Mandolin Exercises For Dummies
- Author: Julin, Don
Mandolin Exercises For Dummies
- Author: Julin, Don
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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.
Contents
- 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
