Mandolin Lessons: 2 Soloing Ideas & Kickoffs

Course details

Take mandolin lessons online and learn at your own pace. Grammy nominee Mike Marshall teaches the intermediate concepts that will take your mandolin skills to the next level. Get practice exercises to stay motivated and increase your speed and dexterity, and build your repertoire of solo and kickoff material. Mike starts the course with some techniques for keeping your instrument in tip-top shape, including changing the strings and setting the action (aka fret spacing). Then he segues into some intermediate music theory—keeping things fun and practical by showing examples in action. Next, learn how to play some intermediate mandolin tunes, including blues licks and scales, and practice some finger buster exercises to help refine your finger positioning, stamina, and reach.

This course is part two of the Mandolin Lessons series, which includes hundreds of lessons, exclusive performances, and special guest interviews. Make sure to check out the exercise files for downloadable tab, audio samples, and other study materials.

Learning objectives
Adjusting your action
Changing strings and tuning the mandolin
Playing a 1-6-2-5 progression
Understanding moveable chords
Practicing mandolin
Playing blues on the mandolin
Playing kickoffs

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome

1. Gear and Setup

02 - Introduction to intermediate mandolin
03 - Adjusting your action
04 - Changing your strings, part 1
05 - Changing your strings, part 2
06 - Tuning up

2. More Fun with Theory

07 - 1-6-2-5 progression
08 - Fun with theory
09 - Moveable chords introduction
10 - Three moveable chords

3. Intermediate Mandolin Tunes

11 - Cookoo's Nest
12 - Red Haired Boy
13 - Salt Creek
14 - Positions
15 - Fisher's Hornpipe , part 1
16 - Fisher's Hornpipe , part 2

4. Practicing

17 - How to practice
18 - Using target notes - Golden Slippers
19 - Using target notes - Liberty
20 - Speed and relaxation

5. The Blues

21 - Turnaround licks 1-5-1
22 - Blues scale, part 1
23 - Blues scale, part 2
24 - June Apple
25 - Worried Man Blues , part 1
26 - Worried Man Blues , part 2
27 - Ear training
28 - Stretching exercises and finger busters
29 - Kickoffs, part 1
30 - Kickoffs, part 2

Conclusion

31 - ArtistWorks and Next Steps