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This week's skipping-thirds exercise combines the forward and retrograde patterns into a four-note pattern: forward retrograde.
In this video, Ethan talks a bit about what he’ll be doing in Weekly Mandolin Workout.
In these introductory lessons, Ethan talks about some things that you will use in all of the weekly mandolin workouts, including posture, right- and left-hand technique, the concept of I–IV–V chord progressions, and more.
Ethan gives you some ideas about basic mandolin technique in this lesson, including posture, using a strap, left- and right-hand technique, and more.
In this lesson, Ethan talks about the theoretical concept of I–IV–V chords, which are the most common chords in roots music. He talks about the concept and then shows you a few chord voicings for the I–IV–V chords in the keys of G (G, C, and D) and C (C, F, and G), and how to find the I–IV–V chords in other keys. He also talks about the three minor chords in a key: ii, iii, vi or Am, Bm, and Em in the key of G and Dm, Em, and Am in the key of C.
In these workouts, you’ll get four workouts a month to work on things like skipping thirds, diatonic arpeggios, chord scales, pentatonic scale patterns, and more.
In this first lesson, you’ll get four workouts using skipping thirds, also sometimes called broken thirds. You’ll use the G major scale and basically play intervals of a third starting on each scale tone. Getting comfortable with skipping thirds is a good way to start using and finding scale patterns. The first three workouts are in the key of G, and the fourth is in the key of A using closed position.
In this month’s workouts, you’ll learn diatonic four-note seventh arpeggios. It’s somewhat like the skipping-thirds workout, but you’ll be putting two thirds together to create a seventh chord. The first three workouts are in the key of G in open position, while the fourth workout transposes the workouts to the key of A.
In this series of workouts, Ethan uses the pentatonic scale to create some interesting patterns by skipping seconds in the pentatonic scale.
In this lesson, you’ll learn some pentatonic scale patterns that you can use to improvise on tunes like David Grisman’s “I6/16,” which has a soloing section with a vamp of Ebmaj7 and Dm7. Ethan shows you how you can use different pentatonic scale patterns to solo on each chord.
