Mandolin Exercises For Dummies by Don Julin (English) Paperback Book

Description: Mandolin Exercises For Dummies by Don Julin Practice makes perfect with this hands-on resource for mandolin players of all skill levels If youre looking for an accessible practice-based book to improve your playing, youve come to the right place. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Practice makes perfect with this hands-on resource for mandolin players of all skill levels If youre looking for an accessible practice-based book to improve your playing, youve 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. Youll 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 moreDives into the major and minor arpeggios with triad patterns, then moves on to major 7th and minor 7th patternsDetails the major scales, then moves on to mastering the minor scales with practice exercisesContains 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. Notes Readers can master the basics and sharpen up mandolin-playing skills. Contains hundred of exercises, drills and practice pieces, plus online access to downloadable audio files for each exercise. Back Cover 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 Flap 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 Author Biography 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®. Table of 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 Long Description 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 Details ISBN1118769538 Year 2014 ISBN-10 1118769538 ISBN-13 9781118769539 Format Paperback Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DEWEY 787.84193 Media Book Short Title MANDOLIN EXERCISES FOR DUMMIES Language English Illustrations Illustrations Publication Date 2014-05-09 Edition 1st Series For Dummies (Lifestyles Paperback) Author Don Julin UK Release Date 2014-05-09 NZ Release Date 2014-04-21 Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc Imprint For Dummies Audience Professional & Vocational US Release Date 2014-05-09 AU Release Date 2014-04-24 Pages 272 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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