Learning the mandolin should be required for every violinist: it has the same tuning and is a chordal instrument. This book provides violinists with the skills and knowledge needed to master the mandolin; it also teaches ways in which mandolin concepts can open up one's violin playing. The book offers key insights into the similarities and differences between the two instruments so that violinists can quickly learn to play the mandolin. The book and companion audio download available online cover basic fingering and picking techniques and then move through exercises and pieces drawn from the classical, swing and folk genres.

Introduction
Switching to Mandolin
Picking Motion
Playing a Fretted Instrument
The Open Strings
Fretting Notes
Mandolin Fingerboard Chart
June Apple
Swallow Tail Jig
Minuet
Blackberry Blossom
Etude
Major Scales
Canon in D Major
Old Joe Clark
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Cross Picking
Concerto for Two Violins
Bile Them Cabbage
Cello Suite
Celtic Mandolin Melody
Old Time Mandolin Slurs
Baroque Slurs
Tremolo
Carnival of Venice
Mandolin Ballad
Chords
Amazing Grace
Root Position Chords
1st Inversion Chords
2nd Inversion Chords
Bile Them Cabbage Chords
Seventh Chords
Building Chords
Standard Mandolin
Bossamando
Csardas
Eight String Blues
Sonata in F Major
Strumming, Muting and Chopping Chords
Mandolin as a Learning Tool for Violinist
Comping Chords on the Violin
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