Mandolin solo pattern (Works in Any Key).

A simple pattern for playing solos in any key on the mandolin using the major pentatonic scale.

[@thewayofyeshua9384]

I have found no one to take the time and explain this to me, this is execellent!!! God Bless you for taking the time!

[@luvbgrass]

This lesson is the "light bulb" moment for new mandolin players. Helps you understand how to start beginning to take breaks in any chord. Awesome!!! Thanks

[@charmainenissanka7171]

Thank you so much for the excellent mandolin lesson. Your demonstration and explanation are the best and I learnt so much in this lesson. I really appreciate it. Best Wishes Bob!

[@JasonGlisson]

This was extremely helpful! I'm a guitar player crossing over to playing Mandolin full time. I've been struggling with finding that certain pattern that I needed to get some breaks in for other keys, and this was it. You broke it down perfectly. Thank you so much!

[@mackin26]

Hi Jason. Me too, re: going from guitar to mandolin. Did you find the strings quite tough to fret as there's quite some string tension with such a short neck?

[@Jm01394]

I bought all Bill Monroe's Bear box sets learned and practiced all I could since 2004 . Your videos are wonderful . A lot of ideas were taking their slow assed time coming to me . These videos are shoving them out. Thanks.!!!

[@cvitamin6720]

Excellent!! Why can't other video's be as informative as this?!? I searched the internet trying to find information as good as this and you nailed it!! Thank you!

[@dahlmary]

You are wonderful! I've been trying to learn these patterns for months and you taught me in one session. Amazing. Thank you!!!!

[@TexasStarRecords]

I want to thank you for putting this video on KZbin. I'm a beginner mandolin player (63 years old) and this is a most helpful video. Again, Thanks!

[@TheMrShagnasty]

Great "missing link" lesson! This gives us bass/guitar guys something to hang our hats on. I've been playing more since I got a decent mando, and this really helps show where the landmarks are.

[@TModel15]

Great teaching! Condensing in just a few minutes what takes other instructors hours to impart to their students. Thanks for the wonderful tool!

[@realandsurreal]

One of the most helpful videos I've come across for mando scales yet! BIG Thanks!

[@chantlerbc]

Many thanks for sharing this in such an articulate way. Easy to follow, very very useful and much appreciated.

[@timmcnamara335]

Thanks, Robert! Very helpful to me as I learn. Thanks so much for taking the time to create this video. Tim in Lancaster, PA

[@blase1856]

"This selection will be a mandolin solo by Mr James Fitzgerald"

[@1sgpeters]

Roger, you make this really easy to understand. Thanks for the lesson.

[@knuclel]

Wow thanks so much , I am older person trying to learn mandolin and you have made it much easier. Thank you

[@MRFUSON-uj9bs]

Absolutely opens a whole new world up for me ! I might add that everyone should also learn their fret board every string and notes on each fret. Or you won't know where you are.

[@johndavy6056]

Thanks for such an understandable explanation. For me it is a real Light Bulb moment.

[@fdllicks]

extremely useful!!!!! thanks so much for taking the time to film this. I play fiddle but used this and immediately my soloing improved. Tx so much!!!!!!

[@garretthibbs5997]

Amazing Ive been looking for a video that explains this forever I am a bass player that has tried to pick up the mandolin and this is all Ive been trying to figure out lately

[@dowcrags]

Unbelievably amateur video but the best thing I've ever seen to explain this. No wonder you have so many positive comments. Love it. More like this please!

[@maureenmalone-reed1540]

Great lesson. This is very helpful. Thanks, Bob!

[@johnmathews2022]

I like your teaching style and camera angle. Great sounding mandolin. Have a great day.

[@bjornekbjornek]

Simple, but real useful information. Thanks! Got my new mandolin today and I'm off to a good start.

[@mattjohnson5981]

Just what I needed! I’m going to start getting this under my fingers right now!

[@tydees]

Awesome! Thanks for posting the video. You have given me more in this video then I ever received from paid lessons.

