SKU: MB.30582M
ISBN 9780786698844. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.
The best way to learn an instrument is to play it as often as you can with other musicians. Trading songs and interacting with other instrumentalists and singers will foster learning at a faster pace and promote development of an ensemble sound. This play-along series encourages this kind of fun, collaborative approach to learning an instrument. Aspiring mandolinists can practice chords and rhythm, singing and lyrics, melodies, solos, licks and backup playing along with a real band. The online audio includes Dix Bruce on the guitar, mandolin and vocals, Bill Evans on the banjo and vocals, Julie Cline on vocals and Cindy Browne on the string bass. The recorded songs are performed with introductions kickoffs , vocals and solos-just how they would be at jam sessions and performances. Solo sections in the recordings allow you to play chords and solos from the book. Create your own improvised solos or sing the lyrics while the band provides accompaniment. The book includes fifteen of the most popular bluegrass, old-time and gospel songs, recorded at slow and regular tempos for players of any skill level. Includes mandolin tablature, chords, solos, backup parts and more. Great for beginning to intermediate players. Well jam ALL night long.
SKU: MB.98420M
ISBN 9780786696864. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.
Dix Bruce is a musician, writer, and journeyman mandolinist with a strong belief in teaching a wide range of material, from bluegrass and jazz standards to classics, waltzes, polkas, and other ethnic music. This book is not meant to be a mandolin method but a collection of fun tunes to play. The selections in this book are in no particular order, although the easier tunes are grouped toward the front. Performance tips are given at the front of the book for each tune. All the tunes are in notation and tablature. Includes access to online audio that is set up so that you can play along with each tune at both regular and slow speeds. You can also adjust the balance control on your stereo to hear both mandolin lead and accompaniment, just mandolin lead, or just accompaniment.
SKU: MB.20710M
ISBN 9780786688166. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.
Steve Kaufman, Three Time National Flatpicking Champion, does it again. This installment of a four part series brings us Steves favorite Celtic Jigs and Waltzes transcribed for the mandolin and fiddle too . This is a large collection of reels will build your repertoire as well as help you develop more ideas, licks and runs for arranging your own melodies. All the songs in the book are played note for note on the accompanying online audio download at about - speed. Your goal is to learn the song, memorize it and then race with the Champ. Includes access to online audio.
SKU: MB.21246M
ISBN 9780786688104. UPC: 786688106. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.
This book is for all beginning and early intermediate mandolin players. No prior playing experience or note reading ability is required. The solos are written in both standard notation and tablature. While writing the arrangements, the author considered the small hands of children. Each tune is in the first position and there are no stretches that present inordinate technical difficulties. Includes access to online audio containing every song in the book. The tunes are recorded at a moderate speed, and include count-off notes and rhythm guitar accompaniment.
SKU: MB.20892M
ISBN 9780786688135. 8.5 X 11 inches.
Steve Kaufman takes his favorite American fiddle tunes for the mandolin and puts them alphabetically in four volumes. Steve plays the mandolin exactly as it is written so the student can hear the melody and dynamics just as he would play it. Accompanying the large set of books are aduio online with guitar rhythm accompaniment included. Build your repertoire, right and left hand skills and have fun playing at jam sessions with your friends. This 4 volume set written specifically for the mandolin also has a sister series for guitar. Includes access to online audio.
SKU: MB.30606
ISBN 9781513460529. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.
While one of a kind is a hard rating to achieve at Mel Bay Publications, Kevin Allison has done it with The Ceilidh Dance Book. A ceilidh is a traditional Scottish gathering where people share songs, stories, music, and dancing that is very much alive today. In Scotland, there are hundreds of ceilidh bands, each of which has their own trademark tune sets, making it possible for a man in a kilt to make a living as a performing musician.
This book not only provides 85 Scottish tunes in sets as they might be used in a ceilidh eventâ??it also offers detailed, beat-by-beat descriptions of the dance steps for twenty-four dances! From The Highland Scottish to The Mooncoin Jig, with this book in hand, youâ??ll be able to both play in the band and step to the music with the locals. The kilt is optional.
Arranged for mandolin or fiddle with suggested chord backup, in standard notation only.
SKU: MB.20553M
ISBN 9780786686353. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.
A new collection of 30 great tunes from a variety of fiddle traditions. Each tune has been specially arranged for mandolin and is presented in both standard notation and tablature. The tunes include a variety of styles including bluegrass, Texas style, Old Time, Irish reels, some underplayed gems and even a Joe Carr original. This tune book is perfect for building your repertoire. Includes access to online audio featuring all 30 tunes.
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