One more coming up this Saturday, many thanks to Scott & the Café for listing it. This general mandolin technique workshop keeps getting better & better, I hope you can join us live!
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One more coming up this Saturday, many thanks to Scott & the Café for listing it. This general mandolin technique workshop keeps getting better & better, I hope you can join us live!
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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...
thanks so much! Make sure to say hi if you can make it Sept. 10!
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.
I made a great free lesson on tremolo, my favorite topic (Godfather chart included!)
https://www.timsmandolessons.com/blog/vibrato-on-the-mandolin
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...
Music theory is a deep, amazing subject. It is best to learn it in systematically from a good teacher using a solid, scaffolded curriculum.
In my decades of experience meeting non-beginner...
No. Please don't fake it.
Tim Connell, professional music educator chiming in here...
If you learn your Em scale (see attached), you can see that the four "other guys" notes, not the E minor triad itself form the B7b9...
Here is the C major scale on one sheet and the C major triad on the other, laid out so you can see how one relates to the others.
By the way, "arpeggio" is a fancy word that makes us think this...
As a professional music educator who specializes in the mandolin, I beseech all of my students to learn their scales, chords (arpeggios) and melodies FIRST in first position using any available open...
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...
yes, but as an educator, I will say that it's beneficial to learn the actual notes and scale degrees too. Shapes enable us to play without really understanding what's going on, which is a miracle to...
By the way it's called "strumming" - chord is a noun and never a verb in music.
this is not a real chord symbol, harmonically speaking. I would have to ask the arranger exactly what notes they're trying to make us play there.
Perhaps they mean Csus2? Or perhaps it's some...
Here is how I teach this basic syncopation to my students, I hope it is helpful to you:
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Tim Connell here, professional music educator chiming in - I recommend to my students to learn how to play one note at a time before worrying about trying to play 3 or 4 notes at a time. My advice:...