First Lessons Mandolin
by Dix Bruce
Product Number: 99945BCD
ISBN: 0786662530
Publisher: Mel Bay Pub., Inc.
Difficulty Level: Beginning
Format: Book/CD Set
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.
CONTENTS
Introduction
The Mandolin and its Parts
Let's Play
How to use the CD
First Chords
Skip to My Lou
Careless Love
The Blue Tail Fly
Red River Valley
Billy Boy
In the Pines
Chords and Music Theory
St. James Infirmary
Poor Wayfaring Stranger
John Henry
My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains
Seventh Blues
Go Down Moses
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Moving Closed Position Chords
Playing Melodies
Camptown Races
Just a Closer Walk With Thee
My Walking Cane
The Great Speckled Bird
Lonesome Valley
Buffalo Gals
Bluegrass
Oh, Them Golden Slippers
Soldier's Joy
East Virginia Blues, Basic Version
East Virginia Blues (Note fill-in version)
Roving Gambler
Great Big Bad Bluegrass Chop Chords
Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms
This Train
Tremolo
Greensleeves
Chord Dictionary
Wrapping Things Up
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