You Can Teach Yourself Mandolin is written as a teach-yourself text with play-along examples and tunes on the companion recording. In the author's word, "It is aimed at helping you get started immediately on your way to mandolinhood by giving you the basics of the mandolin and mandolin playing." With this informal, often humorous text, 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. Includes access to online audio and video.


All Through The Night      
Careless Love      
Fair And Tender Ladies      
He's Got The Whole World In His Hands      
Hush Little Baby      
I Ride An Old Paint      
John B. Sails      
Kumbaya      
Nine Pound Hammer      
Sally Goodin      
Sportin' Life      
Stringin'       
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot       
Take A Drink On Me       
The Cruel War       
The Cuckoo       
The No-Name Rag       
The Streets Of Laredo