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Alfred's Teach Yourself to Play Mandolin

SKU: 00-14097

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This book teaches you how to play the mandolin with an easy-to-follow approach that will have you playing instantly. Different strumming techniques help you play in any style including folk, bules, pop and country. Great songs like La Bamba, Greensleves, and When the Saints Go Marching In and many more are included with lyrics. Upon completion of thie book, you will be able to play your favorite songs on the mandolin, play with a musical group in many different styles and know how to read music.

SKU
00-14097
Voicing
Mandolin
Manufacturer
ALFRED
Barcode
038081138589
ISBN 10
0739002864
ISBN 13
9780739002865

  • Getting Started

  • A Short History of the Mandolin

  • The Mandolin

  • Picks

  • Tuning Your Mandolin

  • Starting to Play

  • Getting Acquainted with Music

  • Naming the Notes & Rhythm

  • Naming the Notes on the 2nd String

  • Playing the Notes on the 2nd String

  • Mini Music Lesson: Time Signatures

  • Naming the Notes on the 3rd String

  • Playing the Notes on the 3rd String

  • Just for Fun

  • Merrily We Roll Along

  • Beautiful Brown Eyes

  • Jingle Bells

  • Mini Music Lesson: Rests

  • Naming the Notes on the 1st String

  • Playing the Notes on the 1st String

  • Rocky Country

  • Naming the Notes on the 4th String

  • Playing the Notes on the 4th String

  • Mini Music Lesson: Pickups

  • Mini Music Lesson: The Tie

  • When the Saints Go Marching In; Down in the Valley

  • Mini Music Lesson: The Fermata

  • Reuben, Reuben; The Yellow Rose of Texas; Veni sul Mar (Come to the Sea); Ah! Marie

  • Mini Music Lesson: Eighth Notes

  • Exercises Using Eighth Notes

  • Just for Fun

  • Buffalo Gals; Canon

  • Can-Can; Wildwood Flower

  • Mini Music Lesson: The Sharp

  • Rockin' the Bach

  • Old Joe Clarke; Little Brown Jug

  • Mini Music Lesson: The Flat

  • My Melancholy Baby

  • Mini Music Lesson: Tremolo

  • O Sole Mio

  • Mini Music Lesson: Three Major Scales

  • Mini Music Lesson: Key Signatures

  • Scale Studies

  • Three Tunes in Three Keys

  • Rakes of Mallow; Tiritomba; Ain't Gonna Rain

  • Mini Music Lesson: Dynamics

  • Exercise on Dynamics; Sippin' Cider Through a Straw

  • Mini Music Lesson: Dotted Quarter Notes

  • All Through the Night

  • Oh Susanna!; America

  • Mini Music Lesson: Chords

  • Three-Note Chords in the Key of G; Plaisir D'amour Ode to Joy

  • Mini Music Lesson: Tempo

  • Polovetsian Dance No. 2; Hymn of St. Francis

  • Key Signatures with Flats

  • Two Songs in Two Keys: Melodie in F; Lolly Too-Dum

  • Mini Music Lesson: Eighth Rests

  • Opening Theme of the 5th Symphony

  • La Bamba

  • Mini Music Lesson: 6/8 Time

  • Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes; Un Canadien Errant

  • The Farmer in the Dell; The Irish Washerwoma

  • Mini Music Lesson: 16th Notes

  • The Drunken Sailor; Cripple Creek; Old Aunt Jenny

  • Mini Music Lesson: The Dotted Eighth &16th Note Rhythm

  • Toreador Song

  • Straight Jig; Put Your Little Foot; Boogie Blues

  • Mini Music Lesson: The Dotted Eighth &16th Note Rhythm (continued)

  • Greensleeves; St. Patrick's Day

  • Crosspicking

  • Soldier's Joy; Cincinnati Hornpipe

  • Mini Music Lesson: The Eighth Note Triplet

  • Amazing Grace; Shave and a Haircut

  • Mini Music Lesson: 1st and 2nd Endings

  • Serenade

  • Tremolo Study No. 2; Fascination

  • Other Time Signatures (3/8 and 9/8)

  • Old Rosin the Bow; Beautiful Dreamer

  • The Key of D Minor; Scale Study in D Minor; Torna a Surriento

  • Mini Music Lesson: Common Time and Cut Time

  • The Stars and Stripes Forever

  • Chords

  • Mandolin Accompaniments

  • Mandolin Chord Dictionary

  • Mandolin Fingering Chart

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