What
is a Mandolin Lesson
Anyway?
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The Value
of a Mandolin Lesson
The
following article covers a topic
that has recently moved to center
stage--at least it seems that
way. If you've been thinking you
need to know more about learning
to play mandolin, here is your
opportunity.
I just got
my youngest son his first
mandolin lesson the other day,
and I have to say, that we're
both excited. I feel a little bit
guilty, like I've been pushing
him a little hard to play music,
and for a while it seemed like it
wouldn't happen. You see, the
whole family plays.
My wife is
a fiddler, I play the accordion,
my older son plays harmonica and
a little guitar, and my daughter
is just vicious on the banjo. So
I thought, if I could get my
little one a mandolin lesson
maybe he'd take to it like the
rest of us, and we could all sit
around and make music together.
But for a
while, he would have none of it.
No matter how much I offered, he
refused to have a mandolin
lesson.
Hopefully
the information presented so far
has been applicable to your
mandolin or music experience. You
might also want to consider the
following:
What little
interest he did have in music, he
had in rock and roll. Now, I've
got no problem with rock, I've
played it before with friends,
but its simply not the kind of
music that will teach you how to
really play with soul.
I remember
growing up, fiddling around with
an electric guitar, being happy
to just play a few chords loudly,
and not caring if I ever got
good. It's all ego and raucous
noise. Mandolin teaches subtlety,
but he had no interest in even
trying a guitar lesson, to say
nothing of a mandolin
lesson.
That all
changed one night when the rest
of us finally got together. The
older one is well on his way to
being a good harmonica player and
a decent guitarist as well, but
he's still a little shy of
playing with other people. He's
sixteen years old and just has
his first girlfriend, and they
are very much embroiled in first
love.
I've never
seen him in such a good mood as
coming home that night from his
first serious date, and as soon
as he got in, he picked up the
harp and started to play a tune.
The rest of us sort of wondered
in and joined one by one, and
before you knew it, we were all
playing together better than we
had before.
All, except
for the little one who just sort
of watched us, wide eyed. The
next day, he asked me for that
mandolin lesson I had been
talking about.
Now what
could I say? I signed him up with
a music teacher I knew, but
always impatient, he wanted to
start right away. I can pick a
little, so I gave him his first
mandolin lesson my self.
That's the
latest from one of the mandolin
authorities. Once you're familiar
with these ideas, you'll be ready
to move to the next level.
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