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3rd Position Minor Triads on the Mandolin's Higher Strings

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Summary: 3rd position minor triads on the mandolin's higher strings are easy to play with these tips, get expert advice and a music lesson in this free video.

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3rd Position Minor Triads on the Mandolin's Higher Strings

Okay, and so our final group of shapes here. We have our second inversion up here. All right. So we're going to go to G minor. I'm going to back up. So here's your root shape. It's stacked five-three-one. Here's your three, here's your five, remember that. So flap the third. Up a whole step to the root of the C chord, going to make that minor, okay. And then a D here. A ha. So, that was on the lower set of the strings. We want to be up on the higher set of strings don't we? So, let's go up onto the higher set of strings. So here's your G minor. Here's your root of the C, and here's your D. That's a G minor. So once again. The root's here, up a whole step to the C, okay, here's your five. D minor to G.

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