Nuages Solo Etude // Jazz Mandolin Lesson // Master Django's Changes arpeggios fretboard knowledge jazz mandolin lesson music theory youtube Oct 03, 2025

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...

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Mandolin Lesson for Fretboard Freedom with Jazzy Perpetual Motion fretboard knowledge jazz licks mandolin lesson youtube Jul 10, 2025

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...

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