Alfred's Basic Mandolin Method 1 (Revised)
The Most Popular Method for Learning How to Play
By Ron Manus and L. C. Harnsberger
Mandolin Book, CD & DVD
Level: Beginner
Item: 00-43989
$25.99
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The quickest, easiest, most enjoyable method for learning to play the mandolin.
Alfred's Basic Mandolin Method is one of the many new additions to the Alfred's Basic family of methods, featuring clear, well-paced instruction for beginning mandolin students. Alfred's Basic Mandolin Method has been updated, revised, and improved. Now, students can enjoy a DVD with video instruction by Jared Meeker who demonstrates all of the examples and makes techniques and concepts easy to understand. Learning to play has never been easier or more fun than with Alfred's Basic Mandolin Method---the best choice for today's beginning mandolin students.
Features:
* How to hold your mandolin
* Tuning your mandolin
* Right- and left-hand techniques
* Basics of reading music
* Chords and strum patterns
* Playing tremolo and drones
* How to read TAB
* Photos and diagrams
* Songs include "Aura Lee," "Tom Dooley," "The Irish Washerwoman," "Over the Rainbow," and many others
* Great-sounding performances on the CD and DVD performed by expert instructor Jared Meeker.
* Available DVD features TNT 2 software
Recognized for over 50 years as the best-paced and most comprehensive guitar method available, Alfred's Basic Guitar Method has introduced over 5 million beginners to the joy of playing guitar.
Alfred's Basic Mandolin Method is one of the many new additions to the Alfred's Basic family of methods, featuring clear, well-paced instruction for beginning mandolin students. Alfred's Basic Mandolin Method has been updated, revised, and improved. Now, students can enjoy a DVD with video instruction by Jared Meeker who demonstrates all of the examples and makes techniques and concepts easy to understand. Learning to play has never been easier or more fun than with Alfred's Basic Mandolin Method---the best choice for today's beginning mandolin students.
Features:
* How to hold your mandolin
* Tuning your mandolin
* Right- and left-hand techniques
* Basics of reading music
* Chords and strum patterns
* Playing tremolo and drones
* How to read TAB
* Photos and diagrams
* Songs include "Aura Lee," "Tom Dooley," "The Irish Washerwoman," "Over the Rainbow," and many others
* Great-sounding performances on the CD and DVD performed by expert instructor Jared Meeker.
* Available DVD features TNT 2 software
Recognized for over 50 years as the best-paced and most comprehensive guitar method available, Alfred's Basic Guitar Method has introduced over 5 million beginners to the joy of playing guitar.
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Contents
| Title | |
| The Parts of Your Mandolin | |
| How to Hold Your Mandolin | |
| Standing | |
| Sitting | |
| Courses and Strings | |
| Caring for Your Mandolin | |
| The Right Hand | |
| Strumming with a Pick | |
| Picking Individual Strings | |
| The Left Hand | |
| Hand Position | |
| Placing a Finger on a String | |
| How to Tune Your Mandolin | |
| Tuning with the CD | |
| Tuning Without the CD | |
| Getting Acquainted with Music | |
| The Staff | |
| Measures | |
| Clefs | |
| Reading Tab | |
| Chord Diagrams | |
| The First String E | |
| Playing with E, F, G | |
| Extra Credit | |
| Sound-Off: How to Count Time | |
| Four Kinds of Notes | |
| Time Signatures | |
| Repeat Signs | |
| Blues in C | |
| The Second String A | |
| Jammin' on Two Strings | |
| Hot Cross Buns | |
| Blues in F | |
| Rockin' Mandolin | |
| The Third String D | |
| Old MacDonald Had a Farm | |
| Largo | |
| Jingle Bells | |
| Beautiful Brown Eyes | |
| Introducing High A | |
| High A Exercise | |
| Rockin' in Dorian Mode | |
| My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean | |
| The Fourth String G | |
| Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes | |
| Four-String Rock | |
| Aura Lee | |
| Au Clair de la Lune | |
| The Wearing o' the Green | |
| Tempo Signs | |
| Quarter Rest | |
| Three-Tempo Rockin' Mandolin | |
| Introducing Chords | |
| Two-Note Exercise | |
| Three-Note Exercise | |
| Four-Note Exercise | |
| The C Chord | |
| Ode to Joy | |
| The Riddle Song | |
| The G7 Chord | |
| Two-Chord Waltz | |
| Love Somebody | |
| The G Chord | |
| Three-Chord Stomp | |
| Incomplete Measures | |
| A-Tisket, A-Tasket | |
| Ties | |
| Tom Dooley | |
| Eighth Notes | |
| Jammin' with Eighth Notes | |
| Go Tell Aunt Rhody | |
| Dotted Quarter Notes | |
| Preparatory Drill | |
| Auld Lang Syne | |
| Clementine | |
| Sharps, Flats, and Naturals | |
| The Chromatic Scale | |
| My Melancholy Baby | |
| The D Chord | |
| The D7 Chord | |
| Bach Minuet | |
| Buffalo Gals | |
| Dynamics | |
| Echo Waltz | |
| Eighth Rests | |
| Eighth Rest Exercise No. 1 | |
| Eighth Rest Exercise No. 2 | |
| Bill Bailey | |
| The Drone | |
| Amazing Grace | |
| Sixteenth Notes | |
| Sixteenth Note Exercise | |
| Drunken Sailor | |
| The Tremolo | |
| Tremolo Exercise No. 1 | |
| Tremolo Exercise No. 2 | |
| Shenandoah | |
| The Major Scale | |
| Key Signatures | |
| The Key of C Major | |
| The Key of G Major | |
| The Key of F Major | |
| Accidentals Review | |
| She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain | |
| Downstrokes and Upstrokes | |
| The Streets of Laredo | |
| 6/8 Time | |
| The Irish Washerwoman | |
| The A7 Chord | |
| Over the Rainbow | |
| Certificate of Promotion |
Additional Information
| Series: | Alfred's Basic Mandolin Library |
| Author: | Ron Manus, L. C. Harnsberger |
| Instrument: | Mandolin |
| Format: | Book, CD & DVD |
| Page Count: | 64 |
| Item Number: | 00-43989 |
| ISBN 10: | 1-4706-1878-8 |
| ISBN 13: | 978-1-4706-1878-0 |
| UPC: | 038081493466 |
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