Guide to Octave Mandolin and Bouzouki

Guide to Octave Mandolin and Bouzouki
Author: John McGann
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2011-08-18
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1610657772

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.

A guide to octave mandolin & bouzouki

A guide to octave mandolin & bouzouki
Author: John McGann
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2003
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780786666058

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.

A Baroque Sampler for Octave Mandolin

A Baroque Sampler for Octave Mandolin
Author: John Goodin
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2019-09-16
Genre: Music
ISBN: 161911951X

The octave mandolin is valued for its rich tone and wide range of potential use in a variety of musical settings. This book contains 27 easy to intermediate pieces from the Baroque era that have been carefully chosen and arranged to benefit from the longer scale and deeper voice of the big mandolin. The music is presented in both standard notation and tablature, making it easily playable on the mandocello, mandola or standard mandolin. Thirteen composers are represented, including six pieces by J. S. Bach, four by G. F. Handel and three by G. P. Telemann.

Chords for Mandolin, Irish Banjo, Bouzouki, Tenor Mandola, Mandocello

Chords for Mandolin, Irish Banjo, Bouzouki, Tenor Mandola, Mandocello
Author: John Loesberg
Publisher: Music Sales Amer
Total Pages: 20
Release: 2005-06
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780946005475

(Music Sales America). This is the perfect reference for chords for mandolin, banjo and bouzouki. The book contains easy chords in all keys, with sections on tunings, capos and chord relations. John Loesberg has created another intelligible and intuitive didactic book which will be invaluable for all players of Irish traditional music.

The Irish Bouzouki Chord Bible

The Irish Bouzouki Chord Bible
Author: Tobe A. Richards
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2016-03-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781906207229

The Irish Bouzouki GDAD Chord Bible, with its 2,520 chords offers a complete solution for both beginner and experienced professional musician alike. The layout is uncomplicated and follows a logical musical progression from standard major chords up to the more esoteric thirteenths used by many jazz players. To accompany the 2,520 chords, a further 576 possible moveable chord configurations are included, together with a useful range of major and minor slash chords, reflecting the popularity of this type of chord in many of today's artist and compilation topline songbooks. To fully exploit the ringing quality of the Irish bouzouki, a selection of open and drone string chords has also been included. This highly comprehensive guide provides the musician with no fewer than 60 different types of chord in all twelve keys, making it the definitive publication for the Irish bouzouki. Whether you play folk, rock, pop, jazz or any other type of popular music, The Irish Bouzouki GDAD Chord Bible makes the ideal reference source for all occasions. Standard Chords covered in The Irish Bouzouki GDAD Chord Bible (using the key of C as an example): C, Cm, C-5, Cdim, C4, C5, Csus2, Csus4, Csus4add9, C+, C6, Cadd9, Cm6, Cmadd9, Cm6add9, Cdim7, C7, C7sus2, C7sus4, C7-5, C7+5, C7-9, C7+9, C7-5-9, C7+5-9, C7+5+9, C7add11, C7+11, Cm7, Cm7-5, Cm7-5-9, Cm7-9, Cm7add11, Cm(maj7), Cmaj7, Cmaj7-5, Cmaj7+5, Cmaj7+11, C9, C9-5, C9+5, C9+11, Cm9, Cm9-5, Cm(maj9), Cmaj9, Cmaj9+5, Cmaj9+11, C11, C11-9, Cm11, Cmaj11, C13, C13-5-9, C13-9, C13+9, C13+11, Cm13, Cmaj13. Slash Chords covered in The Irish Bouzouki GDAD Chord Bible (using the key of C as an example): C/C, C/Db, C/D, C/Eb, C/E, C/F, C/F#, C/G, C/Ab, C/A, C/Bb, C/B, Cm/C, Cm/Db, Cm/D, Cm/Eb, Cm/E, Cm/F, Cm/F#, Cm/G, Cm/Ab, Cm/A, Cm/Bb, Cm/B. Beside the many pages of chord boxes or windows, the book features useful sections on tuning, chord construction, fingerboard layout, FAQs, alternative chord naming, fingering, slash chords, harmonic intervals, chord window blanks for transcribing your own favorite chord sequences etc. The aim of this guide is to provide the musician with the flexibility only really offered to guitar and keyboard players in the past. Now, with the help of The Irish Bouzouki GDAD Chord Bible, musicians will be able to pick up any songbook and instantly have access to even the most complex and advanced chords.

