Use Only Six Chords To Learn Four Keys On The Mandolin!

[@wins3085]

You are a great teacher. I learn a lot. I donated. Mandoline-greetings from Belgium

[@Jacob61631]

i picked up mandolin in our first lockdown, since then i have become a regular session musician on the west coast of Scotland. I can play melodies happily but chords are always something that have baffled my brain, your video are the best i have seen (for me) the way you explain things plain and simple works for me. so thank you for the videos, i cant wait to hear more from you.

[@raycarr784]

Thanks for this. I'm a beginner، and I've been playing these chords for a while now but never made the connection between the keys that I need to play in. Great lesson.

[@fatrichie]

Love the shirt!!

[@djba]

Thanks for this very helpful video.

[@PJKassak12]

Well I got lost as soon as you went to D. Lol. I've studied piano, guitar, violin, now mandolin. Chords and scales, blah. But you are my go to online guy. I like your presentation, and voice.

[@Watcher-op9pi]

So helpful, thank you.

[@timbee250]

I never had any (theoretical) understanding of music, nor the ambition or motivation to look into it. The whole picture of keys and chords and major and minor and a bunch of other words i never even heard before still feels a little overwhelming at times. Your beginners series, your website and some of your other videos, like this one, really take the pressure out of learning all this stuff. I used to feel like i was standing in front of a mountain of theoretical knowledge that i had to climb completely in one go to get good at playing any instrument, but now i'm aware it's probably enough to walk up to the first cabin and take a rest there for starters. :D I now realise what kind of an idiotic elitist my music teacher in school was :D Thanks!

[@davidsims1329]

You make it easy

[@rajendrapatel9201]

Awesome!.👌

[@jeffbarnard3050]

You teach a lot about the left hand, but I would like to know how you are working the right hand. Your GCD demo always makes me happy except I have trouble getting the strumming to make things work. Maybe because I am stupid. I have learned a lot from these videos. I just wish I could play something that sounded half as good as you. :)

[@ramsfancasey]

You’re not stupid! Just keep practicing and most of all having fun :)

[@friedfish69]

You only need 6 chords...to play a I-IV-V progression in four keys. Whatcha got for those of us who like a lower-case sound?

[@Berniegraph]

Started off OK but I'm afraid you lost me when you started moving beyond D G and A. Probably me, but think it could have been more clearly explained.

[@joekagerer]

I don't understand why chord shapes are such a secret on the mandolin. Please just show us those 6 chords in the most basic shapes. I played guitar happily for years never knowing what key I was in or what number the chord I was playing. I was shown how to make the basic chord shapes and I strummed along all happy. I was playing guitar. I feel like you gave us a lot of great theory here but missed the boat for beginners like me who don't know the chord shapes. Baron, I'm a huge fan of yours maybe I just missed another video where you covered it. Thanks

[@preparados1917]

He has other lessons where he covers chord shapes. Watch the other videos, he has many. It would have been redundant to go over the shapes.

[@joekagerer]

@Billy Roberts I agree 100% but spending one more minute to cover the 6 chords would be nice... I've searched his channel and not finding what I'd like...

[@joekagerer]

@@preparados1917 I've been following him for 2 years, and "sort of" looking for it...

[@joekagerer]

I'm a huge fan of Baron's... Just a tiny opinion on my part 🙂

[@TabletopWargamer]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oou2nINreN-tbtE "First Chords" is the second video in his beginner mandolin series. Watch it and let me know if the chord shapes still feel like a secret afterwards.