June 29, 2022
- Song: Bluegrass Stomp
- Bluegrass Accompaniment
- Bluegrass "Chord Position" Improvisation
- The Bluegrass Mandolin "Chop"
June 22, 2022
- Song: Black Butte Waltz
- Adding Triplets to swing 8th note motor rhythm
- 2 Functions of "Accidental" notes
- "Enclosure" of a chord tone
- "Passing tones" (the frets between the scale tones)
June 15, 2022
- Song: Summertime
- Zoom Class was not recorded, sorry!
- But, here is a recording of the blues/pentatonic licks from the end of class
June 8, 2022
- Song: Miserlou
- Surf Guitar Tremolo
- A common klezmer "mode" of the harmonic minor scale
- Strategies to vary the rhythms of melody notes
June 1, 2022
- Song: Fisher's Hornpipe
- How to Use the Triad Exercises to help learn a song
- Learn D, G and A7 chords in first position
May 25, 2022
- Song: June Apple (Appalachian Fiddle Tune)
- How to "Strum Your Melodies"
- Different "modality" in June Apple - Scale Degree 7 is altered
- Introducing "Meet the Mandolinist"
May 18, 2022
- Song: Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd)
- Improve Your Strumming Using the Daily Motor Rhythm Exercise
- Meet Anthony Bonsera, Jr., TML Arranging Consultant and Tim's Longtime Music Theory Teacher
May 11, 2022
- Song: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
- What is a "Solo Arrangement"?
- Strategies for Arranging for Solo Mandolin
May 3, 2022
- Song: Carinhoso ("Tenderly")
- Intro to Brazilian Choro
- How to use the Scale, Triad and Ear Training exercises while learning a song in F Major
April 27, 2022
- Song: Si Beg Si Mor (Turlough O'Carolan)
- How to Use Motor Rhythm Exercises While Learning An Individual Song
- How to Use Scale & Triad Exercises While Learning an Individual Song
April 20, 2022
- Song: In My Life (Lennon/McCartney)
- How to Learn Backbeat Strumming
- Strategies for Learning Strum-Along Songs
April 13, 2022
- Song: Minor Swing
- Dealing with Funky Rhythms
- Gypsy Jazz Accompaniment
- A Minor scale in action
April 6, 2022
- Chords within the melody (Wild Rover Book 3)
- Angeline the Baker
- Syncopation strategies
- The D Major Triad
March 31, 2022
- Simple triplets (one triplet per beat)
- Harder triplets (one triplet per two beats)
- Goin' to California (song focus)
- How to use Book One and "Strum-Along" Charts to improve your rhythmic literacy
March 23, 2022
- How to use Book 2 (Set Sail)
- Strumming Exercises Explained
- Ripple Strum-Along Chart
- David Grisman's double-stop-plus-tremolo, way-up-the-neck chorus sweetening broken down
March 16, 2022
- Blues Shuffle Groove
- Blues Shuffle to Jig Groove
- Set of Jigs: Tripping up the Stairs & the Kesh Jig
March 9, 2022
- How the left hand holds the neck
- How to use Mandolin Mastery One
- How to use Mandolin Mastery Two and Three
- How to use the Strum-Along charts
February 24, 2022
- Right Hand Basics
- How to Practice the Scale & Triad Exercises
- Harvest Home, Irish Hornpipe
- How to play triplets
February 17, 2022
- Mandolin Mastery 2-3
- Ways to Use Tim's Mando Lessons
- How to use the right hand motor warm-up exercises
February 10, 2022
- Mandolin Mastery 3 Overview
- Strategies for adding additional chord tones to a melody
February 3, 2022
- Mandolin Mastery 3
- Circle of 5ths Demonstration
- Three triad shapes in Circle order
January 27, 2022
- Ghost Strokes?
- Two-Bar Loops for better practice
- The three "inversions" of the major and minor triads in three distinctive shapes
January 20, 2022
- Chord Substitutions
- G Blues Progression
- Voicing Jazz Chords on Mando
January 13, 2022
- Dynamics Overview
- Right hand effects
- Left hand effects
- Combining dynamic effects
December 30, 2021
- To An Old Rose Practice Tips
- How to Choose Warm-Up Exercises
- Right Hand "Motor Rhythm" Exercises
- How to Play Harmonics
December 16, 2021
- How to Use the Scale Exercises to Improvise Over Changes
- The V7 - i Progression (E7-Am)
- Why is there a non-key-signature accidental in some Minor Scales (like the G# in A minor)?
December 9, 2021
- Two-Bar Loops for better practice results
- Chords vs. Chord Voicings
- How do you form chords from scales?
- Next week: How to use the A minor scale exercise to improvise and compose over Am and E7
December 2, 2021
- What are the notes in chords?
- What do chord symbols mean?
- How do you form chords from scales?
