Bluegrass Mandolin Jamming II with Matt Flinner Curriculum (8/25-9/27)

“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

See the Mandolin Tune Studies II Curriculum (8/26-10/4)

See the Music Theory for Mandolin Players II Curriculum (8/27-10/4)

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. 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 Monday from August 25 to September 22 at 9 pm eastern time, with the week of September 1 being off due to Matt’s tour schedule. There will also be 45-minute review sessions every Saturday at 10 am eastern time. This course is a continuation of the Bluegrass Mandolin Jamming I course which concludes on August 9, but students do not to have taken that course in order to take the Bluegrass Mandolin Jamming II course.

The course fee is $125. Register by 7/27 and save $50!

Here is the curriculum:

WEEK 1 (8/25)
Starting off in the key of C
Open position and positions up the neck
Double stops in C
Toy Heart
Goodbye Old Pal
Home Sweet Home
Teardrops in My Eyes

WEEK 2 (9/8)
Keys of E and F
Adding the blues in E and F
Moving double stop exercises
Footprints in the Snow
The Last Thing on My Mind
Travelin’ Down this Lonesome Road
Tall Buildings

WEEK 3 (9/15)
Keys of B and Bb
More moving double stops
Some Monroe-style ideas
Wild Bill Jones
Roving Gambler
My Rose of Old Kentucky
Old Home Place

WEEK 4 (9/22)
Some “modern” classics
More difficult chord progressions
Finding chord tones and double stops
Combining double stops and licks
Steam Powered Aereoplane
Early Morning Rain
Panama Red
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The course fee is $125. Register by July 27th for just $75!