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Complete Mandolin Method

Jeder, der Mandoline spielen lernen möchte, kann dieses Buch in die Hand nehmen und sofort loslegen. Diese schrittweise, umfassende Methode deckt alles von grundlegenden bis zu fortgeschrittenen Techniken ab. Zu den Konzepten für Anfänger gehören das Lesen von Noten und Tabulatur, grundlegende Strumming-Muster, Alternate Picking, Tremolo und Slides im Bluegrass- und Blues-Stil. Zu den Themen für Fortgeschrittene gehören Hammer-Ons, Pull-Offs, Cross-Picking und Rolls. Das Buch schließt mit fortgeschrittenen Konzepten wie fortgeschrittene Harmonien, 12-Takt-Blues, Rhythmuswechsel, Akkord-Melodie-Spiel, Modi, Improvisation und vieles mehr.

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INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1---GETTING STARTED Lesson 1: Getting to Know Your Tools Lesson 2: The Notes on the Fretboard Lesson 3: Read Some TAB, Play Some Tunes River's Up, Can't Go Across This One's Got Spots Mary Had a Border Collie Lesson 4: Your First Chords Cabbage Seeds Lesson 5: Changing Chords Roast Them Rutabagas Windy Grove CHAPTER 2---READING STANDARD MUSIC NOTATION Lesson 1: The Notes and the Staff Lesson 2: Natural Notes on the 1st String Lesson 3: Time Lesson 4: Natural Notes on the 2nd String Cumberland Gap Lesson 5: Rests Lesson 6: Natural Notes on the 3rd String Lesson 7: Eighth Notes Lesson 8: Natural notes on the 4th String Lesson 9: Dotted Notes Lesson 10: Sharps and Flats Ooooh...Creepy! Theme from Invention No. 4---J.S. Bach BWV 775 Lesson 11: Key Signatures Raise a Glass for Pythagoras Lesson 12: 1st and 2nd Endings Marching off to Litchfield Lesson 13: Refining Your Strumming Boil Them Cabbage Down CHAPTER 3---FIDDLE-TUNE STYLE: THE ROOTS OF BLUEGRASS Lesson 1: D Major Scale; Your First D Tune Old Liza Jane Lesson 2: Alternate Picking Soldier's Joy Lesson 3: Connecting the Dots with Passing Tones Soldier's Joy (Variation with Passing Tones) Lesson 4: Drones and Shuffles Mississippi Sawyer Lesson 5: A Tunes and Unison Doubles Old Joe Clark Lesson 6: The Modal Sound of the A Minor Pentatonic Scale Cluck Old Hen (High) Cluck Old Hen (Low) Lesson 7: The Key of G Major; Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs Miss McLeod's Reel/Hop High Ladies/Uncle Joe Lesson 8: Waltz-Time Strumming and Melody Amazing Grace Lesson 9: Sixteenth Notes; Tremolo Greensleeves CHAPTER 4---THE BLUES Lesson 1: Basic Blues Theory Lesson 2: The 12-Bar Blues Lesson 3: Memorizing the 12-Bar Blues Lesson 4: Blues Rhythm Blues Boogie in G Lesson 5: Blues Improvisation with the Minor Pentatonic Scale Lesson 6: Blues Improvisation with the G Blues Scale and Slides Louie's Got the Bluie and Yank's at the Bank CHAPTER 5---BLUEGRASS Lesson 1: Bluegrass Rhythm This Hammer's Too Heavy Lesson 2: Bluegrass Lead Come on and Sit on Top of My Kitchen Counter Lesson 3: Transposition Lesson 4: More Moveable Chords This Hammer's Too Heavy (in A) Lesson 5: Bluegrass Blues in A Bluegrass 12-Bar Blues in A Bluegrass 12-Bar Blues in A (Lead