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Absolute Beginners Mandolin
Absolute Beginners Mandolin
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.
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Adam Steffey - My Approach to Bluegrass Mandolin DVD's
Adam Steffey - My Approach to Bluegrass Mandolin DVD's
Adam covers how he approaches backup and soloing, and teaches 7 of his solos. 4 hour and 20 minutes on 2 DVDs - with booklet. Download now from PlayBetterBluegrass.com !
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Anyone Can Play Mandolin
Anyone Can Play Mandolin
For beginning mandolin students. It teaches the fundamentals of mandolin, chord strumming, single-note melody picking, and explains tablature. Does not require any previous musical experience or note-reading ability. You will learn several well-known bluegrass songs in both strumming and picking styles. Download now from PlayBetterBluegrass.com!
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Appalachian APD-1 Dulcimer Pickin' Pac
Appalachian APD-1 Dulcimer Pickin' Pac
In the new Appalachian Pickin' Pac outfits, every instrument and accessory is chosen with the greatest care and long, professional experience to ensure that every beginner has the easiest path to bluegrass stardom! Only the finest instruments—properly designed and meticulously crafted are chosen for our outfits. Their fine tone and easy playing action will inspire confidence and make learning a breeze!
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Appalachian APM-1 Mandolin Pack
Appalachian APM-1 Mandolin Pack
In the new Appalachian™ Pickin’ Pac outfits, every instrument and accessory is chosen with the greatest care and long, professional experience to ensure that every beginner has the easiest path to bluegrass stardom! Only the finest instruments—properly designed and meticulously crafted are chosen for our outfits. Their fine tone and easy playing action will inspire confidence and make learning a breeze!
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Band In A Book: Bluegrass Instrumentals
Band In A Book: Bluegrass Instrumentals
The idea here is to help coordinate the pickers so you all have solos to play and they can be played in the same key. What a concept - a "Band in the Book". Within these pages you will find solos for the entire band: lead guitar, rhythm guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle and bass. If you are just starting out and you are having difficulty-finding solos for your level - look no more. These solos are written for the beginner level student assuming you can already play a few simple solos or lead breaks. This series will help you to learn solos on multiple instruments, help organize ensemble play, help develop a steady sense of timing and give you hours of enjoyment as well.

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Band In A Book: Bluegrass Vocals for Bluegrass Ensemble
Band In A Book: Bluegrass Vocals for Bluegrass Ensemble
The idea here is to help coordinate the pickers so you all have solos to play and they can be played in the same key. What a concept - a "Band in the Book". Within these pages you will find solos for the entire band: lead guitar, rhythm guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle and bass. If you are just starting out and you are having difficulty-finding solos for your level - look no more. These solos are written for the beginner level student assuming you can already play a few simple solos or lead breaks. This series will help you to learn solos on multiple instruments, help organize ensemble play, help develop a steady sense of timing and give you hours of enjoyment as well.

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Band In A Book: Gospel Vocal Tunes for Bluegrass Ensemble
Band In A Book: Gospel Vocal Tunes for Bluegrass Ensemble
What a concept - a "Band in the Book". Within these pages you will find solos for the entire band: lead guitar, rhythm guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle and bass. The mandolin and fiddle share the same tunings so their solos are just written once for both. If you are just starting out and you are having difficulty-finding solos for your level - look no more. These solos are written for the beginner level student assuming you can already play a few simple solos or lead breaks.

