Mandolin Self Instructor, online tutorial - Page 18

A simplified self learning system for the Mandolin with tuning instruction, song folio, chord diagrams, sheet music and PDF for printing. By ZARH MYRON BICKFORD

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	OPEN STRING STUDY.
	EIGHTH NOTES AND ALTERNATING STROKES
	In this little Study the eighth notes are to be taken with down and up strokes, alternating, each pair of eighths requiring the same amount of time as a single quarter note. This exact division will be more easily accomplished if each "one-and," "two-and," etc., is compared to a word with two syllables—as "ta-ble," "ta-ble," while the quarter notes take up the whole beat, like the one-syllable word "chair." Particular attention must also be paid to the manner of making the strokes, as previously explained.