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Register for Swing Mandolin Jamming II with Matt Flinner
This course is intended to help the aspiring mandolinist build up repertoire and find ways of creating new solos over swing tunes; it’s also designed in the hope that it will encourage students to get out and jam with other players (once we can do that again)!
Each week, we’ll look at four swing standard tunes with a particular concept in mind—Dominant 7 chords, minor ii/V/Is, etc.. 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). Ways of playing the chord progressions will also be suggested, so students will have a guide for playing backup as well as lead and improv on all four tunes.
This course is a continuation of the Swing Mandolin Jamming I course which just finished up, but students do not to have taken that course in order to take the Swing Mandolin Jamming II course.
Classes meet Tuesday evenings from August 18 to September 9 at 9 pm eastern time. There will also be 45-minute review sessions every Saturday morning from August 22 to September 12 at 11 am eastern time.
Register by August 9th and save $25!
Register for Swing Mandolin Jamming II with Matt Flinner
See the Bluegrass Mandolin Jamming II curriculum
See the Mandolin Picking Technique Intensive II curriculum
SWING MANDOLIN JAMMING II CURRICULUM:
WEEK 1 (8/18)
7th Chords revisited
Alternative options for playing over 7th chords
Chord tone exercises
Caravan
Back Home Again in Indiana
I’m Getting Sentimental Over You
Confessin’
WEEK 2 (8/25)
Minor ii-V-I Progressions
A couple of minor ii-V-I lines
Chord inversions on minor ii-V-Is
Autumn Leaves
Bye Bye Blackbird
Softly, As a Morning Sunrise
Fly Me to the Moon
WEEK 3 (9/1)
Diminished chords
Diminished arpeggios
Using diminished as a substitution
Pennies from Heaven
As Time Goes By
It’s Only a Paper Moon
They Can’t Take That Away from Me
WEEK 4 (9/8)
I-VI-II-V progressions
Soloing options on I-VI-II-Vs
More melodic patterns
Stormy Weather
Undecided
Swing 42
Cottontail
The course fee is $125.
See the Bluegrass Jamming II (August 17-September 12) curriculum
See the Mandolin Picking Technique Intensive II (August 19-September 12) curriculum
Questions? Email [email protected]
The View From Here
Walking on the Moon
Latitude
Music du jour
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I just registered for your Swing Mandolin Jamming II class. Since I did not attend the first one, is there any pre-course work that would be useful to review or material I should be listening to?
Hi John,
Welcome to the course! I’ll have some background materials out to you in the next few days for you to check out. Mainly some scales and arpeggios that will help with soloing over the tunes we’ll be looking at. Let me know if you have any other questions.
Thanks, John!
Best,
Matt Flinner