Learning a song on mandolin goes beyond just picking out the melody, strumming the chords, or memorizing the lyrics. Really learning a song on your mandolin involves diving deeper and exploring different versions of the tune, experimenting with soloing using various scales, changing the chords you use, and shaping the arrangement to fit your own style. The more angles you explore, the more you’ll understand not just the song, but the mandolin itself.
The mandolin song breakdowns is a series dedicated to the practice of breaking down a song to better understand it. Each of the below posts dives into a specific song in various ways. These are part of my Weekly Posts series which include mandolin song breakdowns, mandolin chords, mandolin scales, and a lot more.
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- Mandolin Song Breakdown: Ain’t Nobody Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone
- Mandolin Song Breakdown: Panhandle Rag
- Mandolin Song Breakdown: Flop Eared Mule
- Mandolin Song Breakdown: Forked Deer
- Mandolin Song Breakdown: Gold Rush
- Mandolin Song Breakdown: Arkansas Traveler
- Mandolin Song Breakdown: Temperance Reel
- Mandolin Song Breakdown: East Tennessee Blues
- Mandolin Song Breakdown: SoldIer’s Joy
- Mandolin Song Breakdown: Jerusalem Ridge
- Mandolin Song Breakdown: Angeline the Baker
- Mandolin Song Breakdown: There’s More Pretty Girls Than One
- Mandolin Song Breakdown: Garfield’s Blackberry Blossom
- Mandolin Song Breakdown: Big Mon
- Mandolin Song Breakdown: The High Road
- Mandolin Sheet Music Breakdown: Old Home Place
- Mandolin Sheet Music Breakdown: Rocky Top
- Mandolin Sheet Music and Song Breakdown: I Saw the Light
- Mandolin Sheet Music and Song Breakdown: Big Sciota
- Mandolin Sheet Music: It’s Only a Paper Moon
- Mandolin Sheet Music Song Breakdown: Old Joe Clark
- Mandolin Technique: Rhythm Changes for Mandolin
- Mandolin Sheet Music: Song Breakdown Bill Cheatham
- Mandolin Sheet Music: Chinquapin Hunting Bluegrass
- Mandolin Sheet Music: Brown County Breakdown
- Mandolin Sheet music: Swing 42
- Song Breakdown: Clinch Mountain Backstep
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