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Adding a 4th to a Minor Triad's 2nd Inversion on the Mandolin

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Summary: Adding a 4th to a minor triad's 2nd inversion on the mandolin is easy with these tips, get expert advice and a music lesson in this free video.

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Levin Schwartz Levin Schwartz lives in Northampton, Mass., where he spends his days playing music with his band, The Amity Front, and teaching private guitar and mandolin le... read more

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Adding a 4th to a Minor Triad's 2nd Inversion on the Mandolin

Okay, so for the last minor shape here, we're going to add our fourth note. Here's your minor shape second inversion. And then up on top, here's your minor shape first inversion, okay. And so the combination of both of those... results in that. My pinky's kind of pressing down there. I'm trying to get this pinky as flat as I can to get those barres 'cause they're kind of hard to get. So a lot of my energy is coming from back here, you know it's not so, I'm not using my fingertips as much as one might think. It's more coming from back here, the strength. Sometimes just thinking about that helps out making the chords. But here's that cross picking melody again. We'll do eighth notes instead of the triplets. So now at this point we have all three.

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