Mandolin Lesson from Oakland

Emeryville CA

Description

Short version: The best teacher of the Bay Area offers mandolin lessons online. Mandolin, Mandola, and Mandocello welcomed. If you want to learn mandolin do not go to a guitar player (I do not teach guitar). If you want to learn the mandolin learn it from a real mandolin player. Reasonable rates. Long version: Mandolin lessons in the Bay Area since 2009 I love to teach. It is always a good opportunity to meet great people. I have 49 years of experience in practicing music, 40 years as a professional musician, and 30 years as teacher. I’m from Milan Italy where I get my degree in music in the Civica Scuola di Musica di Milano, now Claudio Abbado. I played Double Bass in Classical Orchestra for 20 years, while at the same time I played mandolin and electric bass in diverse situation, classical, rock, and folk. In 2009 I moved to the Bay Area where I teach mandolin and conduct the San Francisco Mandolin Orchestra. Online lessons are available on Zoom, Skype, and Facetime. I teach the full mandolin family, plus upright and electric bass. Mandolin lessons are normally one hour long with emphasis on developing a nice clear picking technique typical of the classical Italian tradition. This is the technique that facilitates a nice expressive tremolo, the quintessential sound of the mandolin. In order to have a beautifully resonant sound it is very important to work on the left hand just as much as the right. I mostly use Italian traditional methods and repertoire ranging from easy songs to baroque concertos to keep the lessons interesting and alive. I prefer to have one lesson per week, but I am open to different arrangements. For a first lesson simply send me a message. The pictures are: 1)Me playing for the Bay. 2)Some of my instrument. From the top: Fender Electric Mandolin Reissue Embergher 1904 Lyon & Healy model A 1930s Martin Mandola 1904