Crosspicking on the mandolin

A sample MusicMoose lesson, of which all our lessons are 110% free unlike other instructional sites. Anthony Hannigan is the 1999 National Mandolin Champion and is doing a series on mandolin on www.musicmoose.org

[@madeleinesutcliffe1302]

Have just started to learn the mandolin and found this lesson so useful. Thank you very much.

[@mythsay66]

I love finding gems like this, thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[@Pickinbuddy]

Fabulous--this is one of the most mystifying of all mandolin style. Thanks for breaking it down!

[@andrewtsherman]

This is a great instructional video. Well paced, and great playing and style. Thanks for the breakdown...breakdown!

[@lilquenyful]

This is great! Thank you for sharing this info, I just got my mandolin and I can follow along with you! Awesome!

[@skeetergreen]

Thank you very much for this video I am learning to play the mandolin and I love finding new techniques.

[@smitty747]

Great job Anthony. Really enjoyed your short video. I've visited your site, and will be looking for songs to print out. I'm just getting started, so had never heard of this technique before, but LOVE it. Keep up the good work Anthony.

[@MilesJackson]

Great little lesson! thanks!

[@simoin]

Thanks for this great help!

[@strubelig]

Wish the website was still around, this is a great video!

[@AntarcticanCommunist]

Wow great teaching. Very clear

[@ultimatebanjo]

Cool Lesson!

[@heidebill]

Thanks

[@craigwg]

Neat hat. One doesn't see too many blue grass bands on the slopes at Aspen. But, seriously, loved this simple approach. I'm going to try to work it in to my repertoire!

[@seanyatp]

you want each note you play to lead to the next. if you upstroke on the D string you are headed towards G. It's basically the way to play the fastest with the most accuracy

[@madtiger111]

Thanks, Amp Dog.

[@larrybrock8526]

WELL DONE HANNIGAN,NOW GET YOUR IRISH ON LAD!

[@LucasGonze]

Thanks for that upstroke pattern on the two high strings. I've been downstroking through them and it doesn't have that Jesse McReynolds sound.

[@JNNikolas]

@germaniumbass notes have less sustain and volume than larger/lower instruments with larger scale lengths, and doubling up the strings helps with volume by sending 2x the energy to the soundboard.

[@granaff]

superb lesson I can use that technique for shred guitar aswell!

[@ckyfan969696]

I just got mine today and I can play along with some folk. It's fairly easy if you've been playing guitar a while.

[@MandoliciousMusic]

Nothing can substitute for a real human teacher for that. Where do you live?

[@Gablemenestrel]

Thanks for thoses great mandolin lesson, find a teacher in Québec city is not easy.

[@JNNikolas]

@germaniumbass Yes, always both strings. :)

[@twstdelf]

Great technique, should be very helpful, but the look at the end cracks me up. ;)

[@OriginalRitz]

@TheElekt your speakers are backwards or your headphones are on backwards

[@RatherCrunchyMuffin]

another question: is there any reason why he specifies to downstroke or upstroke? does it make a difference?

[@RatherCrunchyMuffin]

southern new jersey

[@TeRroRSqUaD20]

Hehehe thank u now i know a lil about the mandolin..

[@AnthonyHannigan]

@mandoist maybe the term x picking. I have heard tunes well before Jesse with folks playing it.

[@Canyarion]

Why is there only sound on the left speaker?

[@iowan1316]

What is the name of the song? Who comes to town?

[@GrapefruitP]

@germaniumbass you play both, on a mandolin you treat the pairs of strings as one string... most of the time

[@RatherCrunchyMuffin]

could someone please give me a link they know of to a good starting point for a beginner at mandolin. This video is helpful but is too advanced and i cant seem to find a decent way to move past the basics

[@lynx777]

Hello kind sir...I made a crosspicking vid giving special thanks to you...

[@AnthonyHannigan]

awesome!~!

[@oggendoggen2]

just out of sheer curiosity... how many instruments do you play?

[@o7jimmy]

Crosspicking interesting.

[@Modes9]

The origins of sweep-picking...

[@mandoist]

FWIW: Jesse McReynolds' actual basic crosspicking pattern is NOT like that shown in this video. Best you refer to Jesse's own mandolin instruction video tape and take it from there -- and crosspicking has not "been around long before that". Jesse did indeed invent crosspicking on the mandolin.

[@AnthonyHannigan]

Good point and well taken, however i learned this from him on several occasions as a young lad. Many of hours at his place and it was amazing how many rolls that he has!! And yes again, cross picking is a very primitive style and i think has been around since strings and a pick first made contact!

[@AnthonyHannigan]

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[@MrSaturnDOING]

Could you just alternate pick these lines?

[@docpain0]

r u using a soft or hard pick??

[@AnthonyHannigan]

Hard pick

[@jltc008]

I play sitar.

[@oggendoggen2]

GrapefruityTikbit, I mean...

[@mandoist]

Actually, x-picking was not done "a long time" before Jesse. Jesse McReynolds invented the x-picking style; indeed imitating the 5-string banjo roll.

[@AnthonyHannigan]

Hi Kevin, i have actually heard Dave Appolon do it, many many hears before. Also there are countess number of guitar pickers that were doing it since always!!

[@CPettybone1]

We all disagree on the name of this tune..LOL! I think your right though it is bile them cabbage. Mr. Hannigan can play though!

[@MrHistorymakers]

Guys you really think Jesse invented cross picking? No he just applied it to the mandolin, so it's certainly ok to do it differently from him

[@AnthonyHannigan]

No not at all, but for Bluegrass style mandolin players he was sure one of the pioneers that made it into mainstream. And yes, it is for sure ok and encouraged to do it your own way, several ways. Heck, throw on some banjo picks and go crazy!!! Why not?

[@VoodooGuitar]

I think the mandolin is kinda small for me... I always liked the sound, but it just doesn't agree with my hands, guitar / banjo are cool for me... Sitar anybody? I wish I had a sitar, lol.

[@eonblue46]

Does 110% free mean you pay me 10% of the lessons worth for watching? That'd be sweet. I'd create more accounts and subscribe all of them.

[@AnthonyHannigan]

Sure man!!!

[@ravenwav]

Wait, if their lessons are 110% free, shouldn't they pay us for watching?

[@footballerdt]

They are paying us 10% of what we put in. So simple math would say 0 x .10 = 0

[@CPettybone1]

actually it's boil THEM cabbage down.

[@BobEdRadley]

Actually it's BILE them cabbage down.

[@aubreynoftall3830]

worst teacher ive ever seen....man you take so much for granted