Mandolin Picking Tunes: Early Music Gems by Dix Bruce is a collection of 34 wonderful songs from the 1200s to the 1600s especially arranged for intermediate and advanced mandolinists. The titles span the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque eras and the sounds of the individual songs reflect those years. The music includes standard notation, accompaniment chords, and tablature. Includes access to online audio recordings of each piece for listening and playing along.

A fiddle collection of over 200 great bluegrass, old-time, country, and gospel standards played by jammers and performers all over the world! Melodies are presented in standard notation, with lyrics and chords.Learn to play songs written and recorded by the giants of traditional American music: Bill Monroe, The Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs, Ralph Stanley, The Osborne Brothers, Jimmy Martin, Doc Watson, and many more. Also includes step-by-step instructions for transposing any ...

Crosspicking is a stunning and beautiful guitar technique played with a flatpick. It has a unique sound that in some ways mimics a three-finger guitar or five-string banjo roll yet is completely different from either. "Old-Time Gospel Crosspicking Guitar Solos," aimed at intermediate guitar players, includes 30 of the most popular and best loved traditional Gospel Songs. These solos will make a delightful contribution to any guitarist's repertoire. Chords, melodies (in tablature and standa...

The best way to learn an instrument is to play it as often as you can with other musicians. Trading songs and interacting with other instrumentalists and singers will foster learning at a faster pace and promote development of an ensemble sound. This play-along series encourages this kind of fun, collaborative approach to learning an instrument.Aspiring mandolinists can practice chords and rhythm, singing and lyrics, melodies, solos, licks and backup playing along with a real band!...

Dix Bruce is a musician, writer, and 'journeyman mandolinist' with a strong belief in teaching a wide range of material, from bluegrass and jazz standards to classics, waltzes, polkas, and other ethnic music. The choice of material in this Qwikguide reflects that philosophy. This book is not meant to be a mandolin method but a collection of fun tunes to play. The selections in this book are in no particular order, although the easier tunes are grouped toward the front. Performance tips are...

Getting into Bluegrass Mandolin is specifically designed to quickly and simply show you how to play bluegrass mandolin. It teaches everything you'll need to know including: chords (both open and 'bluegrass chop' variety), rhythm, single-note playing, double stops, fiddle tunes, playing in all keys (transposing from one key to another), playing backup, introductions or 'kickoffs', and tremolo. Lessons use classic bluegrass songs and tunes to help you build a great bluegrass repertoire as yo...

26 historic and well-loved American melodies arranged for intermediate and advanced mandolinists. These beautiful airs and ballads in many different major and minor keys have been taught and performed since the very beginnings of the American experience, expressing good times and bad, joy, sorrow, and everything in between. The printed music includes standard notation, accompaniment chords, and tablature. The arrangements use several different playing techniques including double stops, cro...

Welcome to Bluegrass Breaks: Guitar! This book is a collection of 23 guitar solos or "breaks" plus 16 introductions or "kickoffs" in a range of styles and levels of difficulty. The solos are aimed at advanced beginner to intermediate guitarists looking to expand their repertoire of lead guitar solos. All the solos are recorded in split-track format at two speeds and are available online.This book includes:Easy Carter-style solos with the melody played on the bass s...

Learn melodies and practice soloing on fourteen of the most popular old time and fiddle tunes. Play along with a great string band rhythm section: guitar, mandolin, and string bass. The compact disc has all of the tunes at slow and regular speeds with melodies, and allows you to hear just rhythm, just lead, or both. Great for cello, string bass, bass guitar, or any bass clef instrument. We'll jam all night long!

First Lessons Mandolin teaches the absolute basics of learning to play mandolin from holding the pick to performing easy mandolin tunes. It doesn't get any easier than this! Students learn how to hold the mandolin correctly, how to read mandolin tablature, basic note reading, the most popular mandolin chords, how to play easy melodies in several musical styles, basic picking technique, how to tune the mandolin, and much more. Along the way students will learn about the greatest ma...

Wedding Music for Mandolin includes 23 of the most popular and best-loved wedding hits for intermediate and advanced mandolinists.• Traditional wedding songs• Easy classical pieces• Two “Ave Maria” melodies• Favorite Italian, Irish, Jewish, and English songsThe music includes standard notation, mandolin tablature, chords for mandolin and guitar, plus access to online play-along audio recordings of all the songs!

Aimed at beginning and intermediate guitarists, this book is packed with songs,solos, and techniques that every guitar player should know. The material includes melodies, tablature, chords, and all the solos are recorded at both slow and regular speeds on the accompanying audio. Solos include easy open string solos, closed position moveable and transposable solos, double stops, solos with a bluesy sound, crosspicking solos, and backup guitar parts. Includes access to online audio and free ...