You Should Play on Mandolin-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  WildwoodFlower  Yesterday  Your Cheatin' Heart and many more.

Learn to play scales on the mandolin with this comprehensive and easy to use book. Contains over 1300 scale diagrams for the most often used scales and modes including multiple patterns for each scale.

Strum sing and pick along with these 25 Beatles favourites arranged for Mandolin.This songbook includes Across the Universe And I Love Her Eight Days a Week Eleanor Rigby Here Comes the Sun Here There and Everywhere Hey Jude In My Life Let It Be Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds Penny Lane Yellow Submarine Yesterday and more.

Chops Strums Timing Accents and Accompaniments-Sam Bush's rhythm playing is without peer in the world of the mandolin part bluegrass part reggae part rock 'n' roll. Here he shows all aspects of his style: chopping strumming accenting damping subdividing beats and more. He details his accompaniments for two of his most popular performance pieces Girl from the North Country and Sailin' Shoes.

Learn from Nine Master Players-The nine powerful lessons on this DVD represent Mandolin instruction at its very best. Each segment taught by a master of the instrument has been chosen to give learning players new techniques tunes and musical insights.Taught by Butch Baldassari Sam Bush Mike Marshall Tim O'Brien Norman Blake Steve James Jesse McReynolds Ronnie McCoury and Chris Thile.The styles taught include bluegrass old-time Celtic blues and contemporary. Music and tab file included on DVD.

Learn from the music of Bill Monroe, Bobby Osbourne, Jesse McReynolds, Frank Wakefield, John Duffey and others. This instruction book and collections of bluegrass mandolin music covers in detail everything from simple basics to fancy fingerwork. Songs include: Arkansas Traveller ? Banks of the Ohio ? Boil Em Cabbage Down ? Cripple Creek ? Fisher's Hornpipe ? Lonesome Road Blues ? Oh! Susanna ? Will the Circle Be Unbroken ? and more. Arkansas Traveller Fisher's Hornpipe Soldier's Joy Careless Love Cripple Creek Grandfather's Clock Home Sweet Home In The Pines Jesse James John Hardy Nine Pound Hammer Old Joe Clark Pretty Polly Sailor's Hornpipe Will The Circle Be Unbroken Blackberry Blossom Red-Haired Boy Banks Of The Ohio Billy In The Lowerground Black Diamond Bluegrass Part One Boil Em Cabbage Down Part I Boil Em Cabbage Down Part Iia Boil Em Cabbage Down Part Iib Lonesome Road Blues M.A.Special Mean Mother Blues New Camptown Races Catnip Oh Susanna Slickville Twin River Rag Stoney Creek Sure-Fire The Girl Behind The Bar Too Many Tears Wildwood Flower Woody's Rag Part I Woody's Rag Part Ii

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.

Travel back in time as acclaimed mandolinist Rich DelGrosso traces the history and music of America's rich blues tradition through the eyes of the mandolinist. Follow the lives of players like Yank Rachell Howard Armstrong and Charlie McCoy and then learn their timeless music with standard notation tablature and an accompanying full-band CD of all the tunes in the book.

Ce manuel magnifiquement détaillé donne des instructions claires, étape par étapes de matières premières à une mandoline magnifiquement finie par des énoncés simplement des textes, des photos et des modèles. Ecrit par l'une des premières autorités américaines sur les instruments acoustiques. 56 pages, spirale lié, y compris les 19 blueprints grandeur couvrant chacune des phases de construction. Propose également un glossaire des termes qui permettent au lecteur de suivre plus facilement les instructions. / Mandoline / Livre