Free Mandolin Exercises For Dummies Ebooks To Download
Practice makes perfect with this hands-on resource for mandolin players of all skill levels If you're looking for an accessible practice-based book to improve your playing, you've come to the right place. Mandolin Exercises For Dummies focuses on the skills that players often find challenging and provides tips, tricks and plenty of cool exercises that will have you picking with the best of them—or at least much better than before! Mandolin Exercises For Dummies is packed with instruction—from hundreds of exercises to drills and practice pieces. And it gets better. You'll also have online access to downloadable audio files for each exercise, making this practice-based package a complete mandolin companion. Puts an overview of the fundamentals in perspective, helps you to use exercises to limber up, and much more Dives into the major and minor arpeggios with triad patterns, then moves on to major 7th and minor 7th patterns Details the major scales, then moves on to mastering the minor scales with practice exercises Contains tips to help you practice better, including using a metronome, playing with recordings, and more Master the basics and sharpen your mandolin-playing skills with this reliable resource.
File Size: 8560 KB
Print Length: 256 pages
Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (March 24, 2014)
Publication Date: March 24, 2014
Sold by: Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B00JDIZSLQ
Text-to-Speech: Enabled
X-Ray: Not Enabled
Word Wise: Enabled
Lending: Not Enabled
Enhanced Typesetting: Not Enabled
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I bought this book as a Kindle down load which has mp3 files which can also be downloaded from their website which was about half the price of the print version. This book is a sequel to "Mandolin for Dummies" and is an exhaustive course on the structure of music, especially scales, with a multitude of exercises to help the reader improve their playing of the mandolin. Some of the printing of these scales were small and difficult to read on the Kindle, so owning the print version might be better. mp3 files were given to demonstrate the proper technique and the author emphasized the importance of listening to them first and always using a metronome when practicing, which I didn't do. Videos of the same scales on youtube.com are available and give visual examples not available in this book. I supplemented my reading of this book with those videos, when and where I could find them. My mandolin playing improved dramatically after just doing some of the beginning exercises which taught the major scales and how they fit with the chords of a song. A great resource for mandolin players!
Companion to Don Julin 's Mandolin for Dummies, good exercises builds on a sequence of increasing skill. Good to learn, good to keep up one's skills. Audio on line added feature instead of cd. Will help you improve
These exercicises are great for getting your timing, tone and speed up with the mando. Reason for 4 stars and not 5 stars is there are so many exercicises in the book that you better be retired if you take the time to work on all of them.
I'm sure the exercises are great, but I can't even read them let alone play them on my tablet or on my computer. The print version may work well, but,the images of the exercises on my electronic devices are so small I can't read them and play. It would be nice if there was a way to print them so they are readable. Did I mention that they exercises are not readable?
This is an excellent book, however, when you buy it, you should also have a copy of Mandolin for Dummies since this book makes frequent references to that book. Indeed, this is not a book for anyone just starting out with a mandolin. Having said that, however, it is probably the bet book I've found for exercises and ways to dig deeper into learning the instrument.
Great resource. If you're looking for instant magic, look elsewhere. If you're looking to learn the instrument, this an excellent resource?
Just what a beginning mandolin student needs to train the left and right hands to do their thing on a mandolin.
For my needs this is one if the best books out there. It provided me with the background stuff that I needed.
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