Your First Mandolin Double Stop Lesson - Double Stops For The Mandolin (Lesson One)

I'm sorry, is that a new educational video on double stops?! You bet your ass it is. Each week you'll have a new video of double stop content coming your way for the foreseeable future. This first lesson is getting the basic shapes of a G major double stop under your fingies. We'll use these shapes in other tonal centers later so it is important to remember these shapes!
Free accompanying sheet music and TAB can be found on my Patreon: / 93197845
0:00 - Intro
0:50 - Double Stop Families
1:02 - First Family (3rd and 4th Intervals)
4:10 - Second Family (5th and 6th Intervals)
6:24 - Exercise 1
6:54 - Exercise 2
7:12 - Exercise 3
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[@schoop]

Wow. I just saw the Henhouse Prowlers for the first time this weekend and was blown away by the band, especially the mandolin player. This morning, I find a great double stops explanation for this mando novice and who should it be... Great lesson - thanks.

[@americaincmusic]

Thanks for this! I really appreciate your posts on r/mandolin.

[@JakeHoward]

Thanks for the nice comment! This series will be a fun one. We'll start diving into mandolin players solos that utilize double stops and breaking them down.

[@ursuladre9650]

thank you for explaining!!

[@maplifiers]

Nice lesson Jake, thanks.

[@JakeHoward]

Thanks for watching!

[@azombiestool]

Now that I've been playing around with this I know exactly what these intervals are for. Great video. You're an incredible player. Can you make a second video regarding these same intervals and how people can use them in a break and possibly over chord changes one might find in a break? Thanks Jake

[@JakeHoward]

Awesome, I was just about to comment on what you said before because I'm currently getting the next one ready and wanted to see if anyone had questions. The next few videos I have planned for this series will go over finding double stops over C and D and how to find your arpeggios and pentatonics with these shapes. But we will be going over breaks by other mandolin players and how they incorporate these double stops into their playing once those other videos are released. I'm looking forward to it!

[@azombiestool]

@@JakeHoward awesome! Yeah I've been playing for 3 months and I think my biggest mystery is how people throw these intervals into a break over chord changes although I'm seeing how people use the ones you showed over a single chord. I guess that relates to playing a melody in general as well which is still sortve a mystery in general for me as well. What notes to land on that relate to the chords within a chord change.

[@daveyharrison9627]

How Nuggets are you up to? :D I’m a fellow Nugget A style player! Sounds great

[@JakeHoward]

Oh geez, too many mandolins over here. I have an F style, a two point and this A style!

[@daveyharrison9627]

Awesome! That’s almost rivaling Tim O’Brien’s collection at this point.

[@mikebastiat]

I got lost after after about 3 minutes. I don't know where these other families come in or why. And I have no idea how these are applied. Do they change with chord changes? When do you slide into these shapes? This is the lesson I've been waiting for and I can't damn understand it.

[@JakeHoward]

Hey Mike! No worries, these are good questions to have and I’m sure other people have the same ones. I like to think of the double stops as having two primary groupings or as I call them families (3/4th Interval Family and the 5/6th Interval Family). The titles for both families reference the intervals each shape contains. So for the 3/4th interval family, all three shapes (the small, medium and large shape) contain either a 3rd or 4th interval (the interval from the lower note in the double stop to the higher note). The reason I have these double stop shapes grouped together is that they voice lead nicely with each other, meaning we don’t have to shift our fingers too much out of the way to go up and down the neck. At the 3:00 minute mark, I take the same shapes that I showcased on the A/E string and move them to a different set of strings - so fundamentally doing the same thing just demonstrating how we can apply those shapes elsewhere. We happen to start on the medium sized shape (G and B) on the D/A strings because it's the lowest notes we can play with these set of shapes on this string set. The 5th/6th interval families are using the same notes as the 3rd/4th interval family (G,B,D) but using different shapes (which have different sounds and are important for improvising with double stops). As far as applying the double stops, this is something that we will go over in subsequently in this series. I'll showcase how we can apply them to melodies, how other professionals apply them and how we can apply them when improvising. I really appreciate your feedback and asking questions as ultimately my goal is to spread the knowledge on this stuff so if there is more here to clarify or follow up questions, please do ask away and I'll respond as best I can and possibly even incorporate it in a future video!

[@mikebastiat]

@@JakeHoward Thanks, man. That's way more of a response than I deserved. I'm going to try and read what you've said again, and watch the video again. I think I will need to see how they are applied for them to make sense. I don't know if these are all out of G, or if they second set is moving up to C, or if you're showing how you can find them all from a chop chord, or what. I got lost after 3 minutes. I don't do good with theory or music lingo. Just copying people. Looking forward to the follow up video on double stops applied to 1-4-5 or something. Thanks!

[@JakeHoward]

@@mikebastiat Of course! Check out lesson two of this series, I talk about how to shift these shapes through C and D (our IV and V chords!). But I agree, seeing these things applied is where the magic is.

[@SmilingBooks-uj6jp]

None of these teachers understand that we can't count your frets on the screen, the screen is a reversed perspective.

[@JakeHoward]

Free sheet music/tab in the bio that will tell you exactly what’s happening in the video!