Mel Bay Publications
by Brian Wicklund and Ben Winship
Standard Notation and Tab


Using clear illustrations and lucid explanations, the authors guide beginning mandolin players through necessary skills such as efficiently holding the mandolin, fretting, picking technique, creating good tone, chop chord and open chord backup.
Students learn the techniques while mastering over thirty common jam tunes, which they can practice with using the accompanying audio

• Amazing Grace
• Angelina Baker
• Arran Boat Song
• Boil 'em Cabbage Down
• Bonaparte's Retreat
• Buffalo Gals
• Cairo
• Camptown Races
• Cindy
• Cluck Old Hen
• Country Waltz
• Crawdad Song
• Cripple Creek
• Down in the Valley
• Girl I Left Behind Me
• Little Liza Jane
• Miss McLeod's Reel
• Old Joe Clark
• Over the Waterfall
• Red Haired Boy
• Red River Valley
• Red Wing
• Sandy Boys
• Shady Grove
• Shortnin' Bread
• Si Beag Si Mor
• Southwind
• Stinky's Blues
• Sugar Hill
• Turkey in the Straw

• American Mandolin Method Volume 1 - 10%
• American Mandolin Method Volume 2 - 10%
• Manuali per lo studio della tecnica del mandolino