In this video, Hayes tackles an age-old question for guitar players - should you learn to read sheet music?
By the end of the video, you’ll have some interesting points to help you decide whether or not it is worth it for you to invest the time in learning to read standard notation.
If you...
In this week’s episode, Magnus and Hayes are discussing:
Hayes’ and Magnus’ reunion after 7 years! Highlights include:
- Swedish Midsummer
- Torsåker Bluegrass Festival and Jimmy Sunnebrandt
- Red Diamond Mandolins
- Bingjsö Stämman
- Ondra Kozak
Here...
Here is a traditional Swedish march called Gärdebylåten. This is one of the most common fiddle tunes in Scandinavian Folk Music.
I like playing it with an American touch adding some Western swing and bluegrass element to it.
In this video I also show you how to use the legato style...
In this guitar lesson, Hayes teaches you how to sound like those classic early Johnny Cash records by unpacking Luther Perkins' rhythm guitar style.
By the end of the lesson, you will know how to play three variations of Luther's signature rhythm pattern. Hayes also gives you some tips for...
In this video, Hayes Griffin shows you how to play another variation of the melody to the Bill Monroe tune “Roanoke.”
In our previous lesson, Hayes taught the melody as fiddlers would typically play it, but here, Hayes shows you some tips and tricks for how to approach this melody to...
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On Feedspot you can also find other interesting articles, like the one listed...
In this week’s episode, Magnus and Hayes are discussing:
• Take aways from the music-summer so far.
• What is your favorite instrument that you own?
• What's the worst musical advice you were ever given?
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In this video lesson, I show you how to play the chords for the fiddle tune Margaret’s Waltz. The octave mandolin accompaniment includes baselines and the typical waltz rhythm for major and minor chords like A, D, E, and Bm and C#m. The tune was written by Pat Shuldam Shaw (1917-1977) in...
In this video, we’ll look deeply at the waltz rhythm. We will play four variations of a solid accompaniment on the mandolin and the octave mandolin.
We are also going into some music theory, and you will come out of this with a better understanding of rhythm, swing, and groove.
To...
In this video, Hayes shows you how to play the swing standard “Right or Wrong.” "Right or Wrong" was written by Arthur Sizemore and Paul Biese, and Haven Gillespie back in 1921, and was a major hit for Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys in 1936 and George Strait in 1984.
This is a great...
Play gypsy jazz rhythm on the octave mandolin. I show you the chords for Blues For Ike by Django Reinhardt in this video. This tune is a 12-bar blues with an interesting twist.
The chord progression is in A and uses the major chord instead of the conventional dominant 7th chord. This tune...
Looking to spice up the ending of your swing and jazz solos? Check out this chromatic Major 6th (or Minor 7th) lick!
By the end of the video, Hayes will show you how to master this lick in the key of F, so you can put it to work straight away on standards like Sweet Georgia Brown and Avalon....