Break) Lesson 6: Bluegrass in a Minor Key Dark on the Drive Home Lesson 7: Kickoffs and Tags CHAPTER 6---ROCK MANDOLIN Lesson 1: Rock 'n' Roll Folk Strumming The Long Forgotten Daze of My Youth The Battle of the Elves, Dragons and Rock Vocalists Lesson 2: Arpeggiating Chords The Long Forgotten Daze of My Youth (Arpeggio Chords) The Battle of the Elves, Dragons and Rock Vocalists (Arpeggio Chords) Lesson 3: Rock Mandolin Improv The Long Forgotten Daze of My Youth (Solo) The Battle of the Elves, Dragons and Rock Vocalists (Solo) APPENDIX 1---THE ELEMENTS OF MUSIC Lesson 1: The Major Scale Lesson 2: The Circle of 5ths Lesson 3: Intervals Lesson 4: Fingerings for Intervals Lesson 5: Harmony and Chords Lesson 6: Musical Expression APPENDIX 2---GUIDE FINGERS APPENDIX 3---CHORD FORMS APPENDIX 4---HOW TO PRACTICE "Home base" Technique; When and What Organizing a Practice Session Buy a Metronome ABOUT THE AUTHOR INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1---REVIEW: READING MUSIC Lesson 1: Pitch Lesson 2: Time Lesson 3: Tablature CHAPTER 2---REVIEW: SCALES AND CHORDS Lesson 1: Major Scales Lesson 2: Chords CHAPTER 3---DEVELOPING TECHNIQUE Lesson 1: Building Speed and Agility Lesson 2: Improving Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs Lesson 3: Improving Tremolo Air on the Side of Caution Lesson 4: Slides Sign Says "Gone Noodling" Lesson 5: Crosspicking Turkey in the Straw (Crosspicking) Lesson 6: McReynolds-Style Rolls and Picking Patterns Long Lonesome Road (Crosspicking) CHAPTER 4---BETTER PICKING THROUGH FIDDLE TUNES Lesson 1: How to Learn Folk Music Lesson 2: Cut Time Fire on the Mountain Lesson 3: Sally Goodin Sally Goodin (Standard Two-Part Version) Sally Goodin Variation No. 1 Sally Goodin Variation No. 2 Sally Goodin Variation No. 3 Sally Goodin Variation No. 4 Lesson 4: "Kitchen Gal" Kitchen Gal Lesson 5: "Leather Britches" Leather Britches Lesson 6: "Seneca Square Dance" Seneca Square Dance Lesson 7: "Johnny Don't Get Drunk" Johnny Don't Get Drunk Lesson 8: A Rag in C Major Orville and Lloyd's Rag Lesson 9: Jigs Money in Both Pockets Scatter the Mud CHAPTER 5---BACK TO BLUEGRASS Lesson 1: Improving Rhythm Playing Free Little Bird Lesson 2: Lead Backup Playing Free Little Bird---Lead Backup Lesson 3: Bluegrass Lead---Melodic Breaks Free Little Bird---Melodic Break Lesson 4: Bluegrass Lead---Improvised Breaks Free Little Bird---Improvised Break CHAPTER 6---WORKING UP THE NECK Lesson 1: Moveable Major Scales This Hammer's Still Too Heavy Lesson 2: Major Scale Harmony Review Lesson 3: Double Stops---3rds San Antonio Sunrise Lesson 4: Double Stops---6ths Mandohula Sunset Lesson 5: Arpeggios---Major, Minor and Diminished Triads Saturday Night at the Gulag Arpeggio Lesson 6: Arpeggios---Augmented Triads and Seventh Chords Lesson 7: The Natural Minor Scale and the Relative Minor Toulouse Lautrec CHAPTER 7---BLUES AND BLUEGRASS IMPROV UP THE NECK Lesson 1: Moveable Dominant 7 Chords Blues in My Bee Bonnet (or, Bees in My Blue Bonnet) Lesson 2: The Minor Pentatonic Scale Lesson 3: Connecting the