Teach yourself to play the Mandolin with these easy lessons for beginners.Progressive Mandolin covers the fundamental techniques and practical theory required to learn to play the Mandolin includingnotes scales chords in a variety of different keys correct picking strumming and left hand techniques.Progressive Mandolin includes 90 exercises chord progressions and popular easy songs for beginnersin folk classical country and rock Mandolin styles.Complete with photos diagrams and easy-to-read music with tabs for beginners and illustrated chord diagrams to get you playing right away this book also comes with a CDcontaining audio demonstrating all examples.Suitable for all ages and all types of Mandolins no prior knowledge of how to read music or playing the Mandolin is required to learn using this book.

The Absolute Beginners award-winning method has been designed to make learning the Mandolin easier than ever before! Step-by-step pictures take you from first day exercises to playing your first complete songs. Absolute Beginners Mandolin gives you: An 'owner's manual' approach to the mandolin. Practical advice and tips covering everything you need to know about setting up, playing and maintenance. A look-and-learn course that uses clear pictures to illustrate every step of learning. CD audio tracks to let you hear how things should sound, plus full-length accompaniments so you can play along. / Mandoline

A Beginner's Guide, Featuring Step-By-Step Lessons with Audio, Video, and Popular Songs!. Par SOKOLOW FRED. 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./ Méthode / Mandoline

Mandolin And Fiddle Tunes Book With Online Audio-This book is dedicated to the traditional music of Southern Italy. Suitable for mandolinists and violinists at a late beginner-intermediate level it explores the beautiful and distinctive sounds of folk music from the regionsof Campagnia Calabria Puglia Sicily and Sardinia. Traditional Southern Italian Mandolin And Fiddle Tunes has been devised with careful consideration in order to provide an excellent introduction to thisfascinating style. With the preparatory studies the student will develop a firm foundation upon which to build their skills in Italian-style tremolo picking and rhythms that accentuate the music. Detailed descriptions areincluded for all of the songs and dances as well as historical and technical information about tarantella and pizzica music. Together with the accompanying online audio the student will be able to play along and followthe precise nuances that distinguish the music while increasing their knowledge and repertoire in the Italian folk style. This book is written in standard notation and Mandolin tablature with Guitar and Mandolin chordaccompaniment.

Just like Book 1, Book 2 of The Hal Leonard Mandolin Method is designed for anyone just learning to play Mandolin. This comprehensive and easy-to-use beginner's guide includes many fun songs of different styles to learn and play. The book includes access to audio tracks online, for download or streaming, using the unique code inside. The tracks provide an audio demonstration of each example in the book performed by the author.Topics covered include: modes and scales, time signatures, transposing, fretboard positions, solos and duets, styles spanning blues, bluegrass, Celtic, ragtime and more! / Mandoline

A fantastic collection of 50 accessible, must-know favorites for the beginner who's learned enough to start playing popular songs! This book features melody, lyrics, and chord diagrams. Includes: Amazing Grace - Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain - Crazy - Cripple Creek - Folsom Prison Blues - Friend of the Devil - Going to California - Hallelujah - Ho Hey - I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow - I Walk the Line - I'll Fly Away - Losing My Religion - Maggie May - Mr. Bojangles - Redemption Song - Ripple - Rocky Top - Take Me Home, Country Roads - Tennessee Waltz - Wagon Wheel - Wildwood Flower - Yesterday - Your Cheatin' Heart - and many more. / Mandoline

With Online Audio-This is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in Irish mandolin playing. As well as being a complete guide for the absolute beginner this book also contains a mine of information useful tips and ideas for theexperienced player. The book takes the reader from the basics of the mandolin right through to more advanced topics such as creating variations emphasis improvisation playing with other musicians practicing effectively andmuch more. All the tunes and key exercises in the book are included on the accompanying 63 track audio download available online. There is no need to read conventional music notation as all the music is written in easy-to-readmandolin tablature. However for those interested in learning about music notation there is a handy section on this subject tailored specifically to the mandolinist as well as a chapter on modes.

