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BLUEGRASS MANDOLIN JAMMING WITH MATT FLINNER
This course is intended to help the aspiring mandolinist build up repertoire and find ways of creating new solos over commonly played standards; it’s also designed in the hope that it will encourage students to get out and jam with other players!
Each week, we’ll look at four bluegrass standard tunes: two instrumentals and two vocal songs in a particular key. Students will be given lead sheets (in standard notation and tablature) for each song, as well as a few exercises to help them learn more about the fretboard and start incorporating new ideas into their solos. Concepts and tunes will be taught during the class session, and all tunes will be revisited during Saturday practice sessions in a “jam session” format, where each song is played several times though, and students have the opportunity to try out some of the week’s concepts on the tunes (with guidance from Matt).
Here is the curriculum:
WEEK 1 (June 29)
Key of G
Warmup Picking Exercise
Positions in G
G Scale Exercises
Don’t This Road Look Rough and Rocky
Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms
Big Sciota
Wheel Hoss
WEEK 2 (July 7)
Key of D
Moving Between Positions in D
D Scale and Patterns
Changing Octaves in a Tune
Angeline the Baker
Cora Is Gone
Reuben
Little Birdie
WEEK 3 (July 13)
Some Minor Key Tunes
A Variety of Minor Chords
E Minor Scales and Patterns
Throwing in Some Minor Double Stops
Randall Collins
Nashville Blues
Little Sadie
Kentucky Mandolin
WEEK 4 (July 20)
Key of A
Some Positions in A
Using Open Strings
A Major Scale and Patterns
Mixing in Licks and Double Stops
Gold Rush
Uncle Pen
Hit Parade of Love
Come Hither to Go Yonder
The course fee is $120.
Register here.
Check out other courses offered this summer here.
The View From Here
Walking on the Moon
Latitude
Music du jour
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