Mel Bay Developing Melodic Variations on Fiddle Tunes, Mandolin Edition - Softcover

John McGann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786650990 ISBN 13: 9780786650996

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc., 2003

Synopsis

This book presents standard fiddle tunes in basic form, then shows you how, on a phrase-by-phrase basis, the tunes can become vehicles for your own improvisations. It is designed to open the door to creating spontaneous variations, or improvisations, based on the melodic structure unique to each tune. Each tune in the book is presented first in its basic form, then with four variations. The variations are printed directly beneath the melody with the corresponding measures aligned, so that you can easily compare them to the original melody and to each other. The accompanying CD features mandolin and rhythm guitar on separate channels, so you can turn off the lead and play along with the rhythm, or vice versa. Intermediate in difficulty.

About this title

About the Author

John McGann is a Boston-based internationally renown mandolinist and guitarist, composer, arranger, and transcriber; Professor of Strings at Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory; and is a founding member of The Wayfaring Strangers, Celtic Fiddle Festival, The Boston Edge, Classical Tangent and other groups . He won 1st Place at the National Mandolin Championship, Winfield Kansas (1985). John writes for Flatpicking Guitar Magazine, Mandolin Magazine, and Acoustic Guitar Magazine as well as Mel Bay Publications. He is the staff transcriber for David Grisman's Acoustic Disc website

Edition details

• Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786650990
• ISBN 13: 9780786650996
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 116