Hi! I am Michael Oberst with Expertvillage.com I am a mandolin instructor. In this segment we are going to be doing practicing some alternate picking which means that we will, instead of like the...

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Here's our minim stroke. Remember that the minim stroke defines the character of the letter form. See how it gets heavier down here? This little guy right down here towards the end of the...
What makes a "Q" a "Q", the tail. The "R" starts out with a minim stroke now just like with the "B" and the...
So, here we are going to talk about dot, dian, okay. In Pinyin the pronunciation is like this, dian, dian, and in Chinese it writes dian. And in traditional Chinese it's a little bit more...
So we have this word heart; actually that dot will look more natural a little bit to the center. But another word is Pie that's just the writing that direct that diagonally like that. So how...

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So another design element is that there are sometimes strokes that cross at the center in different ways. Like this character center, so we divide the opening into two parts by this vertical stroke....
Here I am measuring the width of my tool. The width of the tool is a kind of proportion, but I can take this same length, and I can take this same idea, and I can get a little bit more dramatic about...
I did not learn how to do this in one sitting. How are you going to teach yourself how to do this? Your going replay this video, and when we work towards learning to do this, you're going to...
This is a basic stroke and you know what I'm going to do, let's see if I can get you a little motivated. See if this is going to work. I don't care you can just be sitting...
And it cuts into the place of the right side of the character. So, when we consider the design element, we should make a shortened horizontal and a little bit shorter on the right end so that we can...

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