Chris Henry 36 Scale Exercises for Mandolin

Chris Henry gives a lesson on scale exercises for technique and clean tone on the mandolin.

[@SketchingRocks]

Since I saw this video 6 months ago, now I can play it as fast as you do here. PRACTICE...{:-}}

[@Pleasum]

This is really good stuff man. Not sure how 12 people couldn't find this useful. Great stuff! Thanks!

[@margarett.newman7574]

Thank you. I am glad I have found your lesson. Great example. Cool!

[@jsamat24]

Wow, eternal thanks! Much to work on here (and EXACTLY the kind of guidance & practice ideas I need to break past my current 1/8th-note plateau)! ♫♪

[@sandee71]

Many thanks ,I practice it since past 2 years.it has helped me a lot. I tried it in different modes. God bless u sir

[@WinsomeJohnny]

Very helpful. Just when I was feeling so full of myself. LOL

[@moonoggin]

Great video and doable!! thanks Chris

[@tonycroft5416]

super - and many thanks for your helpful advice.

[@jimwrathall5323]

Wonderful stuff! I have been doing very similar exercises, but without the added vigor of increasing multiple notes per position, very good. I will use this in my practice. However, I noticed that your exercises are based on what I call a "Thirds Crawl", which makes wonderful sense, because of it's harmonic use in eventual solos. I have discovered a simple variation that is also harmonically useful, but for some reason is deliciously more difficult: I refer to it as a "Fourths Crawl". I don't think I need to explain, but just try to apply that idea to these exercises. Thank you for your work.

[@Jm01394]

Hey Chris! Thanks for this . It's exactly one of the lessons I've needed. The Walls of Time is a favorite tune and I would play it more often if I wasn't so clumsy with the 16th notes in the beginning and middle of the solo. This video offers a light out of this . I like to play exactly how it was wrote and recorded. Then if I feel frisky I do something different but not till I have it exactly rights. I would deeply appreciate even a hint at how to play this tune right. Later Jim

[@Life-of-Bluegrass_Music]

Very nice video. Scales fits all your songs. Scales teaches the hammers in songs and so on.

[@thepelican3810]

thats great keep making these videos :)

[@gwennbair3976]

So helpful Chris.

[@plantbro1964]

Man you teaching the stuff that I hate to do that's just a drag playing scales; however, the way you're doing it looks like fun and I can see the benefit of it especially on mandolin so I'm glad I watched the video and I'm going to try that what you're doing. Thanks a lot for your effort and your excellent video I wish we could see your left hand a little better though and you're right.

[@rajendrapatel9201]

Nicely explained!!. Sir! Is there any major & minor scale formula for mendolin?

[@ronaldcossin4525]

Got it I'm a Picking Bluegrass Now and Loving it too , got the spirit of old Bill Monroe in my fingers ... Thank you Bill and our Lord ... .. . for sending me your Masters of the Harps each day and at anytime they feel like it 4 and 5 hours a day now they come to me and we play for the Lord of Host and anyone with ears let them hear too ... .. .

[@ronaldcossin4525]

You Know you got it When you Don't have to look at the Fingerboard and just look out over a audience your fingers just go's to the right spot , it comes with practice practice practice until your Dog starts Howling at you ... .. .

[@81kentboy]

Very helpful stuff! What kind of mandolin you play?

[@mikekirley]

That is not me. I play a John Doerr F5. What do you play?

[@jeffsimslmt]

Hell yeah

[@floydloonie4880]

I had no idea that mandolin players strive to "shred" iat high speed n a controled manner as a common practice! Most interesting !!

[@TheD736]

Tremolo baby

[@iangoodall6682]

Hi. What is the picking pattern for the triplets please? Is it down up down...down up down..... etc

[@mikekirley]

down up down, up down up. etc

[@iangoodall6682]

Mike Kirley Thank you very much for your response. I will work at this...my pick handling definitely needs a lot of work :D. When i try to play tunes (as a learner) I try to do down up down and then rush my hand up to be ready for a down stroke on the next beat again.

[@billcliff3883]

Hi great exorcise thank you Chris glad I found this

[@plantbro1964]

I would practice it going both ways, you know, down up, down up Then Up down, up down That way you double your picking skills and add to your tone palette.

[@plantbro1964]

Chris, is that an Eastman 515 you are playing in this video?

[@bradbaker4679]

I don’t think so….I’ve seen him playing a Gibson that looks like this in other videos…was also thinking he had a Randy Woods too

[@DaytonaShooter]

Great lesson. It will be a little more helpful if you distinguish what you are playing in each segment. The single, double, triple, 16ths were pretty easy to pick up on, but what we are playing is not very clear. I do appreciate the direction very much, but need a little more help knowing what to play. Thank you

[@TheArtofFencing]

Nice exercises and really good speed. But I can maybe add one more to your repertoire: Try to do the single note runs of your exercises in the style of a jig. Play them dud dud so you get a different accent compared to normal alternate picking. At first it really messes with your head^^. Or try to play note 1 du 2 d 3 du 4 d. This works especially well for the seconde type of line you have shown. All good variations to mess with your hands/head^^

[@plantbro1964]

Pardon me please. I'm new to mandolin. Please explain what you mean when you say, "DU and d"? If it would be easier for you to link me to a video where did an d is being done on a mandolin that would be excellent.

[@vikassaitwal424]

Yes, It's really Indian patern. But very nice video

[@papai983]

Practice style resembles Indian classical

[@boworl]

There is a red headed woman sneaking up on you...disguised as a painting.

[@jgarber235]

That is a poster of Bill Monroe, the father of bluegrass music!

[@boworl]

@@jgarber235 oops...my mistake. Great lesson there, thanks. I think I met the artist that painted that painting.

[@soulvaccination8679]

What?

[@disciple678]

It's totally Indian style