Beginning Mandolin with Tom Bekeny
with Tom Bekeny
Beginner
20 lessons (1h 18m)
Sheet music included
Mobile, Tablet + Desktop
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Course Trailer
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- Introduction
- Welcome
- Getting to know the instrument
- Types of Mandolin and their parts
- Tuning your Mandolin
- Hand placement
- First steps on Mandolin
- First note, scale and pick technique
- Achieving a great tone
- Picking patterns
- Learning the first tune
- Your first tune Bile 'Em Cabbage Down
- Developing Bile 'Em Cabbage Down - double stops
- Chords and rhythm playing
- Most common chords
- Strumming patterns
- Chord shapes
- Developing Repertoire
- On and On
- Soldier's Joy
- Advanced Techniques
- Tremelo
- Techniques in practice: Dark Hollow
- Techniques in practice: Old Joe Clark
- Cross picking
- Split string technique
- Takeaways
- Takeaways and recommended listening
Lesson plan (1h 18m)
This course is an introduction to the mandolin, by way of the bluegrass tradition. Led by Tom Bekeny, an acclaimed fiddler and mandolinist based in the Bay Area, known for his use of the mandolin in jazz as well as bluegrass.
Tom starts with the basics, getting to know your instrument and learning classic picking patterns and rhythmic chordal styles. At every stage techniques are placed in the context of tunes, and this course includes 5 tunes, including 'Bile 'Em Cabbage Down', 'Dark Hollow', and 'On & ON'.
Each lesson includes tablature as a downloadable PDF, including for all tunes. Before long you'll be playing classic tunes from the Mandolin repertorie incorporating advanaced techniques like cross picking and split string technique. On MusicGurus you'll be able to slow-down and loop any part of the lesson.
This is an ideal course for beginners, those coming from other instruments like violin or guitar.
Please note this course was converted from a DVD licensed from MVD entertainment group, it is therefore in Standard Definition quality.
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