This brilliant songbook Folk Songs For Mandolin features more than 40 traditional favorites arranged specifically for mandolin including John Henry Kumbaya and Man of Constant Sorrow.Full lyrics included.

An emotionally rich and vivid Baroque composition for Mandolin with a Continuo accomnpaniment by little known 18th Century composer Addiego Guerra.

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.

Supplementary Songbook-Supplementary Songbook to the Hal Leonard Mandolin Method. 20 songs to play as you learn mandolin. Includes: Annie's Song · California Dreamin' · Let It Be · Puff the Magic Dragon · Scarborough Fair · Where Have All the Flowers Gone? · and more.

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.

Fine mandolin solo arrangements in notation and tablature reflecting styles of the great country and bluegrass soloists. Contains 53 solos. Selections include Soldier's Joy Chinese Breakdown Sandburgh Hornpipe Northlake Reel Send the Light Gospel Train Sonny's Side 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.

Finally! A chord book written for the young beginner (or even beginners of any age) showing a creative and simple way to learn and play mandolin chords. Chords are taught beginning with the most essential to more advanced. Chordsare presented with exercises that build upon each other and eventually lead the student to playing logical and common chord progressions. Chords are shown in chord diagram form with photographs showing finger positions inrelationship to the fretboard. Examples and exercises are presented in strum bar notation. •

This beginner's book designed as a follow-up to Fun with the Mandolin aids the beginning mandolin player in playing strums applicable to folk and bluegrass music. A variety of keys are studied and the student will gainversatility in playing chord progressions. Chords and songs are presented in the keys of G E minor C A minor D E A F and D minor. Songs include: 'Shady Grove' 'Old Joe Clark' 'Amazing Grace' 'Banks of the Ohio' andmany more. May be used in ensemble playing with the companion guitar and banjo texts.

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.

Most of the music in this book comes from editions or manuscripts from England in the late 1500’s. There are also a few French pieces. The cittern was popular in Italy England and France. Aside from various tunings there weretwo main kinds of instruments being played during the 16th and 17th centuries: the 4 course (four sets of doubled strings) and the 6 course cittern with several editions of music to go along with both. The pieces I have chosenfor this book were all written for the 4 course instrument and fall into three main categories: dance music song arrangements and free pieces. The free pieces are basically preludes that explore the melodic range of theinstrument. As the title suggests these pieces can be played very freely and need not have a very strict tempo. The dance pieces are not really meant to be danced to but rather take their form and rhythm from the popular courtdances of the time. These can be played with a wide range of overall tempo but once a tempo is chosen should be strictly adhered to. The song arrangements are settings of popular songs of the time as well as more formal vocalsettings. Care should be taken in making the melody clear and singing. Since the range of the cittern and mandolin are the same John Holenko has kept the melodies intact. Because of the difference in tuning however thevoicing of the harmonies have been changed so as to fit on the mandolin.

Old Time Stringband Workshop for Mandolin is one in a set of four books each with a matching collection of 40 traditional type fiddle tunes arranged to develop ensemble and jam session playing skills with other acousticinstruments as well as to expand your repertoire of tunes. The music is presented in Notation and Tablature with annotations for playing techniques and variations. A bonus arrangement of Star of the County Down is available as afree download. See www.melbay.com/21765.

Get started playing with all the basics. Easy chord forms and basic strumming patterns are introduced, and fiddle tunes, bluegrass, and blues styles are covered. Important techniques such as alternate picking, tremolo and slides are taught in a friendly, fun manner. Students, teachers and self-taught players alike will enjoy this thorough, easy-to-use method.