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101 Red Hot Bluegrass Mandolin Licks and Solos.
This book contains 101 bluegrass mandolin licks in the keys of C, G, D, and A minor written in notation and tablature.. Each lick is played to a chord progression that is standard in bluegrass, country, and folk music. All 101 examples are recorded on the companion CD with guitar accompaniment at a moderate tempo
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50 Tunes for Guitar
The 50 Tunes series is a collection of Bluegrass, Old Time and Celtic tunes for ensembles, families and individuals. This book contains the same 50 tunes as those found in the other 4 books on guitar, banjo, mandolin and bass, but carefully designed for the guitar. The melodies in this book range from simple to advanced. Designed for "flatpicking" on the acoustic guitar. Flatpicking is a style of guitar playing, prevalent in Celtic and Bluegrass music which features fast soloing with a single, flat pick. Companion CDs included. Book written in tablature only.
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50 Tunes for Mandolin
The 50 Tunes series is a collection of Bluegrass, Old Time and Celtic tunes for ensembles, families and individuals. This book contains the same 50 tunes as those found in the other 4 books on guitar, banjo, fiddle and bass, but carefully designed for the mandolin. The melodies in this book range from simple to advanced. Companion CDs included. Book written in tablature and standard notation.
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Alan Bibey AcuTab Transcriptions Vol. 1
Learn Alan Bibey's fabulous mandolin breaks in a variety of styles and keys. Features 31 solos from 20 songs found on Bibey's recordings with The New Quicksilver and IIIrd Tyme Out, and others. All solos are presented in both standard notation and tablature with left-hand fingerings and helpful performance notes.
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Anyone Can Play Mandolin
For beginning mandolin students. It teaches the fundamentals of mandolin, chord strumming, single-note melody picking, and explains tablature. Does not require any previous musical experience or note-reading ability. You will learn several well-known bluegrass songs in both strumming and picking styles.
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Beginning Country and Bluegrass Dobro
This video will get your skills started off right! Includes detailed study of: Bar technique • pick technique • chimes • trills, bending strings • hammer-ons • pull-offs, slants • rhythm chops • using the cassette recorder • slow songs, fast songs • and much more.
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Beginning Mandolin
This DVD is designed for the beginner to intermediate level player. A full range of DVD special features have been integrated with video special effects to create the most powerful learning system yet produced by Specialty Music Productions. With your DVD remote control, you're ready to take full advantage of the interactive menus, scene selections, and other easy-to-use features that are there at your fingertips. See how fun and easy it is to learn to play your mandolin in front of your own TV.
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Beginning Mandolin Solos
Here's a diverse collection of 56 beginning mandolin solos in notation and tablature with suggested guitar chords. This book makes an excellent supplement to any introductory mandolin method. Dix Bruce performs all of the tunes in the book on the companion CD.
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Blazing Mandolin Solos for One Player or More
This mandolin edition includes the same 16 tunes found in Kaufman’s out-of-print Twin Pickin’ flatpicking guitar book, soon to be available as Blazing Solos for Flatpicking Guitar for One Player or More. The tunes in both editions are in the same keys so the books can serve as a foundation for fabulous twin-picking jam sessions in which either guitarists or mandolinists can take the lead and harmony parts. In addition to the tunes, Kaufman includes performance notes, guidelines for reading standard notation and tab plus his take on the harmonization process. A play-along CD with three tracks for each tune (Lead, Harmony, and Lead & Harmony) completes the package.
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Bluegrass Guitar 1
10 Bluegrass instrumental standards. For every song, Dan gives you a fast version, a slow version and a phrase-by-phrase lesson, plus a rhythm guitar part recorded separately so you can practice your solos.
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Bluegrass Guitar 2
10 Bluegrass instrumental standards. For every song, Dan gives you a fast version, a slow version and a phrase-by-phrase lesson, plus a rhythm guitar part recorded separately so you can practice your solos
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Bluegrass Guitar 3
10 Bluegrass instrumental standards. For every song, Dan gives you a fast version, a slow version and a phrase-by-phrase lesson, plus a rhythm guitar part recorded separately so you can practice your solos
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Bluegrass Guitar 4
10 Bluegrass instrumental standards. For every song, Dan gives you a fast version, a slow version and a phrase-by-phrase lesson, plus a rhythm guitar part recorded separately so you can practice your solos.
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Bluegrass Guitar Set
Bluegrass Guitar The Right Way is the Easy Way! with Dan Huckabee 40 Bluegrass guitar solos to build & enhance your flatpicking repertoire. Each of the 4 courses includes step-by-step instruction on CD with corresponding tablature for 10 Bluegrass instrumental standards. Complete 4 CD set.
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Bluegrass Mandolin 1
Included is step-by-step instruction on audio with tablature. These 10 standards are played once slowly & once up to speed. Each song has rhythm recorded separately so you can practice your solos with rhythm.
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Bluegrass Mandolin 2
Included is step-by-step instruction on audio with tablature. These 10 standards are played once slowly & once up to speed. Each song has rhythm recorded separately so you can practice your solos with rhythm.
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Butch Baldassari - Acutab Transcriptions V.1
This special volume presents mandolin music in standard notation and tablature for 19 songs from Butch's Old Town album on the Rebel label, plus recordings with the groups Weary Hearts (By Heart) and Lonesome Standard Time (Lonesome Standard Time and Mighty Lonesome) on the Sugar Hill label.
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Complete Jethro Burns Mandolin
Learn from the master of bluegrass mandolin - Jethro Burns. More than 70 tunes and two dozen exercises are found in this bluegrass bonanza. The Complete Jethro Burns Mandolin Book and 2-CD Set is an incomparable resource of bluegrass mandolin repertoire - all in standard notation and tablature.
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Deluxe Bluegrass Mandolin Method
Ray Valla shares the insights of a veteran bluegrass mandolinist. This is the ideal book for the intermediate to advanced player. It is filled with practical hints to improve your musicianship and increase the speed of your progress. The book's 27 well-known bluegrass tunes are shown in standard notation and tablature.
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Dobro Christmas Songbook
Featuring 28 well-known Christmas songs arranged for squareneck resonator guitar with chord symbols for an accompaniment instrument. Book contains chord diagrams for accompaniment guitar as well as common strum patterns to use for rhythm backup. All songs are arranged in standard notation and tablature for Dobro®.
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Easiest Mandolin Book
A handy and economical starter book chock-full of useful information. Teaches strumming rhythm by playing along with lyrics, then teaches tablature reading for playing solos. The solos provide picking indications for up-picking and down-picking.
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Easy Dobro Solos 1
These arrangements are easy to learn & play but they still sound good! Each tune is played once at normal speed & then taught one section at a time on the CD. The sections are all marked off & labeled in the tablature booklet.
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Easy Dobro Solos 2
These arrangements are easy to learn & play but they still sound good! Each tune is played once at normal speed & then taught one section at a time on the CD. The sections are all marked off & labeled in the tablature booklet.
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Easy Gospel Mandolin Solos
Learn how to play 10 easy Gospel Bluegrass Mandolin solos designed to help you develop your personal solo designing skills.
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Easy Guitar Solos
If you enjoy the 'Carter Family Style' you'll love this lesson! It's basically the old style of strumming the chords while you weave in the melody notes. It's fun, easy & you'll really learn how melody relates to chords!
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