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

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Uploaded by on Nov 19, 2007

Learn to play the basic note structure on a mandolin with expert music training tips in this free online instrument instruction video clip.

Expert: Mike Oberst
Bio: Mike Oberst is a professional musician based out of Cincinnati, Ohio. He is proficient in nearly ten different instruments, including the bagpipes, mandolin, guitar, and accordion just to name a few.
Filmmaker: Jason Sager

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

  • this guys got everything backwards

  • this guy doesnt know his music, just tabs

  • Is this guy serious?

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

  • 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!

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

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

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

  • 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!

  • it's the internet, it must be true!

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