While many extant photos of string band artists show members holding a mandolin it often can barely be heard in most period recordings because the most important instrument to capture was usually the fiddle or voice. Thiscollection provides you with the opportunity to learn over 70 old-time-music period songs recorded mostly by Ernest Stoneman or the duo Grayson and Whitter during the 1920s and early 1930s. Many of these songs were also?covered? by other string bands regardless of whether they had the opportunity or not to be commercially recorded. CD tracks of some of the songs in this collection as recorded by a number of different string bandartists are provided so that performances can be compared.

Here's the Mandolin music and tab for 15 stirring and uplifting traditional hymns. The CD features gorgeous performances by Butch Baldassari along with other luminaries of the Nashville bluegrass scene.

Mr. Baldassari takes the traditional approach to seasonal music in the chamber music style. He brings a haunting loveliness to such Christmas classics as First Noel/We Three Kings; God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen; Drummer Boy; andmany others. In notation and tablature.

Featuring 28 well-known Christmas songs arranged for mandolin with chord symbols for an accompaniment instrument. Book contains chord diagrams for mandolin and guitar as well as common strum patterns to use for rhythm backup.All songs are arranged in standard notation and tablature for mandolin. This book may be used along with Mel Bay’s Dobro Christmas Songbook (MB21508) and Mel Bay’s Ukulele Christmas Songbook (MB20886). All songs except “Away in a Manger” are in the same key and can be played together. Most songs in Mel Bay’s Tenor Banjo Christmas Songbook (MB21014) are also in the same key and can be used together.

Mandolin Play-Along Volume 8-The Mandolin Play-Along Series has been specially created to help you to play your favourite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the written music listen to the audio to hear how the Mandolin should sound and then play along using the separate backing tracks. Standard notation and tablature are both included in the book. This volume also comes with Playback+ a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch set loop points change keys and pan left or right!This volume includes 8 film and TV favourites: Arrivederci Roma (Goodbye to Rome) The Godfather (Love Theme) Never onSunday Over the Rainbow Spanish Eyes That's Amoré (That's Love) Theme from “Zorba the Greek” and Somewhere My Love.

Mandolinists who wish to expand their improvisational vocabulary and spice up their rhythm accompaniment are invited to try some Jazz Mandolin Appetizers.This book and accompanying audio prepared by chef Don Stiernberg include a batch of etudes that address the challenges every improvising mandolinist faces. These include common issues such as selecting notes that sound good with chord progressions and finding them on the fretboard. In the firstsection new melodies are presented for chord progressions that are often played at swing and jazz jam sessions. These tunes will benefit players of any style. Concepts are discussed at the beginning of each tune such as harmonicanalysis and the effects of certain intervals (useful groups of tones). The tablature suggests fingerings for the melodies. The chordal section shows how chords and progressions can be made more interesting by adding color tension and movement. Chord substitution is also demonstrated. Working through this section will prepare the player with commonly played progressions and will expand their chord voicing vocabulary up and down the neck. Lastly astudy of chord-melody style playing is presented. Playing the melody and harmony at the sametime yields full sounding solo arrangements.Don Stiernberg is a leading proponent of the jazz Mandolin style. He has eightavailable recordings performs coast to coast and abroad writes a column for Mandolin Magazine and teaches at several Mandolin events. Audio download available online.

With Online Audio-A new collection of 30 great tunes from a variety of Fiddle traditions. Each tune has been specially arranged for Mandolin and is presented in both standard notation and tablature. The accompanying audio downloadfeatures all 30 tunes. The tunes include a variety of styles including bluegrass Texas style Old Time Irish reels some underplayed gems and even a Joe Carr original! This tune book is perfect for building yourrepertoire.

This book sets out to teach the reader how to play the mandolin by using inspiring music from some of the great musical traditions of the world especially arranged for the instrument. Includes CD!Ideal for the complete beginner there is no need for any previous musical knowledge.Invaluable for the existing player/improver looking for fresh ideas and exciting new tunes. By working through this unique book the reader will gain a sound knowledge of the mandolin plus a large and varied repertoire of traditional music from all over the world.By drawing on the music of countries such as Venezuala Rwanda Holland Trinidad Japan andAustralia as well as the more popular traditions of Ireland and North America this book will produce a more well-rounded mandolin player - a musician who will be inspired to look further into the exciting musical traditions of the world. Rather than being an exhaustive guide to all traditional styles of the world this book is a mandolin method which uses tunes from around the world to demonstrate the various techniques required to produce a competent musician. It is the sincere hope of the author that the student will be inspired by the music contained in this book and recording to look more deeply into styles of particular interest.

