🎃 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)
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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...

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. 🙏🏻

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.

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...

This video lesson will strengthen your pinky finger and revolutionize your mandolin playing! 

Let's accept it. Playing with four fingers is better than using only three fingers. 

This simple but effective exercise will transform your weak pinky and build your skills from the ground up.

What yo...

Play a sequence of chop chords that is perfect for developing comping dexterity. 

In this mandolin lesson, we'll explore the chords for the classic fiddle tune "Blackberry Blossom”. We are using bluegrass chop chords for the right sound of the back-up rhythm.

Perfect for intermediate mandolin p...

Discover how to create authentic jazz mandolin lines using the popular 3-9 melodic pattern! In this comprehensive lesson, I'll show you:

• How to outline chord changes with this essential jazz technique
• Practical applications for dominant, minor, and Major7th chords
• Music theory talk and playi...

In this video, I show you a mandolin microphone that I use a lot. You attach the Schertler DYN-M P48 to the top of your mandolin. It’s a Plug’n’Play piece of equipment, and if you pair it with the Schertler YELLOW preamp, you are prepared for any amplification situation. Ideal for club gigs, jam ...