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Matt Flinner Tunes for Mandolin will cover many of Matt’s original tunes in bluegrass, “New Acoustic,” jazz and old-time styles. Students will be given exercises to help them navigate some difficult aspects of the tunes each week, including picking exercises to help with speed, arpeggio exercises to help with improvisation, and other exercises in rhythms, modes, various keys, positions on the neck and ideas for licks. The goal is to help the aspiring mandolinist expand their musical palette, improve their improvisation skills and, most importantly, have more fun playing the mandolin!
The course is recommended for students at a high intermediate to advanced level.
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The eight-week course begins on October 8th and runs until December 6th. Class sessions will take place every Wednesday evening from 9-10 pm eastern time, and follow-up practice sessions will take place every Saturday afternoon from 12:30-1:15 pm eastern time. Matt will be taking off the week of November 26 off for the Thanksgiving holiday, so there will be eight class sessions and eight practice sessions over a nine-week period. All class sessions and practice sessions will be recorded so that students can revisit the lessons as often as they’d like to, and students who are unable to attend any of the live sessions can view the lessons at their own convenience.
During the live sessions, students can ask questions and/or play examples via their microphone (built-in or external plug-in), or they can ask questions via a built-in chat window.
All students will also have unlimited access to short recorded videos of all of the material played at a slow tempo, PDFs of all material in both standard notation and mandolin tablature, and mp3s of all of the tunes at slow and medium speeds that they can practice along with. Students can access all of this material at any time through the class website, and can also download all materials (videos and class session videos included) to keep them permanently.
Students are also encouraged to submit mp3 recordings at any time during the course if they would like to, and the instructor will respond in an mp3 recording with constructive criticism. Students can submit these mp3s either privately via email or publicly via the class website, where all students can listen and respond if they choose to. Mp3 submissions are encouraged but not required, and there is no limit on how many mp3 submissions a student can send in.
Class sessions will take place on Wednesday evenings at 9 pm eastern time from October 8 through December 3 (with the week of November 26 off due to the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S.), and practice/review sessions will take place on Saturdays at 12:30 pm eastern time from October 11 through December 6 (again, with Thanksgiving weekend off). Students are encouraged to attend the live sessions if possible, but if they miss sessions they can view them after-the-fact at their leisure on the class website.
The fee for the course is $225. Register by 9/21 for just $150!
If you have questions about the course, email Matt at [email protected].
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MATT FLINNER TUNEES FOR MANDOLIN CURRICULUM
WEEK 1 (10/8/25)
A couple of simpler tunes
Picking Exercise I
Arpeggio Exercise I
Playing rhythm with open chords and mixed rhythms
Improv ideas
Cold Quarters
Bonus material: The View from Here
WEEK 2 (10/15)
Tunes in minor keys
Picking Exercise II
Arpeggio Exercise II
Using different types of minor scales
The Narrows
Bonus material: New Cimarron
WEEK 3 (10/22)
Building a little speed
Picking Exercise III
Arpeggio Exercise III
Raji’s Romp
Bonus material: Black’s Fork
WEEK 4 (10/29)
A couple of waltzes
Some chord shapes and 3/4 rhythm patterns (including jazz waltz)
More improv ideas
The Village Road
Bonus material: Ice Queen
WEEK 5 (11/6)
Some newgrass & rock rhythms
Sam Bush-style rhythm
Some interval studies (4ths and 7ths)
Men from Boise
Bonus material: Nowthen
WEEK 6 (11/13)
Some old time-style tunes
Picking Exercise IV
Positions in C, with improv ideas
Sugar Maple
Bonus material: The Woodstove Dogs
WEEK 7 (11/20)
Some tricky chord progressions
Arpeggio Exercise IV
Addressing improv in various positions on the neck
Shiny Blue
Bonus material: Fallen Star
WEEK 8 (12/4)
Jamming tunes
Working with modes
More improv ideas
Meridian
Bonus material: Paint It Shut
The course fee is $225. Register by September 21st for just $150!
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The View From Here
Walking on the Moon
Latitude
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