MANDOLIN
Jacob’s class will focus on developing your bluegrass soloing ability. We’ll take standard tunes and work on building a language to use over them through studying the playing of great improvisers and talking about creative ways to utilize the melody. `
Furthermore, the class will delve into the right and left technique necessary to accomplish this using specific exercises for garnering speed and fluency.
In addition, Jacob will lay out a plan for achieving the fretboard knowledge you need for true versatility.
The guitar class will be opened from 5 students on
Jacob Jolliff
Jacob Jolliff is one of the world’s premier contemporary mandolinists.
In 2011, he graduated from Berklee College of Music, having studied there on a full scholarship.
The following year, in 2012, he won the USA’s National Mandolin Championship in Winfield, KS.
A fixture of the bluegrass scene, he has performed and collaborated with Béla Fleck, Tony Trischka, Michael Daves, Grant Gordy, Wes Corbett, and Alex Hargreaves, to name a few. Additionally, throughout his 20s, he toured as a member of the groups Joy Kills Sorrow and Yonder Mountain String Band.
Currently, his focus is on his own ensemble, The Jacob Jolliff Band—one of the most cutting-edge progressive bluegrass groups on the scene today. They’ve released three albums, the most recent of which, “Instrumentals, Vol. 2: Mandolin Mysteries,” dropped in May 2024.
The band plays a combination of complex original instrumental music and vocal repertoire that spans from trad bluegrass to unlikely pop covers. Improvisation and the ensemble interplay are at the forefront.
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