So, I want to kind of keep an online "journal" of my progress with the mandolin. Something that I can come back to every now and again, and see how I have progressed.
I picked one up about this time last year, and Eastman MD 315 lefty. I started messing around with it, watching videos (mostly MandoLessons), and took a few online classes with an instructor local to me-but I cant really learn live, online, I figured out.
I am now taking lessons from an instructor local to me, once a week, paid for 10 lessons up front, and am 5 lessons in. Having someone there to critique technique is what I need. What we have gone over, barring technique, is:
learning music theory
Scales
The Wind that Shakes the Barley
SWallowtail Jig
Sandy River Belle (just got that one this week).
My instructor believes the best way to learn, is to play tunes, and discuss the different techniques. Which I agree with-thats how I learned to play the pipes.
Additionally, I just signed up for a year's worth of instruction on PegHEad Nation, and am doing the beginner mandolin series.
I work overnights, alone, so I often have the time to play around while at work, and I am hoping this will benefit me.
So, thats where I am. I will post weekly updates to this thread, just to give me an idea where I am.
As of today, I can play the Wind that Shakes the Barely ok, while reading the music (with tabs)
I can play Swallowtail Jig, slowly, without music (I am familiar with the tune)
I can NOT play Sandy River Belle yet, as I just got the tune, and still need to sit, listen, and emulate.
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