- Diatonic chord scale
November 11, 2021
- Ear Training 101
- G Major Jazz Chords Ear Training
- Next 5 weeks: Subsequent installments in the Ear Training and Music Theory Course
November 4, 2021
- Ear Training 101
- Review 1-3-5 Ear Training Melodies
- G Major Jazz Chords Ear Training
- Next 5 weeks: Subsequent installments in the Ear Training and Music Theory Course
October 28, 2021
- Ear Training 101
- Tim's Right Hand Warm Up
- Pickups Exercises
- Next 6 weeks: Subsequent installments in the Ear Training and Music Theory Course
October 21, 2021
- Ear Training 101
- "Melodic Literacy
- How is a hornpipe different from a reel?
- Next 7 weeks: Subsequent installments in the Ear Training and Music Theory Course
October 14, 2021
- Big Tremolo Talk
- Right Hand Technique
- Next week's focus: Chief O'Neill's Favorite
- Irish Hornpipes, Reels & Jigs Rhythms
October 7, 2021
- Lonesome Moonlight Waltz
- Descending Slides
- Relative Major or Minor?
- Next week's focus: What is a Chord? and a Quick Method to Form any Chord
September 30, 2021
- To An Old Rose
- Scales & Triads Course
- Finding Triads in To An Old Rose Melody
- Next week's focus: Lonesome Moonlight Waltz
September 16, 2021
- Strategies for Smooth Chord Changes
- Hammer-Ons and...
- Pull-Offs!
- Next week's focus: Nuages
September 9, 2021
- How to Count 2/4 time
- Choro rhythm patterns
- How to make solo arrangements (Choro Negro)
- Next week's focus: hammer-ons & pull-offs
September 2, 2021
- Left Handed vs. Right Handed Mandolins
- Breaking a Scale into 1-3-5 and 2-4-6-7 (Am)
- Tantz, Tantz, Yiddelekh
- Next week's tune: Choro Negro (Solo)
August 23, 2021
- Sight Reading A & E strings
- Sight Reading Strategies
- Choro Form and Strategies
- Choro Piece: Naquele Tempo
August 16, 2021
- Led Zeppelin's Goin' to California
- Basic Song Learning Strategies
- Strumming Patterns for the Song
- Next Week: Sight Reading A & E strings and Naquele Tempo
August 12, 2021
- Tim Tunes His Mando
- How to Finger the Frets
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow SOLO
- Next Week: Goin' to California
August 5, 2021
- Will the Circle Be Unbroken Solo strategies:
- Melody and Subdivisions
- Pentatonic Scale Segments
- Next Week: How to Tune, How to Fret & Somewhere Over the Rainbow
July 29, 2021
- Will the Circle Be Unbroken
- How to Count In Any Song
- Pickup Notes and Subdivisions
- Next Week: Same Song, how to take a solo at a jam
June 23, 2021
- Fundamentals: Sight Reading Songs
- Sight Reading Strategies
- G Jazz Crash Course
- Next Week's Song: Brown Eyed Girl
July 22, 2021
- Three Chord Songs (beginner)
- How to read "chord charts"
- How to use the app "iRealPro"
- For July 29: Will the Circle Be Unbroken
July 15, 2021
- Fundamentals: Angeline the Baker
- Pick Direction Matters!
- Angeline the Baker Advanced Fun
- Next Week's Class Focus: “Three Chord Song” unit and iRealPro tutorial
July 1, 2021
- Brown-Eyed Girl Chords
- Basic to Advanced Strumming
- ¡NO CLASS NEXT WEEK!
- For July 15: Angeline the Baker
June 17, 2021
- June Apple - Fiddle Tune
- Foot Stomp and Basic Rhythm
- Pick Up Count In - "Four and One"
- Next Week
- Fundamentals - Sight Reading Songs
- Advanced - G Major Jazz Chord Crash Course
June 3, 2021
- Focus Song: Tico Tico na Fuba
- Can You Count?
- How to Play "Pick Ups"
- Next Week's Song: June Apple
May 27, 2021
- Summertime (Gershwins)
- A Minor Blues Scale Improv
- D Minor "line cliché"
- Next Week's Song: Tico Tico
May 20, 2021
- Read Through Tim's Sight Reading Songs
- Black Butte Waltz Play-Along
- A minor Scale in Preparation for...
- Next Week's Song: Summertime
April 15, 2021
- Minor Swing
- Four-measure Phrases
- Improv in Harmonic Minor
- A Minor Scale Exercise
May 13, 2021
- Preview of Tim's and Don Julin's new CD
- The Black Butte Waltz
- Waltz Beat with Triplets
- Walking Bass Accompaniment
May 6, 2021
- Good Night Waltz
- The "Freygish" Scale
- Klezmer Ornamentation
- Left Hand Muting
April 29, 2021
- Theory Course Preview
- Here Comes the Sun B Part
- Here Comes the Sun Crosspick
- Solo Arrangement Strategies
April 22, 2021
- Sight-Reading Songs
- Here Comes the Sun Solo
- "Strum" Your Melodies
- Practice Loops
April 8, 2021
- All of Me
- Syncopated Phrasing
- Harmonic Minor Improv
- Jazz Chord Theory
