Sailor’s Hornpipe: Mandolin Lesson

Sailor’s Hornpipe is a well known, traditional hornpipe, played at an up-beat tempo, in the key of G. With a jolly melody, the tune features arpeggios, some great scale movement, modulation and full use of the open fingering position on the mandolin. If you’re familiar with the open G major scale, it will help you get started, as I’d suggest this tune is suited to the advancing intermediate picker. As always, in this lesson we’ll break down the tune and look at some helpful tips.

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