Contents

CHAPTER 1---REVIEW: READING MUSIC

• Lesson 1: Pitch
• Lesson 2: Time
• Lesson 3: Tablature

CHAPTER 2---REVIEW: SCALES AND CHORDS

• Lesson 1: Major Scales
• Lesson 2: Chords

CHAPTER 3---DEVELOPING TECHNIQUE

• Lesson 1: Building Speed and Agility
• Lesson 2: Improving Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs
• Lesson 3: Improving Tremolo
• Air on the Side of Caution
• Lesson 4: Slides
• Sign Says "Gone Noodling"
• Lesson 5: Crosspicking
• Turkey in the Straw (Crosspicking)
• Lesson 6: McReynolds-Style Rolls and Picking Patterns
• Long Lonesome Road (Crosspicking)

CHAPTER 4---BETTER PICKING THROUGH FIDDLE TUNES

• Lesson 1: How to Learn Folk Music
• Lesson 2: Cut Time
• Fire on the Mountain
• Lesson 3: Sally Goodin
• Sally Goodin (Standard Two-Part Version)
• Sally Goodin Variation No. 1
• Sally Goodin Variation No. 2
• Sally Goodin Variation No. 3
• Sally Goodin Variation No. 4
• Lesson 4: "Kitchen Gal"
• Kitchen Gal
• Lesson 5: "Leather Britches"
• Leather Britches
• Lesson 6: "Seneca Square Dance"
• Seneca Square Dance
• Lesson 7: "Johnny Don't Get Drunk"
• Johnny Don't Get Drunk
• Lesson 8: A Rag in C Major
• Orville and Lloyd's Rag
• Lesson 9: Jigs
• Money in Both Pockets
• Scatter the Mud

CHAPTER 5---BACK TO BLUEGRASS

• Lesson 1: Improving Rhythm Playing
• Free Little Bird
• Lesson 2: Lead Backup Playing
• Free Little Bird---Lead Backup
• Lesson 3: Bluegrass Lead---Melodic Breaks
• Free Little Bird---Melodic Break
• Lesson 4: Bluegrass Lead---Improvised Breaks
• Free Little Bird---Improvised Break

CHAPTER 6---WORKING UP THE NECK

• Lesson 1: Moveable Major Scales
• This Hammer's Still Too Heavy
• Lesson 2: Major Scale Harmony Review
• Lesson 3: Double Stops---3rds
• San Antonio Sunrise
• Lesson 4: Double Stops---6ths
• Mandohula Sunset
• Lesson 5: Arpeggios---Major, Minor and Diminished Triads
• Saturday Night at the Gulag Arpeggio
• Lesson 6: Arpeggios---Augmented Triads and Seventh Chords
• Lesson 7: The Natural Minor Scale and the Relative Minor
• Toulouse Lautrec

CHAPTER 7---BLUES AND BLUEGRASS IMPROV UP THE NECK

• Lesson 1: Moveable Dominant 7 Chords
• Blues in My Bee Bonnet (or, Bees in My Blue Bonnet)
• Lesson 2: The Minor Pentatonic Scale
• Lesson 3: Connecting the Fingerings
• You Won't B-Minor Forever
• Lesson 4: The Major Pentatonic Scale
• Lesson 5: Comparing and Combining the Major and Minor Pentatonic Sounds
• Key to the High School---Solo No. 1 (Major Pentatonic)
• Key to the High School---Solo No. 2 (Minor Pentatonic)
• Key to the High School---Solo No. 3 (Major and Minor Pentatonic)

CHAPTER 8---A TASTE OF SWING AND JAZZ MANDOLIN

• Lesson 1: Swing Rhythm Playing
• Swing by Your Thumbs (Simple Rhythm Chords)
• Lesson 2: Cool Swing Chords---Maj7, Min7 and 6
• Swing by Your Thumbs (Cool Swing Chords)
• Lesson 3: Melody and Improvisation
• Swing by Your Thumbs (Melody)

CHAPTER 9---NEW RHYTHMS AND SOUNDS

• Lesson 1: Funk on the Mandolin
• Ooh, That Some Funky Mando!
• Lesson 2: The Grooves of New Orleans
• Bo Man Diddley Blues
• Lesson 3: Reggae on the Mandolin
• How A'You Gonna Play Dat Mando-Leen?

CHAPTER 10---A TASTE OF BRAZIL

• Lesson 1: Brazilian-Style Rhythm Playing
• Mandolin Jake (Chords and Rhythm)
• Lesson 2: Brazilian-Style Lead Playing
• Mandolin Jake (Melody)