Adding a 4th to a Minor Triad in Root Position on the Mandolin

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So just like we looked at our major chords and built them in three notes and then added a fourth note, we're going to do the same for our minor chord. So, here's your G major, sorry, here's your G minor root position. Okay, and if you look at that, that's a root shape. But then if we take the next set of strings up, that's your second inversion right, root's up on top of the second inversion. Okay, and you already have the third flatted from your previous chord. And these kind of things are kind of nice to maybe incorporate with a cross picking melody. One and two and three. Cross picking is kind of related in some ways to the banjo and that's kind of how I learned a lot of my rules. It's important to always alternate pick when you're doing that. And it's really - I just did it to demonstrate the two different stacks, the triads put together.

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