Mandolin master Baldassari will have you playing mandolin in minutes with his easy, hands-on beginner's lesson. Using basic bluegrass tunes and his Lloyd Loar 1925 mandolin as teaching tools, Butch covers all that is needed to get the bell-like high notes and percussive back-beat that make bluegrass mandolin famous. Covers how to hold your instrument and tune it, chords and scales, simple melodies, double stops, more. Note/tab included as either booklet or PDF file on the disc. 60 min.