• Song:

    Bluegrass Mandolin Thing

  • Artist:

    Katie Lynn Band

Mandolin bluegrass song that I wrote!

I'm putting the timing subdivided with sixteenth notes as well as the picking direction with "U" and "D"

it's in the key of E (which isn't really that much easy on mandolin), and it's played at 95 BPM or faster. 


          (trill)
E|-----0-2-242-0-----0-----0---0-0-2-2---2-2---2-2-2-7-4-2-0--------|
A|-2h4-----------2-4---2h4-----0-0-2-------2-----------------4-2----|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------6--|
G|------------------------------------------------------------------|
   1 e & a 2 e & a 3 e & a 4 e & a 1 e & a 2 e & a 3 e & a 4 e & a 

   D   U D U   D U D U D   U   D U D U   U D   D U D U D U D U D U 


          (trill)
E|-----0-2-242-0-----0-----0---0-0-2-2---2-2---2-2-2-5-4-2-0--------|
A|-2h4-----------2-4---2h4-----0-0-0-------0-----------------4-2----|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------4--|
G|------------------------------------------------------------------|
   1 e & a 2 e & a 3 e & a 4 e & a 1 e & a 2 e & a 3 e & a 4 e & a 

   D   U D U   D U D U D   U   D U D U   U D   D U D U D U D U D U 



I realize that when it comes to picking you're suppose to keep the D pick on the down beat and the up picking on the upbeat, but I change it up a little here and there cause it was more comfortable when I wrote it. 
I do this sometime when I'm doing a hammer-on, triplet, or a thirty second note trill type thing, but I always make sure to get my picking back right within a measure or so. it helps with timing. 


E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
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