[@Drummer4G0D]

This helped so much. Very nice lesson. Best I've seen! Thank you

[@petercook-jones6238]

Love the coathanger bit, it is easy to see what you are doing, great

[@dorothyguinn]

I am going to share this on my Facebook page, For The Love of Dulcimers, Mandos and Banjos. I think it will be helpful for folks trying to figure out a movable scale. Thank you for the video.

[@leonardharrison5086]

WOW, This is the best help. Just found your site, hope there is more. Again thank you.

[@ytsocko]

Very helpful, thanks Bob!

[@onthelam2]

Thanks for the video. It was very helpful. I was just a strummer with guitar. Now I've taken up mandolin am am forced to finally learn the fretboard. Being able to see and use a moveable pattern is great!

[@DanRickert1960]

Simple genius! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

[@sjeter61]

Thanks again Bob,, I hadn't played my mando in a long while,, and your vid is going to help me get back into it. like it did a good while back. Steve

[@jonbelknap777]

thanks man! this made my day. been playing a week and love you tube. keep making the videos

[@Peter_Jenner]

Thanks mate. That's the most useful Mandolin lesson I've ever seen and I've seen lots. :-)

[@RighttothePointDIY]

Well I'll be! That is really helpful and practical!! Thanks so much.

[@paulscupham6550]

Thanks for that, you just gave me that eureka moment . Cheers

[@bobfromcanmore]

Glad it helped you, Jason.

[@mssippijim]

Thanks for the great lessons Bob. This one was very helpful. I can play pretty much anything I want but sometimes finding the starting point in an unfamiliar key is a real problem.

[@adjnewell]

Goldmine for those of us hitting the wall. Thanks a ton and please post some more.

[@Fstpicker]

That was extremely helpful!! Thank you so much!!!

[@ahobstetter]

Wow, this is incredibly helpful, I am going to get a lot of mileage out of this! thanks

[@carnaghman]

Hi Bob . Many thanks very helpful.

[@paulgrioux]

Thanks! Very clear and informative!

[@gangelone999]

awesome information! glad i found this one! thanks

[@WinsomeJohnny]

Very valuable stuff!..Thanks!

[@stevestockner]

Man i really like this one glad i ran on to it. Thanks a lot

[@sk84fun218]

very helpfull, im really happy to find a new pattern to mess around with

[@lgomez222]

Awesome lesson, thank you!

[@bobfromcanmore]

Thanks, fdllicks. Yes, this pattern works for fiddle as well. Glad you found it useful.

[@woodnwire]

Thanks just what I was searching for.

[@janehiggins6950]

Thanks - that’s excellent.

[@robertabernathy3148]

Great lesson - thx for posting!

[@fthronson1]

Very good. Thanks for posting.

[@drlcarpentry]

This is great help , thanks. I freeze framed it and moved it into my fourscore app

[@buscambell1234]

He's the best isn't he! I could use a lesson on 'freeze frame and fourscore process.. Thanks Daves.

[@Musicpanel-cg6lv]

so thanx my dear. so nice. hello friend, I live in Bangladesh.

[@TheRycooder]

GREAT TIP Bob THANKS.....subscribing....!!!

[@coloframe]

Very nice and help full .Thanks

[@davidreed2134]

Very helpful sir!

[@MandolinSunrise]

Great video, puts it all together, the chords and the melody line using relative postions. I guess the next step would be to learn where you would move your 'root' finger to find the the fourth and fifth chords, and then finally the move to the 2nd, 3rd and 6 minors. Thanks, really good.

[@mandostudent]

I keep comin back to this vid! Thanks!

[@JacobMallach]

Super helpful!

[@gymboss76]

Thank You So Much !!!!

[@julieparrish9346]

Very nice lesson......

[@loz5854]

excellent thanks

[@3signets]

Thanks so much.

[@joanneadahk124]

thank you for your help ;-)

[@lostguide1]

Many thanks.

