Playing Dark Modes on Mandolin

[@sonomabob]

This gives me months of work. Thanks.

[@Eamonn500]

Some of the best mandolin content on youtube! One suggestion - it would be brilliant if you could organise the videos into playlists. This would epecially help beginners like myself who are getting lay of the land or struggle to know what we should study next 🙂 Thanks!

[@waynesworldofmandolin3616]

Did it pal! Started 4 playlist for you. I'm not sure of a category to put some of the videos in at this point so those are still hangin out as before.....

[@Eamonn500]

​@@waynesworldofmandolin3616 Thanks a million! really helpful

[@JMcBillz]

AHA! oh Wayne you just blew mind with this one! huge doors swinging open! Thank you so much!

[@waynesworldofmandolin3616]

Don't you just love those mind blown moments? When that happens you know that practice time isn't gonna feel like you're in a rut for a long time......

[@albertyoung8209]

Wow! great stuff, i'm an intermediate/advanced player and everything here is just what i need ,Thanks

[@waynesworldofmandolin3616]

Glad to hear that Albert. My goal is to have content for all players no matter where they are in the journey to learn mandolin....

[@mikeolinger6625]

Awesome Wayne! Man thes lessons are helping me. A lot. I just need to practice practice practice! Thank you!!!

[@waynesworldofmandolin3616]

Thank you Mike. We all need to practice, practice, practice......

[@jazzinahat]

First class refresher of music theory I first learnt on guitar. Absolutely love the Cool jazz, for want of a better expression, at the beginning of the lesson and the Bebop to finish. Shows me, as a relatively new player to Mandolin, what a flexible instrument it can be in the right hands. Do you have any digital recordings of you playing jazz/crossover, as opposed to Blue Grass available for sale? Thank you

[@waynesworldofmandolin3616]

Thx for the comment! I love playing bluegrass but it's certainly not the only thing that I'm interested in. Check out my new tune "Donner Pass" on Spotify or wherever you stream music.

[@SkeepyJeepyJohnson]

I feel like you just unlocked something in my brain that is colossal. I'm just not sure what yet. I AM going to buy a lesson from you someday I just need to get the lesson schedules for my other hobbies sorted out. Thank you for this amazing content.

[@waynesworldofmandolin3616]

Makes me feel great to read this comment Ty! We all have those moments when something gets "unlocked". After that happens a very productive season of practice and fretboard growth typically follows. Enjoy!

[@rickpick9058]

Fantastic instruction, Wayne. Since your Blueberry zoom class in Alberta, I’ve become obsessed with modes! Scales, thirds, more scales, modes, fifths has been my life ever since. Hope you can do a video on how to work this new understanding and these newly developed skills into main stream bluegrass, much like you did with Clinch Mt Backstep in the zoom workshop. You are moving my mandolin playing EXACTLY where I want to go (but didn’t know it....). 😀

[@waynesworldofmandolin3616]

Thx Rick, I plan to do some videos similar to that approach very soon. Maybe even a short one using that same song as a vehicle to explain application. Glad the workshop was a help to you.

[@plantbro1964]

I really like your videos too in fact yours are my favorite mandolin videos. I played guitar for many years and I played bluegrass gosh since well I started playing bluegrass well maybe 20 years ago and Bluegrass jams that we had around where I live. As I've grown older and my health is set my strength and I have COPD and lost half alone with cancer sometimes I have found that planning the guitar just wears me out. Because of this I thought well maybe the mandolin which I would have to stretch my arm so far apart the ways with probably just as vigorous to play but maybe a mandolin would be a good instrument for me to play. Nothing else I've always heard that learning how to play more than one credit instrument that is similar is just makes you a better on both of them. Well I've been making payments I'll pay my final payment October the 3rd on a Eastman 515 so my mailing journey will start October the 3rd. I have one suggestion no way it's great or we can see you with your camera is nice and clear and all but especially for us guys that are just getting it started it would be very helpful if you had an additional camera that was kind of zoomed in on your left hand. If we could see where your left hand is fretting strings clearly that would really help. I mean I can probably get it by hearing the notes. Also when I'm playing guitar and a picking Bluegrass circle and I don't know the song I just if there's another guitar player there I watch their left hand. I've gotten where I'm so fast that chord changes then it doesn't sound like I'm lagging at all know the keys and then I start to see the chords used in each section of the song and that makes it easier but first time through it's always better if I can see her left hand. I thought the same thing would be helpful for us beginners so we can see your left hand too Wayne.

[@waynesworldofmandolin3616]

Thx for the comment Plant Bro. You aren't the first to suggest another camera on my left hand. This entire channel is produced on a Samsung phone so I haven't even purchased the first camera yet. Many viewers watch the channel on TV using a ROKU device. This will give you a much bigger screen and view of exactly what's going on with finger placement and fretboard position. Good luck pal.....

[@plantbro1964]

@@waynesworldofmandolin3616 thank you Wayne hey there's one other thing you might have already done it but there's one thing I really wish that you would do and that is you know that really pretty intro music that you play before each of your videos I wish you would teach us how to play that that is beautiful Id love to be able to play that song

[@giorgio831]

Wayne, I have been following some of your very informative clips. I started Mandolin playing little over a year ago. I have to say that among all the different players tutorials, yours stand out as very comprehensive and informative. I have been considering joining your membership, although waiting to get a little more proficient first. I have a question regarding this specific clip: After watching it few times and trying to learn the mode, I still do not understand the affinity between the F Major scale and G Minor scale, not being relative minors, why? Thanks for your courtesy. Giorgio Nicolato

[@waynesworldofmandolin3616]

Thx for the comment Giorgio. G minor is the relative minor to the B flat major scale because it's the 6th chord of the B flat chord scale. The F scale can be played over G minor because G minor is the second chord of the F major chord scale. This is the Dorian mode and one of my favorite minor chord sounds. Hope this helps pal......

[@molarjock]

Awesome stuff, but you lost me at "Hi, my name is Wayne Benson." 😄

[@waynesworldofmandolin3616]

Try checking out my chord scale video here on the channel then revisit this one. Good luck!

[@nicktrump9929]

Excellent content and topic! You gotta have a little dark side in your pickin!!

[@waynesworldofmandolin3616]

Yep. Especially when you play bluegrass. People keep dying in coal mines.....