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Here is where you can find the basics to get you going!! Enjoy!

Intro to the mandolin. This is really not a lesson but the very first video for the mandolin that we did at MM.

Two Finger Chords: The very, very basic. This will get those fingers conditioned to play all night long.

Mandolin Finger Exercises. You will want to do this before you get into chord shapes for all fingers.

Three Finger Chords. This is the next step up from your two finger chord shapes. Note how they repeat.

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4. Four Finger Chords

5. Double Stops on the mandolin

6. Right Hand Tech

7. Cross Picking the mandolin

8. Boil Them Cabbage Down I

Boil Them Cabbage Down II

10. Tremolo Training

11. Shortcuts on the Mando

12. Basic Theory

13. Chord Theory

14. The CHOP

15. Licks and Tags I

16. Licks and Tags II

17. Finger Exercise

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