banjo players will also use the term, they likely learned it from mandolinists and fiddlers. Hope that helps!
Why does the student have my dream mandolin and teacher has the mandolin i have. Im confused. Or this student is well off?? Can you say silver spoon feed..
