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The Spokane Mandolin Congress recruits guest instructors each year, and also includes its local panel of professional mandolin performer/instructors. Collectively, we are able to offer a broad and deep selection of workshop topics. Each instructor has his performance specialty, but can cross easily into other styles and techniques.
The
topics that will be included in the final are the ones that receive the
most interest. Please note that only one topic per level per session
will be offered, that being the one most often selected during the
resistration period.
Here is the way it is shaping up:
Allow Me To Introduce To You, The
Mandolin
(Dan
Gore)
Kick It Up A Notch: Making Mandolin Jam
(Sam
Lyman)
Old Time Mandolin
(Sam
Lyman)
Blues Styles for Mandolin
(Sam
Lyman)
Swing Class with
Melodic Emphasis
(Don
Thomsen)
The Mandolin As An Accompanying Instrument In Folk And Americana (Don Thomsen)
Introduction
to Brazilian Choro style mandolin
(Dan
Gore)
Playing The Changes
(Don
Julin)
Improve Your Groove
(Don
Julin)
Vocal Backup for Solo and Small Ensemble
Mandolin Playing (Sam Lyman)
Every Song Is (Or Can Be) A Mandolin Song
(Sam
Lyman)
Brazilian Choro, Intro to Samba Rhythms
(Dan
Gore)
Position Shifts and How to Not Tangle Your
Fingers
(Dan
Gore)
Experiencing the Power of Pentatonic Scales
(Don
Julin)
Get Rhythm Part Two
(Don
Julin)
Easy Classical Duets
(Don
Julin)
Swing Progressions
(Don
Thomsen)
Irish Polkas Rock
(Don
Thomsen)
Long Journey Home: Building a Traditional
Bluegrass Style Break (Don
Julin)
Jamming For Dummies: Everyone Can
Improvise!
(Don
Julin)
Building a Traditional Bluegrass Style
Mandolin Break
(Don
Julin)
Easy Classical Duets
(Don
Julin)
Larger Bodied Mandolins And How They Are
Played
(Ken
Glastre)
Arpeggios From Beethoven To Grisman
(Dan
Gore)
Get Rhythm Part
One
(Don
Julin)
Playing Some EZ Fiddle Tunes
(Don
Julin)
Picking Patterns And Triplets In Irish
Music
(Don Thomsen)
Scales And Double Stops, Connecting The
Dots
(Don
Thomsen)
Learn A Few Tunes By Ear, It’s The Irish
Way!
(Don
Thomsen)
The Mandolin Orchestra
(Dan
Gore)
Crossing the Old-Time Threshold with Old
Crow Medicine Show (Sam Lyman)