How to Play the Mandolin : Basic Note Structure for Playing the Mandolin

[debrunskys]

YOU ARE A M----- PLEASE DELETE THIS VIDEO

[GunTotinHippie]

this guys got everything backwards

[darkkristian22]

this guy doesnt know his music, just tabs

[littlehouseband]

Is this guy serious?

[GuitarBuyerGuide]

No wonder I can't play the Mandolin - I've had the notes wrong all these years. Crap.

[NBInstruments]

To all beginners...Do not attempt to learn the Mandolin from this video. I repeat...Do not attempt to learn the Mandolin from this video. Not all thing on the internet are truths!

[yakiburger]

Since when was the semitone above "E" an "Eb"?

I think he was describing the scale of "Inbred demented"

[gauldgalliersuk]

I want to learn to play traditional neapolitan italian music but my so called expert teacher will be this fucking redneck...

[MandoMarkinIndy]

The notes played up the neck on the E string correspond to the frets as follows: Open=E, 1st fret=F (NOT Eb as suggested by this video!!!), 2nd=F#, 3rd=G, 4th=G#, 5th=A, 6th=A#, 7th=B, 8th=C. 9th=C#, 10th=D, 11th=D#, and 12th Fret (the octave) is E. This same pattern will apply at any starting note...ie: G, G#, A, A#, B, C, etc (the open, 1st fret, 2nd fret etc.on the G string) Start at any note...it works!

[jmcgann00]

it's the internet, it must be true!

[skipplet]

Don't worry guys... he's an expert mandolin instructor!

[skipplet]

This guy has no idea what he's talking about. hahahahaha

[Ukucrazy]

WHAT

This is just so wrong

Do NOT watch this! This is completely incorrect!

[mattraum]

He is right about both Es and the Bb, though.

[mattraum]

This video makes me question everything I always thought I knew about music.

[JustWonderingHowToDo]

Why don't they put two extra strings on it so they heve the fretboard layout of a guitar?

[linaaaab]

this is so wrong!

[skerr661]

Is this guy being serious?

[musikgirl1]

You gotta be kidding right?

Does he know left from right? :p

[innertubed2m]

it's the bizarro mando world

[robgerety]

To Expert Village/eHow - Please please take down this video. The notes of the first string are incorrectly identified. To all beginning mandolin students - run from this instructional series as fast as you possibly can.

[crowebroke]

One of the funniest videos I've seen, I get this guy's humour, some of you need to realise he's joking.

[fiddlinred]

Dude, do you really know what you are doing????

[ImDMang]

That's why they call it dope!

[SouthCreake1]

I don't believe this guy's for real!

[lookinglassalice]

oh oh, you are counting backwards...

[cottagefarmer]

You guys have it wrong. He is operating out of the "antimatter" galaxy, give him a break. Didn't you ever watch star trek?

[gmericson]

He's going backwards - he's going down the scale when he should be going up, unfortunately.

[MikeBunting]

"Expert" Village, you say?!!

[Ronsat]

I think he's a Banjo playing 'mole' sent to sow confusion amoungst newbie Mando players....

[patrickgunning]

As a mandolin player myself, I sincerely hope this is all some horrible joke...

The word "expert" belongs about 500 miles away from this guy...

[IamCommando1213]

what the hell

[cranie4]

Yeah I was listening and he's like "play E and then one fret up is Eb" I knew mandolin was tuned different to guitar but wow ;)

[Thosewithus]

"Duh" comes right after C#

[cyberg00se]

I just learned the chromatic scale in a completely wrong way. Thanks, internet!

Have you ever heard of retakes?

[chrissshogarthhh]

yeah he is wrong though, he's going backwards lol

[hiddeninromance]

yeah i thought he was an expert?

[GunsofthePatriots14]

c sharp is d flat so thus, there is a such thing as c sharp. it depends on the key you are playing in

[chrissshogarthhh]

dude, there is such thing as a c sharp, but it's the same as a d flat, when you put sharp or flat after a note it just denotes whether it is a semi-tone higher or lower.

[jteran29]

not only does he get it wrong but, correct me if i'm wrong, there is no such thing as C sharp.

[PADDYMISFIT]

I'm afraid you are wrong. There is a C#. I agree with you about this boys teaching though. He may play well but he's not very good at explaing what he does.

[hiddeninromance]

its b and e sharp that don't exist x

[cyberg00se]

E sharp exists. Sonically it is F. There are theory reasons why composers sometimes actually write notes as E sharp or B sharp.

Then there are also sharp-sharps and flat-flats.

[JulienCH]

He is right, in the key of F# you have E# and B#, because the F and the C are already sharped, so you cannot have them in their natural forms. Also double # and flats occurs in some chords.

[jfbrown42]

Yup, he's got the notes on the E string wrong. 1st fret on the E string is an F, not an Eb (E flat). Surprising since most of the other videos in this series don't have mistakes in them.

[yewkalaylee]

This video needs to be removed...... it couldn't get any more wrong

[scoop909]

I agree, Its easy to get things the wrong way round sometimes, we all do it, BUT someone should have caught the E string mistake before the video was published. Maybe he was thinking one step ahead and because he was talking about the 12th fret he started from there. Either way it needs fixing or removing, as some newbie will watch this and learn the notes wrong

[fingerstylepicker]

Your scale on the 1st string which is E is wrong in your description. The 1st fret, 1st string is the key of F not E flat as you stated. You are going backwards in your video. Please make the correction.

Sincerely, Fingerstylepicker.

[choomanfoo]

This is the 3rd expert village film I've watched; It might be the last

[DaveNau]

You were right about the fingering on the E string. He was going the wrong way.

He was correct about the tuning of the instrument though. The mandolin is tuned - just like the violin - in 5ths. ie GDAE...

[relldavis]

You said the notes went E D C# C B... etc back to E, starting from open E. How would the note go down as the pitch went up? I think you meant E F F#... Odd on the tuning though, most other instruments are EADG as opposed to the other way around...