Mandolin Lessons: 4 Favorite Advanced Tunes
1h 33mBeginner2016-10-14
Authors
Mike Marshall
Composer, Featured Artist, Sideman, Producer
Course details
Mandolin Lessons is a four-part comprehensive video library that includes hundreds of online mandolin lessons, plus exclusive performances, interviews, tab, and audio samples. You can learn mandolin at your own pace, anywhere you can take your instrument and your learning device. Part 4 introduces instructor Mike Marshall's favorite advanced tunes. He breaks down the chords and melodies of classics like "Silent Night" and "Auld Lang Syne" and then offers some variations that will keep the tunes fresh for years to come. Plus, learn how to use the circle of fifths as a tool for playing in all 12 keys (major and minor) and for finding chord progressions, arpeggios, and chromatics. These lessons offer mandolin students an inside look at a professional musician's own musical process.
Skills covered
Music LessonsAudio and MusicLimited Series
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
1. Silent Night
- 02 - Silent Night part 1
- 03 - Silent Night part 2
- 04 - Silent Night part 3
2. Soldier's Joy
- 05 - Soldier's Joy part 1 - Chords and melody
- 06 - Soldier's Joy part 2 - Analysis
- 07 - Soldier's Joy part 3 - Variations
3. Auld Lang Syne
- 08 - Auld Lang Syne key of A - Performance 1
- 09 - Auld Lang Syne key of A - Performance 2
- 10 - Auld Lang Syne key of G - Performance
- 11 - Auld Lang Syne melody
- 12 - Auld Lang Syne bluegrass style
4. Circle of Fifths
- 13 - Circle of fifths part 1 - Using the circle to find 1-4-5s
- 14 - Circle of fifths part 2 - Using the circle to find 2-5-1s
- 15 - Circle of fifths part 3 - 2-5-1 in G, fingering ideas
- 16 - Circle of fifths part 4 - Around the circle in 2-5-1
- 17 - Circle of fifths part 5 - Finding 2-5-1s using chromatics
- 18 - Circle of fifths part 6 - Using the 2-5-1 to modulate
- 19 - Circle of fifths part 7 - Around the circle in 2-5-1 arpeggios
Conclusion
- 20 - ArtistWorks and Next Steps