The Hal Leonard Mandolin Method – Second Edition is the newly updated and revised version of the original classic method by Rich Del Grosso. This comprehensive and easy-to-use beginner's guide includes many fun songs of different styles to learn and play. You'll be playing mandolin in no time with the step-by-step instruction provided by this best-selling method! The book includes: tips on buying instruments, mandolin anatomy, tuning instructions, fundamentals of music reading, single-note picking, bluegrass chops, doublestops, tremolo picking, drones, a variety of songs, and much, much more!
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Learn to play chords on the mandolin with this comprehensive, yet easy-to-use book. The Hal Leonard Mandolin Chord Finder contains over 1,000 chord diagrams for the most important 28 chord types, including three voicings for each chord. Also includes a lesson on chord construction, and a fingerboard chart of the mandolin neck!
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This useful chord book, developed for mandolin players, features clear, readable chord diagrams. The diagrams are grouped by key for easy reference. No page flipping needed!
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Learn to play chords on the mandolin with this comprehensive, yet easy-to-use book. The Hal Leonard Mandolin Chord Finder contains over 1,000 chord diagrams for the most important 28 chord types, including three voicings for each chord. Also includes a lesson on chord construction, and a fingerboard chart of the mandolin neck!
Also available in a 9″ x 12″ edition: 00695739, $5.95.
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Presents scale diagrams for the most often-used scales and modes in an orderly and easily accessible fashion. Use this book as a reference guide or as the foundation for creating an in-depth practice routine. Includes multiple patterns for each scale, a lesson on scale construction, and a fingerboard chart of the mandolin neck.
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The Absolute Beginners award-winning method has been designed to make learning the mandolin easier than ever before! Step-by-step pictures take you from first day exercises to playing your first complete songs. Absolute Beginners Mandolin gives you: An 'owner's manual' approach to the mandolin; Practical advice and tips covering everything you need to know about setting up, playing and maintenance; A look-and-learn course that uses clear pictures to illustrate every step of learning; CD audio tracks to let you hear how things should sound, plus full-length accompaniments so you can play along.
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Learn from the music of Bill Monroe, Bobby Osbourne, Jesse McReynolds, Frank Wakefield, John Duffey and others. This instruction book and collections of bluegrass mandolin music covers in detail everything from simple basics to fancy fingerwork. Songs include: Arkansas Traveller • Banks of the Ohio • Boil Em Cabbage Down • Cripple Creek • Fisher's Hornpipe • Lonesome Road Blues • Oh! Susanna • Will the Circle Be Unbroken • and more.
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Named one of the “Best Mandolin Books of All Time” by BookAuthority.org!
Only have a handful of licks at your disposal? 400 Smokin' Bluegrass Mandolin Licks utilizes 24 common bluegrass chord progressions to teach you over 400 licks, which will allow you to create solos to literally hundreds of bluegrass tunes. Licks are developed from major, pentatonic and blues scales. Mandolin-specific techniques, such as tremolo, double stops, drone strings, and cross picking are included in many of the phrases. Licks and solos are presented in numerous different keys, including the keys of F, Bb and B. The demo CD includes every lick performed at learning speed. Each practice progression uses sample licks and is played with rhythm accompaniment. “Nine-Pound Hammer,” “Salt Creek,” “Black Mountain Rag,” “Little Maggie,” and “Ragtime Annie” are just some of the many traditional bluegrass tunes included.
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Play Today! is the ultimate self-teaching method – designed to offer quality instruction, terrific songs, and professional-quality audio tracks with 86 full-demo tracks. This mandolin method can be used by students who want to teach themselves, or by teachers for private or group instruction. Simply follow the tips and lessons in the book as you listen to the teacher on the audio. This complete guide to the basics covers: songs, chords and melodies; alternate picking and strumming; and playing tips and techniques, all in standard notation and tablature. Learn at your own pace and open the door to the world of mandolin music with over 80 great songs and examples in this book!
Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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This installment of our popular Fretboard Roadmaps series is a unique book/online audio pack for all mandolin players. The included audio features 48 demonstration tracks for the exercises that will teach players to: play all over the fretboard, in any key; increase their chord, scale and lick vocabulary; play chord-based licks, moveable major and blues scales, first-position major scales and double stops; and more! Includes easy-to-follow diagrams and instructions for all levels of players.
The price of this book includes a unique code that provides access to audio tracks online, for download or streaming. The tracks include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right – available exclusively from Hal Leonard.
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Teach yourself authentic bluegrass mandolin with this book/audio pack. The book contains clear instructions on the basics: right- and left-hand techniques, solos, backup, personal advice on performance, and much more, as well as a complete selection of the best bluegrass songs to learn from. The audio features recorded examples and backing tracks for several songs.
Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Named one of the “Best Mandolin Books of All Time” by BookAuthority.org.
The Mandolin Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the written music, listen to the audio to hear how the mandolin should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. Standard notation and tablature are both included in the book. Includes PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys and pan left or right!
Songs include: Big Mon • Blue Grass Breakdown • Blue Moon of Kentucky • Get up John • Kentucky Mandolin • My Last Days on Earth • Raw Hide • Roanoke.
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Named one of the “Best Mandolin Books of All Time” by BookAuthority.org!
Learn at your own pace and open the door to the world of mandolin music with this beginner's book/CD/DVD instruction pack! Play Today! is the ULTIMATE self-teaching method, designed to offer quality instruction and terrific songs. All you have to do is follow along with the tips, lessons and music provided as you listen to the CD or watch the DVD. The CD includes 84 professional quality full-demo tracks. The DVD features on-screen mandolin tablature so you can play all the music examples. This complete guide to the basics covers: songs, chords and melodies • alternate picking and strumming • playing tips and techniques, all in standard notation and tablature.
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A helpful booklet with chords, scales, and tuning information essential to all mandolin players. Also includes 'hot licks' and two tunes.
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The Mandolin Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the written music, listen to the audio to hear how the mandolin should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. Standard notation and tablature are both included in the book. The price of this book includes access to audio tracks online, for download or streaming, using the unique code inside. This volume includes: Blue Ridge Cabin Home • Down the Road • Head over Heels in Love with You (I'm Head over Heels in Love) • I'm Gonna Settle Down • Nine Pound Hammer • Old Home Place • Toy Heart • Your Love Is like a Flower.
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