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Easy Beginner Mandolin CHords
Teach yourself mandolin chords and how to use them in a few simple songs.
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Easy Beginner Mandolin DVD
This DVD is loaded with easy to understand basics for learning to play the mandolin. This DVD will help you play the songs you love to hear on the mandolin. Taught by the multi-talented George Goode.
Product# 1014DVD
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Fiddle Tunes & Irish Music for Mandolin
A fun-to-play collection of 62 favorite fiddle and Irish tunes arranged in notation and tablature for mandolin solo. Ideal music for intermediate level technical study in sight reading. The CD is in split-track format, thus allowing the mandolin student to play along with 18 of the tunes.
Product# 93732BCD
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Fiddle Tunes For Flatpickers Mandolin
This wonderful new book is an ideal collection for the bluegrass mandolin player. The book contains at least 25 songs, each written in standard notation and tablature, with chord changes, performance and fingering suggestions, and song histories. A preface in the book covers how to read tablature and rhythmic notation, and picking techniques.
Product# OK65153
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First Lessons Banjo
First Lessons on Banjo is an ultra-easy instruction manual for beginning five-string banjo played in the three finger style in G tuning. It can be used by those with no previous experience with the banjo or music of any sort. It is so basic it can be used even by small children.
Product# 99799BCD
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Flatpickin the Gospels for Mandolin
A collection of 24 bluegrass/gospel favorites arranged for mandolin with rhythm guitar accompaniment. These intermediate/advanced solos are comprised of melodic embellishments and standard runs that may by used with other songs with similar chord structures. All solos written in notation and tablature.
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Fun with the Mandolin
This book/CD package presents melodies, lyrics and chord symbols for 22 songs. Tuning and hand positions are briefly discussed. You will be comfortable playing 4/4, 3/4 and 2/4 rhythm chord accompaniments in three major keys - C, G, and D. The companion CD contains all the songs from book and is in stereo play-along format.
Product# 93258BCD
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Fun with the Mandolin
This DVD presents melodies, lyrics and chord symbols for several songs. Tuning and hand positions are briefly discussed. You will be comfortable playing 4/4, 3/4 and 2/4 rhythm chord accompaniments in three major keys - C, G, and D.
Product# 93258DVD
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Gospel Music Favorites
Words and chords to many of the most requested gospel songs. Includes chord charts for guitar, banjo and mandolin. Instructions include a way of putting a banjo and mandolin in pitch with a guitar
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How To Figure Out Music From Recordings
How many times have you heard a great solo on a CD & wished you could play it exactly like the original? In this 2-hour video you will learn the history of lick learning, the ear training benefits, & how the process actually works the same for all instrument.
Product# 7042
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How To Play Mandolin Guide Book
This is a complete mandolin course for the beginner that is easy and fun to play. Learn to play accompaniments and chords to many popular folk songs. You will learn the parts of the mandolin, how to hold the mandolin, how to read music and how to tune the mandolin. There is a fingerboard chart to help you find all the notes on the fingerboard
Product# 1887
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Hymns for Autoharp
The autoharp blends in well with the spirit and harmonics of these hymns. The first section of this book is chorded for simple strumming. The second section is arranged for melody playing, with string numbers indicated. A popular collection which includes 69 songs!
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Intermediate Mandolin Songs Vol 1
Learn how to play 10 intermediate Bluegrass Mandolin solos designed to help you develop your personal solo designing skills.
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Intermediate Mandolin Songs Vol 2
Learn how to play 10 intermediate Bluegrass Mandolin solos designed to help you develop your personal solo designing skills.
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Irish Mandolin Jigs, Reels, and Hornpipes
You might call this The top 10 tunes of Irish Mandolin because it's really some very exciting arrangements of some popular and appealing tunes. You will add to your repertoire, minor key songs, jigs, reels, hornpipes including the Show Stopper from "Celtic Woman" and "Riverdance," the hot tune "Boys of Bluehill" from the top Nashville Session Men, and some beautiful Irish/Scottish/British Isle melodys that you may have never heard.
