Mel Bay Publications
Level : Beginning-Intermediate

Learning the mandolin should be required for every violinist: it has the same tuning and is a chordal instrument.
This book provides violinists with the skills and knowledge needed to master the mandolin; it also teaches ways in which mandolin concepts can open up one's violin playing.
The book offers key insights into the similarities and differences between the two instruments so that violinists can quickly learn to play the mandolin.

The book and CD  cover basic fingering and picking techniques and then move through exercises and pieces drawn from the classical, swing and folk genres.

Index:

• Switching to Mandolin
• Picking Motion
• Playing a Fretted Instrument
• The Open Strings
• Fretting Notes
• Mandolin Fingerboard Chart
• June Apple
• Swallow Tail Jig
• Minuet
• Blackberry Blossom
• Etude
• Major Scales
• Canon in D Major
• Old Joe Clark
• Mary Had a Little Lamb
• Cross Picking
• Concerto for Two Violins
• Bile Them Cabbage
• Cello Suite
• Celtic Mandolin Melody
• Old Time Mandolin Slurs
• Baroque Slurs
• Tremolo
• Carnival of Venice
• Mandolin Ballad
• Chords
• Amazing Grace
• Root Position Chords
• 1st Inversion Chords
• 2nd Inversion Chords
• Bile Them Cabbage Chords
• Seventh Chords
• Building Chords
• Standard Mandolin
• Bossamando
• Csardas
• Eight String Blues
• Sonata in F Major
• Strumming, Muting and Chopping Chords
• Mandolin as a Learning Tool for Violinist
• Comping Chords on the Violin