Matt Flinner

Advanced Fiddle Tunes for Mandolin Curriculum, 3/30-5/29

 

 

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Register for the Advanced Fiddle Tunes for Mandolin with Matt Flinner course

 

See the Fiddle Tunes for Mandolin 101 curriculum

See the Octave Mandolin Techniques Curriculum

 

This course is intended to help the intermediate to advanced mandolinist learn some new tunes while exploring various ways of learning the fretboard and improving their improvisational skills.  Fiddle tunes in various keys will be taught each week, and students will be given suggestions on how to improvise and/or create variations on these tunes. Scale and arpeggio exercises, picking exercises and fingering exercises will also be given to help students increase their improvisation skills.

Tunes will include East Tennessee Blues, Southern Flavor, Lonesome Fiddle Blues and many others (see below).

 

 

Here is the curriculum: 

 

WEEK 1 (3/30)

Octave variations

Warmup exercises

Adding some ornaments (hammer-ons, pull-offs, etc.)

Ear training exercise I

East Tennessee Blues

Cherokee Shuffle

 

WEEK 2 (4/6)

Using chord tones in improv

Arpeggio Exercise I

Scale exercise I 

New Century Hornpipe (Norman Blake)

Woodchopper’s Reel 

 

WEEK 3 (4/13)

Adding some runs to your solos

Using chord tones in improv

Arpeggio exercise I

Some V to I licks

Ear training exercise II

Big Sandy River

Bonus material: Golden Slippers

Extra bonus material: Florida Blues

 

WEEK 4 (4/20)

Minor keys

Minor and modal tunes

Using some bluesy licks

Blues scales in A and E

Blues licks in two positions

Southern Flavor

Bonus Material: Old Widder Woman (Sam Bush)

Extra bonus material: First Day in Town

 

WEEK 5 (5/4)

Double Stops

Moving double stops in improv

Double stops as position shifts

Licks up the neck

Tom and Jerry

Bonus material: Howdy in Hickman County

 

WEEK 6 (5/11)

Some tricky tunes!

More with hammer-ons and pull-offs

More positions up the neck

Jackson’s Hornpipe

Bonus material: Town & Country Fiddler

 

WEEK 7 (5/18)

Some Raggy chord progressions

Arpeggios

Using arpeggios in improv

More work with chord tones as target notes

Golden Eagle Hornpipe

Bonus material: I Don’t Love Nobody

Extra bonus material: Red Apple Rag

 

WEEK 8 (5/25)

Tying it all together: using octaves, licks, patterns, positions, target notes and double stops to create variations

Exercises for speed

Some more V-I licks

Hoedown Polka

Bonus material: Lonesome Fiddle Blues

Extra bonus material: Durang’s Hornpipe

 

The course fee is $225.  Register here.