For Mandolin Vol. 2-Steve Kaufman three-time National Flatpicking Champion does it again. This installment of a four-part series brings us Steve’s favorite Celtic hornpipes transcribed for the mandolin (and fiddle too). This is a large collectionof hornpipes that will build your repertoire as well as help you develop more ideas licks and runs for arranging your own melodies. Companion audio is available for this title in which all the songs are played note for note atabout 3/4 speed.

This book is the ideal primer for anyone wishing to participate in an 'Irish session'. This musical gathering is apparently quite different than a blues jazz or bluegrass jam session in that it is customary at Irish sessions toplay in tight unison with the other musicians adapting appropriate tempos rhythms and ornaments in an attempt to fit in with the 'groove'. The 'Irish Session Tune Book' features 300 reels hornpipes polkas slides andslip-jigs written without chord symbols for the melody instruments commonly played in Irish Sessions. The author shares a wealth of melodies collected over the past 10 years the majority learned by ear at Irish sessions: fiddle accordion tinwhistle tenor banjo mandolin bouzouki etc. Authentic ornamentation is suggested for each tune with the admonition that ornamentation may vary from region to region and chorus to chorus.