In this video lesson I’m showing you the mandolin chords for Minor Swing by Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli. Am6, Dm6, Bb7 and E7.
In this Live Mandolin Workshop I’m talking about the 3 important keys for improvement of your mandolin playing.
In this video lesson I’m showing you a cool ending lick to use for swing tunes. I play it in the key of C-major and demonstrate it playing the jazz standard All Of Me.
In this video lesson I’m showing you how to use some simple and powerful double stops to make a cool accompaniment for your 12 bar blues in A.
The chords are A7, D7, E7. We are using the Charleston rhythm and also include some more advanced techniques as The Slide.
In this video lesson I’m showing you how to play a good tremolo on mandolin. We talk about 3 important parameters of the tremolo technique.
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The song that I´m playing is Flatbush Waltz by Andy Statman.
In this video lesson I’m answering how to apply Jethro Burn’s Mandolin Arpeggios to songs.
Get Tabs:
10 Jazz Mandolin Licks and Techniques
In this mandolin video lesson I´m showing you how to play a Scandinavian traditional polska on mandolin and guitar. This is Polska after Juringius, Sweden.
A beautiful melody with some added double stops to make it a nice sounding mandolin arrangement.
I play a Phoenix Neo Bluegrass...
In this video lesson I’m giving you tips on a starting point learning how to solo and improvise on jazz standards and other songs. The example given is the tune “All of me”.
Here’s my favorite tune from my e-book "Nordic Folk Mandolin - 10 traditional tunes".
In this video it´s me, Magnus Zetterlund, performing a Scandinavian traditional polska on mandolin and guitar. This is Polska after Juringius, Sweden. I play a Phoenix Neo Bluegrass...
Here’s my best exercise for mandolin to build precision and speed to your playing. The Fast Finger Bounce is great to develop your mandolin technique and works great as a warm up thing.
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In this vlog style mandolin lesson I’m showing you my best warm up exercise for mandolin. The Fast Finger Bounce is great to develop control, precision and speed.
I take you backstage at a concert with Nordic and Musica Vitae, Växjö January 2019.
Folk music trio Nordic and Norrlandsoperans Symfoniorkester in Umeå, December 2015. Conductor and music arranger: Karl Johan Ankarblom. The music played is ”Sigrid och Småfolket”.