Creative Mandolin Backup with Sharon Gilchrist | Now Available for Subscription
Creative Mandolin Backup with Sharon Gilchrist is now available for a monthly or annual subscription! Use promo code SharonLand to get your first month free.
Sharon Gilchrist’s Creative Mandolin Backup workshop is designed for mandolinists who want to develop their rhythm and backup beyond the basic mandolin chord forms and chop or boom-chick rhythm. Sharon shows you a few simple, easy-to-grasp concepts in this course that will help you vary your backup playing and allow you to improvise and respond to the instrumentalists and/or singers you’re playing with. She talks about playing chords in different registers of the mandolin, adding sevenths to a chord when you want to move in a certain direction, creating walking lines with chords, varying your rhythm patterns, accenting the ends of verses or different parts of a tune, and more. These concepts allow you to be more engaged the entire time you’re playing and contribute more to the overall sound of the music, which will make the entire experience of playing with other people more dynamic, alive, and fun. Watch Sharon’s full workshop introduction video, above, to hear some examples of what she teaches in this unique course
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Creative Mandolin Backup is designed for intermediate-level mandolinists who will be expected to know basic open and chop chord (Monroe chord) forms, but for those who need to brush up on (or learn) these basic mandolin chord forms, we’re providing three lessons from Sharon’s Beginning Mandolin course on Peghead Nation. You can use those lessons before the course begins or refer to them throughout the workshop.
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Sharon Gilchrist began touring the national bluegrass circuit in her home state of Texas for several years before earning a BA in Mandolin Performance at Belmont University in Nashville, TN. For two decades, Sharon has performed with many of the groundbreaking legends in bluegrass and new acoustic music including The Peter Rowan and Tony Rice Quartet, Scott Nygaard and John Reischman in The Harmonic Tone Revealers, Darol Anger, Tony Trischka, The CA Bluegrass Reunion Band, Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands, Uncle Earl and many others. She is also a respected and influential music educator offering private mandolin instruction, multiple online mandolin courses at Peghead Nation (see below) as well as teaching at music camps internationally. From 2004 – 2012, Sharon taught mandolin at the Santa Fe University of Art & Design. In 2024, Sharon joined the John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project as a featured artist and co-producer on their Vol 2. album. The Vol. 2 album will be released in early 2025. Sharon lives in Nashville, TN and currently performs with the John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project Trio.
Creative Mandolin Backup with Sharon Gilchrist is a great way to supercharge your rhythm playing. Join us today, and use promo code SharonLand to get your first month free.
Check out Sharon’s other courses on Peghead Nation – Beginning Mandolin, Intermediate Bluegrass Mandolin, Bluegrass Mandolin Fingerboard Method, Melodic Embellishment
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