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Offers mandolin players strategies for getting the most out of practice sessions, featuring exercises in various keys and positions, drills and scales, tricks for chord progressions, and full-length songs that incorporate a range of techniques.
List 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