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Irish Mandolin Playing
This is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in Irish mandolin playing. As well as being a complete guide for the absolute beginner, this book also contains a mine of information, useful tips and ideas for the experienced player.All the tunes and key exercises in the book are included on the accompanying 63 track CD.
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Jam Session Standards For Dobro
These are good solid arrangements for the intermediate-advanced player. Each tune is played once at FULL SPEED then taught one section at a time on the CD. The sections are all marked off in the tablature booklet, making it easy to follow.
Product# 6899
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Mandolin Christmas Song Book
Featuring 28 well-known Christmas songs arranged for mandolin with chord symbols for an accompaniment instrument. Book contains chord diagrams for mandolin and guitar as well as common strum patterns to use for rhythm backup. All songs are arranged in standard notation and tablature for mandolin.
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Mandolin Gold
This wonderful collection of music for the mandolin includes bluegrass; old-time fiddle tunes; classical music (including the complete solo part for the Vivaldi mandolin concerto and the "Canzonetta" from Mozart's "Don Giovanni"); American, Irish, Jewish, Russian and Italian songs; reels; jigs; hornpipes; hymns and gospel songs; minstrel songs; patriotic; blues and jazz; children's songs; and cowboy and country ballads.
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Mandolin Primer
Mandolin Primer Book with CD by Bert Casey is designed for the beginning mandolin student who desires an easy to follow, step by step instruction method for getting started on the mandolin. It starts with proper left & right hand technique and playing scales, then progresses to playing 14 popular bluegrass songs using techniques such as hammer-ons, slides, pull-offs, and double stops. It also includes a complete chord chart and a section on how to play rhythm on the mandolin (the famous mandolin "chop"). DVD and VHS Video also available.
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Mandolin Primer Jam CD's
The Mandolin Primer Jam CDs by Bert Casey and Geoff Hohwald are a 2 CD (audio only) set that play rhythm to all of the songs in the Mandolin Primer at 5 different speeds. This companion product to the Mandolin Primer is the perfect way to increase your playing speed, improve your timing and make that critical leap between practice and actually jamming with friends.
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Murphy Method Beginning Mandolin
This DVD starts at the very beginning, by covering all the basics. The techniques are applied to 7 well-known bluegrass songs, plus learn the chording for each song, which will enable you to play with other people! Taught by Murphy Henry. No Tab. Boil Them Cabbage, Cripple Creek, Worried Man, and more! (2 hours)n
Product# 21718DVD
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Murphy Method Beginning Mandolin
This video starts at the very beginning, by covering all the basics. The techniques are applied to 7 well-known bluegrass songs, plus learn the chording for each song, which will enable you to play with other people! Taught by Murphy Henry. No Tab. Boil Them Cabbage, Cripple Creek, Worried Man, and more! (2 hours) New lower price!
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Murphy Method Learning To Hear Chord Changes
NEW! For banjo, mandolin, fiddle, and guitar. This brand-new DVD will help you learn to hear those chord changes! Even if you’ve never heard a chord change before in your life! Now you can jam with confidence, even to songs you don't know. Starts with easy 2-chord songs and moves to 3-chord songs.
Product# 21714DVD
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Murphy Method Slow Jam with Murphy and Casey
Slow Jam With Murphy and Casey You just wanna jam. Why does that seem to be so hard? Is it because nobody plays slow enough? Because nobody will keep playing the same tunes over and over till you can get the hang of it? Slow Jam with Murphy and Casey is the answer to all your jamming woes! This brand-new DVD features Murphy Henry (banjo) and Casey Henry (guitar) along with friends on fiddle and mandolin playing 17 songs at slow speeds. You can chord along, play the lead with Murphy, or play a solo break in the space left just for you. Can be used with any instrument. Almost two hours of jamming fun!
Product# 21709DVD
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