Publisher: Homespun Tapes DVD
A Complete Guide for Learning Players
Duration: 120 Minute Video,
Includes music and tab on pdf file to view or print
Level: Near-Beginner

Butch Baldassari has distilled his popular teaching workshops into one jam-packed DVD, providing detailed instruction in all aspects of mandolin playing.

Butch gives you exercises to build your technique and teaches you how to master fiddle tunes, take solos, and play the famous Bill Monroe licks that make up "the language of bluegrass." He shares advice about fingering, pick control, alternate chord forms, playing scales in a variety of keys and imparts other invaluable information that will help you develop style, flair and a deep knowledge of your instrument.

Best of all, you'll learn to play twenty songs that should be in the repertoire of every mandolinist:

Little Rabbit
Arkansas Traveler,
Britches
Patty on the Turnpike
Honky Tonk Swing
Bluegrass Stomp
Evening Prayer Blues
I'll Fly Away
I'm Going Back to Old Kentucky
Rebecca
Little Georgia Rose
Pass Me Not O Gentle Savior
Bile Them Cabbage Down
Sally Goodin
Angeline the Baker
Chinquapin Hunting
Big Mon
Waltz for Bill Monroe
Blackberry Blossom
Whiskey Before Breakfast