Mandolin Exercises For Dummies

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.

Practice makes perfect with this hands-on resource for mandolinplayers of all skill levelsIf you're looking for an accessible practice-based book toimprove your playing, you've come to the right place. MandolinExercises For Dummies focuses on the skills that players oftenfind challenging and provides tips, tricks and plenty of coolexercises that will have you picking with the best of them--orat least much better than before! Mandolin Exercises ForDummies is packed with instruction--from hundreds ofexercises to drills and practice pieces. And it gets better. You'llalso have online access to downloadable audio files for eachexercise, making this practice-based package a complete mandolincompanion.* Puts an overview of the fundamentals in perspective, helps youto use exercises to limber up, and much more* Dives into the major and minor arpeggios with triad patternsthen moves on to major 7th and minor 7th patterns* Details the major scales, then moves on to mastering the minorscales with practice exercises* Contains tips to help you practice better, including using ametronome, playing with recordings, and moreMaster the basics and sharpen your mandolin-playing skills withthis reliable resource.

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