Don Julin

Mandolin Exercises For Dummies

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Learn to:
Build your skills playing scales
Play arpeggios with confidence
Master chord forms and progressions

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

For mandolin players, practise makes perfect! Use this hands-on resource to get the most out of your practise sessions. Get hundreds of exercises in various keys and positions, use drills to help practise time, build your technique like a pro, practise scales and full-length pieces, and much more. Take your mandolin playing to the next level today!
Get ready -- pick up an overview of the fundamentals, use exercises to limber up, and much more
Explore arpeggios -- dive into the major and minor arpeggios with triad patterns, then move on to major 7th and minor 7th patterns
All about chords -- practise major and minor inversions, and get groovy with major 7th chord inversions
Get on the scales -- start up with the major scales, then move on to mastering the minor scales with practise exercises
Tips and tricks -- get tips to help you practise better, including using a metronome, playing with recordings, and more

Open the book and find:
A full review of the basics and reading music
Warm-ups specific to mandolin players
Major and minor scale patterns
Practise exercises for chords and scales
Tips and exercises for connecting scale patterns
Tricks for chord progressions, along with practise notes
Ten tunes to practise everything at once

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2014
• Abmessung: 277mm x 213mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 429g
• ISBN-13: 9781118769539
• ISBN-10: 1118769538
• Artikelnr.: 40129468

Autorenporträt

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(R).

Inhaltsangabe

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