Parking Lot Picker's Songbook - Dobro
Parking Lot Picker's Songbook - Dobro

Author: Dix Bruce

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2011-01-13

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1610658701

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A collection of over 200 great Bluegrass, Old Time, Country and Gospel standards. Melodies are presented with standard notation and tablature along with lyrics and chords.Learn to play songs written and recorded by the giants of traditional American music: Bill Monroe, the Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs, Ralph Stanley, the Osborne Brothers, Jimmy Martin, Doc Watson and many more. Also included: Step-by-Step instruction on how to transpose any song to any key!The two CDs include recordings of EVERY song in the book.

All-Time Favorite Parking Lot Picker's Mandolin Solos
All-Time Favorite Parking Lot Picker's Mandolin Solos

Author: Dix Bruce

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2012-10-26

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 1619113406

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This book and accompanying audio are an essential compilation of songs, solos, and techniques that every mandolin player should know. The book is aimed at beginning and intermediate mandolinists, and contains 40 mandolin solos of all- time favorite Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Gospel songs. The written music includes melodies, tablature, chords, and all the solos can be heard at both slow and regular speeds on the accompanying audio. Included are easy open string solos, closed position moveable and transposable solos, solos with tremolo, doublestops, bluesy solos, crosspicking solos, and backup mandolin parts. This book has everything you need to play great solos in jam sessions and performances! Includes access to online audio

My First Mandolin Picking Songs
My First Mandolin Picking Songs

Author: Steve Kaufman

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2016-01-12

Total Pages: 37

ISBN-13: 1610652290

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This fun and easy mandolin book and CD takes you from the very beginning. Learning right and left-hand techniques, learning your first chords, 18 great songs AND you painlessly learn them by reading notes. Anyone can do it. Steve's method and approach to learning to read notes is so simple that 4 year olds have done it. You will start with 4 simple notes. Steve then teaches songs using just those four notes. He systematically adds a few more notes at a time bundled with easy to understand instructions and songs so that in a short time you will know all the notes, chords, strumming patterns to play hundreds of songs. This is a perfect primer for many of Steve's best sellers and other author's books. Audio CD included.

Blazing Mandolin Solos
Blazing Mandolin Solos

Author: Steve Kaufman

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2016-07-14

Total Pages: 57

ISBN-13: 1619116367

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This mandolin edition includes the same 16 tunes found in Kaufman's out-of-printTwin 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 thesame 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 audio with three tracks for each tune (Lead, Harmony, and Lead & Harmony) completes the package. Includes access to online audio

Flatpickin' the Gospels (For Guitar)
Flatpickin' the Gospels (For Guitar)

Author: Steve Kaufman

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2015-06-01

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 161911500X

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In this book three time National Flatpicking Guitar Champion Steve Kaufman presents rousing guitar solos on 24 gospel favorites. Each song is shown with a melody part in notation and tablature, lyrics, an accompaniment part in tablature and a stirring flat- picking solo in notation and tablature. This recording is designed for listening first and second as an instructional tool. All 24 songs are played through three times at least. The first time is as it appears in the book and the two versions that follow are improvised versions. Making this a listening tool and an ear training tool. Recorded Digital to Analog in true stereo sound. This recording can be used with either Flatpickin' the Gospels or Autoharping the Gospels. Audio and Video download available online

Parking Lot Picker's Play-Along: Mandolin
Parking Lot Picker's Play-Along: Mandolin

Author: Dix Bruce

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2017-05-04

Total Pages: 57

ISBN-13: 1619117347

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The best way to learn an instrument is to play it as often as you can with other musicians. Trading songs and interacting with other instrumentalists and singers will foster learning at a faster pace and promote development of an ensemble sound. This play-along series encourages this kind of fun, collaborative approach to learning an instrument. Aspiring mandolinists can practice chords and rhythm, singing and lyrics, melodies, solos, licks and backup playing along with a real band! The online audio includes Dix Bruce on the guitar, mandolin and vocals, Bill Evans on the banjo and vocals, Julie Cline on vocals and Cindy Browne on the string bass. The recorded songs are performed with introductions (kickoffs), vocals and solos-just how they would be at jam sessions and performances. Solo sections in the recordings allow you to play chords and solos from the book. Create your own improvised solos or sing the lyrics while the band provides accompaniment. The book includes fifteen of the most popular bluegrass, old-time and gospel songs, recorded at slow and regular tempos for players of any skill level. Includes mandolin tablature, chords, solos, backup parts and more. Great for beginning to intermediate players. We'll jam ALL night long!

