Includes a Mandolin Method Book/CD Chord and Scale Finder DVD and Case-This pack includes everything you need to play the mandolin today! The high-quality mandolin is ready to pull out and play. It is finely constructed with quality tuners and a level playing bridge making it an ideal instrument to learn on. The pack also contains a padded case and a comprehensive easy-to-use beginner's book/CD that features many songs to play while you learn. The book includes information on tuning reading music melody playing strumming and scales and the CD is comprised of demonstration and play-along tracks. The pack also includes scale and chord books along with a DVD featuring on-screen musical examples¦and demonstrations to really hammer homeeverything you're learning in the book. Whether you're teaching yourself or a classroom¦of students this pack will get the job done! ¦ ¦ This pack includes everything you need to play the mandolin today! The high-quality mandolin is ready to pull out and play. It is finely constructed with quality tuners and a level playing bridge making it an ideal instrument to learn on. The pack also contains a padded case and a comprehensive easy-to-use beginner's book/CD that features many songs to play while you learn. The book includes information on tuning reading music melody playing strumming and scales and the CD is comprised of demonstration and play-along tracks. The pack also includes scale and chord books along with a DVD featuring on-screen musical examples¦and demonstrations to really hammerhomeeverything you're learning in the book. Whether you're teaching yourself or a classroom¦of students this pack will get the job done! ¦ ¦

Just like Book 1 Book 2 of The Hal Leonard Mandolin Method is designed for anyone just learning to play Mandolin. This comprehensive and easy-to-use beginner's guide includes many fun songs of different styles to learn and play. The book includes access to audio tracks online for download or streaming using the unique code inside. The tracks provide an audio demonstration of each example in the book performed by the author.Topics covered include: modes and scales time signatures transposing fretboard positions solos and duets styles spanning blues bluegrass Celtic ragtime and more!

The mandolin is an integral part of the Irish music scene. This book and CD package is a comprehensive introduction to this exciting instrument. Learn the basics of playing music reading and a variety of jigs reels polkas and more.

Bluegrass legend Jesse McReynolds invented crosspicking on the Mandolin in the 1960s and this DVD gives you the chance to learn this complex and powerful technique from the master himself.Jesse starts at the beginning teaching the basics of mandolin crosspicking which emulates the characteristic sounds of banjo rolls. He provides a host of exercises melodic variations endings backward rolls and arrangements to some of his best known songs. Jesse also reveals the secrets of his splitter strings another McReynolds innovation that creates a rich texture and enables you to get additional harmonies on your instrument.

Learn to play scales on the mandolin with this comprehensive and easy to use book. Contains over 1300 scale diagrams for the most often used scales and modes including multiple patterns for each scale.

For Non-Classical Players: A Practical Approach-The focus of this book is on American mandolin music that was published circa 1900 during the ?Golden Age of the Mandolin? in the United States (1885-1920) referred to by Mark Twain as The Gilded Age. After a brief overview of period mandolin techniques a variety of popular social ballroom dances are then presented in both staff notation and mandolin tablature including waltzes polkas schottisches mazurkas marches and even the occasional hornpipe. Along the way you will discover a variety of idiomatic playing techniques that will open up new vistas in your own playing. So tune up your mandolin and get started!

DVD One: One-On-One with the Master-On this instructional session the late Bill Monroe - widely known as the 'father of bluegrass' - discusses and demonstrates the instrumental techniques that changed the course of American music. The camer's eye reveals up close and in detail Bill's incredible facility and inventiveness on the mandolin as he plays and sings both alone and backed up by his long-time band the Blue Grass Boys.You'll see and hear Bill Monroe play twenty-seven tunes (some recorded here for the first time) including favourites such as 'Rawhide' 'Wheel Hoss' 'Tennessee Blues' 'Dusty Miller' 'Roanoke Pike' 'Country Breakdown' 'Blue Grass Stomp' 'Get Up John' 'Katy Hill' and 'Rocky HeadBlues'.In an intimate coversation will fellow musician John Hartford Bill discusses a wide variety of topics: His musical development ideas about performing and songwriting memories of childhood early touring days his years on the Grand Ole Opry and much more.

Ready to take your playing to the next level? In this instructive guide the renowned fretted instrument performer and teacher Fred Sokolow presents valuable how-to insight that Mandolin players of all styles and levels can benefit from. The text photos music diagrams and accompanying audio provide a terrific easy-to-use resource for a variety of topics including playing tips practicing tips accessories Mandolin history and lore practical music theory and much more.

Fiddle Tunes Rags Waltzes Solos and Variations-A modern-day mandolin master takes a learning player through a variety of tunes keys and styles from classic bluegrass to contemporary originals. Sam includes plenty of advice exercises warm-ups and other vital information about lead soloing and improvising.

Learning the Mandolin should be required for every Violinist: it has the same tuning and is a chordal instrument. This book provides Violinists with the skills and knowledge needed to master the Mandolin; it also teaches waysin which Mandolin concepts can open up one's Violin playing.The book offers key insights into the similarities and differences between the two instruments so that Violinists can quickly learn to play the Mandolin. The bookand companion Audio download available online cover basic fingering and picking techniques and then move through exercises and pieces drawn from the classical swing and folk genres.

This chart provides the most used and needed scales for mandolin in easy to read fretboard diagrams. Scales include major minor major pentatonic minor pentatonic harmonic minor and dorian. Scales are shown from a 4th 3rd and2nd string roots. A must have for mandolin players.

An extremely handy chord reference guide specifically for the mandolin showing basic major and minor chords in all keys. Relative minor chord relationships are also shown. A unique additional feature of this premium chart is theinclusion of a mandolin fingerboard diagram. This diagram is appropriate not only for the beginner but also as quick and ready reference for the more advanced player. A must for the left-handed mandolin enthusiast!

The First Jam series was created to give children and beginners of all ages a book of simple common tunes to learn. These are standard ???Jam??? tunes in the Bluegrass/Old Time music styles. All the books in this series are writtenin the same keys; they can all be played together without any problems. So get your friends or family who play guitar mandolin banjo ukulele dulcimer or Dobro together grab these books and start jamming. Improvisation Another idea behind writing the First Jam series was to provide a number of tunes that were easy to learn but that are also a great to begin working on improvising. Each books offer the melody for that particular instrument aswell as back-up chords for another instrument to accompany you. Each song is represented in Tab notation and chord symbols. The accompanying CD has two tracks for each song. The first playing the song with the melody line thesecond track offers just the backup so you can play the melody over it or even improvise. Tunes include: Cripple Creek Old Joe Clark Will the Circle Be Unbroken and many more.

Mel Bay are proud to announce that they have a new DVD hot off the press entitled Bill Monroe Style Mandolin. On it Chris who is a mighty fine picker teaches five Monroe-style tunes literally note-by-note:Big Mon Bluegrass Breakdown Raw Hide Wheel Hoss and also a terrific bluesy break to Man of Constant Sorrow.Chris teaches the four Monroe compositions very close to the recorded versions and in facton Wheel Hoss he's practically mirroring every note of what Monroe played. These lessons are all taught carefully note-by-note showing every pick stroke and naming every note all the way through each tune. No Tab.DVD.