The quickest, easiest, most enjoyable method for learning to play the mandolin! Alfred's Basic Mandolin Method is one of the many new additions to the Alfred's Basic family of methods, featuring clear, well-paced instruction. Learning to play has never been easier or more fun than with Alfred's Basic Mandolin Method---the best choice for today's beginning mandolin students. Book 2 features: * New major and minor scales and keys * Solos and duets including American, German, Irish, Italian, Mexican, and Scottish folk songs * Power chords, double unisons, and palm muting * Additional chords and strumming patterns * How to transpose * Triplets, swing rhythms, and blues soloing * Accents and staccato (chop) articulations* Photos and diagrams * Songs that include 'The Entertainer,' 'Tarantella,' 'Greensleeves,' and many others * Great-sounding performances of lessons and examples on the CD. / Mandoline

Apprendre à jouer le blues traditionnel et musique old-time string band sur la mandoline. Steve James connaît cette musique et son histoire bien, et il fait il clairement ressortir sur cette leçon remplie de ' Lovin ' ful high jinks. Steve commence par les bases, mais rapidement obtient en écailles de blues, pick strokes, technique de trémolo et autres outils nécessaires pour jouer avec style et d'authenticité. Il énonce certains accords blues sur la mandoline, montrant le rythme compilation d'accompagnement de la chanson avec les revirements, double s'arrête, les riffs de blues et variations sur une ligne de boogie-woogie marche - tous les éléments essentiels pour développer un répertoire blues. / Mandoline

En plus d'être un des plus grands musiciens de pâturin du monde, Sam Bush est un instructeur de clair et dynamique. Cette série de deux parties terrific aidera les aspirants mandoling joueurs améliorer leurs prouesses techniques, de répertoire de construire et de développer la musicalité formidable sur leur instrument. Enseignement des airs traditionnels fiddel, Bill Monroe-style instrus et ses propres compositions, Sam fournit des instructions détaillées dans la technique de pick, rythmique à découper, bâtiment de la vitesse, des exercices de réchauffement, trémolo, isolation improvisée et beaucoup plus. Vous apprendrez à créer des variations sur des mélodies, utilisez des chaînes de drone pour violon-effets, emploient Pasquali crosspicking pour un son plus lisse et remonter le cou à jouer dans des postes plus élevés. Les chansons et les variations vous allez jouer comprennent : Annie Ragtime, Bile les choux Down, Blackberry, Blossom, Sally Goddin, Big lun, Get Up John, éclat, Whayasay et Big lapin. Comme un bonus, Sam est aperçu de ses instruments et équipement, son stri préféré... / Mandoline

When I began practicing the mandolin more seriously I did not feel satisfied by playing single note melodies. I arranged a lot of pieces which I knew from my guitar playing over decades just for my own use on the mandolin. Mygoal was to combine melodies with chords in the way guitar players do. In my book you will find the result of my work spanning from Renaissance to Barock from Ireland and Italy to the Alps. An extra section with more difficultpieces will satisfy the advanced player.

You Can Teach Yourself Mandolin is written as a teach-yourself text with play-along examples and tunes on the companion recording. In the author's word 'It is aimed at helping you get started immediately onyour way to mandolinhood by giving you the basics of the Mandolin and Mandolin playing.' With this informal often humorous text Dix Bruce will guide you step-by-step through the basics of learning this versatileinstrument. Learn all about accompanying yourself and others common chords and useful strums reading simple melodies playing a colorful assortment of Mandolin folk songs and more. All musical examples and tunes are written inboth standard notation and tablature. Diagrams of all the principal chords used on the Mandolin are shown in the Chord Appendix making this book a particularly useful study aid for the beginning mandolinist. Illustrated withdrawings and photographs of vintage instruments. This book has accompanying audio and video.

Joining a jam session can be intimidating. Presented here is everything a beginning or intermediate Mandolin player needs to know to participate in a jam session. There are sections that describe how jam sessions work and jamsession etiquette. The book also describes the typical chords and keys for jamming and describes right hand usage. A section is included on the role each instrument plays in bluegrass rhythm. A play-along audio is included with 9typical bluegrass jam tunes. The tunes are played twice: once with the tune played on the left channel and a verbal description on the right channel and once in stereo. Audio download available online.