Mandolin Play-Along Volume 9: Christmas Carols contains 8 classic Christmas carols presented with sheet music and full backing tracks on CD. Songs include Hark! The Herlad Angles Sing Joy To The World We Wish You A Merry Christmas and more.The Mandolin Play-Along Series will help you play your favourite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the written music listen to the CD to hear how the Mandolin should sound and then play along using the separate backing tracks. Both standard notation and tablature is provided.

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

An Early American Christmas. A wealth of beautiful and joyous music has been written for the Christmas season. Some of the most enchanting melodies can be found in this solo mandolin edition of the Early American holiday repertoire. For this collection, Tommy Norris has selected eighteen lesser and better-known carols and songs from the folk, shape-note, sacred, Native American, African American spiritual, and European hymnody traditions, and arranged them for solo mandolin. Each intermediate to moderately advanced arrangement is shown in standard notation and mandolin tablature. As a learning aid, a downloadable recording of the author's performance of each piece is available online. We hope these arrangements bring the joy of the Christmas spirit to your holiday season.

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.