This is a lesson for the improvising jazz mandolin player. I’m showing you an 8-note solo etude for jazz standard Autumn Leaves. I play it in the key of Dm because mandolin master Kenneth Jethro Burns recorded it like that.
This is a series of videos for this song:
Sheet music, tabs, and play along for this tune you’ll find in Mandolin Secrets Academy.
In this video I play a duo arrangement of Tarantella Napoletana on mandolin and octave mandolin. This Italian Folk Dance is the tarantella associated with Naples. It is familiar to many viewers of popular media as a stereotypically "Italian" musical riff or melody.
In the films The Godfather (Il Padrino) (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1973) tarantella’s are played in the openings scenes.
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This is a beginner’s lesson for jazz mandolin. I’m showing you how to play a straight forward melody arrangement for jazz standard Autumn Leaves.
I play it in the key of Dm, because mandolin master Kenneth Jethro Burns recorded it like that.
This is a series of videos for this song:
Sheet music, tabs and play along for this tune you’ll find in Mandolin Secrets Academy.
In this video I show you how to use the two string arpeggios I call diamonds. I use them to get a cool sound to modal improvisation and soloing.
In this lesson, I’m showing you how to play a simple chord melody arrangement for jazz standard Autumn Leaves.
I play it in the key of Dm because Jethro Burns recorded it like that. Other common keys are Gm and Em.
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This is a series of videos for this song:
In this video lesson I’m showing you how to play the picking pattern I use for Italian Tarantella. Down-Up-Down, Down-Up-Down. This is a simple and powerful exercise for right and left hand technique. A-minor scale sequence.
In this video I’m taking you through a guided tour of the members' area of MSA.
Master the essential techniquesIn this video, I show you how to play an octave mandolin accompaniment for a Scandinavian traditional waltz. Melody, 2nd harmony and chords. This is a traditional dance tune from southern Sweden.
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In this video I play a duo arrangement of a Swedish traditional dance tune on mandolin and octave mandolin. This is a waltz from southern Sweden.
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In this video I show you how to play add9 and sus4 chords on the mandolin and octave mandolin.
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