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Beginning Country Bluegrass Bass
Beginning Country Bluegrass Bass
This course contains everything you need to know to get started as the stand-up bass player in a bluegrass, country, or folk group. (it would also be good beginning foundation knowledge for rock, blues, jazz, or pop). Download now from PlayBetterBluegrass.com!
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Beginning Mandolin
Beginning Mandolin
This DVD is designed for the beginner to intermediate level player. A full range of DVD special features have been integrated with video special effects to create the most powerful learning system yet produced by Specialty Music Productions. With your DVD remote control, you're ready to take full advantage of the interactive menus, scene selections, and other easy-to-use features that are there at your fingertips. See how fun and easy it is to learn to play your mandolin in front of your own TV. Download now from PlayBetterBluegrass.com!
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Beginning Mandolin - Music Star Productions
Beginning Mandolin - Music Star Productions
Learn Bluegrass Mandolin! The proper fundamentals are explained in easy to follow step by step details by instructor Tom Bekeny. Tom Illustrates many essential techniques and patterns for any aspiring Mandolin player.
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Bluegrass Jam Session
Bluegrass Jam Session
Get in shape and ready for the next jam session or bluegrass festival with this new practice tape. Joe Carr and Alan Munde, along with the band, perform 15 songs for you to practice with and they explain each instrument's role in each song as well as provide tabulature for selected solos and backup parts as played on the banjo, mandolin, fiddle, guitar, and bass.
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Bluegrass Jam Session
Bluegrass Jam Session
Get in shape and ready for the next jam session or bluegrass festival with this new practice tape. Joe Carr and Alan Munde, along with the band, perform 15 songs for you to practice with and they explain each instrument's role in each song as well as provide tabulature for selected solos and backup parts as played on the banjo, mandolin, fiddle, guitar, and bass.
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Bluegrass Mandolin Basics & Beyond - Ultimate Beginners Series
Bluegrass Mandolin Basics & Beyond - Ultimate Beginners Series
Virtuoso bluegrass multi-instrumentalist Dennis Caplinger, with the able assistance of John Moore, Kenny Blackwell, and Bill Bryson, guides you through all the bluegrass basics and beyond. You'll learn classic bluegrass mandolin techniques, all in the context of classic bluegrass standards. Beginning with basic left- and right-hand techniques, Dennis guides you through developing great backup parts, playing solos, and working with a bluegrass band. Dowload now from PlayBetterBluegrass.com!
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Bluegrass Mandolin Basics - Ultimate Beginners Series
Bluegrass Mandolin Basics - Ultimate Beginners Series
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!
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Bluegrass Mandolin Solos That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know
Bluegrass Mandolin Solos That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know
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.
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Complete Jethro Burns Mandolin
Complete Jethro Burns Mandolin
Learn from the master of bluegrass mandolin - Jethro Burns. More than 70 tunes and two dozen exercises are found in this bluegrass bonanza. The Complete Jethro Burns Mandolin Book and 2-CD Set is an incomparable resource of bluegrass mandolin repertoire - all in standard notation and tablature.
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Country and Bluegrass Jam Tracks
Country and Bluegrass Jam Tracks
This high quality audio CD contains 23 dynamic jam tracks of country and bluegrass music. The extended jams (3 to 4 minutes each) are in a wide variety of keys and grooves, allowing you to play any style of music. In addition, several tunes are played at 2 different speeds. Also includes a helpful 16 page instruction booklet with rhythm charts and soloing tips for each song.
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Deluxe Encyclopedia of Mandolin Chords
Deluxe Encyclopedia of Mandolin Chords
This encyclopedia is designed to provide mandolin players with a wide variety of chords in different voicings. This book is intended as both a starting point of learning chord voicings and patterns, as well as a dictionary of common mandolin chords.
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Dobro Workshop 1
Dobro Workshop 1
For beginners and advanced players. Learn the correct styles of five leading Dobro players. Dan is accompanied by a full Bluegrass band, with dobro recorded in the left channel and band in the right. Dobro solos are played again slowly at the end of each side.
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Dobro Workshop 2
Dobro Workshop 2
For beginners and advanced players. Learn the correct styles of five leading Dobro players. Dan is accompanied by a full Bluegrass band, with dobro recorded in the left channel and band in the right. Dobro solos are played again slowly at the end of each side.
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Dobro Workshop Set
Dobro Workshop Set
Complete 2 volume set! For beginners & advanced players. Learn the correct styles of 5 leading Dobro players. Dan is accompanied by a full Bluegrass band, with dobro recorded in the left channel & band in the right. Dobro solos are played again slowly at the end.
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Easy Dobro Solos 1
Easy Dobro Solos 1
These arrangements are easy to learn & play but they still sound good! Each tune is played once at normal speed & then taught one section at a time on the CD. The sections are all marked off & labeled in the tablature booklet.

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Easy Dobro Solos 2
Easy Dobro Solos 2
These arrangements are easy to learn & play but they still sound good! Each tune is played once at normal speed & then taught one section at a time on the CD. The sections are all marked off & labeled in the tablature booklet.

