Arranged For Mandolin. This book contains the first three of J. S. Bach's solo violin Sonatas and Partitas arranged for mandolin. The goal of the material is to make learning these challenging pieces easier. Mandolin tablature is included throughout the book. Mandolinists who have little or no experience reading standard notation will find this to be an essential learning tool. For good reason, there has been widespread interest in learning these pieces in the mandolin community. The pieces were originally written for violin. As a result, Bach's use of string crossing patterns and open-string pedals work brilliantly on the mandolin. Also, as solo works they are a useful addition to anyone's performingrepertoire. Lastly, even if never performed, learning all or some of these is wonderful for building mandolin technique. Violinists often say that if you can play the Bach Solo Sonatas and Partitas you can play anything-the same is certainly true for mandolinists. This book contains the first three of J. S. Bach 's solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas arranged for Mandolin. The goal of the material is to make learning these challenging pieces easier. Mandolin tablature isincluded throughout the book. Mandolinists who have little or no experience reading standard notation will find this to be an essential learning tool. For good reason, there has been widespread interest in learning thesepieces in the Mandolin community. The pieces were originally written for Violin. As a result, Bach 's use of string crossing patterns and open-string pedals work brilliantly on the Mandolin. Also, as solo works theyare a useful addition to anyone's performing repertoire. Lastly, even if never performed, learning all or some of these is wonderful for building Mandolin technique. Violinists often say that if you can play the Bach SoloSonatas and Partitas you can play anything-the same is certainly true for Mandolinists./ Recueil / Mandoline

This is a high quality collection of Easy Pieces for Mandolin. If you play the mandolin this is a must have book/cd collection. These medieval pieces sound great on the mandolin. They also lay right under the fingers. There is both notation and TAB and no page turns for any of the pieces in this book. The reason? This book is made for musicians by musicians. The book comes with a CD and the guitar and mandolin are on separate tracks. You can turn the mandolin totally off and play with the CD. There are two measures of intro with the guitar so you can sit and listen to the CD and become familiar with the sounds of the pieces without it sounding like a learning CD. There arechords with the music and at the end of the book there are examples of what the guitar is doing for many of the tunes in both tablature and notation. These tunes sound terrific and are a great addition to any repertoire. You can use them for any kind of gig or you can try doing some medieval fairs medieval feasts or medieval weddings. The bowl back mandolin looks so much like the lute most people would never know the difference. Allan the author plays the lute guitar and more recently mandolin and has a wealth of knowledge about the music. These pieces are particulary suited for the sound of the mandolin. The book is beautiful and scored professionally. The titles may not make a lot of sense but these are great pieces with many of them having variations to make them longer.

This Mandolin Fingering Chart includes a notation guide tips on reading Mandolin TAB handy chords and a photo/diagram of the instrument. It's an invaluable reference chart for anybody learning the Mandolin ensuring you'll never forget the basics of playing this fantastic instrument. The centre of the chart depicts the basic chords that will let you play the vast majority of tunes for the Mandolin with all thecommon variations like minors 7ths and so on. What also makes this an essential Mandolin Reference Chartﾂ�is the guide to reading tablature the most common and easily-accessible method of notation forstringed instruments. It describes what tablature is and how to read it.ﾂ� Not only this but some common techniques that have been notated in tab are described so your practical knowledge of theMandolin will come on leaps and bounds. Hammer-ons and pull-offs slides and tremolo are all detailed on this chart providing you with the fundamentals to kick-start you Mandolin playing. With a diagramand a photograph showing the note names and locations of a Mandolin to boot this Mandolin Fingering Chartﾂ�is an attractive decoration as well as a great learning tool and memory aid. Pick it up today andgive your Mandolin Fingering a boost.

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.

With Guitar Accompaniment-Duet arrangements of three well-known Vivaldi Concertos arranged for mandolin and guitar: Concerto in A (RV82) Concerto in C (RV425) and Concerto in D (RV93). Each arrangement in this collection has been reduced from soloistwith string orchestra to a duet for mandolin and guitar. The mandolin performs the solo part and the guitar part is a reduction of the strings. In the guitar part chords have been added above the staff to allow forembellishment-a common practice of the Baroque era. Another C instrument such as flute violin or another guitar can be easily substituted for the mandolin. Musicians will find these accessible arrangements excellent forperformance in any setting from the recital hall to the local cafﾃｩ. The score (guitar/mandolin) and mandolin solo part are available in hard copy while the guitar accompaniment part is available as a free internet download.The mandolin and guitar parts are presented in notation.

With Online Audio-Originating from the 17th century the Mandolin has a fascinating and varied history. This versatile instrument was a favourite of Mozart's and has been used extensively in classical and traditional music around the world forgenerations. In recent years the Mandolin has enjoyed renewed popularity thanks to artists such as Jack White Muse The Lumineers Mumford And Sons and Arcade Fire. 50 Tunes For Mandolin contains 50Bluegrass Old Time and Celtic tunes that are perfect for ensembles families or individuals. The Mandolin classics in this collection vary in difficulty from simple to advanced providing players with an enjoyable repertoire thatwill grow with them as they refine their musical technique. The pieces in this book are designed for flatpicking on the Mandolin. This style of playing prevalent in Celtic and Bluegrass music features fast soloing with asingle flat pick. All parts are written in both Mandolin tablature and standard notation. 50 Tunes For Mandolin includes access to online audio tracks featuring every tune in the book recorded by a fullband.

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.

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.

For Non-Classical Players: A Practical Approach-The focus of this book is on American mandolin music that was published circa 1900 during the ?Golden Age of the Mandolin? in the United States (1885-1920) referred to by Mark Twain asﾂ�The Gilded Age. After a brief overview of period mandolin techniques a variety of popular social ballroom dances are then presented in both staff notation and mandolin tablature including waltzes polkas schottisches mazurkas marches and even the occasional hornpipe. Along the way you will discover a variety of idiomatic playing techniques that will open up new vistas in your own playing. So tune up your mandolin and get started!

You Can Teach Yourself Mandolin is written as a teach-yourself text with play-along examples and tunes on the companion recording. In the author's word 'It is aimed at helping you get started immediately onyour way to mandolinhood by giving you the basics of the Mandolin and Mandolin playing.' With this informal often humorous text Dix Bruce will guide you step-by-step through the basics of learning this versatileinstrument. Learn all about accompanying yourself and others common chords and useful strums reading simple melodies playing a colorful assortment of Mandolin folk songs and more. All musical examples and tunes are written inboth standard notation and tablature. Diagrams of all the principal chords used on the Mandolin are shown in the Chord Appendix making this book a particularly useful study aid for the beginning mandolinist. Illustrated withdrawings and photographs of vintage instruments. This book has accompanying audio and video.

The book Mﾃｩtodo de Mandolina begins at the very beginning of learning to play the mandolin starting with the basic tuning of the instrument how to sit position one?s head and hold one?s hands. There are many pages of exercises that lead to easy pieces and more difficult short works all in Spanish style.In this age of the Guitar it is remarkable to know that the mandolin was the most popular instrument throughout the Western world at the turn of the last century at the time of the publication of this book. For the most part at that time the virtuosi were considered to be Italian and the best instruments from Italian makers though many other companies were involvedin the production of many forms of the mandolin. This is ironic however as it is frequently asserted that the earliest form of lute or mandolin entered Europe with the Moors onto the Iberian peninsula in the shape of the oud. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries serious composers included lute parts in their major works and wrote pieces expressly for mandolinists and for the thousands of mandolin Orchestras that sprang up throughout Europe and in the New World. That Mﾃｩtodo de Mandolina remains available is a testament to its usefulness and the expertise of its author in giving teachers and students a volume from which to teach and learn.

The Mandolin was brought to Brazil by Portuguese colonists in the 15th and 16th centuries and eventually worked its way into traditional Brazilian music. The principal aim of this book is to present an overview of theseveral faces of the Mandolin in Brazil. In this book's eighteen progressively arranged character studies the Mandolin student will find besides a great number of aspects of the idiomatic technique of the instrument (i.e. changes of fingering positions double stops tremolos arpeggios legatos chords etc.) no less than fourteen different styles. All of the pieces are presented first in notation only as Mandolin/Guitar duets followed bythe Mandolin part repeated with tablature. Includes access to online audio.

Mandolin Play-Along Volume 1-This volume of the Mandolin Play-Along series features 8 traditional Bluegrass tunes all expertly arranged for Mandolin in standard and TAB notation. The Mandolin Play-Along series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the written music listen to the online 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.ﾂ� Songs include: Angeline the Baker ? Billy in the Low Ground ? Blackberry Blossom ? Fisher's Hornpipe ? and more!

Mandolin Play-Along Volume 7-The Mandolin Play-Along Series will help you to play your favourite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the music listen to the audio to hear how the Mandolin should sound and then play along using the separate backing tracks. Mandolin Play-Along Volume 7: Italian Classicsﾂ�features 8 traditional songs that sound great on the Mandolin! Access to online audio tracks is included in the price of the book and these can be downloaded or streamed using the unique code provided. This book also features Playback + an innovative cutting-edge audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch set looppoints change keys and pan left or right - available exclusively from Hal Leonard.