“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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See the Mandolin Practice Techniques Curriculum (6/23-7/25)
See the Mandolin Chord & Rhythm Intensive Curriculum (6/24-7/25)
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 standard fiddle tunes. Students will be given lead sheets (in standard notation and tablature) for each tune, 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 tune 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 evening from June 22 to July 20 (the week of June 29 is off due to Matt’s touring schedule) at 9 pm eastern time. There will also be 45-minute practice/review sessions every Saturday at 10 am eastern time.
The course fee is $150. Register by 5/10 for just $75 (50% off)!
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Here is the curriculum:
WEEK 1 (6/22)
Key of G
Warmup Picking Exercise
Positions in G
G Scale Exercises
Did You Ever See the Devil, Uncle Joe?
Big Sciota
Lost Girl
WEEK 2 (7/6)
Key of D
D Scale and Patterns
Changing Octaves in a Tune
Dry and Dusty
St. Anne’s Reel
Pear Tree
WEEK 3 (7/13)
Some Minor Key Tunes
A Variety of Minor Chords
E Minor Scales and Patterns
Throwing in Some Minor Double Stops
Cold Frosty Morning
Cattle in the Cane
WEEK 4 (7/20)
Key of A
Some Positions in A
Using Open Strings
A Major Scale and Patterns
Mixing in Licks and Double Stops
Road to Columbus
Salt River
John Brown’s Dream
Black Mountain Rag
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