arpeggio practice - Mandolin Cafe Mike Marshall’s Arpeggio Workout from homespun is exactly the type of resource OP is looking for Arpeggios in different positions, arpeggios based on maj7, dom7 and 6 included, play along tracks in several genera including swing and boss’s nova, etc
Printable Arpeggio Scale double stops - Mandolin Cafe Printable Arpeggio Scale double stops several months ago someone posted a link to simple, free and printable tabs for arpeggios, scales (pentatonic I think), and double stops I printed them and can't find them now, and have been searching through the Cafe and the Web and can't come up with them again
Free Arpeggio PDFs! - Mandolin Cafe Free Arpeggio PDFs! JazzMando What's New - In case you missed it last week, we reprised our two 7th Chord Arpeggios exercise, Major and Minor You don't want your improvisation to sound like your practicing scales or arpeggios, but we believe you need to have these patterns in your fingers as starting points
Chord based solos, Monroe method? - Mandolin Cafe G arpeggio for 6 measures D arpeggio for 2 measure G arpeggio for 2 measures C arpeggio for 2 measures D arpeggio for 2 measures G arpeggio for 2 measures Writing out fretboard maps of the chords before doing this will be a huge help That said, the "wrong" notes is where the magic happens
Mandolin Scales on PDF If you're interested in mandolin scales, arpeggios and so on I can suggest this ebook: Mandolin Chord, Scale and Arpeggio Bible It is a complete referencefor anything you may need It is a complete referencefor anything you may need
Was my understanding of how to apply Pentatonic scales all wrong? Also, generally those notes are the "color" notes - so playing the b or # of an arpeggio note will stick out which can be great Playing a scale per chord is 100% fine way to think about things, but it's just playing the pentatonic scale for the root with 2 notes (the 4 and 7) added in
Soloing - Bluegrass style - Mandolin Cafe I can solo arpeggio style (basic) and can hold my own in a open mic in a general genre type setting where the songs aren't bluegrass But I really want to solo bluegrass style I noticed that the mandolin player in a bluegrass group starts out their solo with a type of intro and then the rest is a blur somewhat, since their fingers move so
10 Questions For Jason Anick - Mandolin Cafe I supplement transcribing and listening with frequent scale and arpeggio studies My goal is to learn all the modes, arpeggio inversions, and chords up the neck in what I call "mapping out the fretboard " All the notes are there, you just have to find and develop a relationship with them
picking exercises - mandolincafe. com for octave mandolin do more cross-picking that crosses the whole compass, from the low-G to the high-E i e Gdown-Eup-Gdown-Eup, then reverse, Edown-Gup-Edown-Gup most small mandolin cross-picking exercises just have you go between adjacent strings, while on the octave going between low-G and high-E is an extra challenge because of the bigger distance as you go, concentrate on the feeling