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Sorry for the delay in response.
Good question. Yes you can do down and up strumming and down and up picking of individual notes.
Using down strokes and up strokes is very important when you want to start playing faster.
If you only use downstrokes (in either strumming or playing notes) you’ll fairly quickly hit a speed wall of how fast you can do that.
By using the upstrokes as well you essentially double the amount of notes you can play with the same amount of right hand movement.
If you still have questions let me know.
– Mike
Good question. They’re similar but slightly different.
Yes the pull-off in 43 you play the first string at the same time as the pull-off.
The pull-off is an 8th note vs. 41 where it’s a 16th note. The 16th note version you pull-off slightly before you pick the first string so you hear the sound of the pull-off a little more.
More importantly though is timing of the right hand picking doesn’t change at all whether you do a 8th note pull-off or a 16th note pull-off. That change is only happening in your left hand.
If you still have questions let me know.
– Mike
The mandolin is tuned to GDAE just like a violin.
How is the 10 string tuned? I’m not familiar with that instrument.
It’s possible that you can tune it similar to a mandolin but I’m not 100% sure.
Mike
Yes, that would definitely work as well as an alternate left hand fingering option. You have to make the transition at some point back down-the-neck to play measure 3.
What I’d recommend is try it a few different ways and see what you like best.
– Mike
Good question. That has to do with the timing of both of those licks.
Lick #4 uses four 8th notes at the end of it which is why we don’t want to use the same finger twice.
Lick #5 however uses two quarter notes at the beginning of it so we actually want to use our same finger twice because this is going to help us not rush through the lick.
You could also play Lick #5 the way you’re describing but it’s important to play that pause between the first two notes.
That’s why using the same finger twice to help slow yourself down can be a good tip.
If you have any other questions let me know.
Mike
You might have to experiment a bit but my first guess would be you’d want slightly heavy gauge strings with the longer neck.
I bet that thing sounds awesome tuned down to E!
Mike
Yes I can do an intermediate level lesson of this in the future and add some more advanced licks.
Thanks for the request. Keep picking.
– Mike
Check out the up-the-neck Ccruggs backup series I did. That should help you learn some of the positions I used in this backup.
If it’s still not making sense let me know.
– Mike
Ken,
Sorry for the delay in response.
Yes, and no. Sometimes I work out the fingerings exactly and play it the same way every time. Other times I can do it on the fly without figuring out the exact fingering.
My thought process here was this:
We need to play that 9th fret on the 3rd string started in measure 4. That’s my target melody note I’m looking to hit.
I want to hit that note with my thumb so it has power and stands out.
So I kind of reverse engineered it from there. The previous index finger at the end of measure three is basically just filler.
That T, I, M, I roll is very common though and one you’ll want to master.
If you know the most common Scruggs lick it uses this exact roll in the middle of it.
– Mike
Yes, I’ve done several other versions of these. You can search for Banjoland in the lesson browser and you should see them.
– Mike
I teach the lead part in this lesson:
This was the melody part I was referring to.
If you have any other questions let me know.
– Mike
I think it might be this one you’re referring to:
Let me know. Keep picking.
– Mike
It’s possible you got logged out of your account. You can log in right under the purchase options.
Here’s a link to the lesson page:
If you’re on a mobile small screen, the link will be at the bottom of the page instead.
I’ll send you a picture of where you’ll see the links.
– Mike
