Collins, Todd – Modes On Mandolin: Improving Your Improvisation

Description

Modes on Mandolin: Improving Your Improvisation is a collection of exercises for the mandolin student to work through to better understand the fretboard and expand their musicality. The collection includes scales, modes, arpeggios, patterns, intervalic and rhythmic exercises, and progressions. It will serve as a valuable resource and a supplement to, but not a substitute for, a good teacher. You do not need to follow the chapters in order, as all of them will help you play and improvise over progressions. The exercises are tools to help you build muscle memory and musical ideas anywhere on the fretboard. Connect the physical with the theoretical. There are examples ofcommon tune chord progressions with ideas applied to them. By creating your own musical ideas over the same progressions, you will find that the practical information given (exercises) turns into functional use (playing and improvising). Once you gain a better understanding of the fretboard, you will notice more fluidity and creativity in your playing.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Foreword
3. Keys – Circle of 5ths
4. Major Scale
5. Modes
6. Diatonic 7th Chords
7. Tremolo and Pick Direction
8. Exploring Possibilities
9. Credits
10. Modes 2 Octaves, Start with 1st Finger
11. Modes 2 Octaves – Up One/ Down the Next, Start with 1st Finger
12. Modes 1 Octave, Start with 3rd Finger
13. Modes 1 Octave – Up One/ Down the Next, Start with 3rd Finger
14. Modes 1 Octave, Start with 4th Finger
15. Modes 1 Octave – Up One/ Down the Next, Start with 4th Finger
16. Modes on 2 Strings, Start with 1st Finger
17. Modes – 6th Interval with Variations
18. Modes – 7th Interval with Variations
19. Modes – Octave Exercise in 1 Position
20. Vertical Modes – 1st Finger Shift
21. Vertical Modes – 3 and 2 Octaves
22. Rhythmic Variations for Modes
23. Interval Combination Exercise
24. 1-6-2-5 Progression with Modes in Position
25. Arpeggios
26. Vertical Diatonic 7th Chord Arpeggios, 2 Octaves, Start with 1st Finger
27. Vertical Diatonic 7th Chord Arpeggios, 2 Octaves, Start with 3rd Finger
28. 3 Octave Arpeggios
29. 7th Arpeggios Circle of 5ths
30. 2-5-1 Progression with Arpeggios
31. Tunes
32. Lonesome Violin
33. Leaves
34. Salt Water
35. Parker Blues
36. Blues in Bf