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Usually ships in 1 business days | | Only 5 left in stock, order soon! | | | | | | Twenty tunes in styles from Irish to American, in a variety of tunings, melody and accompaniment, presented in standard notation and tablature, with a stereo CD (left channel melody, right channel accompaniment). Left and right hand techniques and chord voicings are thoroughly discussed. For the first time, the Celtic style "woven texture" accompaniment unique to the instrument is fully notated. Unique to the book are melodic Irish ornamentation, blues, jazz, American fiddle tunes with variations and improvisations (all fully notated), and a chapter "Breaking Away From Block Chords" extending knowledge of the fingerboard. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | John McGann | | Paperback: | 160 pages | | Publisher: | Mel Bay Publications, Inc. | | Publication Date: | September 24, 2003 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0786666056 | | Product Length: | 1.09 inches | | Product Width: | 0.85 inches | | Product Height: | 0.04 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.9 pounds | | Package Length: | 10.8 inches | | Package Width: | 8.3 inches | | Package Height: | 0.5 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.9 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 8 reviews |
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12 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 Good, but Challenging Sep 05, 2007
By Robert M. Ey
"Old Folkie"
I'd recommend this book highly for the more advanced player. I've been working on "Hickey's Reel" (possibly the easiest piece in the book) and I'm finding the melody portion to be a real boot camp for learning ornamentation. The accompaniment is somewhat easier and offers some much more interesting alternatives to just strumming or playing arpeggios. The arrangements sometimes call for very wide stretches or other fingerings that are physically more difficult than seems necessary, so I've found myself rewriting some of them into something that's musically similar, but easier on the hand. This probably would be less of an issue for someone with larger hands or a smaller instrument.
The accompanying CD is enjoyable for listening, but not as friendly as a learning tool as it might be. The tunes are played a bit too fast for anyone who's still learning to play them, and there's no slowed down version. Also, there's no count-off, so you'll just have to jump in as best you can if you want to play along.
Although most of the tunes are Celtic, McGann gives very short shrift to the GDAD tuning, explaining that he prefers the GDAE tuning. While he presents valid arguments for this choice (and it probably makes sense for the less traditional pieces), it may be a bit of a disappointment for traditional Celtic players who think of GDAD as the standard tuning.
"A Guide to the Octave Mandolin & Bouzouki" is a good choice for someone who wants to learn advanced techniques or nontraditional uses of the instrument. Less advanced players or those who want a more traditional Celtic perspective might do better to start with Zan McLeod's "How to Play the Irish Bouzouki" from Homespun Tapes.
8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 Great Intro to Octave Mandolin Sep 23, 2005
By Mark Druziak
This book is great if you have picked up an octave mandolin as a 2nd or 3rd instrument.
It helps you explore OM techniques (accompaniment especially) thru songs. This is not a lesson book, it is a song book that explores different OM playing styles.
The CD is well recorded and good to listen to on its own. The only instrument on the CD is an OM. Melody in the left channel, accompaniment in the right.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
has good info, but is for really advanced players Nov 15, 2010
By steve
its a nice book and has lots of great info about an instrument that most people have no idea about. has great alt tunings, rhythm patterns, and picking patterns. the problem with it is it is for really advanced players. the tabs and songs are intense, to say the least
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Not really a "guide" Dec 05, 2010
By L. Velazquez
If you're an intermediate mandolin player don't buy this book, like other reviewers have stated it is strictly targeted to advanced players.
The transcription of both melody and specially accompaniment seem to attempt to capture the fluidity and richness of the actual live interpretations, making every measure forever changing and evolving from the last one...since there's so little repetition and the pacing of the songs is so fast, both tab and notation are really hard to either learn or follow along.
The cd its actually pretty good, and I would give that four stars, but if I wanted a music cd I would've bought one...I really just wanted to learn the instrument.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Too advanced for most amateur mandolin players Nov 12, 2010
By Gerardo Piero Pavone
Well, I thought that this book + DVD was a tutorial, but it is just a compilation of songs with attached music notation and tablature instead. No lessons.
Too advanced for me, but the title of the book is misleading.
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