Bury Me Beneath The Willow - basic mando lesson

[maplebaby]

A quick look at a bluegrass standard as well as some basic mandolin techniques....thanks for watching!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUvnElUoei8

[Dub Martin]

Dale, Nice job on the video. Production quality is excellent and your presentation is relaxed and intimate, not easy to do in such a video. I've watched many of your videos since you began posting them and you have clearly become more comfortable with the process. You might consider a video on how best to create such videos. The only suggestion I would make is that you announce to your audience that you'll be playing in the key of G since beginners may not pick up on that right away. Then explain how each double stop follows the chord progression of the tune. Students will probably already have access to a chord sheet from the Internet but may not automatically hear or see which double stops represent those chords.

I do have a musical or playing question about this tune and lesson however. Why do you prefer sliding into the G double stop with your index and second fingers rather than your second and third fingers? I think I would (do) naturally use my middle two fingers to slide that double stop since the middle finger is naturally on G on the E string when playing a G chord. That would leave us using the little finger to catch E on the A string and our index finger would already be in place to catch B on the A string. Maybe you're avoiding the use of the little finger thinking that makes it easier for beginners.

Thanks,

[maplebaby]

hello Dub, hope all is good sir!

thanks for giving your time to watch and your kind comments are very appreciated....thanks! Your suggestions are good ones and will impact my future recordings - as to your playing question....i really can't explain why i 'prefer' using index and second finger on the video - i can do it either way.....most likely just the way it happened that particual time.

best,
dale