Really great tips Emma, I particularly like the last one to keep smiling if a mistake is made. The majority of the audience probably won't notice unless they are real afficionados. Thanks very much and take care. xx

Thanks very much Emma, thats really interesting.

Pretty helpful, some of those regular mandolin chord shapes are just way too hard for no reason so it’s nice to have some specifically for the octave mandolin

A very informative and helpful video. Thanks!

how beautiful....

Hey, I was looking at your website. You could add an explanatory video about the chords. You have a written guide, and you could add a video. Then you could choose just the chords, or the chords + explanatory guide, or the chords + explanatory video, where you could do an upsell and earn a little more money. It would be great for you and your customers. Your content/knowledge is very valuable and deserves to be valued more. But don't take it as an intrusion, it's just a suggestion. I worked for a long time with e-commerce and there are ways for you to help people and earn money in a balanced way. If I was rude, I apologize Em. God bless you.

hauntingly beautiful!

New subscriber... very nice piece you and your twin performed. I've attempted similar videos it's not easy. 🙂

Great lesson and easy to follow. Thanks so much Emma - just got my chart = big help Bless Ya from the land down under 🇦🇺🙏🏽👏🏻🙂

Thank you so much for this video! I was about to give up on my OM. I just couldn't get most regular open mandolin chords to sound good on it, but these modified shapes do wonders! I guess it helps to think of the OM as a similar but distinct instrument and not just a big mandolin.

Great video, may God strengthen your home even in the most challenging times.

Mandolin is beautiful musical instrument <3

One of the best minutes ever of guitar solo - great choice and great cover. Brava.

Octaves are so cool!I’m a new bluegrass mandolin player tracking my progress on KZbin and it’s so cool to see the different worlds of mandolin!

Love this tune. 🎶

Nice! I like the sound of this instrument. - Multi-instrumentalist Guitarist w 50K hours of practice

Great video Emma, I always learn so much from you. Thanks very much, take care, David

That's a great excercise Emma, thanks very much, take care.

This really helped me to ditch some old bad habits. I'm really working on it. Thanks Emma.

My Eastman MDO605 arrives on Tuesday Emma x

That quick shot of the back of the neck is something more teachers should do. There's a lot of talk about stretching to grab this chord or that note. But every beginner soon finds out that it's more a matter of properly placing the hand than it is of stretching. I wish more online teachers would use these useful camera angles to help drive this point home as you did in this one.

Hey Emma you should play with this : kzbin.info/www/bejne/i5zRh3Sgq8ueoZI be careful... had another key

Lovely. I have great trouble with this tune. There are a number of twiddly bits, and I never seem to have them in the right order.

Excellent, well done ❤️🇵🇸🍉🇵🇸❤️

Lovely rendition. Mandolin sounds great.

What I hear in 4/8 string inst. Are very mysterious,Ambient voicings.not so much a solo string thing but a spice or musical binder between other instruments. Can't get one yet ...but thank you ..for what I do these sounds provide some missing musical links.😊🔆👍🐬🎸

😊yep always have wanted...I play guitar, an octave or mandola would seem comfortable to me. Forgive me but I've played bottleneck bango.😊👍🐬🔆🎸

One of my favorite tunes. Your rendition is simply gorgeous.

A lovely chordal enlivened arrangement. Thank you Emma.

Holy-smoke, what a beautiful performance. ❤

That was brilliant! :)

That was lovely

Great playing Emma

Beautiful!

Beautiful!

Thank you for such a wonderful rendition of this song! Is it your own transcription or can you recommend a book with the tune in it? Keep up the good work!

You've given a really nice slant to the tune. Thanks Emma.

one of my favorite tunes, and one of the the ones I can play fairly accurately, if simply. at some point I need to figure out some ornamentation for it. Ever since first hearing about the tune in a book, where the protagonist uses the tune to awaken an elf from bespelled stupor, I've always imagined that when I play it outside, the fae folk gather to listen.

Love your videos very much plz make Qna of yourself

You'd probably enjoy Portugal

Beautiful, sensitive, playing ! Very evocative of a harp ! Bravo ! :-)

It was great Em, your play gives a different air to the song. Great video to watch at lunch time hahaha

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Thanks Emma x

Your smile could brighten a thousand days x Thanks

Thank you, thank you!!

The performance was very good, but his interpretation of the notes themselves is always light. It is very nice to listen to, very pleasant and transmits a very pleasant feeling of peace. Congratulations Em

Thanks Emma At last. Your teaching is very clear and taking time with each chord and letting it ring out is really useful because it allows the listener to play along. Also good to hear a brilliant musician can have buzzy notes too 👍 Ciaran

Can you be my teacher 😭You’re so good

We are blessed that you carry on the legacy of John Denver's music. IMO, it shows you have great love in your heart and, you have a giving heart. I am very thankful