Mandolin for Beginners
An Easy Beginning Method
Guitar - Sheet Music

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Mandolin - Beginner

SKU: AP.19405

An Easy Beginning Method. Composed by Jim Dalton. Mandolin Method or Supplement; Method/Instruction. National Guitar Workshop Method - Approved Curriculum. Instructional and Method. Book and Digital Download. With standard notation, mandolin tablature and instructional text. 48 pages. Alfred Music #00-19405. Published by Alfred Music (AP.19405).

ISBN 9780739010983. UPC: 038081183534. 9x12 inches. English.

This book teaches everything you need to know to get started playing the mandolin. Beginning with how to hold and tune the instrument, read tablature and do some basic strumming, you'll be guided all the way to reading music, developing tremolo technique and improvising. With pieces in styles ranging from folk and old Italian gondolier music to the blues and rock 'n' roll, this book is the start you need to go in any direction you like with your mandolin. The CD includes exercises.

  • About the Author
  • Chapter 1 - The Basics
  • How to Tune the Mandolin
  • Holding the Mandolin
  • Right-Hand Position
  • Metronome Markings
  • Left-Hand Position
  • Left-Hand Finger Warm-up Exercises
  • Reading Tablature
  • Au Claire de la Lune
  • Hot Cross Buns
  • Fingerboard Theory Lesson #1
  • Merrily We Roll Along
  • Amazing Grace
  • Fingerboard Theory Lesson #2
  • Chapter 2 - Chords
  • Strumming
  • Reading a Chord Diagram
  • Two Chords: G and D
  • Strumming Chords in Rhythm - Quarter Notes
  • The C Chord
  • Strumming Chords in Rhythm - Eighth Notes
  • Three More Chords: A Minor, D Minor and E7
  • Chapter 3 - Reading Music
  • Pitch
  • Time Signature
  • Read a Tune
  • Alternate Picking
  • Half Notes and Whole Notes
  • Notes on the 2nd Course
  • Repeats
  • Notes on the 1st Course
  • Old Joe Clark
  • 3/4 Time
  • Dotted Half Notes
  • 2/4 Time
  • Yankee Doodle
  • Chapter 4 - Tremolo
  • The Basic Technique - Unmeasured Tremolo
  • Sixteenth Notes
  • Measured Tremolo
  • Ties
  • Double Stops
  • In The Foothills
  • Chapter 5 - 6/8 Time, Keys and Scales
  • Simple vs. Compound Meter
  • 6/8 Picking
  • The Tarantella
  • Tarantella
  • The Major Scale
  • Keys and Tonal Centers
  • Key Signatures
  • Kesh Jig
  • Chapter 6 - More Tunes
  • The Red-Haired Boy
  • Prelude in G Minor
  • Prelude in D
  • Wake Up, Rod
  • Chapter 7 - Improvising
  • Improvising with the Major Pentatonic Scale
  • Improvising Over a Chord Progression
  • Improvising with the Minor Pentatonic Scale
  • The Blues
  • G Blues
  • Appendix - Chord Dictionary