Publisher : Mel Bay
Level : Beginning

This fun and easy mandolin book takes you from the very beginning. Learning right and left-hand techniques, learning your first chords, 18 great songs AND you painlessly learn them by reading notes. Anyone can do it. Steve's method and approach to learning to read notes is so simple that 4 year olds have done it.
You will start with 4 simple notes. Steve then teaches songs using just those four notes. He systematically adds a few more notes at a time bundled with easy to understand instructions and songs so that in a short time you will know all the notes, chords, strumming patterns to play hundreds of songs.

Your First Notes: E, G, C and D
Our First Song
Starting To Strum: Blank Chord Chart, C Chord and G Chord
Strumming Our First Songs, Mary Had A Little Lamb, Aunt Rhody, Old Gray Mare
Boil Them Cabbage in G
Do I Love You?
New Notes: A, B, G; New Chord D
Aura Lee
Row, Row, Row Your Boat in 3/4 Time
She'll Be Coming Round The Mountain
New Notes: Low E, Low D and Low C
The Timing of Notes
Camptown Races
New Note: Low F
Little Brown Jug
Rhythm: The Mandolin Chop Chords
Cripple Creek in The Key of G
Cindy, Cindy
New Chord Shape for D and A
Learning to Play Eighth Notes
New Note: High A; Learning About 1st and 2nd Endings
Soldier's Joy
New Sign: The Flat Sign; New C Chord Shape
Golden Slippers
Flop-Eared Mule
Double Stops
Boil Them Cabbage in The Key of A
Cripple Creek in The Key of A
The Hammer-On
Cotton-Eyed Joe
Wildwood Flower
New Notes: Low G, Low A and Low B
Wabash Cannonball
Understanding Tablature
All the Notes on the Mandolin Charted
Old Joe Clark
Eighth of January
Arkansas Traveler
Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms
Cripple Creek - A Fancy Version
Chord Charts for the Most Common Chords