Format : Sheet music + CD
Play Today! is the ultimate self-teaching method - designed to offer quality instruction terrific songs and a professional-quality CD with 86 full-demo tracks. This mandolin method can be used by students who want to teach themselves or by teachers for private or group instruction. Simply follow the tips and lessons in the book as you listen to the teacher on the CD. This complete guide to the basics covers: songs chords and melodies; alternate picking and strumming; and playing tips and techniques all in standard notation and tablature. Learn at your own pace and open the door to the world of mandolin music with over 80 great songsand examples in this book!
SKU: HL.115029
ISBN 9781480312869. UPC: 884088877774. 9x12 inches.
Perfect for use on its own or as a supplement to the Play Mandolin Today! method, this book/audio package features 10 pop & folk favorites and downloadable professional-quality audio with full-band demo and play-along tracks. Songs: Blackbird • Blue Moon of Kentucky • Dark Eyes • I Hope You Dance • Jolene • The Kesh Jig • My Heart Will Go On (Love Theme from Titanic) • Never on Sunday • The Sound of Silence • With or Without You.
SKU: AP.43989
ISBN 9781470618780. UPC: 038081493466. English.
The quickest, easiest, most enjoyable method for learning to play the mandolin. Alfred's Basic Mandolin Method is one of the many new additions to the Alfred's Basic family of methods, featuring clear, well-paced instruction for beginning mandolin students. Alfred's Basic Mandolin Method has been updated, revised, and improved. Now, students can enjoy a DVD with video instruction by Jared Meeker who demonstrates all of the examples and makes techniques and concepts easy to understand. Learning to play has never been easier or more fun than with Alfred's Basic Mandolin Method---the best choice for today's beginning mandolin students. Features: * How to hold your mandolin * Tuning your mandolin * Right- and left-hand techniques * Basics of reading music * Chords and strum patterns * Playing tremolo and drones * How to read TAB * Photos and diagrams * Songs include Aura Lee, Tom Dooley, The Irish Washerwoman, Over the Rainbow, and many others * Great-sounding performances on the CD and DVD performed by expert instructor Jared Meeker. * Available DVD features TNT 2 software Recognized for over 50 years as the best-paced and most comprehensive guitar method available, Alfred's Basic Guitar Method has introduced over 5 million beginners to the joy of playing guitar.
SKU: MB.30606
ISBN 9781513460529. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.
While one of a kind is a hard rating to achieve at Mel Bay Publications, Kevin Allison has done it with The Ceilidh Dance Book. A ceilidh is a traditional Scottish gathering where people share songs, stories, music, and dancing that is very much alive today. In Scotland, there are hundreds of ceilidh bands, each of which has their own trademark tune sets, making it possible for a man in a kilt to make a living as a performing musician.
This book not only provides 85 Scottish tunes in sets as they might be used in a ceilidh event??it also offers detailed, beat-by-beat descriptions of the dance steps for twenty-four dances! From The Highland Scottish to The Mooncoin Jig, with this book in hand, you??ll be able to both play in the band and step to the music with the locals. The kilt is optional.
Arranged for mandolin or fiddle with suggested chord backup, in standard notation only.
SKU: HL.301272
ISBN 9781540064110. UPC: 888680964368. 9.0x12.0x0.337 inches.
The Strum Together series enables players of five different instruments – or any combination of them – to “strum together” on great songs. This easy-to-use format features melody, lyrics, and chord diagrams for five popular folk instruments: standard ukulele, baritone ukulele, guitar, mandolin, and banjo. This collection includes 70 all-time country favorites: Always on My Mind • Boot Scootin' Boogie • Could I Have This Dance • Deep in the Heart of Texas • Friends in Low Places • Green Green Grass of Home • Happy Trails • Hey, Good Lookin' • I Fall to Pieces • Jambalaya (On the Bayou) • King of the Road • On the Road Again • Ring of Fire • Sixteen Tons • Take Me Home, Country Roads • When Will I Be Loved • Your Cheatin' Heart • and more.
SKU: HL.356773
ISBN 9781705113066. UPC: 840126941944. 9.0x12.0x0.345 inches.
The Strum Together series enables players of five different instruments – or any combination of them – to “strum together” on 70 great songs. This easy-to-use format features melody, lyrics, and chord diagrams for five popular folk instruments: standard ukulele, baritone ukulele, guitar, mandolin, and banjo. A great resource for beginning stringed instrument players who are ready to experience the fun of making music together! This collection includes 70 tunes perfect for your next coffeehouse gig: Across the Universe • Alison • Big Yellow Taxi • The Boys of Summer • Budapest • Constant Craving • Diamonds on the Inside • Dust in the Wind • Free Fallin' • Give a Little Bit • Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) • Hallelujah • I Melt with You • Iris • Leaving on a Jet Plane • Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) • The Scientist • You're So Vain • and more.
