This book presents melodies lyrics and chord symbols for 22 songs to be enjoyed on the mandolin. Tuning and hand positions are briefly discussed. By the time you finish the book you will be comfortable playing 4/4 3/4 and 2/4rhythm chord accompaniments in the three major keys - C G and D. All chords are shown in picture-diagram form. Easy to comprehend even for the absolute beginner. So pick up your mandolin and have fun! Includes access to onlineaudio containing all the songs from the book in stereo play-along format and online video that teaches the material in the book.

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.

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.

Learn from the master of bluegrass Mandolin - Jethro Burns. More than 70 tunes and two dozen exercises are found in this bluegrass bonanza. The Complete Jethro Burns Mandolin Book and audio isan incomparable resource of bluegrass Mandolin repertoire - all in standard notation and tablature just the way the maestro played them - with chord symbols for an accompaniment instrument. This book presents some ofBurns' finest and most challenging solos in addition to a special section on his Mandolin techniques. Ample performance notes and Mandolin lore are provided along with many photographs of Burns in thelatter half of a career lasting more than half a century. The recording presents 52 of the tunes in the book. Includes access to online audio.

This wonderful collection of festive favourites gives the Mandolin player a wide variety of material from which to choose. Well-known soloist Steve Kaufman includes beautiful meaningful carols arranged specificallyfor Mandolin.The book includes both a simple melody edition and an intermediate-advanced solo version all in both notation and tab. The Mandolin backup parts are discussed in the first section of the book and chord symbols as well as Guitar tablature are provided for the backup parts. A 'must-have' book for the Mandolin player! In notation and tablature.The companion audio is designed as a listening recording first and an instructional toolsecond. All 24 songs are played through at least three times. The first time is the basic melody as it appears in the book followed by the intermediate version and another improvised version making this both a listening tool andan ear training tool. Recorded Direct to Digital in true stereo sound. Access to audio available online.

This collection includes 34 great gospel favorites well-known hymns and old-time spirituals especially arranged in standard notation and tablature for the Mandolin. Several of the tunes are arranged for solo Mandolin whileothers are designed to be played with Guitar accompaniment. Standard chord symbols are provided for accompaniment. The online audio presents all 34 tunes many with Guitar backup. Includes access to online audio.

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.