Overview
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Learn how to play the mandolin. Get practice exercises to stay motivated, increase your speed and dexterity, and build your repertoire of solo and kickoff material.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Introduction to intermediate mandolin
- Adjusting your action
- Changing your strings, part 1
- Changing your strings, part 2
- Tuning up
- 1-6-2-5 progression
- Fun with theory
- Moveable chords introduction
- Three moveable chords
- "Cookoo's Nest"
- "Red Haired Boy"
- "Salt Creek"
- Positions
- "Fisher's Hornpipe", part 1
- "Fisher's Hornpipe", part 2
- How to practice
- Using target notes: "Golden Slippers"
- Using target notes: "Liberty"
- Speed and relaxation
- Turnaround licks 1-5-1
- Blues scale, part 1
- Blues scale, part 2
- "June Apple"
- "Worried Man Blues", part 1
- "Worried Man Blues", part 2
- Ear training
- Stretching exercises and finger busters
- Kickoffs, part 1
- Kickoffs, part 2
- ArtistWorks and Next Steps
