Chords for Peghead Nation's Monroe-Style Mandolin Course with Mike Compton

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Hello, I'm Mike Compton.
I'm coming to you on behalf of Peghead Nation.
_ _ I've been asked to do a Monroe track on the site, and I'm happy to do that.
It's a subject that's been near and dear to me for a long, long time, and has changed the whole course of my life,
if the truth be told.
_ _ I think that it's as valid and
_ _ virile as ever.
_ It may be old-fashioned, but it's not out of date, certainly.
_ _ My effort is going to be to break down a lot of Mr.
Bill's material,
starting at the very beginning, and give you the fingerings and the right hand information.
Talk a lot about
_ playing with down strokes and the importance of tremolo.
If you're playing a double stop, _
you don't want to play the notes separately and just alternate back and forth.
You want to make sure that you're playing both notes
_ every stroke. _ _ _
_ At least ways as well the double stop is taking place.
So if you blend that in, _
make sure they're both even, and you can add your rhythmic
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_ A fellow mandolin player asked me one time
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sliding had become a way of life for me, and I'll have to say at this point that it has.
This is the first song that I remember hearing _ a slide in and feeling like
_ that's for me.
It was a tune called Lucky Lady that Bill Monroe recorded.
Once I got this album and that song came on and I heard this
slide at the end of that song, I said, that's what I want to do.
I want to sound like that.
[Bm] That's cool.
And it's this phrase right here.
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hope that I can give you an
_ understanding of just how cool
_ this style of mandolin playing is.
It's unlike anything else that you'll run into and
_ I think it's a brilliant way of illustrating melodies without
_ necessarily articulating _
every note in the melody line.
It's more like an _ impressionistic
painter
_ might think of a subject.
_ _ _ It's a little bit unpredictable.
It covers a range everywhere from
_ sweet _ and soft to
_ sassy to a little bit angry and
_ everything else.
_ So I hope
_ you'll give us a look and _
if I can help you with it in any way,
[G] _ please tune in and we'll go from there.
_ Hope to see you.
Thanks.
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