Mandolin Workshop with Nashville musician Matt Flinner

Fundamentals: Right and left hand exercises to help improve tone, dexterity and speed.

Bluegrass: using double stops to enrich your bluegrass solos. We'll look at songs in various common bluegrass keys to help improve your knowledge of the fingerboard.

Chords: Various approaches to backup; we'll look at different ways of playing rhythm, various chord forms and how to create motion in your backup playing.

Also, two tunes you've (probably) never heard but should know.

Workshop fee: $50.00

Matt Flinner has made a career out of playing acoustic music in new ways. Starting out as a banjo prodigy playing bluegrass festivals before he entered his teens, Flinner later took up the mandolin, won the National Banjo Competition in Win?eld, KS in 1990, and won the mandolin award there in 1991. He moved to Nashville in 1999 and is now considered one of the hottest and most creative mandolin players on the acoustic scene. His two critically acclaimed solo albums feature bluegrass stalwarts Todd Phillips, David Grier, Stuart Duncan, Jerry Douglas and Darol Anger. Flinner actively tours with Phillips and Grier, the Modern Mandolin Quartet, and his own Matt Flinner Acoustic Trio and Matt Flinner Quartet.

“Flinner provides the next logical evolutionary step to David Grisman’s unique dawg style, and does it with a nod to the past and a vision of the future.” —Bluegrass Now

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