INTRODUCTION |
CHAPTER 1---GETTING STARTED |
Lesson 1: Getting to Know Your Tools |
Lesson 2: The Notes on the Fretboard |
Lesson 3: Read Some TAB, Play Some Tunes |
River's Up, Can't Go Across |
This One's Got Spots |
Mary Had a Border Collie |
Lesson 4: Your First Chords |
Cabbage Seeds |
Lesson 5: Changing Chords |
Roast Them Rutabagas |
Windy Grove |
CHAPTER 2---READING STANDARD MUSIC NOTATION |
Lesson 1: The Notes and the Staff |
Lesson 2: Natural Notes on the 1st String |
Lesson 3: Time |
Lesson 4: Natural Notes on the 2nd String |
Cumberland Gap |
Lesson 5: Rests |
Lesson 6: Natural Notes on the 3rd String |
Lesson 7: Eighth Notes |
Lesson 8: Natural notes on the 4th String |
Lesson 9: Dotted Notes |
Lesson 10: Sharps and Flats |
Ooooh...Creepy! |
Theme from Invention No. 4---J.S. Bach BWV 775 |
Lesson 11: Key Signatures |
Raise a Glass for Pythagoras |
Lesson 12: 1st and 2nd Endings |
Marching off to Litchfield |
Lesson 13: Refining Your Strumming |
Boil Them Cabbage Down |
CHAPTER 3---FIDDLE-TUNE STYLE: THE ROOTS OF BLUEGRASS |
Lesson 1: D Major Scale; Your First D Tune |
Old Liza Jane |
Lesson 2: Alternate Picking |
Soldier's Joy |
Lesson 3: Connecting the Dots with Passing Tones |
Soldier's Joy (Variation with Passing Tones) |
Lesson 4: Drones and Shuffles |
Mississippi Sawyer |
Lesson 5: A Tunes and Unison Doubles |
Old Joe Clark |
Lesson 6: The Modal Sound of the A Minor Pentatonic Scale |
Cluck Old Hen (High) |
Cluck Old Hen (Low) |
Lesson 7: The Key of G Major; Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs |
Miss McLeod's Reel/Hop High Ladies/Uncle Joe |
Lesson 8: Waltz-Time Strumming and Melody |
Amazing Grace |
Lesson 9: Sixteenth Notes; Tremolo |
Greensleeves |
CHAPTER 4---THE BLUES |
Lesson 1: Basic Blues Theory |
Lesson 2: The 12-Bar Blues |
Lesson 3: Memorizing the 12-Bar Blues |
Lesson 4: Blues Rhythm |
Blues Boogie in G |
Lesson 5: Blues Improvisation with the Minor Pentatonic Scale |
Lesson 6: Blues Improvisation with the G Blues Scale and Slides |
Louie's Got the Bluie and Yank's at the Bank |
CHAPTER 5---BLUEGRASS |
Lesson 1: Bluegrass Rhythm |
This Hammer's Too Heavy |
Lesson 2: Bluegrass Lead |
Come on and Sit on Top of My Kitchen Counter |
Lesson 3: Transposition |
Lesson 4: More Moveable Chords |
This Hammer's Too Heavy (in A) |
Lesson 5: Bluegrass Blues in A |
Bluegrass 12-Bar Blues in A |
Bluegrass 12-Bar Blues in A (Lead Break) |
Lesson 6: Bluegrass in a Minor Key |
Dark on the Drive Home |
Lesson 7: Kickoffs and Tags |
CHAPTER 6---ROCK MANDOLIN |
Lesson 1: Rock 'n' Roll Folk Strumming |
The Long Forgotten Daze of My Youth |
The Battle of the Elves, Dragons and Rock Vocalists |
Lesson 2: Arpeggiating Chords |
The Long Forgotten Daze of My Youth (Arpeggio Chords) |
The Battle of the Elves, Dragons and Rock Vocalists (Arpeggio Chords) |
Lesson 3: Rock Mandolin Improv |
The Long Forgotten Daze of My Youth (Solo) |
The Battle of the Elves, Dragons and Rock Vocalists (Solo) |
APPENDIX 1---THE ELEMENTS OF MUSIC |
