Par O'BRIEN TIM. Cours de Tim O'Brien sera une aubaine pour les joueurs de mandoline et bouzouki qui veulent améliorer leur technique, de développer des idées et d'apprendre le nouveau répertoire. Si il est briser une gigue irlandaise de glissement, une ballade de montagne des temps anciens, un bluegrass tune ou une chanson originale de pays/pop, Tim apporte sa musicalité brillante technique formidable pour supporter, rendant ces pièces, amusante et instructive pour les joueurs de l'apprentissage / Niveau : Assez Facile / Méthode en anglais / Date parution : 2004-05-10/ Accessoire / Mandoline

The bright and distinctive sound of the Mandolin is more popular than ever in the rock and pop hits of the charts - this unique tutorial will show you how to incorporate the instrument into your own songwriting. Learn how to back up a melody, write and perform a solo, and jam in a variety of styles. The topics covered include: Equipment Choosing an instrument Pickups Amplifiers Effects Rhythm Playing Doubling the snare Doubling the guitar Playing backup Soloing Harmonics Scales Double stops Crosspicking Tremolo The slide An accompanying CD puts all the lessons into context by allowing you to hear exactly how it should all sound. / Mandoline

In addition to being one of the world's greatest bluegrass musicians Sam Bush is a clear and dynamic instructor. This terrific two-part series will help aspiring mandoling players improve their technical prowess build repertoire and develop formidable musicianship on their instrument. Teaching traditional fiddel tunes Bill Monroe-style instrumentals and his own compositions Sam provides detailed instruction in pick technique rhythm chopping speed building warm-up exercises tremolo improvised soloing and much more. You'll learn how to create variations on melodies use drone strings for fiddle-like effects employ crosspicking tecniques for a smoother sound and move upthe neck to play in higher positions. The songs and variations you'll be playing include: Ragtime Annie Bile Them Cabbage Down Blackberry Blossom Sally Goddin Big Mon Get Up John Brilliancy Whayasay and Big Rabbit. As a bonus Sam privides insight into his instruments and equipment his favourite strings pick gauges and the ways that his instruments have been set up to suit his exacting requirements.

Get a Better Grip on Neck Navigation-Mastering the mandolin neck can be a challenge even for very experienced players. The diagrams in this full-color book will help you quickly memorize scales and chords that may have previously seemed difficult to grasp.You'll be able to easily see and understand how scale and chord shapes are laid out and how they connect and overlap across the neck. The material is presented in all 12 keys using complete 12-fret neck diagrams with color-coded displays of the most common fingerings.

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.

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.

Description Unlock the secrets of moving chord rhythm for bluegrass, blues and swing. Using eleven tunes in six keys including old-time fiddle tunes, bluegrass instrumentals and swing progressions, Joe Carr shows how to create interesting moving chordal backup for practically any song. Mandolin players can now duplicate the 'every-two-beats' chord style associated with western swing guitar. A single-note solo is included for each tune. Chord arrangements are shown in diagrams, standard notation and tablature. Companion CD included.