Beginning with basic left- and right-hand techniques, Dennis Caplinger guides you through developing great backup parts and playing all over the neck. You'll study over 20 classic bluegrass standards and you'll learn how to play them in several different styles. All books in the Ultimate Beginner Bluegrass Basics Series are fully correlated with each other. This is the ideal method for the family that wants to play music together!

This method presents mandolin technique and note-reading in a progressive, step-by-step fashion. Written to build the musicianship and technique needed to play both classical and contemporary mandolin styles.Music theory concepts and additional playing techniques are introduced as needed.

Ray Valla shares the insights of a veteran bluegrass mandolinist. This is the ideal book for the intermediate to advanced player. It is filled with practical hints to improve your musicianship and increase the speed of your progress. The book's 27 well-known bluegrass tunes are shown in standard notation and tablature.

The Absolute Beginners approach 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.

Teach yourself authentic bluegrass, with clear instructions from a professional. Covers the basics, left-handed techniques and solo backup. A section also includes personal advice on performance. Plus a complete section of the best bluegrass songs and tunes to learn from.

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.

Another great 'Teach Yourself' book from Mel Bay with 'play-along' examples to help you get started. You'll learn all about accompanying yourself and others, common chords and useful strums, reading simple melodies, playing a colorful assortment of mandolin

This book teaches the conceptual tools needed to become adept at playing the mandolin by ear. Provides keys to learning chord progressions and playing melody by ear as well as using licks and playing in different keys. Includes many tunes in tablature.

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.

Get started playing with all the basics. Easy chord forms and basic strumming patterns are introduced, and fiddle tunes, bluegrass, and blues styles are covered. Important techniques such as alternate picking, tremolo and slides are taught in a friendly, fun manner. Students, teachers and self-taught players alike will enjoy this thorough, easy-to-use method.

Comprehensive instruction for the serious mandolinist. One of America's leading schools for contemporary music-The National Guitar Workshop-teaches you the concepts, techniques and theory you need to become a virtuoso performer. 96 pages each.

Mandolin Primer Book with CD by Bert Casey is designed for the beginning mandolin student who desires an easy to follow, step by step instruction method for getting started on the mandolin. It starts with proper left & right hand technique and playing scales, then progresses to playing 14 popular bluegrass songs using techniques such as hammer-ons, slides, pull-offs, and double stops. It also includes a complete chord chart and a section on how to play rhythm on the mandolin (the famous mandolin "chop"). DVD and VHS Video also available.

This is a complete mandolin course for the beginner that is easy and fun to play. Learn to play accompaniments and chords to many popular folk songs. You will learn the parts of the mandolin, how to hold the mandolin, how to read music and how to tune the mandolin. There is a fingerboard chart to help you find all the notes on the fingerboard

Learning chords for the mandolin have never been so easy. This handy guide, which is sized to fit inside your mandolin case, is organized in a unique dictionary style that helps you to quickly reference any chord. Essential chords are given in each key and there is a "Magic Chord Accompaniment Guide" to show accompaniments in each key.

The first and best instruction book on bluegrass mandolin. Fully illustrated with detailed instructions from the basics to fancy fingerwork, backed up by a collection of bluegrass music by Bobby Osborne, Jesse McReynolds, Frank Wakefield, and John Duffy. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

Included is step-by-step instruction on audio with tablature. These 10 standards are played once slowly & once up to speed. Each song has rhythm recorded separately so you can practice your solos with rhythm.

Included is step-by-step instruction on audio with tablature. These 10 standards are played once slowly & once up to speed. Each song has rhythm recorded separately so you can practice your solos with rhythm.

Complete set of Bluegrass Mandolin #1 and #2.

Learn how to play 10 easy Gospel Bluegrass Mandolin solos designed to help you develop your personal solo designing skills.

Learn how to play 10 easy Bluegrass Mandolin solos designed to help you develop your personal solo designing skills.

This wonderful collection of music for the mandolin includes bluegrass; old-time fiddle tunes; classical music (including the complete solo part for the Vivaldi mandolin concerto and the "Canzonetta" from Mozart's "Don Giovanni"); American, Irish, Jewish, Russian and Italian songs; reels; jigs; hornpipes; hymns and gospel songs; minstrel songs; patriotic; blues and jazz; children's songs; and cowboy and country ballads.

Great for mandolinists who have learned the basics and are ready to take the next step. Important techniques are introduced like hammer-ons and pull-offs, different styles of tremolo, slides, cross-picking and rolls. Also included are in-depth discussions of how to learn tunes, introductions to new time signatures, and a more in-depth look at important musical styles.

The final book in this power-packed mandolin method continues with a study of advanced harmonies and provides mandolin chord forms in all twelve keys. In-depth studies of important forms such as the 12-bar blues and "rhythm changes" are included as well as chord/melody playing and chord substitution.

Learn how to play 10 intermediate Bluegrass Mandolin solos designed to help you develop your personal solo designing skills.

Learn how to play 10 intermediate Bluegrass Mandolin solos designed to help you develop your personal solo designing skills.

A handy and economical starter book chock-full of useful information. Teaches strumming rhythm by playing along with lyrics, then teaches tablature reading for playing solos. The solos provide picking indications for up-picking and down-picking.

An easy-to-understand beginner's method teaching essentials of bluegrass mandolin performance. Contains chords, scales, and techniques, in addition to 21 tunes in notation and tablature

Here's a diverse collection of 56 beginning mandolin solos in notation and tablature with suggested guitar chords. This book makes an excellent supplement to any introductory mandolin method. Dix Bruce performs all of the tunes in the book on the companion CD.

A basic instruction book designed to have the student playing music from the very start. Covering traditional bluegrass and folk styles, the book contains information on left- and right-hand technique, runs, chords, 14 tunes, vocal accompaniment styles, a discography, and a bibliography

Roland White's Approach to Bluegrass Mandolin with 2 CDs is the next step beyond our Mandolin Primer Book. Roland White's book will help you become a more skilled mandolinist. The book starts with the basics and features 30 powerful and tasteful arrangements of Bluegrass standards. This book will transform you from a beginner to a pro. The book also includes 2 audio cds with slow and medium tempo versions of all the songs.

Featuring 28 well-known Christmas songs arranged for mandolin with chord symbols for an accompaniment instrument. Book contains chord diagrams for mandolin and guitar as well as common strum patterns to use for rhythm backup. All songs are arranged in standard notation and tablature for mandolin.

Steve Kaufman's amazing teaching method for mandolinists is now available on CD! His “Parking Lot Pickers” series, which has proved so popular with guitarists through the years, covers levels from beginners to advanced in a four-tiered system.

These fabulous collections for players of all levels feature 21 must-know bluegrss songs & instrumentals, created especially for learning players by the genre's leading artists. The artist plays a basic solo that states the melody of the tune, then a more adventurous improvisation, and each solo is transcribed in detail.

Steve Kaufman continues his remarkably successful Parking Lot Pickers series with 20 more great traditional tunes for mandolin, taught for beginners, intermediates and advanced players.