🎃 In the Times of Halloween with ghosts, witches and monsters, here's a perfect melody for you!
Learn to play "Trollens Brudmarsch" (The Trolls' Bridal March) on mandolin - a hauntingly beautiful traditional Swedish tune dating back to the 19th century from fiddler Pelle Schenell (b.1855) in the...
After months of practice, I did my first performance with a slide mandolin.
I´m playing the blues classic It Hurts Me Too by Elmore James with my excellent keyboard player Henning Winnberg. Live at Gamla Elverket, Falun, Sweden on October 17th, 2025.
It's a simple iPhone 8 video recording, an...
Learn how to play the classic fiddle tune "Cold Frosty Morning" on mandolin! This tune has origins in Irish and Scottish music but is also popular among old-time and bluegrass players.
What You'll Learn:
- Complete breakdown of both A and B parts
- Proper use of slides (third finger technique) ...
After 5 months of waiting and 4 weeks stuck in Swedish customs, my dream instrument has finally arrived! In this video, I'm unboxing my custom-made electric octave mandolin built by Jonathan Mann in Tennessee.
Why an Electric Octave Mandolin?
Earlier this year, I discovered the magic of playi...
In this lesson, my mandolin students asked: "How can we better understand the chord changes of Nuages by Django Reinhardt?
How can we more easily improvise over this brilliant jazz standard?"
To master jazz improvisation, you need to develop voice leading through chord changes - playing melody...
In this month’s episode, Magnus Zetterlund and Hayes Griffin are discussing:
- What are the best practice advice or helpful tips you have learned?
- Did you attend any good concerts this summer?
- Magnus biggest take aways from the workshops at Grenna Bluegrass Festival with Tristan Scroggin ...
If Elmore James played the mandolin...
Magnus Zetterlund is playing the slide guitar solo by Elmore James on Dust My Broom.
Thanks Dylan Adams for backing track and excellent slide guitar tutorials. 🙏🏻
In this month’s episode, Magnus Zetterlund and Hayes Griffin are discussing:
- When getting started, were you mostly self-taught or did you take lessons?
- What got you to pick up the mandolin the first time?
- Magnus is sharing videos of himself testing out the entire mandolin family: mandolin, ...
Attention folk and bluegrass mandolinists!
Dive into the world of classical music with this intermediate-level lesson on J.S. Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 BWV 1007 Prélude.
In this series of lessons, you'll bridge the gap between traditional mandolin styles and classical masterpiece repertoire.
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In this month’s episode, Magnus Zetterlund interviews one of the young mandolin stars in the bluegrass scene, Tristan Scroggins. He is a musician based in Nashville, and we recorded this episode while he’s on tour with Missy Raines’ band.
The episode is full of good tips from a profession...
In this video, I will show you an exercise and étude that will expand your fretboard knowledge and give you more freedom to play confidently across the entire mandolin neck.
Learn a perpetual motion exercise where we play the same arpeggio lick phrase for each dominant chord in all 12 keys, back...
In this month’s episode, Magnus Zetterlund and Hayes Griffin are discussing:
- What are your thoughts about the electric mandolin?
- Hayes’s new video lesson about The OTHER mandolin scale you need to know
- What is the most stupid comment you got when you said you play the mandolin?
He...
