Posted by Bradley Laird

Are your hands too small to make those insanely BIG chop chords on the mandolin? If you said yes, fear not. Vee have vays ov making you chop!

Here is a free video lesson I created to help solve this problem:

After you watch that, you might also want to see the full-length 31 minute lesson here which shows you more options to play all of the major and minor chords using similar compact forms.

I have taught small children and arthritic old truck mechanics and, for some people, that big Bill Monroe style chop is just not going to happen. These videos will give you a good solution which you can merrily play without shame.

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Brad

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