John Barleycorn
Mar-01-2008, 4:45pm
Hello everyone,
Just started to play the mandolin and would love to know what the best beginner material is for play bluegrass style mandolin. all suggestions will help.
EdLowe
Mar-01-2008, 6:32pm
Welcome aboard!
There's a wealth of material.
The cafe has tabs and MP3s
Mandozine has tabs of a lot of good stuff.
Alltabs is another good source.
You'll need the TEF viewer for material from the last two sites, but it's free.
I got a lot of milage out of Roland White's "Approach to Bluegrass Mandolin"
As Mike Edgerton would say "Search is your friend" there has been a lot of discussion in past threads on this topic. Many of these threads have tune / song lists. Find this good stuff using the Cafe search function.
Listen to lots of music to tune up your ears.
I hope you enjoy the journey, I been "learning" the mandolin for 30 years and I still love it to death.