Steve Kaufman's Favorite 50 Celtic Reels A-L for Mandolin
Steve Kaufman's Favorite 50 Celtic Reels A-L for Mandolin

Author: Steve Kaufman

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2015-12-31

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 1610652215

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Steve Kaufman, Three Time National Flatpicking Champion, does it again. This first installment of a four part series brings us Steve's favorite Celtic Reels transcribed for the mandolin (and fiddle too). Though the title says Fifty reels, there are actually quite a few more. This is a large collection of reels will build your repertoire as well as help you develop more ideas, licks and runs for arranging your own melodies. All the songs in the book are played note for note on the accompanying CD at about ¾ speed. Your goal is to learn the song, memorize it and then race with the Champ.

Bluegrass Jamming on Mandolin
Bluegrass Jamming on Mandolin

Author: Wayne Erbsen

Publisher: Bluegrass Jamming

Published: 2011-08-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781883206611

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This is the first of a new series of easy and fun books by Wayne Erbsen that teaches 31 bluegrass jam standards. It covers: how to jam with others, how to improvise, how to make up your own tasteful licks and fills, almost painless music theory, how to play harmony, how to transpose and play in different keys, and pretty much everything you'll need to march fearlessly into your next jam or picking session! The other books in the series will teach the same songs so you can jam with friends and family. You WILL learn how to play and jam on: All the Good Times Are Past & Gone, Back Up and Push, Black-Eyed Susie, Cherokee Shuffle, Columbus Stockade, Colleen Malone, Dark Hollow, Deep Elem Blues, East Virginia, Footprints in the Snow, Katie Dear, Hand Me Down My Walking Cane, High on a Mountain, I Am a Pilgrim, I've Just Seen the Rock of Ages, John Henry, Just Over in the Gloryland, Little Birdie, Lonesome Road Blues, Love of the Mountains, Mama Don't Allow, Man of Constant Sorrow, More Pretty Girls Than One, Pig in a Pen, Pretty Polly, Red Rocking Chair, Rocky Road Blues, Roll on Buddy, Run and Hide, Sittin' on Top of the World, Working on a Building.

Steve Kaufman's Favorite Celtic Reels For Mandolin, Vol. 2
Steve Kaufman's Favorite Celtic Reels For Mandolin, Vol. 2

Author: Steve Kaufman

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2012-02-28

Total Pages: 93

ISBN-13: 161911044X

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Steve Kaufman, three-time National Flatpicking Champion, does it again. This installment of a four-part series brings us Steve's favorite Celtic hornpipes transcribed for the mandolin (and fiddle too). This is a large collection of hornpipes that will build your repertoire as well as help you develop more ideas, licks and runs for arranging your own melodies. Companion audio is available for this title in which all the songs are played note for note at about 3/4 speed.

Steve Kaufman's Favorite 50 Mandolin, Tunes S-W
Steve Kaufman's Favorite 50 Mandolin, Tunes S-W

Author: Steve Kaufman

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2015-09-08

Total Pages: 73

ISBN-13: 161065269X

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Steve Kaufman takes his favorite American fiddle tunes for the mandolin and puts them alphabetically in four volumes. Steve plays the mandolin exactly as it is written so the student can hear the melody and dynamics just as he would play it. Accompanying the large set of books are CDs with guitar rhythm accompaniment included. Build your repertoire, right and left hand skills and have fun playing at jam sessions with your friends. This 4 volume set written specifically for the mandolin also has a sister series for guitar.