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First Lessons Mandolin Book

Catalogue No: MLB99945M
ArrangementMandolin
Product FormatSheet Music/Online Material
£13.99
Typically dispatched in 2-3 working days
SeriesFirst Lessons
Pages40
ISBN9780786687916 (0786687916)

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! Includes access to online audio and video. Video139:00 minutes.

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. The Mandolin and its Parts
  3. Let's Play
  4. How to use the CD
  5. First Chords
  6. Skip to My Lou
  7. Careless Love
  8. The Blue Tail Fly
  9. Red River Valley
  10. Billy Boy
  11. In the Pines
  12. Chords and Music Theory
  13. St. James Infirmary
  14. Poor Wayfaring Stranger
  15. John Henry
  16. My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains
  17. Seventh Blues
  18. Go Down Moses
  19. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
  20. Moving Closed Position Chords
  21. Playing Melodies
  22. Camptown Races
  23. Just a Closer Walk With Thee
  24. My Walking Cane
  25. The Great Speckled Bird
  26. Lonesome Valley
  27. Buffalo Gals
  28. Bluegrass
  29. Oh, Them Golden Slippers
  30. Soldier's Joy
  31. East Virginia Blues, Basic Version
  32. East Virginia Blues (Note fill-in version)
  33. Roving Gambler
  34. Great Big Bad Bluegrass Chop Chords
  35. Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms
  36. This Train
  37. Tremolo
  38. Greensleeves
  39. Chord Dictionary
  40. Wrapping Things Up
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