A Guide to Octave Mandolin & Bouzouki by John McGann
Product Number: 99540BCD
ISBN: 0786666056
Publisher: Mel Bay Pub., Inc.
Difficulty Level: Intermediate-Advanced
Format: Book/CD Set
Twenty tunes in styles from Irish to American, in a variety of tunings, melody and accompaniment, presented in standard notation and tablature, with a stereo CD (left channel melody, right channel accompaniment). Left and right hand techniques and chord voicings are thoroughly discussed. For the first time, the Celtic style "woven texture" accompaniment unique to the instrument is fully notated. Unique to the book are melodic Irish ornamentation, blues, jazz, American fiddle tunes with variations and improvisations (all fully notated), and a chapter "Breaking Away From Block Chords" extending knowledge of the fingerboard.
CONTENTS
Transcriptions:IRISH
Reels Hickey's Woman of the House Cooley's Peter Street The Copper Plate
Hornpipes Men of Usher The Western Galway Bay Rights of Man
Jigs Bit of Ginger Gold Ring Doherty's Favorite
Slip Jig Kid on the Mountain
AMERICAN
Bluegrass/Fiddle Tunes Arkansas Traveller
Texas: Ace of Spades
Blues Free Floating Blues T Train Blues
Jazz Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking? Swede Gorgeous
Venezuelan Waltz La Partida
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