Par JESPER RUBNER-PETERSEN. A new book on improvisation is now available for bluegrass mandolin players. Based on the concept of learning by playing, this 200 page book covers a wide range of improvisation tools and 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 presented and 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's individual 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-themes in 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. MP3 CD accompanies book featuring all examples. Click to hear the author discuss the book. / Niveau : Débutant à Intermédiaire / Bluegrass - Improvisation / Tablatures / Mandoline Tablatures

Learn 12 MORE great Gypsy Swing/Hot Club standards (see song list below left) in the style of Django Reinhardt Stephane Grappelli and The Quintette of the Hot Club of France. Just like with the original set you'll playalong with a great Gypsy Swing Rhythm Section and learn chords comping and melodies then let the band back you up as you practice chords and soloing. You play all the leads while the band backs you up. Beginners can practicebasic skills while more advanced players can hone their improvisation chops each at their own individual learning pace. You'll learn moveable closed position swing/jazz chords and practice playing them with the swingmandolin comp. We've also included information on basic chord substitution along with exercises on transposing melodies and chord progressions to different keys. These are essential skills for any swing/jazz musician. You'll alsoexplore some basic chord melody passages! But we've added more: Gypsy Swing and Hot Club Rhythm II has downloadable bonus music lyrics TAB and MP3s! Book/CD set Includes standard notation tablature chord diagrams lyrics playing tips and more. Each song is presented on the CD at slow and regular speed. First you???ll hear the melody played on mandolin at a slow speed with just guitar backup then it's repeated at regular speed with theband. The back up band is a classic 'Hot Club'- style rhythm section with two acoustic rhythm guitars string bass plus a rhythm mandolin so mandolinists can hear just how the Gypsy Swing comp sounds on mandolin. On this mandolinversion of Gypsy Swing and Hot Club Rhythm II for Mandolin all the leads are played on mandolin. Finally the band plays several choruses and you play all the leads. Songs may be repeated at slow or regular speed as many times asyou wish in order to perfect phrases melodies and solos in a band context.

The First Jam series was created to give children and beginners of all ages a book of simple common tunes to learn. These are standard ???Jam??? tunes in the Bluegrass/Old Time music styles. All the books in this series are writtenin the same keys; they can all be played together without any problems. So get your friends or family who play guitar mandolin banjo ukulele dulcimer or Dobro together grab these books and start jamming. Improvisation Another idea behind writing the First Jam series was to provide a number of tunes that were easy to learn but that are also a great to begin working on improvising. Each books offer the melody for that particular instrument aswell as back-up chords for another instrument to accompany you. Each song is represented in Tab notation and chord symbols. The accompanying CD has two tracks for each song. The first playing the song with the melody line thesecond track offers just the backup so you can play the melody over it or even improvise. Tunes include: Cripple Creek Old Joe Clark Will the Circle Be Unbroken and many more.

Le Nur Für Anfänger primé méthode a été conçue pour rendre l'apprentissage de la mandoline plus facile que jamais! Version allemande de Absolute Beginners: Mandolin. / Mandoline

This book by Dix Bruce contains a collection of Mandolin solos that span a range of styles and levels of difficulty and are aimed at advanced beginners to intermediate-level players. Extensive notes are includedabout the breaks and the techniques used to play each piece. The material can be practiced alongside the included online recordings at slow and regular speeds. You'll learn: Easy melodic solos/breaks.More advanced solos with blue notes arpeggios and more. Double stop solos. Essential fiddle tunes every Mandolin player should know. Crosspicking solos. A variety of kickoffs orintroductions. Different styles of back-up Mandolin.

This fantastic book teaches you everything you need to know to get started playing the Mandolin. Beginning with how to hold and tune the instrument read tablature and do some basic strumming you'll be guided all the way to reading music developing tremolo technique and improvising. With pieces ranging from folk to blues and rock and roll this book is the start you need to go in any direction you want with your mandolin.