This in-depth mandolin method takes you beyond bluegrass and into the fascinating realm jazz improvisation. Starting with an exploration of Bill Monroe’s blues-tinged bluegrass style, Andy Statman guides you through a variety of scales, modes, riffs, chord progressions and substitutions. In addition to teaching his own techniques, he shows you, in detail, how to improvise bebop, swing and contemporary jazz styles pioneered by such mandolin greats as Jethro Burns, Tiny Moore, David Grisman and others. Andy passes on an immense amount of musical wisdom and powerful playing techniques in the course of this six-hour instructional method. You’ll learn the proper way to play arpeggios, tremolos, double stops, rhythm chops, licks and runs in a variety of keys and positions. Anglicky, noty a 6 CD.