Fingerings You Won't B-Minor Forever Lesson 4: The Major Pentatonic Scale Lesson 5: Comparing and Combining the Major and Minor Pentatonic Sounds Key to the High School---Solo No. 1 (Major Pentatonic) Key to the High School---Solo No. 2 (Minor Pentatonic) Key to the High School---Solo No. 3 (Major and Minor Pentatonic) CHAPTER 8---A TASTE OF SWING AND JAZZ MANDOLIN Lesson 1: Swing Rhythm Playing Swing by Your Thumbs (Simple Rhythm Chords) Lesson 2: Cool Swing Chords---Maj7, Min7 and 6 Swing by Your Thumbs (Cool Swing Chords) Lesson 3: Melody and Improvisation Swing by Your Thumbs (Melody) CHAPTER 9---NEW RHYTHMS AND SOUNDS Lesson 1: Funk on the Mandolin Ooh, That Some Funky Mando! Lesson 2: The Grooves of New Orleans Bo Man Diddley Blues Lesson 3: Reggae on the Mandolin How A'You Gonna Play Dat Mando-Leen? CHAPTER 10---A TASTE OF BRAZIL Lesson 1: Brazilian-Style Rhythm Playing Mandolin Jake (Chords and Rhythm) Lesson 2: Brazilian-Style Lead Playing Mandolin Jake (Melody) ABOUT THE AUTHOR INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1---WARM-UPS Exercises for the Left Hand Working Fingers in Pairs Right-Hand Exercises PART ONE---HARMONY CHAPTER 2---IMPORTANT CHORDS Extended Major Chords Extended Minor Chords Extended Dominant Chords Diminished 7th Chords Other Important Chords Altered Chords Chord Reference Charts Finding Other Voicings CHAPTER 3---CHORD PROGRESSIONS Blues Forms 8-Bar Blues 12-Bar Blues 16-Bar Blues (1st Variation) 16-Bar Blues (2nd Variation) 24-Bar Blues 12-Bar Blues in G Almost Time Blues Grass Ramble Jazz---Rhythm Changes Rhythm Changes (Basic) Rhythm Changes---Swing Rhythm Changes---Bebop Rhythm Changes (Tritone Substitution) Anthromorphology Criminal Satisfaction Chord Substitution Rollin' in My Sweet Baby's Arms (Straight) Rollin' in My Sweet Baby's Arms (Tritone Substitution) Rollin' In My Sweet Baby's Arms (Minor 3rd Substitution) Rollin' in My Sweet Baby's Arms (Dim7 Substitution) CHAPTER 4---CHORD/MELODY Mississippi Sawyer (Melody) Creating a Chord/Melody Mississippi Sawyer (Jethro Style) PART TWO---MELODY CHAPTER 5---SCALES AND MODES Generating the Modes from a Parent Scale The Relative View The Parallel View Mode Characteristics and Fingerings Using the Modes The Rights of Man Drunken Sailor June Apple Over the Waterfall Pentatonic Scales Spootiskerry Reel The Blues Scale The Whole-Tone Scale The Chromatic Scale The Five Basic Scale Types Every Mandolin Player Should Know PART THREE---RHYTHM CHAPTER 6---EXPLORING TIME SIGNATURES Review of Compound Meter A Trip to the Cottage Banish Misfortune The Butterfly Dan O'Keefe's Slide Odd Meters 5-Time Waltz Sillyfjord CHAPTER 7---MELODIC RHYTHM Soldier's Joy Soldier's Joy---Waltz Soldier's Joy---Jig PART FOUR---PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER CHAPTER 8---IMPROVISATION Raking Leaves No. 1 Raking Leaves No. 2 Raking Leaves No. 3 Raking Leaves No. 4 Raking Leaves No. 5 Raking Leaves No. 6 CHAPTER 9---FINDING MATERIAL FROM AROUND THE WORLD Old French (Canada) Simo Ligeri WRAPPING UP---FINAL THOUGHTS AND SUGGESTIONS