Evergreen: Mandolin Music for Christmas

I wish it showed the different variations, only showed the simple arrangement. It also does not have Do You Hear What I Hear? which was disappointing.

My mandolin instructor selected a few number from this book to incorporate into my lessons. I bought the cd, thinking it would help me to hear it. "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" is amazing with the bell-like intro...but is difficult to transition to for the repeat. "Joy to the World" is a very pretty and not very hard number to master. I currently have this on order and highly anticipate its arrival. Treat yourself and buy the cd of the same name. There is some very sweet mandolin arrangements on it.

Not too great of a book. Way to easy. Only has basic notes. Should have mando style playing for Christmas songs.

This is pretty much like every other mandolin Christmas book out there: essentially a fake book. Single-note melodies in the treble with TAB underneath that. Chords are noted by letters above the treble.It is, however, definitely written specifically for the mandolin: lots of hammer-ons, slides, etc. are indicated.The thing is, some of these melodies are quite tricky. "O Holy Night" is in E Major (four sharps), and it seems like every song has a couple of things in it that are going to prevent you from simply opening this book and playing some songs at a Christmas party. No: you'll probably have to practice a bit. Which is disappointing: for songs this hard, why couldn't Mr. Baldassari put more notes in the melodies to make the songs more solo-able?Note that one of the songs, "Joy to the World," is a true solo, with the four notes written right there in the treble. But even this one as you fretting at the 10th, 9th, 7th fret, etc. So get ready.

CDアルバムフルカバーでなかったので、少し残念でした。

This little book has short and easy arrangements of 13 Christmas carols. Most of them consist of the melody with a few farily basic mandolin-y additions. A couple have a few bars of intro, a couple have chords incorporated into the melody and some double-stopping, and there are a few bits of shifting and sliding that improve things (probably the best is "We Three Kings" in this respect) but there's not a great deal else to work with.One of them ("The First Noel") is arranged for a trio -- only the first part is the melody, the second and third parts are harmony, so no point playing them unless you have two other mandolinists. Same for the "Silent Night" duet -- basically the harmony pages are a waste of paper for solo players (sadly, we mandolinists are a pretty rare species!).The tune for "O Holy Nigh"t goes over the page, so you'll have to memorise that one or stop in the middle to turn over. D'oh, I hate it when publishers do that. Also, "Away in a Manger" is the US-preferred "Mueller" tune, not the "Cradle Song" best known in the UK.All in all, nothing wrong with this book but I expected the arrangements to be more creatively tailored for the mandolin. If you have a generic book of Christmas carol tunes you'll probably do almost as well playing the melodies and embellishing them a bit yourself.On the upside, if like me you are likely to sight-read these pieces rather than learn them they are easy enough to do that!