Lesson 1: The Major Scale |
Lesson 2: The Circle of 5ths |
Lesson 3: Intervals |
Lesson 4: Fingerings for Intervals |
Lesson 5: Harmony and Chords |
Lesson 6: Musical Expression |
APPENDIX 2---GUIDE FINGERS |
APPENDIX 3---CHORD FORMS |
APPENDIX 4---HOW TO PRACTICE |
"Home base" Technique; When and What |
Organizing a Practice Session |
Buy a Metronome |
ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
INTRODUCTION |
CHAPTER 1---REVIEW: READING MUSIC |
Lesson 1: Pitch |
Lesson 2: Time |
Lesson 3: Tablature |
CHAPTER 2---REVIEW: SCALES AND CHORDS |
Lesson 1: Major Scales |
Lesson 2: Chords |
CHAPTER 3---DEVELOPING TECHNIQUE |
Lesson 1: Building Speed and Agility |
Lesson 2: Improving Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs |
Lesson 3: Improving Tremolo |
Air on the Side of Caution |
Lesson 4: Slides |
Sign Says "Gone Noodling" |
Lesson 5: Crosspicking |
Turkey in the Straw (Crosspicking) |
Lesson 6: McReynolds-Style Rolls and Picking Patterns |
Long Lonesome Road (Crosspicking) |
CHAPTER 4---BETTER PICKING THROUGH FIDDLE TUNES |
Lesson 1: How to Learn Folk Music |
Lesson 2: Cut Time |
Fire on the Mountain |
Lesson 3: Sally Goodin |
Sally Goodin (Standard Two-Part Version) |
Sally Goodin Variation No. 1 |
Sally Goodin Variation No. 2 |
Sally Goodin Variation No. 3 |
Sally Goodin Variation No. 4 |
Lesson 4: "Kitchen Gal" |
Kitchen Gal |
Lesson 5: "Leather Britches" |
Leather Britches |
Lesson 6: "Seneca Square Dance" |
Seneca Square Dance |
Lesson 7: "Johnny Don't Get Drunk" |
Johnny Don't Get Drunk |
Lesson 8: A Rag in C Major |
Orville and Lloyd's Rag |
Lesson 9: Jigs |
Money in Both Pockets |
Scatter the Mud |
CHAPTER 5---BACK TO BLUEGRASS |
Lesson 1: Improving Rhythm Playing |
Free Little Bird |
Lesson 2: Lead Backup Playing |
Free Little Bird---Lead Backup |
Lesson 3: Bluegrass Lead---Melodic Breaks |
Free Little Bird---Melodic Break |
Lesson 4: Bluegrass Lead---Improvised Breaks |
Free Little Bird---Improvised Break |
CHAPTER 6---WORKING UP THE NECK |
Lesson 1: Moveable Major Scales |
This Hammer's Still Too Heavy |
Lesson 2: Major Scale Harmony Review |
Lesson 3: Double Stops---3rds |
San Antonio Sunrise |
Lesson 4: Double Stops---6ths |
Mandohula Sunset |
Lesson 5: Arpeggios---Major, Minor and Diminished Triads |
Saturday Night at the Gulag Arpeggio |
Lesson 6: Arpeggios---Augmented Triads and Seventh Chords |
Lesson 7: The Natural Minor Scale and the Relative Minor |
Toulouse Lautrec |
CHAPTER 7---BLUES AND BLUEGRASS IMPROV UP THE NECK |
Lesson 1: Moveable Dominant 7 Chords |
Blues in My Bee Bonnet (or, Bees in My Blue Bonnet) |
Lesson 2: The Minor Pentatonic Scale |
Lesson 3: Connecting the Fingerings |
You Won't B-Minor Forever |
Lesson 4: The Major Pentatonic Scale |
Lesson 5: Comparing and Combining the Major and Minor Pentatonic Sounds |
Key to the High School---Solo No. 1 (Major Pentatonic) |
Key to the High School---Solo No. 2 (Minor Pentatonic) |
Key to the High School---Solo No. 3 (Major and Minor Pentatonic) |
