Teach Yourself Bluegrass Mandolin - Book/Online Audio

If you play other instruments, and want to quickly learn high level mandolin playing in the bluegrass style from a genius, Andy Statman teaches through classic tunes with satisfying arrangements. It is probably too fast for people with no other instrument background, but if you already play guitar/violin/banjo, you will rapidly feel that you now also play mandolin. Good chord chart in the back as well, and the downloadable mp3s are essential. Pairs nicely with the suprisingly good "mandolin for dummies" (very different from other books in that series) which has a bit more background info for earlier beginners but also has some nice arrangements.

Excellent musical guide for Mandolin beginners

This is a fun book with many levels of songs. The CD is pretty great as well.

Learning mandolin

Good product

THe songs in this book are a great collection of things that are great to learn. Each song has two ways to play it: the melody and a solo-type version. I have found that you can go through it and learn the melody parts then probably go back and be ready for the harder solo version. The reference CD has great playing on it, but it is a bit fast, and could be discouraging for the true beginner. Buy this book to learn with. Hold off on using the CD until you are really getting the stuff under your fingers.

I bought this for my boyfriend for Valentine's Day and he says it's very helpful with figuring out particular tricks and techniques to get just the right sound. He also said the CD was nice because it allows you to hear how the song is supposed to be played.

This should be considered an intermediate book. This would be pretty far advanced for any beginner. There is no oral instruction at all. Getting into Bluegrass Mandolin from Mel Bay is a much better book for beginners and intermediate players.

Vers goog

コメント欄でCDが付いていると書かれていましたが、CDは入っていません。その代わりAudioへのAccessができます。記載されているホームページを開いて、同じく記載されているEnter Codeを打ち込むだけでダウンロードが簡単にできます。（年寄りのわたしでも簡単にできました。ついでにＣＤも作ってみました）含まれている曲はBest Bluegrass　Songｓばかりで、一度はバンドで練習したことがある馴染みのある曲で、とてもよく考えられたSelectionだと思います。さて、今日からMandolinを練習してみようかな・・・。

Big range of skill from basic stuff right through to double stops at a finger knotting speed.Good tunes too and little intro and outro licks.

マンドリンを買った頃（35年前）は、マンドリンコードブックを買ったけど、最近お店で見ることもなく、何かあればと思い見ていたら見つけて買いました。しょうがないけど、英語なので何を説明しているかが分らず、今度は英語の教則本を買おうかな？

The introductory material in the book is rather brief for my tastes. There are short pieces on how to hold the mandolin, how to pick, how to tune, an introduction to the musical notation used in the book, and some scales. I would have liked more exercises given to build up to playing actual tunesAround a third of the book is taken up with song tabs, with instruction on how to play them being a little sparse. However, the tab is very clear, and they really come into their own with the excellent CD that accompanies the book. Each song features on the CD twice - once with the mandolin piece, to help you understand how it should be played, and once with only the backing (banjo, fiddle, guitar) so that you can play along.Without the CD, I'd rate this book at two stars. With the CD, it gets a fantastic 4.