Andrew Driscoll: Mandolin For Violinists With Online Audio: Violin: Instrumental

Arranged For Mandolin-This book contains the first three of J.S. Bach's solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas arranged for Mandolin. The goal of the material is to make learning these challenging pieces easier. Mandolin tablature isincluded throughout the book. Mandolinists who have little or no experience reading standard notation will find this to be an essential learning tool. For good reason there has been widespread interest in learning thesepieces in the Mandolin community. The pieces were originally written for Violin. As a result Bach's use of string crossing patterns and open-string pedals work brilliantly on the Mandolin.Also as solo works theyare a useful addition to anyone's performing repertoire. Lastly even if never performed learning all or some of these is wonderful for building Mandolin technique. Violinists often say that if you can play the Bach SoloSonatas and Partitas you can play anything-the same is certainly true for Mandolinists.