This week's skipping-thirds exercise combines the forward and retrograde patterns into a four-note pattern: forward retrograde.
| Playing Solo Mandolin Slowly |
| Playing Solo Mandolin Slowly, Week Two |
For this week’s workout, Ethan shows you how to add tremolo and duo-style picking to the accompaniment pattern he showed you in the previous lesson. The tremolo will be familiar, but duo-style mandolin takes the technique further by pairing a tremolo part with a parallel line—typically on an adjacent string—that is usually picked as individual notes that resonate against the shorter tremolo strokes.