Butch Baldassari's Bluegrass Mandolin Workshop
HOMESPUN

A Complete Guide for Learning Players

Taught By Butch Baldassari.
Level 2
120 Minute DVD, Includes music and tab

This comprehensive, user-friendly mandolin method takes you from bare-bone basics to solidly intermediate material in a single two-hour lesson. Butch Baldassari has distilled his popular teaching workshops into one jam-packed DVD, providing detailed instruction in all aspects of mandolin playing.

Butch gives you exercises to build your technique and teaches you how to master fiddle tunes, take solos, and play the famous Bill Monroe licks that make up “the language of bluegrass.” He shares advice about fingering, pick control, alternate chord forms, playing scales in a variety of keys and imparts other invaluable information that will help you develop style, flair and a deep knowledge of your instrument.

Best of all, you’ll learn to play twenty songs that should be in the repertoire of every mandolinist: Little Rabbit, Arkansas Traveler, Leather Britches, Patty on the Turnpike, Honky Tonk Swing, Bluegrass Stomp, Evening Prayer Blues, I’ll Fly Away, I’m Going Back to Old Kentucky, Rebecca, Little Georgia Rose, Pass Me Not O Gentle Savior, Bile Them Cabbage Down, Sally Goodin, Angeline the Baker, Chinquapin Hunting, Big Mon, Waltz for Bill Monroe, Blackberry Blossom, Whiskey Before Breakfast.

About Butch Baldassari

Butch Baldassari has been considered one of the rising stars of bluegrass mandolin since the release of his first album "What's Doin'" (Cactus Records). His work with Weary Hearts delighted fans at festivals and club dates throughout the country, and the groups' 1989 Flying Fish album was released to great critical acclaim. He has since released "Old Town," a solo album of bluegrass instrumentals on Rebel Records and "Evergreen," a collection of traditional Christmas music played on several instruments in the mandolin family. Butch is currently a columnist for Bluegrass Now Magazine and the leader of the Nashville Mandolin Ensemble. His two-video set, “You Can Play Bluegrass Mandolin,” has been one of Homespun’s most popular instructional products.