Bluegrass Mandolin 101 Curriculum (1/4-3/6)

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See the Advanced Bluegrass Mandolin Soloing with Matt Flinner curriculum (1/5-3/6)

See the Newgrass Mandolin with Matt Flinner curriculum (1/6-3/6)

Bluegrass Mandolin 101 will start at a beginning/intermediate level and progress to a solidly intermediate level. This course will introduce students to the use of double stops and various positions on the neck, as well as various picking and fingerboard exercises to help develop good mandolin technique and knowledge of the fretboard. Each week, students are given two standard bluegrass tunes (and encouraged to learn at least one of them); that weeks exercises are correlated to the tunes during the week’s practice session so that students find practical ways of using the exercises in their playing.

Classes take place Monday evenings at 9 pm eastern time, and review sessions take place on Saturday mornings at 10 am eastern time (note: the week of January 25th is off)

Bluegrass Mandolin 101 with Matt Flinner curriculum:

Week 1 (1/4)

Three warmup exercises

Intro to position playing

Intro to double stops

Will the Circle Be Unbroken

Bonus Material: Down to the Valley to Pray

WEEK 2 (1/11)

Moving to the key of A

Some tag licks to add to your solos

Backup playing and fills

I’ll Fly Away