Mandolin Improvisation Lessons
AKA Improv From Scratch
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These videos will get you started improvising or if you already improvise, give you new ideas to add to your improvisation.  They are demonstrated on mandolin but work well for fiddle and violin.  The PDF files are written in standard music notation and mandolin tablature.   I suggest you watch the videos in order as information in later videos often refer to what was learned in earlier videos.

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Improv From Scratch #1 - Free Improv
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Improv From Scratch #2 - Major and Dominant Chord Scale Outlines
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Improv From Scratch #3 - Nine Pound Hammer Scale Outlines
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Improv From Scratch #4 - Major Scale Ideas
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Improv From Scratch #5 - Major Arpeggio Practice
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Improv From Scratch #6 - Major Chord Tone Scale (CTS)
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Improv From Scratch #7 - Major Improvising Ideas
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Improv From Scratch #8 - Review and Practice
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Improv From Scratch #9 - Dominant Scale Practice
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Improv From Scratch #10 - Dominant 7 Improvising Ideas
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Improv From Scratch #11 - Dominant Chord Tone Scale (CTS)
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Improv From Scratch #12 - Dominant Chord Tone Scale (CTS) #2
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Improv From Scratch #13 - I and V7 Improvising Ideas
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Improv From Scratch #14 - Major Improvisational Practice
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Improv From Scratch #15 - Dominant Improv Practice
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Improv From Scratch #16 - Surround
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Improv From Scratch #17 - M. O. U. S. E.
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Improv From Scratch #18 - Triplets
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Improv From Scratch #19 - Quarter Notes and Rests
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Improv From Scratch #20 - How to Practice New Ideas
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Improv From Scratch #21 - Minor Chord Music Theory
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Improv From Scratch #22 - IIm IIIm VIm Scale Practice
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Improv From Scratch #23 - Minor Scale Chord Outlines
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Improv From Scratch #24 - IIm Chord Tone Scale
Improv From Scratch #25- VIm Chord Tone Scale
Improv From Scratch #26- IIIm Chord Tone Scale
Improv From Scratch #27- Making Phrases from Chord Tone Scales
Improv From Scratch #28- Non Chord Tones on a Major Chord

Mandolin Improvisation Lesson #29- Solo Strategies

Mandolin Improvisation Lesson #30 - Blue Ridge Mountain Blues
Mandolin Improvisation Lesson #31 - Minor Pentatonic Scale
Mandolin Improvisation Lesson #32 - Sam Bush Plays I IV V
Mandolin Improvisation Lesson #33 - Foggy Mountain Top
Mandolin Improvisation Lesson #34 - Monroe Style Phrases
Mandolin Improvisation Lesson #35 - 3 to 5 Chromatically
Mandolin Improvisation Lesson #36 - V7 to I Clash Resolve
Mandolin Improvisation Lesson #37 - Double Stops
Mandolin Improvisation Lesson #38 - Key of B

Mandolin Improvisation Lesson #39 - Minor Scale Against Manor Chord

Mandolin Improvisation Lesson #40 - The Blues Scale

Mandolin Improvisation #41: Bill Monroe Plays I IV V
Mandolin Improvisation #42 - Sing a Line, Play a Line
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Mandolin Improvisation #43 - Arpeggios
D7 to G Vassar Clements Lick
Mandolin Improvisation #44 - Love Come Home
Mandolin Improvisation #45 - 4 b3 3
Mandolin Improvisation #46 - The G Run
Mandolin Improvisation #47 - Tritone
Mandolin Improvisation #48 - Every Other Note
Mandolin Improvisation #49 - Non Chord Tone
Mandolin Improvisation #50 - Half Step Below