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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | Start playing mandolin now! This book introduces easy chord forms and basic strumming patterns, and covers fiddle tunes, bluegrass, and blues. Integral techniques such as alternate picking, tremolo, and slides are taught in a fun manner. Students, teachers, and self-taught players alike will enjoy this thorough, easy-to-use method. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Greg Horne | | Paperback: | 95 pages | | Publisher: | Alfred Publishing Company | | Publication Date: | 2004-02 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0739034715 | | Package Length: | 11.7 inches | | Package Width: | 8.7 inches | | Package Height: | 0.5 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.75 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 17 reviews |
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| | Features | Beginner levelTeaches basic techniquesProvides introductions to multiple styles of playBook and CD set
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59 of 59 found the following review helpful:
 Fantastic introduction to mandolin Dec 27, 2006
By Matthew W. Gudenius
"Media Guru"
This book is a short but sweet introduction to techniques both universal to music and specific to mandolin. Not a page of the book is wasted; the book is aimed at people with no previous experience, and I think its greatest strength is the pace and the very logical order of lessons and techniques that are taught.
Like many novice musicians, I am eager to "dive right in" and start sounding like a pro, but that takes time, hard work, and practice. Many books focus too much on theory or basic drills for reading standard notation, practicing rhythm, etc. I find myself skipping through those books trying to find "the good stuff" so I can actually play a song.
On the other hand, many beginner books ONLY include simple songs and melodies, knowing that most of us just want to play some music. However, the flaw with those books are that they skip over important drills and basics required for learning or composing new music once you are done with the songs in the book.
Horne's Beginning Mandolin book includes a little bit of both -- basics and composition interspersed with short rhythms and traditional melodies for practice. In this way you are exposed both to the songs and fun licks to make you feel good and enjoy the music you are making even as a novice, as well as the core concepts and techniques that will be required for composing your own music, jamming, or taking it to the next level of difficulty. I find that this variety makes it very easy to pick up the book and start playing -- you won't want to miss a drill or lesson in the book, so it's very useful to just go through the book in the order it is presented. On the other hand, I just got finished with another session of practice using this book -- I have played through it once and "learned" all of the basics, but it's also great as a tool to refine those basics and master them. I have owned the book for a year and although I am 100 times better than when I started, I am still mastering some of the book's skills before I move into the Intermediate level (which I have also purchased)
Another nice feature of the book is that it logically progresses through different musical styles to build your repertoire and introduce a variety of scales, licks, and progressions that build on previous styles from folk music and fiddle tunes to blues, bluegrass, and finally into rock.
I cannot recommend this book highly enough. I only wish there were more books with such a simple, logical, yet robust sequence and variety of drills for other instruments. (I have yet to find a guitar book as well-paced and comprehensive for beginners as this book is)
33 of 33 found the following review helpful:
Awesome book and CD Dec 02, 2004
By SteveB
I owned a beginner mandolin for 3 years before I really started playing it. I bought this book and can now read mandolin music in standard notation and tab formats. The book does a great job of introducing you to the instrument through both theory and some fun tunes. I would definately recommend this book/cd to anyone interested in playing mandolin.
19 of 19 found the following review helpful:
 Very good Sep 11, 2005
By Heli
"Bookwurm"
As this book has both the standard music notation and the tablature, you can choose how to study, start right away with tablature which will have you playing tunes very soon and take up the standard notation later or begin with learning the standard (classical) notation.
The cd gives it extra value. Explains several techniques and styles (blues, bluegrass, rock).
Very good beginners course.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
This is peerless. Those other reviewers are nuts. Feb 16, 2010
By Caraculiambro
O God that I could turn back the clock and learn mandolin from these three books:
1. Beginning Mandolin, by Greg Horne
2. Intermediate Mandolin, by Greg Horne
3. Mastering Mandolin, by Wayne Fugate
Though this set of three is doubtless the best I've ever seen, I would like to point out that they're not for everybody.
I eventually went on to receive nearly all of the mandolin instruction these 3 books contain, but I had to get it piecemeal from various books: largely, in fact, from keyboard training and theory books. With the publication of these three books, that is no longer necessary.
The series takes a very mature approach to mandolin learning and goes much deeper than any other method I've ever seen. If your needs are casual, you should go elsewhere (I recommend Hal Leonard Mandolin Method). This book, heavy on theory and comparatively slim on exercises, is best for those who are majoring in the instrument or going to play it seriously for years. The training offered here is classical: rigorous and not user-friendly, sort of like those Mel Bay guitar methods.
Truly the last word in mandolin methods for the serious student. I fail to see how you could do a more comprehensive job.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
A good kick-start May 14, 2007
By John Bolton
This book gave me a good kick-start. I had played around on the mandolin a little in the past, but not for 10 years or more. The book really paced me through some exercises and helped me build skills starting with simple scales and ending up with full-fledged songs and solos.
Most songs and exercises in the book include both musical notation and tablature, to help you see how to play the song (which frets, which fingers to use).
The accompanying CD has audio that lets you hear how the scales or songs are supposed to sound, which can be helpful.
I found the book so useful that I've bought the same author's intermediate-level book.
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