jmcgann
Jan-20-2004, 11:00am
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
www.johnmcgann.com
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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
www.johnmcgann.com
http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif