Teach a beginner mandolin version of The Irish Rover in G, demonstrating simple chord shapes and an upbeat folk strum pattern, with lyrics/chords linked.
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First link I randomly clicked was Don Stiernberg teaching the Jethro Superlick. That's worth the price of admission, right there.
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“The fretboard isn't a wall of dots. It's a small alphabet arranged in patterns — and once you can read it, every song you already know becomes a sentence.”