Mandolin Exercises For Dummies

Don Julin

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For Dummies
09 May 2014

String instruments; Techniques of music & music tutorials

Practice makes perfect with this hands-on resource for mandolin players of all skill levels

If you're looking for an accessible practice-based book to improve your playing, you've come to the right place. Mandolin Exercises For Dummies focuses on the skills that players often find challenging and provides tips, tricks and plenty of cool exercises that will have you picking with the best of them—or at least much better than before! Mandolin Exercises For Dummies is packed with instruction—from hundreds of exercises to drills and practice pieces. And it gets better. You'll also have online access to downloadable audio files for each exercise, making this practice-based package a complete mandolin companion.

Puts an overview of the fundamentals in perspective, helps you to use exercises to limber up, and much more Dives into the major and minor arpeggios with triad patterns, then moves on to major 7th and minor 7th patterns Details the major scales, then moves on to mastering the minor scales with practice exercises Contains tips to help you practice better, including using a metronome, playing with recordings, and more

Master the basics and sharpen your mandolin-playing skills with this reliable resource.

By: Don Julin
Imprint: For Dummies
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 272mm, Width: 208mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 499g
ISBN: 9781118769539
ISBN 10: 1118769538
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 09 May 2014
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1 Part I: Getting Ready to Practice 5 Chapter 1: Getting the Basics Sorted: Mandolin Fundamentals 7 Chapter 2: Limbering up to Get into the Groove 15 Part II: Learning Scales 25 Chapter 3: Mastering Major Scales 27 Chapter 4: Discovering Three Types of Minor Scales 37 Chapter 5: Bringing Color to Your Playing with Pentatonic and Chromatic Scales 63 Chapter 6: Connecting Scale Patterns to Extend Your Range 83 Part III: Exploring Arpeggios 93 Chapter 7: Taking Notes One at a Time: Major Arpeggios 95 Chapter 8: Seeking Darkness: Minor Arpeggios 105 Chapter 9: Adding a Fourth Note to Create Seventh Arpeggios with Major Triads 115 Chapter 10: Summoning up Seventh Arpeggios of the Minor Variety 135 Chapter 11: Creating Drama with Diminished and Augmented Arpeggios 157 Part IV: Chords 165 Chapter 12: Tying Everything Together: Diatonic Harmony 167 Chapter 13: Seeing that Less Is More with Three-String Closed Chords 177 Chapter 14: Personalizing Your Playing: Improvisation 199 Part V: The Part of Tens 207 Chapter 15: Ten Top Tunes to Put Your Skills to Good Use 209 Chapter 16: Ten Tempting Tips on Tempo to Increase Your Playing Speed 221 Appendix: Using the Audio Tracks 227 Index 233

Don Julin is professional mandolin player, instructor and recording artist. Don has spent the last 30 years challenging the boundaries of mandolin and helping others do the same. He is the author of Mandolin For Dummies®.

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