Bluegrass Mandolin Workshop

In this Homespun video series, Butch Baldassari’s user-friendly mandolin method takes you from bare-bone basics to solidly intermediate material in a single two-hour lesson, providing detailed instruction in all aspects of mandolin playing. A downloadable PDF booklet with scales and charts is also included!

Videos

• Chapter 1 (15:01) - Butch plays us some mandolin then introduces the series and talks about his gear and instruments.

• Chapter 2 (07:13) - In this video Butch talks about developing ‘fiddle tunes’.

• Chapter 3 (14:46) - Here he goes over several ‘fiddle tunes’ and shows the best way to play them including right hand motion and pick shuffling.

• Chapter 4 (20:15) - Butch introduces what he calls ‘The language of Bluegrass’.

• Chapter 5 (11:40) - This next section is all about soloing on songs.

• Chapter 6 (25:37) - Butch takes a look a double stops and tremolo.

• Chapter 7 (10:06) - In this segment Butch talks about alternate ways of playing chords.

• Chapter 8 (18:09) - Butch continues to discuss and give examples of alternate chords and then wraps it up with credits and then plays us out with a nice tune.