
Mandolin Method Complete
Contents:
BEGINNING MANDOLIN
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1---GETTING STARTED
- Lesson 1: Getting to Know Your Tools
- Lesson 2: The Notes on the Fretboard
- Lesson 3: Read Some TAB, Play Some Tunes
- River's Up, Can't Go Across
- This One's Got Spots
- Mary Had a Border Collie
- Lesson 4: Your First Chords
- Cabbage Seeds
- Lesson 5: Changing Chords
- Roast Them Rutabagas
- Windy Grove
CHAPTER 2---READING STANDARD MUSIC NOTATION
- Lesson 1: The Notes and the Staff
- Lesson 2: Natural Notes on the 1st String
- Lesson 3: Time
- Lesson 4: Natural Notes on the 2nd String
- Cumberland Gap
- Lesson 5: Rests
- Lesson 6: Natural Notes on the 3rd String
- Lesson 7: Eighth Notes
- Lesson 8: Natural notes on the 4th String
- Lesson 9: Dotted Notes
- Lesson 10: Sharps and Flats
- Ooooh...Creepy!
- Theme from Invention No. 4---J.S. Bach BWV 775
- Lesson 11: Key Signatures
- Raise a Glass for Pythagoras
- Lesson 12: 1st and 2nd Endings
- Marching off to Litchfield
- Lesson 13: Refining Your Strumming
- Boil Them Cabbage Down
CHAPTER 3---FIDDLE-TUNE STYLE: THE ROOTS OF BLUEGRASS
- Lesson 1: D Major Scale; Your First D Tune
- Old Liza Jane
- Lesson 2: Alternate Picking
- Soldier's Joy
- Lesson 3: Connecting the Dots with Passing Tones
- Soldier's Joy (Variation with Passing Tones)
- Lesson 4: Drones and Shuffles
- Mississippi Sawyer
- Lesson 5: A Tunes and Unison Doubles
- Old Joe Clark
- Lesson 6: The Modal Sound of the A Minor Pentatonic Scale
- Cluck Old Hen (High)
- Cluck Old Hen (Low)
- Lesson 7: The Key of G Major; Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs
- Miss McLeod's Reel/Hop High Ladies/Uncle Joe
- Lesson 8: Waltz-Time Strumming and Melody
- Amazing Grace
- Lesson 9: Sixteenth Notes; Tremolo
- Greensleeves
CHAPTER 4---THE BLUES
- Lesson 1: Basic Blues Theory
- Lesson 2: The 12-Bar Blues
- Lesson 3: Memorizing the 12-Bar Blues
- Lesson 4: Blues Rhythm
- Blues Boogie in G
- Lesson 5: Blues Improvisation with the Minor Pentatonic Scale
- Lesson 6: Blues Improvisation with the G Blues Scale and Slides
- Louie's Got the Bluie and Yank's at the Bank
CHAPTER 5---BLUEGRASS
- Lesson 1: Bluegrass Rhythm
- This Hammer's Too Heavy
- Lesson 2: Bluegrass Lead
- Come on and Sit on Top of My Kitchen Counter
- Lesson 3: Transposition
- Lesson 4: More Moveable Chords
- This Hammer's Too Heavy (in A)
- Lesson 5: Bluegrass Blues in A
- Bluegrass 12-Bar Blues in A
- Bluegrass 12-Bar Blues in A (Lead Break)
- Lesson 6: Bluegrass in a Minor Key
- Dark on the Drive Home
- Lesson 7: Kickoffs and Tags
CHAPTER 6---ROCK MANDOLIN
- Lesson 1: Rock 'n' Roll Folk Strumming
- The Long Forgotten Daze of My Youth
- The Battle of the Elves, Dragons and Rock Vocalists
- Lesson 2: Arpeggiating Chords
- The Long Forgotten Daze of My Youth (Arpeggio Chords)
- The Battle of the Elves, Dragons and Rock Vocalists (Arpeggio Chords)
- Lesson 3: Rock Mandolin Improv
- The Long Forgotten Daze of My Youth (Solo)
- The Battle of the Elves, Dragons and Rock Vocalists (Solo)
APPENDIX 1---THE ELEMENTS OF MUSIC
- Lesson 1: The Major Scale
- Lesson 2: The Circle of 5ths
- Lesson 3: Intervals
- Lesson 4: Fingerings for Intervals
- Lesson 5: Harmony and Chords
- Lesson 6: Musical Expression
APPENDIX 3---CHORD FORMS
APPENDIX 4---HOW TO PRACTICE
"Home base" Technique; When and What
Organizing a Practice Session
Buy a Metronome
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
INTERMEDIATE MANDOLIN
INTRODUCTIONCHAPTER 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)
MASTERING MANDOLIN
INTRODUCTIONCHAPTER 1---WARM-UPS
- Exercises for the Left Hand
- Working Fingers in Pairs
- Right-Hand Exercises
PART ONE---HARMONY
CHAPTER 2---IMPORTANT CHORDS
- Extended Major Chords
- Extended Minor Chords
- Extended Dominant Chords
- Diminished 7th Chords
- Other Important Chords
- Altered Chords
- Chord Reference Charts
- Finding Other Voicings
CHAPTER 3---CHORD PROGRESSIONS
- Blues Forms
- 8-Bar Blues
- 12-Bar Blues
- 16-Bar Blues (1st Variation)
- 16-Bar Blues (2nd Variation)
- 24-Bar Blues
- 12-Bar Blues in G
- Almost Time
- Blues Grass Ramble
- Jazz---Rhythm Changes
- Rhythm Changes (Basic)
- Rhythm Changes---Swing
- Rhythm Changes---Bebop
- Rhythm Changes (Tritone Substitution)
- Anthromorphology
- Criminal Satisfaction
- Chord Substitution
- Rollin' in My Sweet Baby's Arms (Straight)
- Rollin' in My Sweet Baby's Arms (Tritone Substitution)
- Rollin' In My Sweet Baby's Arms (Minor 3rd Substitution)
- Rollin' in My Sweet Baby's Arms (Dim7 Substitution)
CHAPTER 4---CHORD/MELODY
- Mississippi Sawyer (Melody)
- Creating a Chord/Melody
- Mississippi Sawyer (Jethro Style)
PART TWO---MELODY
CHAPTER 5---SCALES AND MODES
- Generating the Modes from a Parent Scale
- The Relative View
- The Parallel View
- Mode Characteristics and Fingerings
- Using the Modes
- The Rights of Man
- Drunken Sailor
- June Apple
- Over the Waterfall
- Pentatonic Scales
- Spootiskerry Reel
- The Blues Scale
- The Whole-Tone Scale
- The Chromatic Scale
- The Five Basic Scale Types Every Mandolin Player Should Know
PART THREE---RHYTHM
CHAPTER 6---EXPLORING TIME SIGNATURES
- Review of Compound Meter
- A Trip to the Cottage
- Banish Misfortune
- The Butterfly
- Dan O'Keefe's Slide
- Odd Meters
- 5-Time Waltz
- Sillyfjord
CHAPTER 7---MELODIC RHYTHM
- Soldier's Joy
- Soldier's Joy---Waltz
- Soldier's Joy---Jig
PART FOUR---PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
CHAPTER 8---IMPROVISATION
- Raking Leaves No. 1
- Raking Leaves No. 2
- Raking Leaves No. 3
- Raking Leaves No. 4
- Raking Leaves No. 5
- Raking Leaves No. 6
CHAPTER 9---FINDING MATERIAL FROM AROUND THE WORLD
- Old French (Canada)
- Simo Ligeri
WRAPPING UP---FINAL THOUGHTS AND SUGGESTIONS