• Peghead Nation Launches Octave Mandolin Course with Joe K. Walsh

    Peghead Nation Launches New Octave Mandolin Course with Joe K. Walsh

    FAIRFAX, CALIF. — Peghead Nation has announced the launch and availability of Joe K. Walsh's Octave Mandolin track as part of its comprehensive list of online lessons.

    In Joe's new course you'll learn to transfer what you know on the mandolin to its bigger cousin and exploit the octave mandolin's potential for more complex accompaniment styles. Joe will give you instruction on adapting mandolin techniques, scales, arpeggios, and chords to the octave mandolin, and will teach tunes as played by great octave mandolin players like Sarah Jarosz, Chris Thile, Sierra Hull, Tim O'Brien, and more. He'll also cover accompaniment styles that suit the octave mandolin, so you can play along with others and accompany yourself.

    Octave Mandolin Subscription Includes

    • Instruction on adapting mandolin techniques, scales, arpeggios, and chords to the octave mandolin
    • Octave mandolin tunes as played by great octave mandolin players like Sarah Jarosz, Chris Thile, Sierra Hull, Tim O’Brien, Darol Anger, and more
    • Octave mandolin versions of bluegrass, trad folk, and jazz tunes
    • Instruction on guitar-based accompaniment styles, including the use of the capo
    • New lessons added every month
    • Notation/Tablature for all lessons
    • Play-along tracks so you can practice what you’re learning
    • High-quality video with multiple camera angles so you can see closeups of both hands in action

    About Joe K. Walsh

    An avid mandolin educator, Joe is a mandolin instructor at the Berklee College of Music. He teaches regularly at music camps throughout North America and beyond, and has taught hundreds of students near his home in Portland, Maine. Joe is also co-director of the Berklee American Roots Festival camp in Boston and the Ossipee Valley String Camp in Maine.

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    1. CBFrench's Avatar
      CBFrench -
      Thats good to see and I'm sure it'll be a great course. I so like Joe's playing and take on music. He's a really good teacher and Peghead is a valuable resource for acoustic instrument players.