Hal Leonard Irish Bouzouki Method

Hal Leonard Irish Bouzouki Method
Author: Roger Landes
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 61
Release: 2014-12-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 149501326X

(Instructional). The Hal Leonard Irish Bouzouki Method is designed for anyone just learning to play the Irish bouzouki. This comprehensive and easy-to-use beginner's guide focuses on teaching the basics of the instrument as well as accompaniment techniques for a variety of Irish song forms.

Celtic Mandolin

Celtic Mandolin
Author: Andrew Driscoll
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Total Pages: 85
Release: 2012-08-27
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1619113252

This book explores Celtic styles for the mandolin. It is a great addition for musicians looking to begin learning Celtic music or expand their repertoire. Traditional Irish and Scottish music as well as contemporary Celtic compositionsare presented. The book includes standard notation and tablature, with play-along tracks in the accompanying audio download online

The Beatles for Solo Mandolin

The Beatles for Solo Mandolin
Author: Beatles
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2015-06-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 149504484X

(Mandolin). 20 favorite Beatles tunes in chord melody arrangements for mandolin including: All You Need Is Love * Blackbird * Can't Buy Me Love * Eight Days a Week * Here Comes the Sun * Hey Jude * In My Life * Let It Be * Michelle * Strawberry Fields Forever * Twist and Shout * We Can Work It Out * Yesterday * and more.

Mandolin Chord Book

Mandolin Chord Book
Author: James Major
Publisher: Wise Publications
Total Pages: 41
Release: 1997-11-03
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1783231130

This useful chord book, developed for mandolin players, features clear, readable chord diagrams to help you explore and master your instrument. Chords are helpfully grouped by key, to allow for easy songwriting prompts, offering a variety of options and variants to whatever you create! Perfect for beginners or more advanced players alike, this is the perfect reference guide to accompany your mandolin.

Complete Balalaika Book

Complete Balalaika Book
Author: Bibs Ekkel
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2011-08-18
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1610655664

The balalaika is most often associated with Russian folklore. In this comprehensive method book, concert and recording artist Bibs Ekkel shares his extensive knowledge of the balalaika as taught in Russia today. This 160-page book is divided into four sections: an extensive Foreword, the Tutor, A Brief History of the Balalaika, and a Repertoire Section. Unlike many Mel Bay books, the Complete Balalaika Book does not begin with the rudiments of music notation. Rather, the 20-page Foreword offer insights on the tunings of all the instruments in the balalaika family, hand positions, string sources and height adjustment, and chord shapes. the author even describes how to make a bass balalaika pick from shoe leather. the Tutor or instruction segment is written for the 'prima balalaika' which is correctly played with the fingers only rather than with a pick. the Tutor jumps right in with exercises and tunes in quarter, eighth, and sixteenth-note values with occasional dotted notes and syncopation. Perhaps half of the music in this section is shown in both standard notation and tablature. A glossary of musical signs and Russian musical terns is included. A Brief History of the Balalaika is well written and nicely illustrated. Very few Mel Bay books contain such a comprehensive historical overview of the subject instrument. the Repertoire Section offers a valuable resource of Eastern European folk tunes. All but two selections in this section are written in both notation and tab with suggested guitar chords, the exceptions being an arrangement for balalaika and piano, and a balalaika orchestra score. More than simple melody chord leadsheets, these are the author's own arrangements of tunes for solo balalaika and balalaika orchestra. A companion CD with selections performed by the author completes this highly effective instructional package.