I’m Matt C Bruno, I’m a mandolin player, instructor, and bluegrass jam leader. This site contains a compilation of resources I’ve created to help you grow as a musician, including free mandolin lessons, mandolin technique lessons, bluegrass song chord charts, mandolin scales lessons, sheet music with mandolin tablature, mandolin song breakdowns, and instructional books.
Check out my Upcoming Performance page for where I’m playing next. I host a weekly Bluegrass Jam at Machine House Brewery in Seattle’s Hillman City neighborhood. I’m a co-founder of the Outlanders Progressive Bluegrass Social Club and a board member for a variety of bluegrass entities in / around Washington. You can also check out recordings with previous projects on my recordings page or EPK.
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
-Frank Zappa
Matt C Bruno Instructional Music Books
Learn to play mandolin with clear, and practical mandolin instruction books by Matt C Bruno.
Each of these mandolin instructional books cover an essential topic like mandolin chords shapes, pentatonic scales, double stops, and bluegrass techniques, making them valuable resources for both beginner mandolinists to more advanced mandolin pickers.
As a bonus, for each book you purchase, you’ll get a free virtual lesson with Matt C Bruno. For more details, check out the Matt C Bruno store.
You can find my educational music books for sale at my store here www.mattcbruno.com/matt-c-bruno-store/.
Personal Coaching and Mandolin Lessons with Matt C Bruno
Personal Coaching Sessions focus on learning new and honing existing mandolin skills through playing songs and tunes that you want to learn. This starts with creating a long term learning plan designed around your unique goals and working backwards to create a path forward. I create custom mandolin chord charts, sheet music (with standard notation and tabs for mandolin), and detailed practice notes & lesson recaps to help you learn new skills and perfect your playing.
I primarily teach in person at my Seattle, WA studio or via Zoom. If you are interested in personal music coaching, please head to the Personal Coaching Page for more details or message me on the Contact Page.
Free Lessons and Weekly Posts
Aside from the instructional mandolin music books and personal coaching, there’s a slew of free mandolin information on under the Free Lessons tab. Here you’ll find free sheet music for mandolin, tablature for mandolin, chord charts, mandolin chords and movable mandolin chord shapes, mandolin scales, and much more.
Sing up for my Weekly Posts where I dive into various topics like mandolin song breakdowns where I deep dive into a song or fiddle tune, music theory topics for mandolinists, and more. If you want to be notified when I publish new song breakdowns or theory lessons, feel free to subscribe below.
Material Use Request
If you would like to use any of the materials on this site for your private students, workshops, association, or other instruction events, please contact me so we can review what you need. Generally I’m pretty open to providing materials to other educators. Click the button below to learn about my policies and request authorization for use.
Oh, and if you like cooking check out my Quarantine Cookbook.
Thanks for visiting my site. Hope to see you soon!
main page photo credit: Robin Frenette