CHAPTER 8---A TASTE OF SWING AND JAZZ MANDOLIN |
Lesson 1: Swing Rhythm Playing |
Swing by Your Thumbs (Simple Rhythm Chords) |
Lesson 2: Cool Swing Chords---Maj7, Min7 and 6 |
Swing by Your Thumbs (Cool Swing Chords) |
Lesson 3: Melody and Improvisation |
Swing by Your Thumbs (Melody) |
CHAPTER 9---NEW RHYTHMS AND SOUNDS |
Lesson 1: Funk on the Mandolin |
Ooh, That Some Funky Mando! |
Lesson 2: The Grooves of New Orleans |
Bo Man Diddley Blues |
Lesson 3: Reggae on the Mandolin |
How A'You Gonna Play Dat Mando-Leen? |
CHAPTER 10---A TASTE OF BRAZIL |
Lesson 1: Brazilian-Style Rhythm Playing |
Mandolin Jake (Chords and Rhythm) |
Lesson 2: Brazilian-Style Lead Playing |
Mandolin Jake (Melody) |
ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
INTRODUCTION |
CHAPTER 1---WARM-UPS |
Exercises for the Left Hand |
Working Fingers in Pairs |
Right-Hand Exercises |
PART ONE---HARMONY |
CHAPTER 2---IMPORTANT CHORDS |
Extended Major Chords |
Extended Minor Chords |
Extended Dominant Chords |
Diminished 7th Chords |
Other Important Chords |
Altered Chords |
Chord Reference Charts |
Finding Other Voicings |
CHAPTER 3---CHORD PROGRESSIONS |
Blues Forms |
8-Bar Blues |
12-Bar Blues |
16-Bar Blues (1st Variation) |
16-Bar Blues (2nd Variation) |
24-Bar Blues |
12-Bar Blues in G |
Almost Time |
Blues Grass Ramble |
Jazz---Rhythm Changes |
Rhythm Changes (Basic) |
Rhythm Changes---Swing |
Rhythm Changes---Bebop |
Rhythm Changes (Tritone Substitution) |
Anthromorphology |
Criminal Satisfaction |
Chord Substitution |
Rollin' in My Sweet Baby's Arms (Straight) |
Rollin' in My Sweet Baby's Arms (Tritone Substitution) |
Rollin' In My Sweet Baby's Arms (Minor 3rd Substitution) |
Rollin' in My Sweet Baby's Arms (Dim7 Substitution) |
CHAPTER 4---CHORD/MELODY |
Mississippi Sawyer (Melody) |
Creating a Chord/Melody |
Mississippi Sawyer (Jethro Style) |
PART TWO---MELODY |
CHAPTER 5---SCALES AND MODES |
Generating the Modes from a Parent Scale |
The Relative View |
The Parallel View |
Mode Characteristics and Fingerings |
Using the Modes |
The Rights of Man |
Drunken Sailor |
June Apple |
Over the Waterfall |
Pentatonic Scales |
Spootiskerry Reel |
The Blues Scale |
The Whole-Tone Scale |
The Chromatic Scale |
The Five Basic Scale Types Every Mandolin Player Should Know |
PART THREE---RHYTHM |
CHAPTER 6---EXPLORING TIME SIGNATURES |
Review of Compound Meter |
A Trip to the Cottage |
Banish Misfortune |
The Butterfly |
Dan O'Keefe's Slide |
Odd Meters |
5-Time Waltz |
Sillyfjord |
CHAPTER 7---MELODIC RHYTHM |
Soldier's Joy |
Soldier's Joy---Waltz |
Soldier's Joy---Jig |
PART FOUR---PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER |
CHAPTER 8---IMPROVISATION |
Raking Leaves No. 1 |
Raking Leaves No. 2 |
Raking Leaves No. 3 |
Raking Leaves No. 4 |
Raking Leaves No. 5 |
Raking Leaves No. 6 |
CHAPTER 9---FINDING MATERIAL FROM AROUND THE WORLD |
Old French (Canada) |
Simo Ligeri |
WRAPPING UP---FINAL THOUGHTS AND SUGGESTIONS |