Mandolin Lessons: 1 Fundamentals

Introduction

• Welcome

• Introduction to beginner mandolin
• About the mandolin
• Sitting position
• Sitting vs. standing
• Tuning

• The right hand, part 1
• The right hand, part 2
• The left hand, part 1
• The left hand, part 2
• Open chords, part 1
• Open chords, part 2
• Open chords, part 3

• "Old Joe Clark", part 1
• "Old Joe Clark", part 2
• "Liberty", part 1
• "Liberty", part 2
• "Boil Them Cabbage Down"
• "Hand Me Down My Walking Cane", basic rhythm, key of G

• Build your own exercise
• Fun with theory, part 1
• Fun with theory, part 2
• "Hand Me Down My Walking Cane", basic rhythm, key of D
• "I Am a Pilgrim"
• Finding minor chords
• Minor chord progression exercise
• Finding moveable chords
• The 7th or dominant chords
• 7th chords as dominants
• Playing 1-4-5 in minor

• Bluegrass chop chords, part 1
• Bluegrass chop chords, part 2
• Down and up picking basics
• "This Little Light of Mine"
• "Wabash Cannonball"
• Fiddle tune, "Devil's Dream" in A
• Banjo tune, "Cripple Creek" in G

• ArtistWorks and Next Steps