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Bluegrass Mandolin 101 Curriculum (1/6-3/15)

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“I’ve learned so much from your courses and have improved greatly due to learning some basic skills and music theory.”—Jamie J. 

 

 

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Sale extended!  Register by 12/15 and save $50! 

Register for Bluegrass Mandolin 101 with Matt Flinner

 

See the Advanced Bluegrass Mandolin Soloing with Matt Flinner curriculum (1/7-3/15)

See the Bluegrass Mandolin Backup and Fills with Matt Flinner curriculum (1/8-3/15)

 

Bluegrass Mandolin 101 returns!  This course will start at a beginning/intermediate level and progress to a solidly intermediate level.  This course will introduce students to the use of double stops and various positions on the neck, as well as various picking and fingerboard exercises to help develop good mandolin technique and knowledge of the fretboard.  Each week, students are given two standard bluegrass tunes (and encouraged to learn at least one of them); that week’s exercises are correlated to the tunes during the week’s practice session so that students find practical ways of using the exercises in their playing.

Classes take place Monday evenings at 9 pm eastern time, and review sessions take place on Saturday mornings at 10 am eastern time (note: the week of February 24th is off, as is Saturday, March 8.  There will be a total of eight weeks of classes in 10 weeks time).

Register by 12/15 and save $50!  

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Bluegrass Mandolin 101 with Matt Flinner curriculum:

Week 1 (1/6)

Three warmup exercises

Intro to position playing

Intro to double stops

Will the Circle Be Unbroken

Bonus Material: Keep on the Sunny Side of Life

 

WEEK 2 (1/13)

Moving to the key of A

Some tag licks to add to your solos

Backup playing and fills

My Long Journey Home

Bonus Material: Little Cabin Home on the Hill

 

WEEK 3 (1/20)

Small position shifts

Adding some more licks to your solos

Double stop exercise in D

Blue Ridge Cabin Home

Bonus material: I Am a Pilgrim

 

WEEK 4 (1/27)

Position playing II

Three different kickoffs

Chord tones in position playing

Man of Constant Sorrow

Bonus Material: Great High Mountain

 

WEEK 5 (2/3)

Shifting from Position I to Position II

Transposing to other keys

Blue Moon of Kentucky

Bonus Material: I’ll Stay Around

 

WEEK 6 (2/10)

More position shifts

Turnarounds: I-V-I progressions

Double stop exercise in C

Things in Life

Bonus material: I Ain’t Gonna Work Tomorrow

 

WEEK 7 (2/17)

Moving double stops around to create melody

An approach to improvising

Pike County Breakdown

Bonus material: Arkansas Traveler

 

Week 8 (3/3)

Tying it all together

Adding some licks and improvising

Combining double stops and licks

Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms

Bonus tune: Little Maggie

 

The course fee is $225.  Register by 12/15 for just $175!

Register for Bluegrass Mandolin 101 with Matt Flinner

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