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4 Beginning Mandolin

INTRODUCTION ..............................................................6

CHAPTER 1—GETTING STARTED ........................7

Lesson 1: Getting to Know Your Tools .............................7

Lesson 2: The Notes on the Fretboard ............................11

Lesson 3: Read Some TAB, Play Some Tunes .................13

River’s Up, Can’t Go Across .............................................13

This One’s Got Spots ........................................................14

Mary Had a Border Collie ................................................14

Lesson 4: Your First Chords ...............................................15

Cabbage Seeds ..................................................................16

Lesson 5: Changing Chords .................................................17

Roast Them Rutabagas ....................................................18

Windy Grove ......................................................................18

CHAPTER 2—READING STANDARD

MUSIC NOTATION .......................

Lesson 1: The Notes and the Staff .....................................19

Lesson 2: Natural Notes on the 1st String ......................20

Lesson 3: Time .......................................................................21

Lesson 4: Natural Notes on the 2nd String .....................23

Cumberland Gap ...............................................................23

Lesson 5: Rests .......................................................................24

Lesson 6: Natural Notes on the 3rd String .....................25

Lesson 7: Eighth Notes .........................................................26

Lesson 8: Natural notes on the 4th String .......................27

Lesson 9: Dotted Notes .......................................................28

Lesson 10: Sharps and Flats .................................................29

Ooooh...Creepy! .................................................................30

Theme from Invention No. 4—J.S. Bach BWV 775 .....30

Lesson 11: Key Signatures ...................................................31

Raise a Glass for Pythagoras ............................................31

Lesson 12: 1st and 2nd Endings ..........................................32

Marching off to Litchﬁeld .................................................

Lesson 13: Reﬁning Your Strumming ................................

Boil Them Cabbage Down ...............................................34

CHAPTER 3—FIDDLE-TUNE STYLE: THE

ROOTS OF BLUEGRASS .............

Lesson 1: D Major Scale; Your First D Tune ..................35

Old Liza Jane .....................................................................36

Lesson 2: Alternate Picking .................................................37

Soldier’s Joy ........................................................................38

Lesson 3: Connecting the Dots with Passing Tones .....39

Soldier’s Joy (Variation with Passing Tones) ...................40

Lesson 4: Drones and Shufﬂes ............................................

Mississippi Sawyer ............................................................42

Lesson 5: A Tunes and Unison Doubles ..........................43

Old Joe Clark .....................................................................44

Lesson 6: The Modal Sound of

the A Minor Pentatonic Scale ..........................................45

Cluck Old Hen (High) .......................................................46

Cluck Old Hen (Low) ........................................................46

Lesson 7: The Key of G Major;

Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs .............................................47

Miss McLeod’s Reel/Hop High Ladies/Uncle Joe ...........48

Lesson 8: Waltz-Time Strumming and Melody ...............49

Amazing Grace ..................................................................50

Lesson 9: Sixteenth Notes; Tremolo ................................51

Greensleeves ......................................................................52

CHAPTER 4—THE BLUES .........................................53

Lesson 1: Basic Blues Theory ..............................................53

Lesson 2: The 12-Bar Blues .................................................53

Lesson 3: Memorizing the 12-Bar Blues ...........................54

Lesson 4: Blues Rhythm .......................................................55

Blues Boogie in G ..............................................................56

Lesson 5: Blues Improvisation with

the Minor Pentatonic Scale ..............................................57

Lesson 6: Blues Improvisation with

the G Blues Scale and Slides ............................................59

Louie’s Got the Bluie and Yank’s at the Bank ................60

CONTENTS

Summary of content (9 pages)

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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ..............................................................6 CHAPTER 1—GETTING STARTED ........................7 Lesson 1: Getting to Know Your Tools .............................7 Lesson 2: The Notes on the Fretboard ............................11 Lesson 3: Read Some TAB, Play Some Tunes .................13 River’s Up, Can’t Go Across .............................................13 This One’s Got Spots ........................................................
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CHAPTER 5—BLUEGRASS .......................................61 Lesson 1: Bluegrass Rhythm ................................................61 This Hammer’s Too Heavy ..............................................62 Lesson 2: Bluegrass Lead ......................................................63 Come on and Sit on Top of My Kitchen Counter ..........64 Lesson 3: Transposition .......................................................65 Lesson 4: More Moveable Chords .....................................
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CONTENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR ............................................. 100 INTRODUCTION ......................................................... 101 CHAPTER 1—REVIEW: READING MUSIC .... 102 Lesson 1: Pitch ..................................................................... 102 Lesson 2: Time .................................................................... 103 Lesson 3: Tablature ............................................................ 103 CHAPTER 2—REVIEW: SCALES AND CHORDS ..................
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CHAPTER 6—WORKING UP THE NECK ...... 146 Lesson 1: Moveable Major Scales .................................... 146 This Hammer’s Still Too Heavy .................................... 150 Lesson 2: Major Scale Harmony Review ....................... 151 Lesson 3: Double Stops—3rds ........................................ 152 San Antonio Sunrise ....................................................... 153 Lesson 4: Double Stops—6ths ........................................ 154 Mandohula Sunset ...................
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CONTENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR ............................................. 196 INTRODUCTION ........................................................ 197 CHAPTER 1—WARM-UPS ...................................... 198 Exercises for the Left Hand .............................................. 199 Working Fingers in Pairs ................................................... 200 Right-Hand Exercises ......................................................... 202 Chord Substitution ...................................
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PART THREE—RHYTHM PART FOUR—PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER CHAPTER 6—EXPLORING TIME SIGNATURES..................... 262 Review of Compound Meter ........................................... 262 A Trip to the Cottage ..................................................... 263 Banish Misfortune .......................................................... 264 The Butterﬂy ................................................................... 265 Dan O’Keefe’s Slide .......................................................
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LESSON 3: READ SOME TAB, PLAY SOME TUNES Now that we’ve covered the basics, it’s time to play! TABLATURE Mandolin tablature, called TAB for short, is a system of writing music just for the mandolin. It tells you what fret to play, and what course to play it on. The long horizontal lines represent the four string courses. The top line is the 1st course (E) and the bottom line is the 4th course (G). The numbers indicate which fret to play.Try fingering the notes indicated using any left-hand finger.
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LESSON 4: DOUBLE STOPS—6THS WORLD TURNED TURNED UPSIDE-DOWN A WORLD of a 3rd (for more In A 6th is the the inversion inversion of more on on intervals intervalsand andinversions, inversions,see seepages page 83–88). 82–87 of other words, a 6th isInaother 3rd turned example, G to B is For a major 3rd, while Beginning Mandolin). words,upside-down. a 6th is a 3rdFor turned upside-down. example, G to B toaGmajor is a minor 6th. When inverted, itsinterval quality (major or minor) is changed.
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Now that you have some familiarity with pentatonic scales and understand how they can be used, here is a great tune for you to try. This tune is composed solely from the notes contained in the G Major Pentatonic scale and provides a perfect example of how the scale can not only sound pleasing over different chords in a key but can be crafted into a very nice sounding tune too. SPOOTISKERRY REEL Track 33 G C œ D #4 œ œ œ œ . œ œ œ & 4 œ œ .