I’ve been practicing, and struggling with, some 3-finger chords. I happen to be thumbing through Mandolin for Dummies, and I got to the chapter on Jethro Burns. They showed a whole bunch of different 3-finger cords, major, minor, and the various 7s. And as I was looking at the diagrams and the recommended fingering, I noticed that in a lot of the shapes, they recommended using the pinky. That’s something that I hadn’t been doing.
So I’ve been practicing some of these 3-fingers chord shapes using my pinky, and I’ve been doing a much better, smoother job making chord changes.
Only now my previously callus free pinky is screaming in pain. He looks like I’ll be spending the next couple of weeks building up my pinky.
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