
You Can Teach Yourself Mandolin by Dix Bruce. Gets you started playing the world’s most fascinating, yet small, stringed instrument. Join the fun! Aimed at beginners and intermediate players.
$19.95
Additional Details
- You will learn:
- Tuning the Mandolin
- Nineteen Easy Songs (see listing below)
- Nineteen Mandolin Solos
- All Common Mandolin Chords
- Elementary Note & Music Reading
- Beginning Music Theory
- Scales, Keys, & Transposition
- Mandolin Accompaniment Strums
- Complete “Split-track” Stereo Play-along audio
- Basic Pick Technique
- Tremolo • Double Stops
- Handy Scale, Chord, and Transposition Chart
- “Sources” section for further study
- Chord Appendix & More!
All the tunes and exercises can be heard on the downloadable audio recordings, most at both slow and regular speeds.
Sample page of music: No Name Rag
Table of Contents:
Beginning at the Beginning
The Mandolin & Its Parts
Getting in Tune
Preparing to Play
Part I: Chords
Chord Diagrams (G & C)
He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands
Hush Little Baby (F & D)
Streets of Laredo (waltz time, A)
Kumbaya (E)
John B. Sails (Calypso strum, Bb & C7)
I Ride an Old Paint (Bb chop & F7)
Careless Love (G7)
Sportin’ Life (diminished seven, triplet strum, E7, Am, Adim, C,47, F,47, B7)
Fair and Tender Ladies (Em)
The Cuckoo (Gm, D7)
The Cruel War (F#m, Bm)
Nine Pound Hammer (bluegrass)
Take a Drink on Me (A7)
Part II: Basic Note Reading
Notes on the Mandolin
Rhythm, Rests
Tablature
Stringin’ (lead picking)
Key Signatures
Major Scales
The No-Name Rag (eighth-note leads)
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (dotted notes)
Sally Goodin (fiddle tunes)
Fair & Tender Ladies (tremolo)
All Through the Night (double stops)
Beginning at the End
Scale, Chord, and Transposition Chart
The Chord Appendix
Sources
Customer comments:
Hello Dix,
I used your “You Can Teach Yourself Mandolin” several years back when I first started to learn the instrument…I wanted to take a minute to thank you. What a great learning tool that was. I am taking private lessons now, and my instructor was quite pleased with where I was when I first went to see him. Thanks again for a great introductory textbook and CD set.
P.M. – Columbia, MO