Next LIVE webinar is coming up on September 10.
You guys have been great, I really enjoy getting a chance to teach every couple of weeks, thank you! - Tim C.
NOTE: This workshop is completely...
Next LIVE webinar is coming up on September 10.
You guys have been great, I really enjoy getting a chance to teach every couple of weeks, thank you! - Tim C.
NOTE: This workshop is completely...
Hi there everybody, this is Tim Connell. I am a performing mandolinist and lately a full-time mandolin teacher hard at work helping everyone boost their skills and understand music a little better.
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One more free Zoom mandolin workshop coming up July 30th noon Eastern. All levels, everyone is welcome - Here's the link to register:
https://www.timsmandolessons.com/pl/2147549067
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK_XtLqiXDA&t=90s
My "MandAlone" CD is mostly slow stuff.
ooops, wrong link: here's the tremolo
https://www.timsmandolessons.com/blog/tremolo
These past few weeks I've been enjoying the Ukrainian sit-com "Servant of the People," starring comedian (and current President of Ukraine) Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
The opening credits take us on a...
These past few weeks I've been enjoying the Ukrainian sit-com "Servant of the People," starring comedian (and current President of Ukraine) Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
The opening credits take us on a...
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Here's Bb minor - all the red notes are Bbminor, so combine any that you like.
My professional advice to everyone: simply learn the names of the notes and how they form scales and chords. It's not that hard, it's a far superior system, and then all of this confusion will...
First, learn the scale of the key the song is in, then it's a piece of cake.
Here is my G major scale exercise, the key you mentioned. Once you know which notes are in the song's key, you simply...
Here is how I teach this basic syncopation to my students, I hope it is helpful to you:
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Here are all of the closed position ii-V-I/i patterns I use, one for each of the three triad shapes.
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Hi there everybody, this is Tim Connell. I am a performing mandolinist and lately a full-time mandolin teacher hard at work helping everyone boost their skills and understand music a little better.
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Hi there everybody, this is Tim Connell. I am a performing mandolinist and lately a full-time mandolin teacher hard at work helping everyone boost their skills and understand music a little better.
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I have designed a an important mandolin skills training webinar that I am offering to all Café members free of charge, Your Roadmap to Mandolin Mastery. It's a 90-minute live Zoom presentation...
Hi there everybody, this is Tim Connell. I am a performing mandolinist and lately a full-time mandolin teacher hard at work helping everyone boost their skills and understand music a little better.
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Hi there everybody, this is Tim Connell. I am a performing mandolinist and lately a full-time mandolin teacher hard at work helping everyone boost their skills and understand music a little better.
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Hi everyone, I just posted a quick lesson about playing walking bass lines on the mando, something I love to do when I back up someone in jazz music. Enjoy!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJl1Xm3W-ug&feature=youtu.be
Thanks for asking, Nick, great question. Loads of great responses. Here is a video of me playing nothing but the 5 notes of G...
I'm not going anywhere, Jim!!
Hello, this is Tim Connell -
I'm very happy to let you know about a brand new opportunity to study choro with the masters here in North America.
Choro Camp New England (June 25-29, 2019) is...
Don Julin and I just played an impromptu mandolin-duet benefit concert here in Portland Oregon last night. It was a beautiful evening of music, and the ticket sales and extra audience donations to...
Yes, the Alvord lake was the car shots, but the "stage" was to the west a bit on the way to the Antelope preserve. My 13-year-old son shot and edited the whole thing; I'm very proud of that guy. ...
Thanks so much, Mitch - this is Tim writing back, I really appreciate the notice and praise. Actually, the video is indeed a few years old, but June Apple, the CD, is currently in pre-release, hot...
I'm going - and a newbie faculty member this year, really looking forward to meeting new folks and I'm bringing all my workshop materials, handouts, etc... I'll be bringing the A-game I promise! ...