Jazz lessons

[bienkow1]

Well, after playing about a year now, I can play BG decently, and have decided to start lessons through Elderly rooted in jazz theory on the mando. I played guitar for years with no formal training, so this will be new to me. I am a huuuge fan of "Dawg" music, so I felt jazz would be a good jump off point anyhow. Any suggestions/comments? I am super excited...

[Jeff Hildreth]

Try to find the Tiny Moore book and anything by Jethro Burns

Then listen to Don Stiernberg (sp)

[Matt Hutchinson]

Buy the first volume of Jamey Aebersold's Jazz series. It explains the whole theory behind using scales over chords extremely well & gives you some tracks to play along with.

Matt

[mandroid]

even if its another instrument, the listening and interacting with another

live human is hard to hard to replicate with a book.

anyone else like to play jazzed up tunes in your town?

[SternART]

You should definitely buy the David Grisman Homespun series, 6 CD's of David teaching you his tunes.
It starts easier with more BG oriented compositions & moves into some of the chestnuts of Dawg music.
Some of it might be too hard at first, but there are tunes a beginner/intermediate player can start on,
like Cedar Hill, Opus 38, Minor Swing.....and you can work your way up to Dawg's Rag & Dawgology as your
skills grow. David slowly talks you through the tunes, & then with Mike Marshall & a bass player, they
play it slow & then up to speed for you to practice along with, leaving a space for your solo. If you
love Dawg music like I do, this is a great resource to have. Not as good as going to the Mandolin Symposium,
but a great place to start learning your puppy versions of Dawg tunes.

[Steve Davis]

There is some good info at Jazzmando.com (http://www.jazzmando.com/).

[Doug Hoople]

Andy Statman's Jazz Mandolin, published by Homespun, starts with the aasumption that you've spent some time with bluegrass and transitions to jazz by starting out with Monroe-style blues. By the time the book is done, you're working on some pretty snazzy substitution harmonies.

Could be just the thing.

[Evan Mahoney]

learn piano, too.