[@morganball2451]

I love that

[@bobfromcanmore]

Thanks, Mr. Graham. I had never tried Cherokee Suffle in G, but using this pattern I see it can be done for the most part. You have to break the pattern for a couple of notes

[@JimB73C]

Ditto Jason's comment. Most helpful. Simply stated.

[@sydlawson3181]

TBH mostly used this to teach myself amazing grace but helpful af

[@rk845b]

Thank you very much for the video. You talk briefly about doublestops. Can any combination of 2 notes in this pattern be used? Thanks

[@timmelville6683]

I have those same coasters.

[@brucebarker5299]

Thanks for the great lesson. Would you share your 2 worksheets? Thanks

[@lowlifemixes1958]

good lesson

[@bobfromcanmore]

That is correct tydees. This is for closed positions. Only. I should post an open pattern lesson.

[@jamiej14544]

There are several videos like this on youtube which show you how to find the major scale in a closed position, where most of the notes of songs will be found, as we see with "Amazing Grace". The box pattern makes it visually easy to know where to go on the fretboard when playing a solo.

[@reckonimokie123]

Thanks

[@mandocarlo]

thanks !

[@barrycook6603]

Likt the overhead camera angle!

[@bobfromcanmore]

This a Heiden F5, #21, made by Michael Heiden in 1995. It has an Engleman spruce top, which gives it a dark, woody tone.

[@Jm01394]

Big yes!!

[@MrGraham001]

Great info Robert,was struggling to play Cherokee Shuffle in G as opposed to A not anymore :)

[@JD_Spencer]

This is cool for a major key but will have to try it for a minor key...work for minor too?

[@LoveRocketsable]

oh dope.

[@gina48100]

That’s also called the box pattern. It’s a good one!

[@bobfromcanmore]

Hi sk84fun218. You could carry on from A on the E string by playing he 7th, 9th and 12th frets of the E string and then going back down to the A, if it works for the song you may be doing.

[@kadetilson189]

Are you using the skip a fret pattern? If was kind of hard to tell

[@mikelandreth]

Hi Bob just got an Epiphone Mandobird vii (solid body electric mandolin) And learned a lot from this lesson and the movable chord one also . What mandolin are you playing I know its an F5 .Which is what I'm looking to get in the near future . Figured if I knew how to play one I would know how to judge a good acoustic model . I think i speak for everyone thats seen your lesson to keep them coming . They are very simple and helpful . Thank You

[@battlehrfred]

hi robert, you are an talented and educated musician person...i just got a used one and put new martin strings on it,it is a COMO model hm09 mandelion and i want to play it, but has no clue on notes,where should i go from here...i did buy a snark electronic tuner and has it tuned,it sounds ok that is it for me and my brother says its tuned ok.. ty for your thoughts.

[@sk84fun218]

can you continue that scale on E string if you were playing it in A? im just looking to have more notes to play when i solo

[@LukeDayInTheUK]

Yes for Aeolian Mode flat 3 and flat 6 but for Dorian Mode you need a normal whole sixth note. Incidently, don't you think "relative minor" is a silly name for the Aeolian Mode. My reason is: all the seven basic modes are related in EXACTLY the same way as relative major/minor; they ALL share the step pattern from the first mode. Am I crazy or is this reasonable thinking???

[@bobfromcanmore]

The camera was mounted on a coat hanger dcraped around my neck, like a harmonica. I now have a steadier contraption that I an eager to try.

[@josephb4505]

Bob, where would I be able to get a copy of that chart?

[@bobfromcanmore]

I will try to post a pdf. In the meantime, I recommend you freeze frame the pattern at the 8:09 mark and draw it up on a mandolin fretboard, which you can find here: jazzmando.com/FretboardTemplate.pdf

[@tydees]

Quick question, this pattern you show could not be used playing any open strings...correct?

[@LoveRocketsable]

do you ave the camera taped to your head?

[@robynchilson9849]

Please the double stops to that song in that pattern, to show people where those chords are. And they work in any key too!

[@MrGraham001]

Your Mandolin has great tone,who makes it?