Mandolin Lesson - Playing Through Changes

[@PoweredByChoro]

As someone who struggles with improvising over the changes, this is a great lesson and approach to practice!

[@craigsteels835]

Nice lesson Don! I wish I could get a few people I know to do this instead of playing random notes. I swear one guy hit every wrong note and I heard him actually resolve a good note into a bad one (not because it was hip)! Great way to break it down and love the voice leading. Also not a bad idea in the beginning to stick on one chord for a long time until it's under your fingers and in your ears really well. Thanks!

[@christopherjspiteri]

Great lesson, thank you. And yes the mandolin sounds fantastic.

[@JoshuaPolak]

The nice thing is you can use this approach on any instrument you are playing.

[@JimmyDeLocke]

Great lesson.

[@donjulin]

Not a stupid question at all. Chord tones are jazz lingo for arpeggios. Example: The G major chord contains the notes g,b,d. Combinations of these three notes, played in a melodic fasion could be called an arpeggio or simply G major chord tones.

[@donjulinlessons]

I wouldn't say ignore it...........but some tempos are easier to play with all downstokes and some work better with alternate picking. This tempo lands right in the middle. Not fast enough to need alternate picking, but fast enough to make this technique work. My basic rule about this is....ALL downstrokes if the tempo is slow enough, and fairly strict alternate picking at higher tempos. NEVER RANDOM!!!! I hope this is clear enough to be helpful.

[@gazicj]

super helpful, ty much, and godspeed, good sir

[@sl8ofhand]

Nice OldWave there, Mr. Julin. I have Bill's1997 (SN 133) Octave Mando...thinking about a Mandola from him...

[@jsamat24]

First time seeing this style & brand -- beautiful instrument!

[@rodrich1644]

Great mandolin, what is it? Thanks for the lesson.

[@sk84fun218]

ok, so if i apply this to a more bluegrassy feel, my main goal is when changing chords to make sure i land on one of the notes in the arppegio for that given chord, then im free to play around with the rest of the sale while im on that chord, but when it comes time to change again just make sure i land on a arppegio for the next chord?

[@jevocke]

Hey, great video, but out of curiosity, why do you count on 2 and 4 instead of 1 and 3? i mostly play bluegrass and i do metronome work on 1 and 3 because 2 and 4 just seems confusing. What's the advantage? thanks, j

[@sk84fun218]

this may seem like a stupid question, but what exectly are the chord tones, is that an arpeggio?