Description
Fun and easy even for beginners!
This is the easiest mandolin instruction book, written for those who want to learn the mandolin for the first time or those who want to teach others how to play the mandolin.
A4 size, 126 pages, full color
[Part 1: Getting ready before you play!]
•This is a mandolin!
•The strings have names!
•Sit with good posture!
•Try holding a mandolin!
•Take a pick!
•Let's make some sound!
•Try making sounds at regular intervals!
•Let's use notes! - Quarter notes •Let's make teams!
•Learn how to hold your left hand!
The fingers on your left hand have names!
•Try playing it on platform 2!
•Staff notation and treble clef •Staff notation and time signature •Staff notation and note names •Let's try writing staff notation!
•Open string note names •Let's tune!
•Quarter rest •Mute the sound! (For open strings)
•That's the downstroke!
•Learn the position of Do-Re-Mi!
•Find the sound of "friends"!
How to care for your mandolin
[Part 2: Let's play!]
•Now let's play!
•Mute the sound! (If you are holding down the strings)
•Try playing half notes!
•Try playing dotted half notes!
•Try playing whole notes!
•Half rests•Play notes of various lengths!
•The Queen Who Loved the Mandolin •Let's play eighth notes!
•Try playing with upstrokes!
•Try playing down and up!
[Part 3: Let's have fun playing melodies!]
•Etude: Butterfly •Etude: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star - Ritardando •Etude: The Frog Song - Crescendo & Decrescendo •Etude: Connect and Open - Song Flow •Etude: Song of Joy - Dotted Quarter Note •Etude: Bun Bun Bun - Forte and Piano •Etude: Surprise Symphony - Fortissimo and Pianissimo •Etude: Easy Skylark - Fermata •Etude: Under the Big Chestnut Tree •Practice using a metronome!
•Etude Happy Birthday to You - 3/4 time
[Part 4: Let's practice the "accompaniment"!]
•Try playing along with the melody!
•C scale •Three important chords in the C scale •1st degree of the C scale, C chord •C chord practice •4th degree of the C scale, F chord •F chord practice •5th degree of the C scale, G chord •G chord practice •Try playing along!
•Incomplete measures•Practice diligently every day!
[Part 5: Introducing Mandolin Solos!]
•What is a solo?
•Solo Etude •The Queen and "Pizza Margherita"
•Solo Etude •G Scale •Solo Etude •Constantino Bertucci, the man who elevated the status of the mandolin •Try playing with a diagonal pick ♪
•Solo etude