Favorite Mandolin Picking Tunes (Book + Online Audio)
Full-Sized Edition
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. 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 given at the front of the book for each tune. All the tunes are in notation and tabl ...more
Product Number:
98420M
Format:
Book + Online Audio
Skill Level:
Beginning-Intermediate
Notation Type:
Standard Notation and Tab
Pages:
32
Binding:
Saddle Stitched
Size:
8.75 x 11.75
ISBN:
0-7866-9686-9
ISBN13:
978-07866-9686-4
Series:
Qwikguide
Publisher:
Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Date Published:
5/27/2016
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. 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 given at the front of the book for each tune. All the tunes are in notation and tablature. Includes access to online audio that is set up so that you can play along with each tune at both regular and slow speeds. You can also adjust the balance control on your stereo to hear both mandolin lead and accompaniment, just mandolin lead, or just accompaniment.
Introduction to Famous Mandolin Pickin’ Tunes
Simple Gifts
Alice Blue Gown 
Allons a Lafayette
Brahm’s Lullaby
Tumbalalika 
The No Name Rag in G
The No Name Rag in C 
The No Name Rag in D 
The Girl I Left Behind Me
Fair and Tender Ladies 
St. Anne’s Reel
Santa Lucia 
Pass Me Not
June Apple 
Pathetique 
Fisher’s Hornpipe
The Ash Grove 
Have Pity 
Danny Boy
St. James Infirmary
Hatikvah
Menuett 1 
Menuett 2 
The Cuckoo’s Nest
Little Maggie 
The Rights of Man 
The First Nöel
Silent Night 
O Sole Mio
Sally Goodin 
Bluegrass Chime 
Swallowtail Jig 
Rose Room 
Softly and Tenderly 
Caro Mio Ben (Thou, All My Bliss) 
(Back Home Again In) Indiana
The Wedding Waltz
Stoney Point
Auld Lang Syne 
Temperance Reel 
Fascination 
Turkey in the Straw
All Through the Night 

 
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