You Can Teach Yourself Mandolin

By Dix Bruce

(Consumer/Fretted Instruction). Dix Bruce will guide you step-by-step through the basics of learning this versatile instrument. Learn all about accompanying yourself and others, common chords and useful strums, reading simple melodies, playing a colorful assortment of mandolin folk songs, and more. All musical examples and tunes are written in both standard notation and tablature. Diagrams of all the principal chords used on the mandolin are shown in the Chord Appendix, making this book a particularly useful study aid for the beginning mandolinist. Illustrated with drawings and photographs of vintage instruments.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786667850
• ISBN13: 9780786667857
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.8" x 0.5" x 8.8"