“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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Register for Bluegrass Mandolin Jamming with Matt Flinner
See the Mandolin Tune Studies Curriculum (7/8-8/2)
See the Music Theory for Mandolin Players Curriculum (7/9-8/2)
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 bluegrass standard tunes. 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).
Classes meet every Monday evening from June 10 to July 8 (the week of July 1 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 $125. Register by April 27 for just $75!
Register for Bluegrass Mandolin Jamming with Matt Flinner
Here is the curriculum:
WEEK 1 (July 7)
Key of G
Warmup Picking Exercise
Positions in G
G Scale Exercises
Don’t This Road Look Rough and Rocky
Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms
Big Sciota
Wheel Hoss
WEEK 2 (July 14)
Key of D
Moving Between Positions in D
D Scale and Patterns
Changing Octaves in a Tune
Angeline the Baker
Cora Is Gone
Reuben
Little Birdie
WEEK 3 (July 21)
Some Minor Key Tunes
A Variety of Minor Chords
E Minor Scales and Patterns
Throwing in Some Minor Double Stops
Randall Collins
Nashville Blues
Little Sadie
Kentucky Mandolin
WEEK 4 (July 28)
Key of A
Some Positions in A
Using Open Strings
A Major Scale and Patterns
Mixing in Licks and Double Stops
Gold Rush
Uncle Pen
Hit Parade of Love
Your Love Is Like a Flower
The course fee is $125. Register by 4/27 for just $75!
The View From Here
Walking on the Moon
Latitude
Music du jour
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