Now Available for Subscription! Improvising for Mandolin and Fiddle with Joe K. Walsh

Learn to improvise on fiddle tunes, create new melodies over chord changes, and more!

Earlier this year, Joe K. Walsh taught a popular 8-session workshop called Improvising for Mandolin and Fiddle, and it dug deep into practical techniques to help you develop your soloing and improvising skills. With over 10 hours of material, this workshop is a treasure trove of advice on how to develop your own voice on the mandolin and fiddle. We’re happy to announce that you can now subscribe to the course on Peghead Nation. Take a look at a sample lesson, above, and see the main Improvising for Mandolin and Fiddle page for Joe’s workshop overview, and to sign up!

In this unique course, you’ll learn to improvise on fiddle tunes, create new melodies over chord changes, practice the arpeggios and scales you need to play jazz tunes, and more with Joe K. Walsh.  Joe lays out his approach to improvising and practicing improvising that he’s developed from years as a professional musician in a variety of musical contexts and as instructor at the Berklee College of Music, Peghead Nation, and numerous music camps. With exercises and solos that illustrate Joe’s unique, widely acclaimed, freewheeling style. Joe’s workshop is designed for intermediate-to-advanced-level mandolinists and fiddlers. We hope you can join us! Go to the main Improvising for Mandolin and Fiddle page to sign up!

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