MB99945BCD First Lessons Mando

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!

Sprache Englisch

Buch mit CD

40 Seiten

Inhalt:

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