You Can Teach Yourself Mandolin DVD

Product Number: 94331DVD
Publisher: Mel Bay Pub., Inc.
Difficulty Level: Beginning
Format: DVD

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You Can Teach Yourself Mandolin is written as a teach- yourself text with play-along examples and tunes on the companion recording. In the author's words "It is aimed at helping you get started immediately on your way to mandolinhood by giving you the basics of the mandolin and mandolin playing." With this informal, often humerous text, Dix Bruce will guide you step- by-step through the basics of learning this versatile instrument. Learn all about accompanying yourself and others, common chords and useful strums, reading simple melodies, playing a colorful assortment of mandolin folk songs, and more. All musical examples and tunes are written in both standard notation and tablature. Diagrams of all the principal chords used on the mandolin are shown in the Chord Appendix, making this book a particularly useful study aid for the beginning mandolinist. Illustrated with drawings and photographs of vintage instruments.

CONTENTS

Tune Up
Tune to Video
Hand Placement
First Chords: C and G
He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
Hush Little Baby; F & D Chords
Streets of Laredo; A Chord
Kum Ba Yah; The E Chord
John B. Sails; The B flat and C7 Chord
I Ride an Old Paint; New Form B Flat & the F7 Chord
Careless Love; G, G7, C, & D7 Chords
Recap & Inspiration
Sportin' Life & More Chords
Fair & Tender Ladies; The E minor Chord
The Cuckoo; The G Minor Chord
The Cruel War
Nine Pound Hammer
Take a Drink on Me
Take a Drink on Me; New Key: F
Take a Drink on Me; Key of A
Note Reading
Tablature
Stringin'
Stringin' fast
Key Signatures
Scales
Down and Up Picking
No Name Rag
No Name Rag fast
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Sally goodin
Fair and Tender Ladies
Fair and Tender Ladies fast
All Through the Night
All Through the Night fast
Conclusion