Mandolin, fiddle and improvisation books written by Pete Martin
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Easy Music Theory for Fiddle and Mandolin
This book helps the beginning and intermediate student acquire much needed knowledge to play with other musicians. Learn major, minor and dominant seventh scales in all keys, chord construction, chord arpeggios, learn common chord progressions, how to transpose from one key to another and many more basic music skills. Click here to purchase Easy Music Theory for Fiddle and Mandolin Double Stops for Bluegrass Mandolin A necessary skill when playing traditional or modern Bluegrass, the ability to construct and use double stops is incredibly useful to mandolin players. Learn how to make and where to use various types of double stops. Your playing will sound better and become much more fun! Click here to purchase Bluegrass Mandolin: Creating and Using Double Stops Mandolin and Fiddle Improvisation Using the Chord Tone Scale Have you tried to improvise a solo but had no idea what to play? This book teaches an unique and necessary set of skills to become comfortable improvising breaks and solos in many styles of music. You will learn some phrases and licks, but more importantly a strategy for how to construct good sounding lines that fit chord progressions. Click here to purchase Mandolin and Fiddle Improvisation Using the Chord Tone Scale Oldtime Tunes for Fiddle and Mandolin Volume 1 50 common oldtime tunes played at jam sessions everywhere. In music notation and mandolin tablature. Click here to purchase Oldtime Tunes for Fiddle and Mandolin, Volume 1 Oldtime Tunes for Fiddle and Mandolin Volume 2 50 more common oldtime tunes played at jam sessions everywhere. In music notation and mandolin tablature. Click here to purchase Oldtime Tunes for Fiddle and Mandolin, Volume 2 Bebop Scales for Mandolin and Violin Musicians of the 1940s and 1950s used different scales from earlier Jazz eras to make that great unique music called Bebop. Players like Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Dizzy Gillespie and others created and used these scales all the time in their improvisations and compositions. Learn these great sounds in this book. In music notation and mandolin tablature. Click here to purchase Bebop Scales for Mandolin and Violin Bebop Mandolin and Violin: Target Notes and Chromatic Approaches In addition to new scales, Bebop musicians used different strategies in putting their solos together in the new music of the 1940s and 1950s. Learn how to use these techniques and how to integrate them into your playing like Jazz giants such as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Clifford Brown. Click here to purchase Bebop Mandolin and Violin: Target Notes and Chromatic Approaches Jazz Chording for Mandolin Players new to Jazz will benefit greatly from this study of how chords were from the tunes of the 1920s through the 1950s. Learn how to voice chords in tunes, how to use inversions, how to find many voicings for each chord and many other valuable skills. In music notation and mandolin tablature. Click here to purchase Jazz Chording for Mandolin Chord Melody and Drop 2 Chords for Mandolin Piano and guitar players have long used drop 2 chords for comping and chord melody soloing. Learn how to construct and use these chord voicings to bring your Jazz playing to the next level. In music notation and mandolin tablature. Click here to purchase Chord Melody and Drop 2 Chords for Mandolin Texas Style Fiddle Transcriptions Volume 1 21 great breakdowns, waltzes, rags, polkas, etc as played note for note by champion Texas style fiddlers. In standard music notation with chords. Click here to purchase Texas Style Fiddle Transcriptions, Volume 1 Texas Style Fiddle Transcriptions Volume 2 18 more great breakdowns, waltzes, rags, polkas, etc as played note for note by champion Texas style fiddlers. In standard music notation with chords. Click here to purchase Texas Style Fiddle Transcriptions, Volume 2 Benny Thomasson Fiddle Transcriptions 17 great arrangements of breakdowns, waltzes, rags, polkas, etc as played note for note by the most revered of all Texas style fiddler players. In standard music notation with chords. Click here to purchase Benny Thomasson Fiddle Transcriptions Texas Style Fiddle Tunes For Mandolin 11 great arrangements of tunes common to the Texas fiddle style. In standard music notation and mandolin tablature with chords. Click here to purchase Texas Style Fiddle Tunes for Mandolin |
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