Advance Mandolin
The advanced mandolin class will look at several aspects of mandolin playing. We will begin with practice approaches for improving your basic mandolin techniques. Including, working on pick strokes, rhythm playing, using different chord voicings, and developing speed.
There are many genres that feature the mandolin, so we are going to explore some of the differences in approaches to playing bluegrass, blues, old time, and a little peak at swing. Lastly, there will be an improvisational component focused on practice techniques for freeing up your playing. While this is an advanced class, this class is still appropriate for a wide range of players. We will move quickly but will be focused on learning how to get the most out of your practice time, so this class will benefit all.
Andrew Collins
As a solo artist and founding member of some of Canada’s most celebrated string bands, Andrew Collins is in the centre of a burgeoning Canadian acoustic music scene. He is a prolific composer, performer, educator, producer, and accomplished multi-instrumentalist.
Although a mandolin player first, Andrew also plays mandola, mandocello, guitar and fiddle, deftly navigating across the bluegrass, old-time, jazz, blues, swing, Celtic, and classical traditions.
Andrew has won seven Canadian Folk Music Awards, received five Juno nominations and several Canadian Bluegrass Association awards (including mandolin player of the year) as a solo artist as well as with the Creaking Tree String Quartet, The Foggy Hogtown Boys, along with his most recent groups The Andrew Collins Trio and The Tone Rangers.
Welcome back Andrew!
