Improvising for Mandolin and Fiddle
with Joe K. Walsh
Peghead Nation is excited to announce an eight-part live Zoom workshop series taught by Peghead Nation mandolin instructor Joe K. Walsh called Improvising for Mandolin and Fiddle. The series is designed for intermediate-to-advanced level mandolinists and fiddlers who want to build their improvisation skills in several areas. The live sessions will be held every other Saturday from 10 am to 11 am PST (1 pm to 2 pm EST), starting on Saturday May 8, and ending on August 14. Video recordings of each session will be made available to all students so you can review what you've learned or catch up if you need to miss a session.
In this workshop, you’ll learn to improvise on fiddle tunes, create new melodies over chord changes, practice the arpeggios and scales you need to play jazz tunes, and more. Joe lays out his approach to improvising and practicing improvising that he’s developed from years as a professional musician in a variety of musical contexts and as instructor at the Berklee College of Music, Peghead Nation, and numerous music camps. With exercises and solos that illustrate Joe’s unique, widely acclaimed, freewheeling style.
The fee for the eight-part workshop is $200 and, in addition to admittance to all eight workshops, students will receive PDFs (notation and tab) related to each session, as well as access to recordings of each workshop. Workshop recordings will be available to students a week after each class, and you will retain access to all video and written materials after the live workshops have ended. Please join us for this unique, deep-dive into learning to improvise!
ABOUT JOE K. WALSH
Hailed by Nashville’s Music Row magazine for his “lickety-split mandolin work” and by Vintage Guitar magazine as “brilliant,” Joe K. Walsh is one of the best mandolinists of his generation. Walsh is known for his exceptional tone and taste, and his collaborations with acoustic music luminaries, including legendary fiddler Darol Anger, flatpick guitar hero Scott Nygaard, folk legend Jonathan Edwards, and pop/grass darlings Joy Kills Sorrow, have taken him all over the musical and figurative map. Joe has played with everyone from John Scofield to Béla Fleck to Emmylou Harris, and performed everywhere from bluegrass festivals to laundromats to Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. After a number of years helping bluegrass supergroup the Gibson Brothers rise to the top of the bluegrass world, and stints with a group with Grant Gordy and Darol Anger called Mr Sun, he now leads his own band and tours with Danny Barnes.
An avid mandolin educator, Joe is a mandolin instructor at the Berklee College of Music. He teaches regularly at music camps throughout North America and beyond, and has taught hundreds of students near his home in Portland, Maine. Joe is also co-director of the Berklee American Roots Festival camp in Boston and the Ossipee Valley String Camp in Maine. skinnyelephantmusic.com
ABOUT ZOOM
If you’re new to Zoom, before you can attend the workshop you will need to make sure you have a Zoom account, which you can get at https://zoom.us/, and have downloaded and tested the Zoom client for whatever device you’re going to be using. You can find Zoom tutorials for getting started using Zoom at https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/categories/200101697.
You should also test your audio and video beforehand. Please don’t interrupt the workshop to ask how to use Zoom. You will be automatically muted when you enter the meeting, and we ask that you use the chat window to ask questions, as there may be a lot of people in the workshop.
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