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How Is This Played On The Mandolin?
David McLaughlin is my favorite mandolin player. The song below is a perfect example of his style, and I would like to learn what he is doing on the notes between the melody. I assume it is arpeggios and pentatonics, but I have a more specific question.
What are the main notes that he keeps coming back to in between the melody? Is it the 3 note and the rest pentatonics, or what? I'm working over 70 hours a week between 2 jobs and school and I haven't had the time to sit down and figure it out, so I thought I would ask here if someone happens to know it would help me quite a bit. Thanks!
Lance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xequbytrS3s
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Re: How Is This Played On The Mandolin?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xequbytrS3s
I don't know why it is not embedding the video, I am using the link button, but it just shows a clickable link instead of embedding it.
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Re: How Is This Played On The Mandolin?
Here you go:
Basically, he's playing scalar patterns revolving around the melody. The song is in G, so where the vocal is "..be in some dark hollow", be is an open D note (3rd string), his surrounding notes are ascending/descending around that note. If you sing the melody while playing the notes, it helps.
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Re: How Is This Played On The Mandolin?
[QUOTE=AlanN;1786559]Here you go:
"..be in some dark hollow", be is an open D note (3rd string), his surrounding notes are ascending/descending around that note."
So it is the 5 he comes back to most of the time. Thanks!
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Re: How Is This Played On The Mandolin?
Yes, at least for the first line:
I'd rather be in some dark hollow...mostly around a D note.
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