Bud Orr: Anthology Of Mandolin Music is a master collection of Mandolin music in notation and tablature. Bud Orr: Anthology Of Mandolin Music contains classical early country bluegrass fiddle tunes blues gospel and ragtime music. A great source book for Mandolin repertoire.

This encyclopedia is designed to provide mandolin players with a wide variety of chords in different voicings. This book is intended as both a starting point of learning chord voicings and patterns as well as a dictionary ofcommon mandolin chords. Each key section includes the first position scale for that key as well as the chord formula and notes for each chord. If you want to learn to be a bluegrass rhythm player it helps to have a guide or 'map'to take you through the initial learning stage. This book provides a small but powerful set of starter chords used in this style of music. Once these chords are learned you'll be able to jam with other musicians in no time. Theseare the same chords used by greats like Bill Monroe Doyle Lawson David Grisman and hundreds of other bluegrass players in this genre. While there are only a few chords presented in the 'map' section they form the foundation ofbluegrass mandolin and with them you can play literally thousands of songs in every key. Chords are presented by key.

The best way to learn an instrument is to play it as often as you can with other musicians. Trading songs and interacting with other instrumentalists and singers will foster learning at a faster pace and promote development ofan ensemble sound. This play-along series encourages this kind of fun collaborative approach to learning an instrument. Aspiring Mandolinists can practice chords and rhythm singing and lyrics melodies solos licksand backup playing along with a real band! The online audio includes Dix Bruce on the Guitar Mandolin and Vocals Bill Evans on the Banjo and Vocals Julie Cline on Vocals and Cindy Browne onthe string Bass. The recorded songs are performed with introductions (kickoffs) Vocals and solos-just how they would be at jam sessions and performances. Solo sections in the recordings allow you to play chords and solos from thebook. Create your own improvised solos or sing the lyrics while the band provides accompaniment. The book includes fifteen of the most popular bluegrass old-time and gospel songs recorded at slow and regular temposfor players of any skill level. Includes Mandolin tablature chords solos backup parts and more. Great for beginning to intermediate players. We'll jam ALL night long!

With Online Audio and Video-First Lessons Mandolin teaches the absolute basics of learning to play Mandolin from holding the pick to performing easy Mandolin tunes. It doesn't get any easier than this! Students learn how to hold theMandolin correctly how to read Mandolin tablature basic note reading the most popular Mandolin chords how to play easy melodies in several musical styles basic picking technique how to tune the Mandolin and much more. Alongthe way students will learn about the greatest Mandolin players and their music. The main emphasis of First Lessons Mandolin is to get the student up and playing immediately and to have fun doing it! A companiononline audio and video are available online. DVD 139:00 minutes.

This book explores Celtic styles for the Mandolin. It is a great addition for musicians looking to begin learning Celtic music or expand their repertoire. Traditional Irish and Scottish music as well as contemporary Celticcompositions are presented. The book includes standard notation and tablature with play-along tracks in the accompanying audio.

With Online Audio-An exciting collection of 29 traditional tunes from Ireland arranged for easy Mandolin. All tunes are written clearly in standard notation as well as Mandolin tablature. An accompanying online audio recording contains all thetunes played at a manageable speed with Guitar accompaniment. The collection contains airs well known songs polkas slip jigs slides double jigs hornpipes and reels all of which are specially arranged by the authorwith the beginning/intermediate mandolinist in mind. On the audio recording the tunes are played 2 or 3 times so you can really get into the feel of the tune when playing along. The speed of the tunes is quite slow but not soslow as to take away from the essential feel of the music. Irish music is rightly popular all over the world. The haunting beauty of the slow airs and infectious foot-tapping rhythms of jigs and reels are here to bediscovered in this selection of great traditional music. This book includes access to online audio.

From 1651 to 1728 John Playford his son Henry and John Young published multiple editions of the Dancing Master-collections of dance instructions and musical accompaniment. Over 500 distinct tunes were printed in these volumesand they give us one of the best pictures of English popular dance music in the 17th and early 18th centuries. This book presents 121 of these tunes adapted for the Mandolin-all are written in standard notation and tablature withchord symbols. Several pieces have been transposed into more mandolin-friendly keys. Suitable for use in teaching and performance many of these tunes are still played by musicians today both for pleasure and danceaccompaniment.This book presents 121 of these tunes adapted for the Mandolin. All are written in standard notation and tablature with chord symbols. Several pieces have been transposed into more Mandolin-friendly keys.Suitable for use in teaching and performance many of these tunes are still played by musicians today both for pleasure and dance accompaniment.