David Grisman teaches Mandolin
HOMESPUN

Dawg Mandolin

Taught By David Grisman.
Level 3
Six CDs plus music and tab book

Take lessons from a true mandolin master and take your playing in new and exciting directions! Once dubbed "The Paganini of the Mandolin" by the New York Times, David Grisman is an innovative and creative musician who has inspired a whole new genre of acoustic string instrumental music. He and his band, The David Grisman Quintet, have consistently won polls and awards, and headlined at jazz, folk and bluegrass festivals around the world.

On these six CDs, David Grisman leads you through all facets of "Dawg Music," the fusion of bluegrass, swing, Latin, Gypsy, blues and other musical forms that has earned him worldwide accolades. You'll learn amazing tunes, powerful technique and important pointers on all aspects of the mandolin.

This powerful course will help you in every style or genre you wish to play. David uses many of his most famous compositions to help you develop your mandolin musicianship, teaching the details of tremolo, crosspicking and rhythm comping as applied to bluegrass and swing styles. He takes you through the specifics of soloing, modal chord changes, position shifts, harmonic arpeggios and scales, transposing for the mandola, and much more. Each CD in this series is an invaluable resource for any level of student, from beginners to the most advanced players.

Tunes include: "Sawing On The Strings," "Little Sadie," "Naima," "Fanny Hill," "Opus 38," "Opus 12,"" Happy Birthday Bill Monroe," "Cedar Hill," "Japan," "Dawg's Bull," "Pneumonia," "Blue Midnight," "Dawgma," "Dawgmatism," "Dawg Funk," "16/16," "Janice," "Dawg's Rag" and "Dawgology."

About David Grisman
Mandolinist/composer David Grisman has created a musical style so unique that he has given it its own name – “Dawg” music. Dubbed "The Paganini of the Mandolin" by the New York Times, David has inspired a whole new genre of acoustic string instrumental music. His discography includes recordings with Bela Fleck, the Grateful Dead, Stephane Grappelli, Emmylou Harris, Chris Isaak, Dolly Parton, Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt , Earl Scruggs and James Taylor, among many others.
In his long and multi-faceted career, David has played bluegrass with many of the pioneers as well as with other urban bluegrass contemporaries like Peter Rowan and Jerry Garcia, with whom he formed the now-classic band Old & In the Way. He has also released several duet CDs with Garcia. David's interests spread to jazz in the sixties while playing in the folk-rock ensemble, Earth Opera, and he later formed the Great American Music Band with fiddler Richard Greene.

David's unique instrumental style coalesced in 1974 with the formation of the David Grisman Quintet, which won numerous polls and awards and headlined at major jazz, folk and bluegrass festivals around the world. DGQ alumni include Tony Rice, Todd Phillips, Mark O'Connor, Mike Marshall, Rob Wasserman and Darol Anger. Current DGQ members include bassist Jim Kerwin, multi-instrumentalist Joe Craven, flutist Matt Eakle, and Argentine guitarist Enrique Coria.

In 1990, Grisman founded his own company, Acoustic Disc, for which he has produced nearly fifty critically acclaimed, high quality recordings of acoustic music, several of which have been nominated for Grammy Awards.