First Jams: Mandolin - Softcover

Lee "Drew" Andrews

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786678429 ISBN 13: 9780786678426

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc., 2009

Synopsis

The First Jam series was created to give children and beginners of all ages a book of simple, common tunes to learn. These are standard Jam tunes in the Bluegrass/Old Time music styles. All the books in this series are written in the same keys; they can all be played together without any problems. So get your friends or family who play guitar, mandolin, banjo, ukulele, dulcimer or Dobro together, grab these books and start jamming. Improvisation Another idea behind writing the First Jam series was to provide a number of tunes that were easy to learn, but that are also a great to begin working on improvising. Each books offer the melody for that particular instrument as well as back-up chords for another instrument to accompany you. Each song is represented in Tab, notation and chord symbols. The accompanying CD has two tracks for each song. The first playing the song with the melody line, the second track offers just the backup so you can play the melody over it or even improvise. Tunes include: Cripple Creek, Old Joe Clark, Arkansas Traveler, Will the Circle Be Unbroken and many more.

About this title

About the Author

Lee "Drew" Andrews began playing guitar at age 14. His first years of college were spent studying Physics. When he found himself skipping many of his core classes in order to spend more time playing guitar, he decided it may be better to change majors. Drew then studied Guitar Performance at Utah State University, where he also minored in Technical and Professional Writing. In 2002 he took a position with Mel Bay Publications as a guitar editor and since has authored several best selling publications.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786678429
• ISBN 13: 9780786678426
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 24