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. / Mandoline

The quickest, easiest, most enjoyable method for learning to play the mandolin. Alfred's Basic Mandolin Method has been updated, revised, and improved. It features clear, well-paced instruction for beginning mandolin students. 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 * 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. / Mandoline

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. 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. Book 2 features: * New major and minor scales and keys * Solos and duets including American, German, Irish, Italian, Mexican, and Scottish folk songs * Power chords, double unisons, and palm muting * Additional chords and strumming patterns * How to transpose * Triplets, swing rhythms, and blues soloing * Accents and staccato (chop) articulations* Photos and diagrams * Songs that include 'The Entertainer,' 'Tarantella,' 'Greensleeves,' and many others * Great-sounding performances of lessons and examples on the CD. / Mandoline

This wonderful collection of music arranged for the mandolin includes bluegrass old-time fiddle tunes classical music (including the complete solo part for the Vivaldi mandolin concerto and the Canzonetta from Mozart's Don Giovanni) American Irish Jewish Russian and Italian songs reels jigs hornpipes hymns and gospel songs minstrel songs patriotic songs blues and jazz children's songs cowboy and country ballads. Over one hundred selections in standard music notation and Tab with lyrics and chord symbols for optional accompaniment. Also included are tremelo exercises a guide to fingering chord charts for guitar and mandolin the history of themandolin and interesting comments about the history and performance of each song.

Beginning Mandolin is a comprehensive instruction book for the beginning mandolinist. You will learn how to read both traditional music and tablature notations on the mandolin one string at a time. Easy chord forms and basic strumming patterns are also introduced in this book. The accompanying CD contains demonstrations of the examples and gives you the opportunity to play along.

Par HORNE GREG. The Complete Mandolin Method: Intermediate Mandolin is for mandolinists who have learned the basics and are ready to take the next step. This book covers techniques such as hammer-ons and pull-offs, different styles of tremolo, slides, cross-picking, and rolls. Other topics include how to learn tunes, new time signatures, and a more in-depth look at important musical styles. / Méthode en anglais / Méthode / Mandoline Tablatures

Just for Fun: Christmas Mandolin contains over 40 classic Christmas songs. Most of the songs in the book feature three arrangements: the melody in notation and TAB, an easy rhythm option with a simple strum pattern and chords, and an intermediate-level rhythm option written in full notation and TAB. The intermediate rhythm option often combines full melody and chords, making it perfect not only for accompanying a singer and but also for solo performances for friends, family, and recitals. There's even a mandolin chord dictionary in the back of the book. Plus, this book correlates to the matching guitar, ukulele, and banjo editions, so you can have family Christmas jams and sing-alongs.TITLE COMPOSERDance of the Sugar Plum Fairy [Op. 71a, #3] Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (composer)The Twelve Days of Christmas Traditional (source)We Three Kings of Orient Are Christmas Traditional (source)God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Traditional (source)Away in a Manger John R. Murray (contributor)O Christmas Tree Traditional (source)Up on the Housetop Christmas Traditional (source)It Came Upon the Midnight Clear Richard S. Willis (contributor) - Edmund H. Sears (lyricist)Jingle Bells James Pierpont (contributor)Silent Night Franz Grüber (contributor)Joy to the World George Frederic Handel (composer) - Isaac Watts (lyricist)What Child Is This? William Chatterton Dix (lyricist) - Traditional (source)I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day J. Baptiste Calkin (contributor) - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (lyricist)We Wish You a Merry Christmas Traditional (source)O Come, All Ye Faithful Traditional (source)I Saw Three Ships Traditional (source)A Child This Day Is Born Traditional (source)Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Ralph Blane (composer) - Hugh Martin (lyricist)Deck the Halls Traditional (source)The Holly and the Ivy Auld Lang Syne Carol of the Birds Simple Gifts The First Noel Holy Night, Peaceful Night O Little Town of Bethlehem Hark! The Herald Angels Sing In the Bleak Midwinter Carol of the Bells Good King Wenceslaus Angels We Have Heard on High Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring March of the Toys (from 'Babes in Toyland') Go Tell It on the Mountain Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella O Come, O Come, Emmanuel Pat-A-Pan (Burgundian) O Holy Night Here We Come A-Caroling (The Wassail Song) Coventry Carol / Mandoline

This jam-packed mandolin method continues in its final installment with a study of advanced harmonies and chord forms in all 12 keys. Also covered are chord/melody playing, chord substitution, and forms such as the 12-bar blues and 'Rhythm Changes.' In addition, the book takes an exhaustive approach to melodic studies, touching on the modes of the major scale, the pentatonic scales, the chromatic scale, the whole-tone scale, and improvisation. / Mandoline

This superb book contains everything you need to know to start playing now! Step-by-step method shows you how to read music notation and chord symbols. Introduces important Mandolin techniques tremelo cross picking and more. Includes great folk blues country and standard pop songs with lyrics.

Beginning with basic left- and right-hand techniques, Dennis Caplinger guides you through developing great backup parts and playing all over the neck. You'll study over 20 classic bluegrass standards and you'll learn how to play them in several different styles. All books in the Ultimate Beginner Bluegrass Basics Series are fully correlated with each other. This is the ideal method for the family that wants to play music together!

Toute personne intéressée à apprendre à jouer de la mandoline peut ramasser ce livre et commencer tout de suite. Cette méthode complète bien rythmé couvre tout, de base aux techniques avancées. Début concepts incluent la musique et la lecture TAB, strumming patterns de base, les allers, tremolo, diapositives et bluegrass et styles de blues. Sujets intermédiaires comprennent les hammer-ons, pull-offs, cross-picking, petits pains, et plus encore. Le livre se termine avec des concepts avancés comme les harmonies avancées, blues à 12 mesures, les changements de rythme, jouant la corde mélodie, les modes, l'improvisation et bien plus encore. Méthode complète de mandoline brise le vieux dilemme de la sécheresse, intimidant et déroutant livres de méthode pour fournir un-par-étape de l'étape et agréable façon de jouer. Un CD MP3 avec des démonstrations des exemples dans le livre est inclus. / Mandoline

Comprehensive instruction for the serious mandolinist. One of America's leading schools for contemporary music-The National Guitar Workshop-teaches you the concepts, techniques and theory you need to become a virtuoso performer. 96 pages each.

Chansons pour enfants pour guitare est conçu pour être jouable en commençant et novice musiciens. Il est parfait pour les enfants et les parents qui veulent Jouez et chantez ces superbes chansons avec leurs enfants. De plus, ukulélé correspondant, mandoline, banjo et livres sont disponibles --- juste pour le fun! / Mandoline