Wayne Fugate

[Tom C]

This is one nice book. Yes, I know Wayne for a short while now and his mando pickin' never ceases to amaze me.
He and his mando picker partner Michael are very talented and play great harmonies. If you know a tune, they will harmonize it -anytune! I've seen the book and need to buy it as it covers alot of where I want to improve in.
Congrats on the book WSF!

[AlanN]

Yes, Wayne, very cool.

Wayne and I played on a banjo picker's project many moons ago. Despite that fact, he's a good guy http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

[WJF]

You guys are both giving me a very red, embarrassed face ... thank you both for the kind words!!!

So yes, the book is out and I'm pretty proud of it. Now ... if I can figure out how to play everything I wrote for it, I might actually become a force to be reckoned with http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif Who knows ... maybe for the next book they'll actually put **my** picture on the cover!

[Kbone]

Wayne
What book should I look at ? i've been playing on and off for about five years , i know 30 or so fiddle tunes , 1/2 dz breaks ( fake penatonic style ) Would these books help in the improv dept...thanks

[mandoluthier1]

What can you say about Wayne? Great guy, terrific mandolinist, respected by all the greats in the biz, and now author of a comprehensive instructional book.
Proud to call him my friend.
Buy the book!
John

[pat dinges]

John, I agree completely! Wayne's the best!

[WJF]

Hi KBone ...

You might want to check out either the "intermediate" book (authored by Greg Horne) or the "mastering" book (my contribution the series). The mastering book hopefully focuses on tools that a musician needs in order to start expanding their repertoire, their harmonic ideas and their ability to improvise.

I tried to chunk these tools into the three things that make up music ... harmony, melody and rhythm. There's a **lot** of theory that I covered, a ton of scale stuff, chord substition, some exercises for developing melodic rhythm etc, all supported by tunes that serve as examples for the concepts that I wanted to get across. I wrapped it all up by outling a "methodolgy" for improvising based heavily on Lee Konitz's "ten levels of improvisation" It's an almost counter-intuitive process to go through ... initially you're "composing" improvisations (not spontaneous at all) but like anything else if you do it often enough it becomes second nature and ultimately, spontaneous.

So that's the mastering book in nutshell. The chapter headings are here if you want to get a better sense of what lies between the covers http://out2lunch.lunarpages.com/mastering.htm

Hope this helps! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[WJF]

Pat & John,

Thanks for the kind words!!! You both know that feeling is more than mutual! It's great having great friends! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[Mike Buesseler]

Hey Wayne, I ordered your book the day Scott posted it...does that entitle me to ask a question? (I hope.)

How do you pronounce your last name?

[Tom C]

few-gate

[WJF]

Yup ... Tom's got it right although I've heard just about every variation you could imagine http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

[Kbone]

Thanks _ I'll start with the intermediate book..