Par WILLIAMS STEPHEN. This book establishes a foundation for complete mandolin musicianship, both in terms of music literacy as well as having the ability to jam with other musicians without reading music. The student logically begins by learning the ?basic? fingering pattern used for the mandolin-friendly keys of A and D as shown in diagram form and standard notation. Tablature reading is lightly addressed, but not at the same time as note reading so the student avoids using tab as a crutch. A generous repertoire of progressively arranged exercises, fiddle tunes, a Bach bourrée, and folk and blues songs is included, often with online recordings and rarely seen complete lyrics. At this point, the book begins to diverge from its didactic approach to pure fun! As each new major key is introduced (G, C, F and E), the student learns the remaining principal scale finger patterns as well as a considerable amount of practical music theory covering pentatonic and modal scales and much more. Fittingly, the book closes with a dictionary of essential chords and a glossary to aid in further development as a versatile mandolinist. Includes access to online audio. / Date parution : 2022-03-05/ Méthode / Mandoline

A Beginner's Guide Featuring Step-By-Step Lessons with Audio Video and Popular Songs! The First 15 Lessons series provides a step-by-step lesson plan for the absolute beginner, complete with audio tracks, video lessons, and real songs! Designed for self-teaching or for use with an instructor, you'll build a solid foundation as you work through each lesson, learning the basics of the instrument and music reading while practicing the many exercises, concepts and song excerpts within. Must-know instruction so you can start playing right away, with a free online tuner and metronome! This mandolin book features video and print lessons by world-renowned author Fred Sokolow on: mandolin fundamentals, music reading, tuning, chords, scales and basic theory, strumming, arpeggios, double stops, moveable chop chords, sawing and tremolo, and chord/melody playing. You also get to strum and pluck along with 28 songs including: Ain't Misbehavin' · Hallelujah · Hey Jude · I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow · Knockin' on Heaven's Door · Maggie May · Rocky Top · Stand by Me · Wayfaring Stranger · and many more.

An Early American Christmas. A wealth of beautiful and joyous music has been written for the Christmas season. Some of the most enchanting melodies can be found in this solo mandolin edition of the Early American holiday repertoire. For this collection, Tommy Norris has selected eighteen lesser and better-known carols and songs from the folk, shape-note, sacred, Native American, African American spiritual, and European hymnody traditions, and arranged them for solo mandolin. Each intermediate to moderately advanced arrangement is shown in standard notation and mandolin tablature. As a learning aid, a downloadable recording of the author's performance of each piece is available online. We hope these arrangements bring the joy of the Christmas spirit to your holiday season.

Par BRUCE DIX. Wedding Music for Mandolin includes 23 of the most popular and best-loved wedding hits for intermediate and advanced mandolinists. Traditonal wedding songs, Easy classical pieces, Two 'Ave Maria” melodies, Favorite Italian, Irish, Jewish, and English songs, The music includes standard notation, mandolin tablature, chords for mandolin and guitar, plus access to online play-along audio recordings of all the songs!/ Tablatures / Mandoline Tablatures

In this new addition to Mel Bay's popular 'School Of' series Carr explains how to develop unique solos to any bluegrass tune or song. Using a combination of soloing source materials including melody scales patterns and commonlicks this work shows how to develop pleasing solos using the melody as a guide or only following the chord progression. This work is designed for players who want to develop the ability to solo ad lib over bluegrass changes. Forintermediate players.

This useful guide was created with the intention of teaching Mandolin players how to improvise in the bluegrass style. Based on the concept of learning by playing this 200 page book covers a wide range of improvisation toolsand how to implement them in your playing. A large number of examples are presented in both tablature and standard notation so that a theoretical background is not required. The small amount of theory needed is simply presentedand easily learned step by step.A series of exercises designed to help the player develop improvisational skills are included in the book. As an instruction tool the book can easily be combined with the instructor'sindividual philosophy or by a student wishing to study alone. The subject matter is varied in difficulty and can be used by both the beginner and more advanced player as an instructional guide and reference book. The major-themesin the book are: The pentatonic sound scale and major-chord based improvising with any Bluegrass-Tune Double-stop improvisation Minor chords and Keys The blues sound Melody oriented improvisation How to use: Monroe Style Cross picking Hot licks how to simplify a lick and more. An online audio recording accompanies this book and features all examples.

For Mandolin and Fiddle-If you have tried and failed to learn to read standard music notation for the Mandolin or Fiddle using traditional methods or you have never tried and want to this book is for you.Learn to play from music in theMandolin and Fiddle-friendly major keys of C G D A F and B-flat and their relative minor keys. Also learn to play in various time signatures including 4/4 (common time) 2/2 (cut time) 3/4 (waltz) and 6/8 (jig). You willalso be taught to recognise and play whole notes half notes quarter notes and eighth notes. Includes online audio.

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.

With Online Audio-In this book Ray Valla shares the insights of a veteran bluegrass mandolinist. This is the ideal book for the intermediate to advanced player. It is filled with practical hints to improve your general musicianship and increasethe speed of your progress. For example Ray suggests learning a new tune by mastering its individual 'licks' before attempting to assemble the whole. The book's 27 well-known bluegrass tunes are shown in standard notation andtablature with arrows indicating picking direction. Illustrated with photographs charts and diagrams. Includes access to online audio.

Written by Mandolin master Dix Bruce Getting Into Bluegrass Mandolin is specifically designed to quickly and simply show you how to play bluegrass Mandolin. This comprehensive book teacheseverything you'll need to know including: chords (both open and 'bluegrass chop' variety) rhythm single-note playing double stops fiddle tunes playing in all keys (transposing from one key to another) playing backup introductions or 'kickoffs' and tremolo. Lessons use classic bluegrass songs and tunes to help you build a great bluegrass repertoire as you learn. All songs and examples from the book are recorded at both slow andregular speeds on the included online audio. Written in standard notation and tablature.

Technique & Repertoire-Learn the techniques common practices and essential repertoire of the classical Mandolin. You will learn long-established mandolin techniques and their contemporary applications.You will discover gems from the classical Mandolin literature and familiar classical melodies arranged for Mandolin. You will also gain insights into how to arrange your own musical ideas including classical melodies for solo Mandolin. This book and its online videos and play-along audio tracks will help to enhance your understanding of the greater context of Mandolin traditions. Additional notation is provided for arrangements of small Mandolin and Guitar ensembles.

A Comprehensive Method-Written by the internationally-acclaimed mandolinist and tutor Marilynn Mair The Complete Mandolinist is the most comprehensive American Mandolin method to be published in nearly a century. This bookpresents a logical approach to Mandolin technique that builds on the methods devised by America's pioneering Mandolin tutors of the early 20th century. Starting with the very basics - a foundation in technique and musicreading the book progresses in the course of its 224 pages through scales arpeggios tremolo position work shifting rhythm studies picking techniques and duo-style with carefully selected exercises and musical examplesthat range from fiddle tunes and Brazilian choro to Vivaldi concertos and Beethoven sonatinas. This method reflects the wealth of musical knowledge Marilynn Mair has acquired over the course of her distinguishedcareer and she has compiled it here for you to encourage the versatility and intelligent musicianship you will need to become an experienced mandolinist. Accompanying audio tracks are included to download online.