Fiddle Tunes for Mandolin 101 Curriculum (Oct 7-Dec 7)

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Welcome Fiddle Tunes for Mandolin 101! This course will introduce students to the core of bluegrass/fiddle tune repertoire and help them improve their mandolin technique along the way. Exercises in scales, arpeggios double stops, backup, and creating variations will give students the tools they need to move forward in their playing and enable them to play more comfortably on their own or with other players in jam sessions. Fiddle Tunes for Mandolin 101 will start at a beginner/intermediate level and progress to a solidly intermediate level.

The course runs from October 7 to December 7, with class sessions on Monday evenings at 9 pm eastern time (except the week of November 11th, when class will take place on Tuesday, November 12th), and follow-up practice sessions on Saturday mornings at 10 am eastern time. The week of November 25th will be off due to the Thanksgiving holiday. Students will have a total of eight class sessions and eight practice sessions over the course of nine weeks. Students are NOT required to attend all (or any) of the live sessions; all sessions will be recorded and available to view afterward (generally by the next day) anytime at the students’ convenience.

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The course fee is $225. Register here. Sign up for any two courses by October 5th and save $50!

Here is the curriculum for the Fiddle Tunes for Mandolin 101 online course:

WEEK 1 (10/7)

Picking and rhythm

Picking Exercise I

Fingering Exercise I

Scales: D Major and G Major

Open style backup in D

Eighth of January

Bonus material: St. Anne’s Reel

WEEK 2 (10/14)