First Lessons Mandolin Book CD DVD Set

Product Number: 99945SET
ISBN: 0786629053
Publisher: Mel Bay Pub., Inc.
Difficulty Level: Beginning
Format: Book+CD+DVD

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 the mandolin 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. Along the 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 companion CD and DVD are included. DVD 139:00 minutes.

CONTENTS

Song Title:	Composer/Source:
Billy Boy	traditional
Buffalo Gals	traditional
Careless Love	traditional
East Virginia Blues	traditional
Go Down Moses	traditional
Greensleeves	traditional
In the Pines	traditional
John Henry	traditional
Just a Closer Walk with Thee	traditional
Lonesome Valley	traditional
My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains	traditional
My Walking Cane	traditional
Oh, Them Golden Slippers	traditional
Poor Wayfaring Stranger	traditional
Red River Valley	traditional
Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms	traditional
Roving Gambler	traditional
Seventh Blues	Dix Bruce
Skip to My Lou	traditional
Soldier's Joy	traditional
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child	traditional
St. James Infirmary	traditional
The Blue Tail Fly	traditional
The Great Speckled Bird	traditional
This Train	traditional