Mike Marshall shares the classic tune "Cookoo's Nest". He walks the students through the entire song from start to finish and points out areas of difficulty and presents ideas on how to better approach them. Backing tracks and practice sheets are available.
- All right.…This next section we're gonna learn…a whole bunch of tunes.…I can't emphasize enough…how important this is…to playing bluegrass.…Even though maybe you don't…play a lot of instrumentals…in your band that you play with,…bluegrass is primarily a vocal…style, but from these fiddle tunes,…these old Irish tunes that came…over to the Appalachian Mountains,…there exists all the melodic fragments…that we use in all the music…that we play.…
And it's just a beautiful way to…build your technique and develop…a body of licks as it were that…you then deconstruct and use…in different places, in either…a vocal tune or when you begin…to improvise over one song,…you might be pulling a fragment…out of another song.…So I will encourage or urge…you to learn these tunes…as close as you can to how…I'm playing them or if you're…learning off of some other…source, try to get as much nuance…as you can, whether it's exactly…how somebody's sliding into a note…or the exact inflection of where…they put the accents on the melodies.…
In the old days, we used to slow the LPs…
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10/14/2016This 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.
Note: This course was created and produced by ArtistWorks. We are honored to host this training in our library.
- 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
Skill Level Beginner
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Introduction
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Welcome1m 5s
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1. Gear and Setup
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Adjusting your action4m 57s
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Tuning up10m 51s
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2. More Fun with Theory
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1-6-2-5 progression4m 46s
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Fun with theory3m 39s
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Moveable chords introduction2m 58s
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Three moveable chords3m 47s
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3. Intermediate Mandolin Tunes
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"Cookoo's Nest"10m 36s
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"Red Haired Boy"7m 38s
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"Salt Creek"6m 10s
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Positions1m 44s
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"Fisher's Hornpipe", part 16m 20s
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"Fisher's Hornpipe", part 23m 58s
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4. Practicing
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How to practice7m 42s
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Speed and relaxation6m 53s
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5. The Blues
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Turnaround licks 1-5-13m 51s
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Blues scale, part 13m 21s
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Blues scale, part 28m 34s
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"June Apple"10m 17s
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"Worried Man Blues", part 25m 55s
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Ear training2m 55s
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Kickoffs, part 16m 51s
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Kickoffs, part 25m 7s
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Conclusion
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ArtistWorks and Next Steps1m 15s
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