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Roland White's Approach To Bluegrass Mandolin 60-page spiral-bound book with 2 CDs       $29.95   +  Shipping and Handling Click this button to purchase online.   OR Click here to order by mail. 31  tunes in tablature        2 CDs with slow and medium-tempo recording of each tune guitar rhythm and mandolin in separate stereo channels beginner and intermediate level performance tips and variations for intermediate and advanced players complete instruction on playing the mandolin                            Click a "Buy Now" button to pay with a credit or debit card, E-check, or instant transfer    or click here to order by mail with check or money order.

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Contents: Relaxing, Holding the Mandolin, The Pick, Picking,  Tuning, Fretting, Pick Direction, Practicing, Mandolin Setup, Strings, Caring for Your Mandolin, Reading Tablature, Chords, Playing Rhythm, Tremolo, Chord Reference, Coordination / Warm-up Exercises, A Note on Listening, Selected Roland White Discography, 18 photos

Songs and Tunes:  Bile 'Em Cabbage Down, Cabin Home on the Hill, Cripple Creek, Soldier's Joy, Liberty, St. Anne's Reel, Clinch Mountain Backstep, Mississippi Sawyer, Sugarfoot Rag, Salty Dog Blues, Salt Creek, Old Joe Clark, Ragtime Annie, Golden Slippers, Blue Grass Stomp, New Five Cents, Spinning Wheel, Road to Columbus, Gold Rush, Wheel Hoss, John Henry, Blackberry Blossom, East Tennessee Blues, Pike County Breakdown, Wildwood Flower, Blue Moon of Kentucky, Amazing Grace in G, Amazing Grace in E, Kentucky Waltz, Lonesome Road Blues, Foggy Mountain Breakdown, Jerusalem Ridge

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Note: All songs and tunes are in tablature, not standard music notation.  Tablature uses all the devices of standard notation except that it has a number representing the fret to put your finger on, and each line of the "staff" represents a string on the mandolin.  Examples of tablature:

A measure that includes a hammer-on, pull-off, and slide:

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