Lonesome Moonlight Waltz by Bill Monroe // Octave Mandolin Lesson // Harmony bluegrass octave mandolin lesson youtube Jun 04, 2024

Play a harmony with a "Magnus-touch" for this classic bluegrass tune. Here presented on the octave mando.

In this lesson, we'll explore the harmony to "Lonesome Moonlight Waltz" by the iconic Bill Monroe, played on the octave mandolin. Still, the harmony also plays very well on...

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Octave Mandolin Lesson // Majblomman // Chords and Bassline octave mandolin lesson youtube Aug 31, 2023

In this video, I show you how to play the chords, bassline, and rhythm for a mandolin original called Majblomman by me, Magnus Zetterlund. It’s a lively tune that is fun to play.

Majblomman (The Mayflower) is a waltz in A-major with three parts. In this lesson, we are focusing on the chords...

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Mandolin Ragtime Chords Lesson // Sailor’s Hornpipe // Octave Mandolin octave mandolin lesson youtube Apr 05, 2023

In this video, I will show you how to play the chords and harmony for sailor’s hornpipe on mandolin and octave mandolin. This melody is an iconic fiddle tune that dates back to the 18th century.

This traditional music is presented in Celtic, Bluegrass, and Scandinavian music. However, my...

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Octave Mandolin Lesson - Chords for Ă…repolskan - Scandinavian Folk Music octave mandolin lesson youtube Feb 21, 2023

In this video lesson, I show you how to play the chords for a traditional Swedish fiddle tune called Årepolskan. This dance tune is a triplet polska from the region of Jämtland.

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The melody is interesting, wandering from G-major to E-minor in a typical way for...

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Octave Mandolin Lesson // Margaret’s Waltz // Chords octave mandolin lesson youtube Aug 16, 2022

In this video lesson, I show you how to play the chords for the fiddle tune Margaret’s Waltz. The octave mandolin accompaniment includes baselines and the typical waltz rhythm for major and minor chords like A, D, E, and Bm and C#m. The tune was written by Pat Shuldam Shaw (1917-1977) in...

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Four Ways To Play the Waltz Rhythm - Mandolin Lesson and Octave Mandolin mandolin lesson octave mandolin lesson youtube Aug 11, 2022

In this video, we’ll look deeply at the waltz rhythm. We will play four variations of a solid accompaniment on the mandolin and the octave mandolin.

We are also going into some music theory, and you will come out of this with a better understanding of rhythm, swing, and groove.

To...

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