Teach beginning jazz mandolin soloing over Mack the Knife in G, using one‑octave scale notes against G6 and D7, with downloadable PDF and play‑along drills.
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Ear Training
17 hand-picked videos and articles for guitar and mandolin, each with a short summary so you can choose where to start.
Explain the Nashville Number System and why thinking in numbers simplifies transposition, band communication, and ear training across keys.
Teach how to improvise freely on guitar by deriving the minor pentatonic from the major scale, focusing on intervals, ear training, and practical fretboard visualization.
Explain diatonic chords in major keys using Roman numerals, how to build progressions, transpose between keys, and improve ear-based recognition.
Offer Tommy Emmanuel’s thumbpicking masterclass advice on precise tuning, metronome use, thumbpick selection, and building independent thumb and versatile fingerstyle technique.
Announces TrainEar’s free offline download, a music theory and ear‑training app formerly $10, with a final release and fixes; requires Adobe AIR on Mac.
Present an Android app that generates scale-based melodies for practice, ear training, call-and-response, and harmony experimentation, with metronome, dual tempos, and looping.
Curate and discuss recommended easy jazz guitar solos to learn by ear, with a multi-teacher video roundup to build vocabulary, improvisation, and transcription skills.
Recommend five Irish/Scottish mandolin-family albums to study tone and technique and to build traditional session repertoire, with context on tunes and instruments.
Offer a YouTube playlist of 110 Gypsy Jazz standards for mandolinists to study repertoire, listen critically, and learn common tunes.
Share free online music theory flashcards for solfege, intervals, key signatures, and note reading, with scoring, error review, and teacher certificates.
Demonstrates practical phrases and strategies for improvising over jazz ii–V–I changes on guitar, including ear-training, chord-tone targeting, and position-based fretboard mapping.
Seeks community recommendations on essential music-theory and reading topics a sidelined guitarist should study with their teacher.
Present a video defending the minor ninth interval beyond dominant chords, with timecoded classical, jazz, and pop examples illustrating its expressive harmonic use.
Teach how to develop playing by ear on guitar with explanations and five progressive exercises, demystifying talent myths and offering a step-by-step practice plan.
Seeks strategies to move beyond pentatonic box shapes into musical improvisation and note targeting, asking whether mastery comes with time and specific practice.
Explain how the physics of sound underpins consonance and dissonance, showing how intervals, scales, and chords arise and why context changes perceived tension.
