Bluegrass Mandolin with Sierra Hull
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Get custom video lessons from your instructor by sending a video of your playing.
How It Works?
1. Submit Your Video
Record and upload directly through our platform. No technical skills required.
2. Get Expert Feedback
Receive personal video responses from Sierra Hull with tips to improve!
3. Learn from Community
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Course Structure Bluegrass Mandolin with Sierra Hull
Each lesson builds on the last, taking you from zero to hero!
Master bluegrass mandolin with Grammy nominee Sierra Hull. Over 115 lessons from basic chords and picking techniques, through advanced soloing and jam tunes, plus additional octave mandolin instruction.
Basic Mandolin
Build your mandolin foundation with good posture, picking technique, chords, scales, and simple tunes. Explore mandolin basics—strumming, picking, and your first bluegrass songs. Learn tuning, technique, and toe-tapping tunes to begin your mandolin journey.
Intermediate Mandolin
Build fretboard confidence with arpeggios, crosspicking, and bluegrass standards. Strengthen your skills with fills, double stops, triplets, and Monroe-style phrasing. Explore intermediate mandolin through new techniques, classic tunes, and steady rhythm.
Advanced Mandolin
Explore chord melodies, speed drills, and expressive soloing through advanced bluegrass tunes. Build advanced skills with improvisation, strength training, and detailed arrangements. Learn to play with speed, clarity, and emotion using chord melodies and solo techniques.
Octave Mandolin
Explore octave mandolin with rich strumming, fingerpicking, and timeless melodies. Build your sound using capo techniques, rhythmic chops, and soulful octave mandolin tunes. Learn expressive octave mandolin skills through low-end textures and classic songs.
About Bluegrass Mandolin with Sierra Hull
Sierra Hull has created a definitive video library that includes hundreds of online mandolin lessons. Students have unlimited access to Sierra's entire mandolin method, plus mandolin tablature, play-along tracks, and other study materials. What ultimately sets these mandolin lessons apart from other online offerings however, is the ability to submit a video for review using the ArtistWorks Video Exchange learning platform. Sierra Hull reviews each submission and records a video response, offering tips about how to progress. All students can access the Video Exchange library, which is constantly expanding and may contain the key to unlock your playing.
About Sierra Hull
Sierra Hull has accomplished more as a singer, songwriter, and performer at a young age than many musicians do in a lifetime. Recognized three years in a row as the IBMA "Mandolin Player of the Year", she received a Grammy nomination for her album Weighted Mind when she was just 26. Since then, Sierra has shown no signs of slowing down and continues to reaffirm her standing as a modern pioneer of the bluegrass genre, a virtuosic songwriter, and a true master of the mandolin. Since her early childhood, Sierra has collaborated with iconic artists like Alison Krauss, Béla Fleck, Garth Brooks, Sturgill Simpson, and fellow ArtistWorks master instructors Bryan Sutton and Missy Raines. As such, Sierra has drawn from decades of performance experience to create a comprehensive course of online mandolin lessons designed to teach players of all levels how to play modern bluegrass. Like many premier bluegrass mandolin players, Sierra calls Nashville, TN her home and has been teaching at ArtistWorks since August 2021.
What students are saying!
Wonderful experience with Sierra!
I have been with AW for a long time in a variety of classes and joined Sierra's from the beginning. It has been wonderful to not only study with her, but actually get to know her a...
Top-Notch!
Sierra is an outstanding teacher! I have taught and taken lessons on several instruments, and she is truly top-notch, especially considering that this is a video exchange and the n...
Amazing course!
When I first saw this course was announced I enrolled right away. I was so excited to have one-on-one access to one of the best mandolin players and one of my biggest heroes! Sierr...
I'm pickin it up!
I personally find Sierra Hull’s mandolin lessons remarkable because the teaching points of her lessons really do translate into me understanding and being able to apply both theory...
Sierra's course has helped me greatly
I just completed the beginner's course and it has been a good learning experience. I enjoy Sierra's enthusiasm and easygoing style. She throws in a bit of music theory without you ...
Sierra Hull Mandolin
Sierra does a great job with her VE's but does not get to them frequently enough. My fist reply was 7 weeks after I submitted my video. The site content is very good.
Good for beginners
I had never strummed a mandolin before signing up for Sierra Hull's course. I have now been at it for about two weeks and enjoying every minute of the lessons.
Great course
I am a "never ever" beginner. I love the course so far. My husband is impressed by how much I've learned in a few weeks.
Excellent teacher
I am learning a lot, but price is high so I need to take a break.
Great!
Great teacher with nice material. I’ve definitely become a much better player. Thanks Sierra!
4.9 (96)