Contents:

BEGINNING MANDOLIN

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

INTERMEDIATE MANDOLIN

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)

MASTERING MANDOLIN

CHAPTER 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