How To Apply The Big Picture

• The “Big Repeating Pattern” (aka the “Big Picture”) which will allow you to play all across the fretboard on any string

• How to always know what comes next in any major scale pattern

• How to never get lost no matter where you are on the mandolin neck

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Do This → Action Steps ↓

1. Watch the video of “how to apply the Big Picture” to major scale patterns 1, 2, 3 and 4.

2. Finally, with your mandolin, play through each one of the major scale patterns, one at a time, and analyze how each pattern follows the “big repeating pattern”. Start with pattern 1. Play this pattern from beginning to end until you can clearly see how pattern 1 follows the “big repeating pattern”. Repeat for Major scale patterns 2, 3, and 4.

3. Don’t move on from this lesson until you can clearly see how each Major scale pattern (1, 2, 3 and 4) follows the “Big repeating pattern”. If this is clear to you for each Major scale pattern, then you can move on to the next lesson.