Hal-Leonard - Mandolin

Learn to play traditional blues and old-time string band music on the mandolin. Steve James knows this music and its history well and he brings it clearly into focus on this lesson filled with 'ful-lovin' high jinks.Steve starts out with the basics but quickly gets into blues scales pick strokes tremolo technique and other tools needed to play with style and authenticity. He lays out some blues chords on the mandolin showing rhythm comping for song accompaniment along with turnarounds double stops blues riffs and variations on a walking boogie-woogie line - all essential elements for developing a blues repertoire.

This DVD lesson will thrill and inspire mandolinists at all levels. Chris Thile shares his own successful formula for developing right and left hand dexterity improving speed and accuracy and playing with heightened musicality.

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!

Mandolin Play-Along Volume 10-This volume in Hal Leonard's popular Mandolin Play-Along series contains 8 traditional favourites in easy arrangements that are suitable for beginning Mandolin players. This book will help you to play these well-known tunes quickly and easily. Just follow the written music listen to the audio to hear how the Mandolin should sound and then play along using the separate backing tracks. Standard notation and tablature are both included in the book. The online audio files include Playback+ a mutli-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch set loop points change keys and pan left or right.Songsinclude Amazing Grace Cripple Creek Devil's Dream Frankie and Johnny Frosty Morning Over the Waterfall Short'nin' Bread and Stone's Rag.

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! ¦ ¦

Rich Del Grosso. An excellent Mandolin method that features play-along audio duets great playable tunes in several styles in standard notation and tablature.

Mandolin Play-Along Volume 1-This volume of the Mandolin Play-Along series features 8 traditional Bluegrass tunes all expertly arranged for Mandolin in standard and TAB notation. The Mandolin Play-Along series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the written music listen to the online audio to hear how the mandolin should sound and then play along using the separate backing tracks. Standard notation and tablature are both included in the book.  Songs include: Angeline the Baker ? Billy in the Low Ground ? Blackberry Blossom ? Fisher's Hornpipe ? and more!

DVD Two: A Detailed Analysis by Sam Bush-The companion lesson to 'The Mandolin Of Bill Monroe:One-On-One With The Master' is a hands-on teaching tool produced especially for the developing mandolin player who wants to learn the intricacies of Bill Monroe's powerful style and technique. Veteran mandolinist Sam Bush dissects eighteen of the pieces as played on Bill's groundbreaking lesson taking them apart in note-for-note detail. Split screens and close-ups as well as replays of Monroe's demonstrations aid the teaching process and make this the method for learning Monroe-style bluegrass mandolin.You'll get detailed instruction for all-time favorite Bill Monroe songs and instrumentals.

Learn at your own pace and open the door to the world of mandolin music with this beginner's book/CD/DVD instruction pack! Play Mandolin Today! is the ULTIMATE self-teaching method designed to offer quality instruction and terrific songs. All you have to do is follow along with the tips lessons and music provided as you listen to the CD or watch the DVD. The CD includes 84 professional quality full-demo tracks. The DVD features on-screen mandolin tablature so you can play all the music examples. This complete guide to the basics covers: songs chords and melodies • alternate picking and strumming • playing tips and techniques all in standardnotation and tablature.

Mandolin Play-Along Volume 9: Christmas Carols contains 8 classic Christmas carols presented with sheet music and full backing tracks on CD. Songs include Hark! The Herlad Angles Sing Joy To The World We Wish You A Merry Christmas and more.The Mandolin Play-Along Series will help you play your favourite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the written music listen to the CD to hear how the Mandolin should sound and then play along using the separate backing tracks. Both standard notation and tablature is provided.

Mandolin Play-Along Volume 11-The Mandolin Play-Along Series will help you play your favourite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the written music listen to the demo tracks to hear how the Mandolin should sound and then play along using the separate backing tracks. Standard notation and tablature are both included in the book. Includes online audio tracks for download or streaming. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include Playback+ a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch set loop points change keys and pan left or right.Piecesinclude: Blue Danube Waltz Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (“Serenade”) First Movement Excerpt Für Elise Humoresque In the Hall of the Mountain King La donna e mobile The Merry Widow Waltz and Spring First Movement.

Learn to play chords on the mandolin with this comprehensive yet easy-to-use book. The Manndolin Chord Finder contains over 1 000 chord diagrams for the most important 28 chord types including three voicings for each chord. Also includes a lesson on chord construction and a fingerboard chart of the mandolin neck!

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.