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Easy Gospel Mandolin Solos
Easy Gospel Mandolin Solos
Learn how to play 10 easy Gospel Bluegrass Mandolin solos designed to help you develop your personal solo designing skills. Download now from PlayBetterBluegrass.com !
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Easy Guitar Solos
Easy Guitar Solos
If you enjoy the 'Carter Family Style' you'll love this lesson! It's basically the old style of strumming the chords while you weave in the melody notes. It's fun, easy & you'll really learn how melody relates to chords!
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Easy Mandolin Solos
Easy Mandolin Solos
This book of original melodies is intended for the beginning mandolin student who can already read music or tab and play basic chords, but wants to learn new techniques and have fun in the process. Accompaniment chords and performance notes are provided for each tune written in notation and tab.
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Easy Mandolin Solos
Easy Mandolin Solos
Learn how to play 10 easy Bluegrass Mandolin solos designed to help you develop your personal solo designing skills. Buy now from PlayBetterBluegrass.com !
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Essential Techniques for Mandolin
Essential Techniques for Mandolin
Chris Thile shares his own successful formula for developing right- and left-hand dexterity, improving speed and accuracy, and playing with heightened musicality. He provides numerous exercises that will make all the difference as aspiring players learn. 85-MIN. DVD � LEVEL 3 � INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB Download now from PlayBetterBluegrass.com!
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First Jams Banjo
First Jams Banjo
The First Jam series was created to give children and beginners of all ages a book of simple, common tunes to learn. These are standard “Jam” tunes in the Bluegrass/Old Time music styles. All the books in this series are written in the same keys; they can all be played together without any problems. So get your friends or family who play guitar, mandolin, banjo, ukulele, dulcimer or Dobro together, grab these books and start jamming.
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First Jams Flatpick Guitar
First Jams Flatpick Guitar
The First Jam series was created to give children and beginners of all ages a book of simple, common tunes to learn. These are standard “Jam” tunes in the Bluegrass/Old Time music styles. All the books in this series are written in the same keys; they can all be played together without any problems. So get your friends or family who play guitar, mandolin, banjo, ukulele, dulcimer or Dobro together, grab these books and start jamming.
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First Jams Mandolin
First Jams Mandolin
The First Jam series was created to give children and beginners of all ages a book of simple, common tunes to learn. These are standard “Jam” tunes in the Bluegrass/Old Time music styles. All the books in this series are written in the same keys; they can all be played together without any problems. So get your friends or family who play guitar, mandolin, banjo, ukulele, dulcimer or Dobro together, grab these books and start jamming.
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First Jams Mountain Dulcimer
First Jams Mountain Dulcimer
The First Jam series was created to give children and beginners of all ages a book of simple, common tunes to learn. These are standard “Jam” tunes in the Bluegrass/Old Time music styles. All the books in this series are written in the same keys; they can all be played together without any problems.
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First Jams Ukulele
First Jams Ukulele
The First Jam series was created to give children and beginners of all ages a book of simple, common tunes to learn. These are standard “Jam” tunes in the Bluegrass/Old Time music styles. All the books in this series are written in the same keys; they can all be played together without any problems. So get your friends or family who play guitar, mandolin, banjo, ukulele, dulcimer or Dobro together, grab these books and start jamming.
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First Jams: Dobro
First Jams: Dobro
The First Jam series was created to give children and beginners of all ages a book of simple, common tunes to learn. These are standard “Jam” tunes in the Bluegrass/Old Time music styles. All the books in this series are written in the same keys; they can all be played together without any problems. So get your friends or family who play guitar, mandolin, banjo, ukulele, dulcimer or Dobro together, grab these books and start jamming.
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First Jams: Fiddle
First Jams: Fiddle
The First Jam series was created to give children and beginners of all ages a book of simple, common tunes to learn. These are standard "Jam" tunes in the Bluegrass/Old Time music styles. All the books in this series are written in the same keys; they can all be played together without any problems. So get your friends or family who play guitar, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, ukulele, dulcimer or Dobro together, grab these books and start jamming.
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First Lessons Mandolin
First Lessons Mandolin
Teaches the absolute basics of learning to play mandolin from holding the pick to performing easy mandolin tunes. 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, basic picking technique, how to tune the mandolin, and much more.
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Folk & Country Waltzes For Mandolin
Folk & Country Waltzes For Mandolin
There are 50 well known waltzes fully notated in the book and played on the CD with a full backing band. These pieces are all easy to learn. If you do not read music well (or at all) you can pick up the melody from the CD. The book can be used to build a repertoire of waltz music. At live engagements, especially weddings, the audience will always ask for a few waltzes.
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Herschel Sizemore AcuTab DVD
Herschel Sizemore AcuTab DVD
Learn at the feet of a bluegrass legend! Bluegrass mandolin pioneer Herschel Sizemore demonstrates his unique style on 11 great mandolin tunes - five familiar fiddle tunes and 6 Sizemore originals. Alan Bibey is also featured, leading Herschel through a discussion and demonstration of the tunes and techniques. Tab/notation booklet included. 2 hour DVD. Download from PlayBetterBluegrass.com!
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How To Figure Out Music From Recordings
How To Figure Out Music From Recordings
How many times have you heard a great solo on a CD & wished you could play it exactly like the original? In this 2-hour video you will learn the history of lick learning, the ear training benefits, & how the process actually works the same for all instrument.
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