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 Online Video/Audio/Software
Level: Beginner
Item: 00-44100
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The quickest, easiest, most enjoyable method for learning to play the mandolin.
Alfred's Basic Mandolin Method has been updated, revised, and improved. It features clear, well-paced instruction for beginning mandolin students. 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 included online video and audio
* 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 has been updated, revised, and improved. It features clear, well-paced instruction for beginning mandolin students. 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 included online video and audio
* 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.
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 & Online Video/Audio/Software |
| Page Count: | 64 |
| Item Number: | 00-44100 |
| ISBN 10: | 1-4706-1986-5 |
| ISBN 13: | 978-1-4706-1986-2 |
| UPC: | 038081497525 |
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