Weekly Q&A Calls Archive
If you missed the call this week or would just like to go back to review a past week's call, simply scroll below.
December 28, 2022
- Song Focus: Doce de Coco
- Brazilian Choro Mandolin
- Key of B Major
- 2/4 Time with 16ths
December 21, 2022
- Song Focus: Christmas Songs
- How to "Interpret" Melodies as a Jazz Musician
- Thank you & Happy Holidays!!!!
December 7, 2022
- Song Focus: Big Mon (Bill monroe)
- Typical "Fiddle Tune" Form
- Bluegrass Accompaniment
- The "Chop" Chord
November 30, 2022
- Song Focus: Irish Jigs (Garrett Barry's & Butcher's March)
- Blues Shuffle to Irish Jig Motor Rhythm Exercise
- Strategies to Memorize Irish & Fiddle Tune Melodies
November 23, 2022
- Song Focus: Sweet Sue
- Swing/Gypsy Jazz Chords and Backing rhythm
- How to use the Motor Rhythm exercises for varying the melody
November 16, 2022
- Song Focus: Hey Jude (The Beatles)
- The Key of F Major
- Playing 8th Notes with Downstrokes only
- Introduction to 16th Notes and Syncopation
November 9, 2022
- Song Focus: Bridge Over Troubled Water (educational excerpt from the Tim's Mando Lessons flagship course, Mandolin Mastery).
- An introduction to Mandolin Mastery
- A 21st century method book prepared expressly for the modern improvising mandolinist
- In three volumes, featuring video examples for every page
- Full Book and all Videos are included with your Annual Membership
October 25, 2022
- Song Focus: Minor Swing
- Meet Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli
- Use the A Minor Scale Exercise to Improvise
- Use the Pentatonic Scale to Improvise
October 19, 2022
- Song Focus: The Rakish Paddy
- Irish Reels - Form and Groove
- Strategies for learning by ear
- Irish ornamentation
October 12, 2022
- Song Focus: I Am a Poor, Wayfaring Stranger
- How to learn to read notation at TML
- Strategies for sight-reading
- A "shape" for improvising in all keys
October 5, 2022
- Song Focus: Kyiver Bulgar
- "Klezmer" (Yiddish) Music appreciation featuring Naftule Brandwein
- Fingering strategies for faster passages
- How to prepare your pick hand for upcoming faster notes
September 28, 2022
- Song Focus: Losing My Religion
- Mandolinist Peter Buck
- Two ways to strum 4/4 time
- Drone Strings
September 14, 2022
- Song Focus: Fisher's Hornpipe
- How to internalize "swung" 8th notes
- Strategies for triplets in fiddle tunes
- Harmony Part for Fisher's
September 7, 2022
- Song Focus: Locktender's Reel by guitarist Eric Skye
- Special Guest: guitarist Eric Skye!
- Adding Backbeat Strum to your fiddle tune melody
- How to use the "Scales & Triads" section of TML
September 1, 2022
- Focus: Basic Backbeat Strumming
- Listening: The Backbeat Strum across genres
- Using the Backbeat Strum in a variety of song contexts
August 24, 2022
- Song: Vibraçoes (Jacob do Bandolim)
- "Choro" music appreciation
- Counting in 2/4 with 16th notes
- Brazilian bandolim ornaments
August 17, 2022
- Song: Baym Rebin in Palestina
- "Klezmer" music
- Klezmer ornaments for mando
- Tremolo advice
August 10, 2022
- Song: I Can't Give You Anything (But Love)
- Jazz chords for mandolin
- Using chord tones to embellish a melody
August 3, 2022
- Song: All of Me
- How to Vary the Rhythm from "simple" charts
- Using triads to improvise
- SimpleChords Chart for All of Me
July 27, 2022
- Song: Blue Monk
- Swing 8th notes exercise
- How to use ear training exercises
- G pentatonic scale for improvisation
