www.mandomike.com - The subscription-free way to learn mandolin online!
Every month, I will be publishing a free lesson for you to download. There will be 3 standards - Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced - so that everyone will be able to get something out of the lessons.
These lessons are brilliant. I have a couple of Tangos down and these Choros are a perfect compliment. Its hard to find such complex lessons and tabs. Thank you very much for these. Really well done!
I found this video. It helps to know that double stop tremolo is really hard. I don’t feel so discouraged. I have changed some of the double stops in the exercise to accommodate my small hands and short fingers. Finger really difficult double stops I. The left hand doesn’t help the right hand relax.
thanks! Yes, check out my lesson on Mississippi Waltz here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ziGNAMn1kLw.html that covers DS tremolos. Happy picking!
Hi Mike. Sent you a donation, Would like BMR transposed to D or G. As our group cross tunes fiddles and banjo's to those keys, Thanks and keep up the good work.
Thanks so much Joe! I'm away from home this weekend, but I will send that over to you tomorrow (Monday). Keep an on your spam folder as my emails often get sent there. Cheers! Mike
Oh, and excellent lesson if I haven't already said so. I've been working on it occasionally for a few weeks and since I've only been playing for 18 months, I didn't think I would get close to being able to double stop tremolo this soon. Thanks man!
OMG, I'm so close!! Soooooo freakin' close!!! In fact, my hand and brain already know how but my ego won't let go and allow my hand and brain to get their groove on!! It's so crazy! I can tremolo naturally and organically as I'm playing and as long as I don't plan it or try to practice it, I can do it!! WTF. It's gotta mean I'm getting close. A mandolin just doesn't sound like a mandolin without double stop tremolo.
I love all your videos, my friend. Plenty of mandolin teachers on RU-vid, but You're one of the very best. Your free lessons are very well prepared and well taught. I still do your gcd arpeggio exercise ecery single day. That one lesson has done more for me than just about all the lessons ive watched from other teachers. Thanks a million.
Nicely explained. I remember discovering something like it when learning a couple of O'Carolan tunes, Planxty fanny power springs to mind, but once you realise the mechanism the idea tends to spread to other tunes.
I can't find in the video where you even play the tune straight through Mike. I'd lead with the song so we can know if it's something we'd like to learn.
Hello. Yes you are correct. This is one of my older videos and was still working out the best format. Any videos created in the last 2 years have started with the song so people know what it will sound like. Thanks, Mike
Great video as always. I started playing about 6 months ago and your videos have been super helpful, thank you! Torna a Sorriento and the Vivaldi concerto videos/pdfs are some of the main things I've been using to practice. And because I am an avatar of the yawning maw of need that is the internet, I must make a small request. If you ever feel like doing a follow up on the next section of the concerto, that would be amazing. I want to eventually learn the whole thing but my music reading skills are not quite up to the task yet. Anyways, thanks again for all the work that goes into this!
hi Mike , great tutorial. I can't find how to download any tablature from your RU-vid site. trying to get wild mountain thyme and the godfather tune. HELP !!!!!
Hi Sean ... they are all linked in the text underneath each video.... and if you'r looking at the blog posts on the website, look underneath the video for the phrase "To download the free pdf guide, click here."