Love, Please Come Home, Part 1: Arpeggios, Double Stops, and the Pentatonic Scale in B

from: Bluegrass Mandolin Fingerboard Method with Sharon Gilchrist

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Learn to play solos to any bluegrass song in any key with Sharon's intermediate-level method for learning the fingerboard, based on arpeggios, chop-chord shapes, and double stops.

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“Will the Circle Be Unbroken” comes from the Carter Family and is one of the most well-known bluegrass and old-time country songs. As with the last couple of lessons, you’ll learn to create a melody-based solo to “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” in the key of D using the L shapes, arpeggios, and double stops. Sharon shows you how to harmonize the melody with double stops in this video.

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Love, Please Come Home

Love, Please Come Home, Part 1: Arpeggios, Double Stops, and the Pentatonic Scale in B

Love, Please Come Home, Part 2: Melody and Chords

Love, Please Come Home, Part 3: Solo

Love, Please Come Home, Part 4: Solo Play-Along Track

Love, Please Come Home, Part 1: Arpeggios, Double Stops, and the Pentatonic Scale in B

In this lesson, you’ll learn a fiddle solo played by Tater Tate on Bill Monroe’s 1989 recording of “Love, Please Come Home” from Monroe’s Live at the Opry album. The song is played in the key of B and uses the flat-seven chord: an A chord in the key of B. The solo uses the major-pentatonic scale, which is easily played out of closed position. In this video, Sharon reviews the L-shapes, arpeggios, and double stops in the key of B (B, E, and F#) and then adds the A chord. She also shows you the major pentatonic scale in the key of G.