Chords for Sierra Hull - Secrets Songs & Tunes mandolin DVD

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_ _ _ [D] Hi, I'm John [A] Lawless with AccuTap Publications [G] and [Am] we have Sierra Hull with us in the studio
today.
It's really a [Em] treat.
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Sierra, [Gm] I'm sure the [D] first thing people think about [F] when they
see you play [G] is [Am] how did you learn to [G] play the mandolin this well at such a young age?
How old are you now?
I'm 16.
It's really stunning to think that you play with such a mature technique and so much passion
for the music.
Even at 16, you must have been playing a pretty good while.
Yeah, I started when I was 8 years old, so I'm playing a little over 8 years now.
When
I was little, I remember crying to my dad and telling him, I ran up to him and he's
like, what's wrong, Sierra?
And I'm like, I'm never going to be able to make four-finger
G chords.
I was just so upset and frustrated.
He's like, oh no, you will.
You'll just get
a little bit bigger.
You'll get there.
_ I _ can do it now, but I almost don't even choose
to in certain ways.
Like if I'm playing, I might do it if I'm in B.
Some stuff I think
just really calls [D] for that kind of _ _ driving _ _ _ kind of chop where you want to really throw
it out there real mushy and hard. _
If you're playing something pretty, you wouldn't just
want to go, it would sound really messy.
A lot of times, if something's just real pretty,
I will just [F] play just a regular chop because you don't want to crowd the vocals.
When you would start working in the key of C, have you got positions in your mind or
places on the fingerboard that you know you're going to use as your little anchors and roadmaps?
_ Generally, when I think of C, I think everybody to a certain degree has their certain positions
they'll think of when they play. _
I don't always think in terms of licks, but I do think on
terms of where stuff's at as far as I know [Cm] these particular notes will work when I'm
playing in C.
I wouldn't want to just be playing _ anything over this chord.
A lot of times,
I tend to think on terms of, you know, [Eb] _ _
and [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ then I know I have those kind of notes in
the C chord down here that I can [Dm] play out of.
_ [Em] I'm actually playing with my first finger
on the second fret using the inside strings more or less of the D and the A.
_ Second fret
of the D string and second fret of the A string and letting my E string ring open.
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_ _ _ _ _ And by doing that, I'm able to get that real choppy sound just by, I use my pinky sort
of in my ring finger to mute the strings as I strum.
It's just a real strummy [D] thing.
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Yeah, _ _ _ _ _
sort of.
And the reason I do that is [G] again to kind of get one of those little _ [Abm] _ slide _ backs
that you really don't have to do and you really don't want to even hear it.
It would sound
funny if you just went.
_ [G] _ I mean, you [C] don't want to hear an actual note come out.
You
just want to hear the motion of the back side sort _ of.
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_ _ [B] _ [Bb] And _ [Am] I _ hold the first, the second
fret down with my first finger on the A string, but very subtle.
I almost don't even want
to hear it.
I just want to barely hear the note.
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_ Well, Sierra, thanks so much for spending
the time with us.
I think people can learn a ton _ from your songs and the way you look
at music.
And just thanks for doing it.
Hey, thanks for having me.
This has been a real
[Bm] treat and a lot of fun for me.
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