BLUEGRASS MANDOLIN JAMMING WITH MATT FLINNER (July 11-August 4)
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“After buying six mandolins and umpteen books…I am convinced your course is best $100 I have invested in my mandolin journey to date. Finally, I’m getting the discpline I need with your exercises to learn scales, arpeggios, double stops, fingering techniques, learn the fretboard (the essential tools I need)…and most importantly to learn how those things fit into playing tunes.”—Rick D., Bluegrass Mandolin 101 student
“I have to say that making everything available online is a great convenience for me. Being able to stop and return to a more challenging exercise or a newer phrase is a great for learning. I also really appreciate your availability to answer questions offline. This is a great course, and I feel as though I’m improving daily because of it.”—Joe C., Bluegrass Mandolin 101 student
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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!
Now offered at Europe-friendly times! Class sessions take place at 2 pm eastern time (7 or 8 pm in most of Europe) and 9 pm eastern time. Students are welcome to join whichever session is more convenient for them…or they can join both! Students who cannot make it to the live sessions are able to view the sessions afterwards on the class website—generally by the following day.
Each week, we’ll look at four bluegrass standard tunes: usually 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).
Classes meet every Wednesday from July 11 to August 1 at 2 pm eastern time (7 or 8 pm in the UK and Europe) as well as 9 pm eastern time. We hope this will be convenient for folks in various time zones, including Europe and around the world! There will also be 45-minute review sessions every Saturday at 12:15 pm eastern time (5:15 or 6:15 pm in the UK and Europe).
The course fee is $125.
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Here is the curriculum:
WEEK 1 (July 11)
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 18)
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 25)
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 (August 1)
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 $125. Register here.
See the Gypsy Swing Mandolin Jamming (July 9-August 4) curriculum
See the Music Theory and Mandolin Fretboard Exercises (July 10-August 4) curriculum
Questions? Email [email protected].