Mandolin Exercises For Dummies E-Book

Don Julin

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 258

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

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.

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Table of Contents

Introduction

About This Book

Foolish Assumptions

Icons Used in This Book

Beyond the Book

Where To Go from Here

Part I: Getting Ready to Practice

Chapter 1: Getting the Basics Sorted: Mandolin Fundamentals

Tuning Up

Covering a Few Right-Hand Basics

Holding the pick

Getting up to speed with alternate picking

Letting Your Left Hand Do the Talking

Using a proper grip

Figuring out fingerings

Throwing in left-hand ornaments

Reading Music in Different Formats

Trying out tab

Understanding chord diagrams

Interpreting neck diagrams

Chapter 2: Limbering up to Get into the Groove

Stretching Your Fingers and Relaxing Your Mind

Closing and opening your hands

Flexing your fingers

Extending your arms

Quietening your mind

Positioning Yourself Properly

Warming Up Your Fingers to Play

Heating things up: Right-hand warm-ups

Discovering left-hand warm-ups

Part II: Learning Scales

Chapter 3: Mastering Major Scales

Discovering Four Moveable Major Scale Patterns

Major scale pattern 1

Major scale pattern 2

Major scale pattern 3

Major scale pattern 4

Studying the First Seven Frets: Major Scales in Open Position

Exploring Major Scales on One String

Chapter 4: Discovering Three Types of Minor Scales

Playing Moveable Natural Minor Scale Patterns

Natural minor scale pattern 1

Natural minor scale pattern 2

Natural minor scale pattern 3

Natural minor scale pattern 4

Keeping an open mind: Natural minor scales in open position

Figuring out the fingerboard: Natural minor scales on one string

Creating Drama: Moveable Harmonic Minor Scale Patterns

Harmonic minor scale pattern 1

Harmonic minor scale pattern 2

Harmonic minor scale pattern 3

Harmonic minor scale pattern 4

Opening up: Harmonic minor scales in open position

Figuring out the fingerboard: Harmonic minor scales on one string

Pondering Moveable Melodic Minor Scale Patterns

Melodic minor scale pattern 1

Melodic minor scale pattern 2

Melodic minor scale pattern 3

Melodic minor scale pattern 4

Opening things up with melodic minor scales in open position

Figuring out the fingerboard: Melodic minor scales on one string

Chapter 5: Bringing Color to Your Playing with Pentatonic and Chromatic Scales

Jammin’ With Moveable Major Pentatonic Scales

Major pentatonic scale pattern 1

Major pentatonic scale pattern 2

Major pentatonic scale pattern 3

Major pentatonic scale pattern 4

Playing the greatest country lick of all time

Pickin’ up a storm with major pentatonic scales in open position

Rockin’ with Moveable Minor Pentatonic Scales

Minor pentatonic scale pattern 1

Minor pentatonic scale pattern 2

Minor pentatonic scale pattern 3

Minor pentatonic scale pattern 4

Breaking the fingering rules

Playin’ the blues with minor pentatonic scales in open position

Employing a minor pentatonic blues scale over major chords