Circle of Fourths with FFCP

[mikeonthemandolin]

Here is a free lesson I created for playing the circle of fourths with four finger closed positions.

[JeffD]

Good stuff.

My only irritation is that I adopted the convention that going up in pitch is the up direction, even if it is physically down. So going from the G string to the D string is going up a string in the way I think about it.

Otherwise its really great stuff.

[mikeonthemandolin]

That's good feedback. I definitely meant physically down But, I know where you are coming from. Thanks again

[Mark Gunter]

Good exercise Mike, thanks

[Toni Schula]

Good stuff.

My only irritation is that I adopted the convention that going up in pitch is the up direction, even if it is physically down. So going from the G string to the D string is going up a string in the way I think about it.

Otherwise its really great stuff.

Same directions over here
Can't wait to get home and grab my mandolin and check it out...

[DougC]

Without even looking at the video (I will after a few minutes...), I wonder if you have this exercise notated in regular staff and TAB?

[mikeonthemandolin]

Doug, I do. TAB/notation and play along are on my Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/mikeonthemandolin If you aren't interested in donating you can email me directly and I'll send them to you (email is on the Patreon description). Enjoy!

[Mark Gunter]

Mike, on your Patreon page there seems no requirement to donate, you have a simple link there to the PDF. Is this intentional?

[mikeonthemandolin]

Mark, lol it wasn't really intentional for it to be public, but no worries. If folks find value and want to donate that's cool. If not, that's cool too I think I'd actually just rather keep them open and rely on the honour system

[Mark Gunter]

OK, I didn't realize that. I just removed the direct link from my post

[mikeonthemandolin]

No worries, you could have left it up thanks for watching.

[dang]

Good stuff.

My only irritation is that I adopted the convention that going up in pitch is the up direction, even if it is physically down. So going from the G string to the D string is going up a string in the way I think about it.

Otherwise its really great stuff.

I think the convention relative to pitch is the most used one, the backwards nature of this relationship caused my brain to hurt when i watched the video

[mikeonthemandolin]

I think the convention relative to pitch is the most used one, the backwards nature of this relationship caused my brain to hurt when i watched the video

Thanks for watching. I hope the tear in the space-time continuum is temporary

[JonZ]

I like your tone, MikeOnTheMandolin.

[Br1ck]

I've found this very helpful. I now practice the scales in all the keys now, and it's helping me learn the fretboard.

[Mark Gunter]

I've enjoyed this scale exercise for mandolin, so a few weeks ago I worked out a similar practice for guitar: Open Position Scales By Fourths For Guitar. All the scales are in pretty much the lowest guitar positions, using open strings, only Db and Gb use no open strings. Knowing these scales can be handy for finding finger-picked bass and melody lines, and notes.

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Open Position Scales By Fourths For Guitar.tef

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