Guide To Octave Mandolin and Bouzouki sale

[jmcgann]

For mandolincafe connoisseurs- my Guide to Octave Mandolin and Bouzouki book/CD set, 160 pages, retails from Mel Bay and your local store (if they have it) at $24.95, available directly from me at $22.95 POSTPAID in USA, $30 airmail overseas.

PayPal, check or money order all accepted.


Twenty tunes in styles from Irish to American, in a variety of tunings, melody and accompaniment, presented in standard notation and tablature, with a stereo CD (left channel melody, right channel accompaniment). Left and right hand techniques and chord voicings are thoroughly discussed.

For the first time, the Celtic style "woven texture" accompaniment unique to the instrument is fully notated. Unique to the book are melodic Irish ornamentation, blues, jazz, American fiddle tunes with variations and improvisations (all fully notated), and a chapter "Breaking Away From Block Chords" extending knowledge of the fingerboard.

Transcriptions:
IRISH

Reels:

Hickey's
Woman of the House
Cooley's
Peter Street
The Copper Plate

Hornpipes:

Men of Ulster
The Western
Galway Bay
Rights of Man
Jigs
Bit of Ginger
Gold Ring
Doherty's Favorite
Slip Jig
Kid on the Mountain

AMERICAN
Bluegrass/Fiddle Tunes

Arkansas Traveller

Texas:
Ace of Spades

Blues
Free Floating Blues
T Train Blues

Jazz
Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking?
Swede Gorgeous

Venezuelan Waltz
La Partida

Tablature+standard notation

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[J. Mark Lane]

Damn. I just got mine in UPS today from Elderly. Looks great.

And I should be getting my OM this week, too, from David Kilpatrick. Well, I call it an OM, but with a scale length of about 400 feet it is more like a giant zouk....

Mark

[John Ely]

I just got mine from Elderly a week or so ago. Are you gonna refund the $2.00 I could have saved?

Just kidding, it is a good book, and I recommend it. It has already helped my playing. Who played on the CD?

[Dolamon]

Definately worth the price of admission! Great ideas, presentation and tunes. I still get the biggest kick out of the Blues and Jazz pieces ... can't play 'em yet but, I will.

[seanh]

I like it. Still waiting for my octave to arrive though. I got mine at the local music store and am glad to support them http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/coffee.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif

[jmcgann]

Thanks y'all...John, I owe you 1/2 a pint! You aren't the famous steel player by any chance are you?

I played all the parts on the CD, wrote or arranged/transcribed all the music, all the text, everything except the cover photo which Stefan Sobell sent me. Recorded it at home on my DA78 and mixed it in Cubase.

Thanks to all for the comments, I'm really glad that it is helpful. It was a lot of typesetting for all that music! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[John Ely]

Alas, I am not a famous steel player. I am in no way famous, and I cannot play the steel guitar, so I'm sure that isn't me.

[DARDAR]

I AM LOOKING FOR A GOOD QUALITY, GOOD SOUNDING CELTIC FLAT-BACK BOUZOUKI =
SOUND & QUALITY MORE IMPORTANT THAN LOOKS = WHAT IS MAJOR DIFFERENCE IN SOUND BETWEEN AN OCTAVE MANDOLIN AND A BOUZOUKI? I AM PLAYING IN A GROUP WITH A GUITAR, MANDOLIN AND FIDDLE, WOULD A BOUZOUKI BE A GOOD ACCOMPANYING
INSTRUMENT?

[jackspira]

Ive got Johns book too, a present from a very kind friend. Its fantastic! Ive got a few and various tutorials, to try and prop up my lack of ability, this one is definitly working! Its very comprehensive and at the same time simple and easy to get into and understand, I love it! Nice one John!

[jmcgann]

Thanks everyone!

Dardar, the (IRISH) bouzouki is a longer scale than the octave mandolin, good news is that you get nice crisp overtones, bad news is that tuned GDAE, in fifths like the octave mando, the stretches are almost unplayable. Most bouzouki players tune to various modal tuning and/or capo a lot.

The four course Greek bouzouki, as I understand it, is usually tuned like the top 4 strings of a guitar but a whole step lower- C F A D. Smaller intervals of fourths and a third mean less stretching than a fifths tuning. I am ready to stand corrected by the actual players of Greek music!

[jmcgann]

Sale price $22.95 over April 15 2004- will be $25 postpaid in USA after April 15. Thanks!

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[Fuzzyway]

John,

How can I pass up that deal. I just sent you an order and I don't even have the guitar octave mando that Bill Bussman is making me. Let's see...how many days left till June.


Fuzzy Purcell

[jmcgann]

To get the sale price, just go to www.paypal.com and click "send money"- my email address john@johnmcgann.com

$22.95 postpaid in USA- overseas add $10 for airmail or Global Priority Mail if available- it should reach you in a few days.

Offer good until April 15. Thanks!