How To Improvise Medieval Mandolin

Ever run out of songs to play? Want to entertain forever? These are the techniques I use to create infinite medieval mandolin music. I use these whenever I don't have any songs memorized and I still want to fill the air with the sound of music.

This tutorial is highly conceptual, not detailed. I am assuming you already know how to play the mandolin (or your instrument of choice). I will give you the tools, but you must use the tools and add your own spin to make your own music.

Useful for LARP, for Dungeons and Dragons (for DND), for Parties, for Cosplay, for Renaissance Fairs, you name it!


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0:00 Introduction
0:29 Tuning
0:40 Key
1:00 Drones
1:19 Traveling
2:22 Combine
3:50 Outro


Instruments used:
Rogue RM100-A Mandolin
Gold Tone OM-800+ Octave Mandolin

Performed and edited by Mark Berglin