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Free D'Addario J-74 Mandolin Strings!  Details How to Play Bluegrass Mandolin Roland White's Approach To Bluegrass Mandolin 60-page spiral-bound book with 2 CDs $29.95 +  shipping OR Call 1 800-304-3588 toll-free to order by phone. (800 # works from U.S. and Canada only) 30  tunes in tablature (see example below)     2 CDs with slow and medium-tempo recording of each tune guitar rhythm and mandolin in separate stereo channels beginner and intermediate level performance tips and variations for intermediate and advanced players complete instruction on playing bluegrass mandolin          Click "Add to Cart" button to pay with PayPal, credit or debit card, E-check or instant transfer   or click here to order by mail with check or money order.

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Contents: Relaxing, Holding the Mandolin, The Pick, Picking,  Tuning, Fretting, Pick Direction, Practicing, Mandolin Setup, Strings, Caring for Your Mandolin, Reading Tablature, Chords, Playing Rhythm, Tremolo, Chord Reference, Coordination / Warm-up Exercises, A Note on Listening, Selected Roland White Discography, 18 photos Songs and Tunes:  Bile 'Em Cabbage Down, Cabin Home on the Hill, Cripple Creek, Soldier's Joy, Liberty, St. Anne's Reel, Clinch Mountain Backstep, Mississippi Sawyer, Sugarfoot Rag, Salty Dog Blues, Salt Creek, Old Joe Clark, Ragtime Annie, Golden Slippers, Blue Grass Stomp, New Five Cents, Spinning Wheel, Road to Columbus, Gold Rush, Wheel Hoss, John Henry, Blackberry Blossom, East Tennessee Blues, Pike County Breakdown, Wildwood Flower, Blue Moon of Kentucky, Amazing Grace in G, Amazing Grace in E, Kentucky Waltz, Lonesome Road Blues, Foggy Mountain Breakdown, Jerusalem Ridge Note: All songs and tunes are in tablature, not standard music notation.  Tablature uses all the devices of standard notation except that it has a number representing the fret to put your finger on, and each line of the "staff" represents a string on the mandolin.   Examples of tablature: A measure that includes a hammer-on, pull-off, and slide.  Notice that duration of notes is conveyed just as in standard notation, with quarter notes (vertical stem with no flag), eighth notes (one flag) and sixteenth notes (two flags).  This measure also has eighth note triplets, indicated by the bracket with the "3" underneath. To view/print/hear tablatures of some popular bluegrass songs, click here. Toll-free phone order and customer service line:  800-304-3588