After The Big Scare
Brain Surgery and Other Fun Stuff
Nancy Blake’s “Hangin’ Dog”
Mandolin Anatomy
Movable Chord Shapes
Funny How Time Slips Away
C Family Chords for Mandolin
How to Read the Chord Diagrams
Advice for Mandolin Beginners
Lesson 6: The Minor Scale
Lesson 5: Musical Intervals
Lesson 4: Major Chords
Lesson 3: The Major Scale
Intro to Music Theory
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MILWAUKEE, WIS. — Hal Leonard has announced the release of Do It Yourself Mandolin, by Jeremy Chapman, a part of their ongoing Do It Yourself series of books. About the [...]
TRAVERSE CITY, MI. — Don Julin has announced his new release from summer entitled Fractured Fiddle Tunes, an 11 song collection of re-imagined traditional fiddle tunes that present them in [...]
SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND — Simon Mayor has announced five residential workshops for 2025, all at the best of the best of historic venues in the UK. Short notice spaces are still [...]
BLOOMINGTON, IND. — The 12th Annual Jim Richter Mandolin Camp for the Rest of Us featuring Lauren Price Napier, Don Julin and Laurelyn Dosset, along with host Jim Richter will [...]
Back in my Pickin' Magazine days (1972-1979), we had a pressman named Mike who ran his press differently from most other pressman. I would often walk out in the pressroom [...]
SANTA FE SPRINGS, CALIF. — Crossrock Case Company has introduced their new Ultra-Light Fiberglass Mandolin Case for F-Style Mandolins. This F-style mandolin case is designed to fit the standard [...]
NEW YORK — Adhyâropa Records has announced a January 10, 2025 release of Speranza, the new project from Scroggins & Rose. Featuring duos between GRAMMY nominees Tristan Scroggins (IBMA Mandolinist [...]
WUPPERTAL, GERMANY — Mike Marshall has announced the release of Mike Marshall Mandocello - Johann Sebastian Bach Cello Suite #6 BWV 1012, available for purchase on Bandcamp. About the recording, [...]
Photo credit: Phil Goldman, Phil Goldman Photography Joe Venuti. Benny Goodman. Charlie Parker. Each developed a profound, personal way of "speaking" the jazz language on his instrument. So too has [...]
Héctor M. Marín Téllez has announced the November 8 release of his debut solo album, Sounds of the Contemporary Mandolin, now available on all major digital music distribution platforms. From [...]
To Order my new album “Around the Clock” Click HERE! (Digitial, Limited CD or Limited Edition Vinyl) This week I [...]
To Order my new album “Around the Clock” Click HERE! (Digitial, Limited CD or Limited Edition Vinyl) Happy New Year [...]
To Order my new album “Around the Clock” Click HERE! (Digitial, Limited CD or Limited Edition Vinyl) My guest this [...]
To Order my new album “Around the Clock” Click HERE! (Digitial, Limited CD or Limited Edition Vinyl) My guest this [...]
To Order my new album “Around the Clock” Click HERE! (Digitial, Limited CD or Limited Edition Vinyl) This episode I [...]
To Order my new album “Around the Clock” Click HERE! (Digitial, Limited CD or Limited Edition Vinyl) Here’s part two [...]
To Order my new album “Around the Clock” Click HERE! (Digitial, Limited CD or Limited Edition Vinyl) My guest this [...]
To Order my new album “Around the Clock” Click HERE! (Digitial, Limited CD or Limited Edition Vinyl) My guest this [...]
To Order my new album “Around the Clock” Click HERE! (Digitial, Limited CD or Limited Edition Vinyl) My guest on [...]
To Order my new album “Around the Clock” Click HERE! (Digitial, Limited CD or Limited Edition Vinyl) This week my [...]
Today’s mandolin song breakdown focuses on another classic, Soldier’s Joy. While this is a bluegrass staple, it’s roots are mostly Scottish from around 1760 or so. Like a lot of [...]
Lately I’ve been working with beginner jammers as an assistant to a Wernick style jam in Seattle. It’s been a real fun few weeks and I’ve found that I learned [...]
Today’s mandolin song breakdown will be focusing on Jerusalem Ridge. Often this tune is considered a jam buster due to it’s length and complex melody. Aside from having 4 parts, [...]
Today’s mandolin song breakdown covers the fantastic song Angeline the Baker. I first heard the Crooked Still version of this tune which is a great variation with a few quirks. [...]
Learning mandolin chord shapes can seem tricky but an easy start is to focus on some of the basic chord shapes. In this series, I’m going to cover various chord [...]
Today’s song breakdown covers one of the first bluegrass tunes I can remember learning – There’s More Pretty Girls Than One. The simple melody and chord structure on this tune [...]
Today’s mandolin song breakdown is Garfield’s Blackberry Blossom (which is not the same as “Blackberry Blossom”). The main story of how this song came to be is essentially that general [...]
Continuing the series of “songs I should know, but don’t” today I’m covering the classic mandolin fiddle tune Big Mon by Bill Monroe. This tune is a pretty straight forward, [...]
Today’s mandolin song breakdown is on the Tim O’Brien tune the High Road. I was introduced to this tune in the Seattle bluegrass jam at Outlander Brewing late 2022 I [...]
Pop quiz hot shot – you’re at a friendly bluegrass jam and the leader just called a song you don’t know and only said “it’s in G” before they started [...]
Octave mando is just a bigger mandolin - all the notes, sheet music, frets, etc... are exactly the same, it's just bigger! Octave mando is great for backing up your [...]
Happy New Year! ✨ I hope you are having a good start to 2025. I'm back at work now, feeling recharged after the holidays. My band Nordic got an [...]
// In this podcast episode, Hayes Griffin and Magnus Zetterlund are discussing: What music-related items are on your holiday wish list this year? Does your mood affect your music [...]
Impress your family and friends with mandolin playing during the holidays. Register through the link below.https://www.mandolinsecrets.com/holiday Welcome to the MANDOLIN PLAYER'S HOLIDAY CHALLENGE. This is a 5-day Video Course [...]
Impress your family and friends with mandolin playing during the holidays. Register through the link below.https://www.mandolinsecrets.com/holiday Welcome to the MANDOLIN PLAYER'S HOLIDAY CHALLENGE. This is a 5-day Video Course [...]
Impress your family and friends with mandolin playing during the holidays. Register through the link below.https://www.mandolinsecrets.com/holiday Welcome to the MANDOLIN PLAYER'S HOLIDAY CHALLENGE. This is a 5-day Video Course [...]
Impress your family and friends with mandolin playing during the holidays. Register through the link below.https://www.mandolinsecrets.com/holiday Welcome to the MANDOLIN PLAYER'S HOLIDAY CHALLENGE. This is a 5-day Video Course [...]
Impress your family and friends with mandolin playing during the holidays. Register through the link below.https://www.mandolinsecrets.com/holiday Welcome to the MANDOLIN PLAYER'S HOLIDAY CHALLENGE. This is a 5-day Video Course [...]
Unlock the magic of holiday music with this complete "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" mandolin tutorial that takes you from your first note to advanced performance techniques! Our [...]
// In this podcast episode, Hayes Griffin and Magnus Zetterlund are discussing: The 5th anniversary of Mandolin Secrets Academy. How to use the powerful back-chaining technique while memorizing music. [...]
I'm very excited to share our new video release "Mosquito Gathering". This song is written by fiddle player Ondra Kozak, and I recorded it this summer together with him and Hayes Griffin [...]
The 12th ARTE International Mandolin Festival & Competition took place in October 2022. Roi Dayan from Israel won the first prize, Marine Moletto from France won the second prize, and [...]
Charlotte Kaiser, a young mandolin player from Germany, has just published her first album “Poems for Mandolin” The album begins with the Concertinho Colibri by Hamilton de Holanda in an arrangement [...]
Carlo Munier is one of the important composers for the mandolin. In his book “Il Nuovo Stile dei Duetti per mandolino solo, Op.278 ” he has studied the possibilities of the [...]
The Mülheimer Zupforchestra is one of the best mandolin orchestras in Germany. The anniversary concert for 40 years has been filmed and is available as a youtube video. The orchestra [...]