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Your cart is empty.D.Lewis
2025-09-01 17:39:05
Product was well packaged and the smells like a Martin guitar! Fantastic. Late delivery is on USPS.
Paul B.
2025-08-18 14:18:57
First of all, I'm a middling mandolin player. I'm not a rank beginner, and I do a bit of mando picking in a little Irish band. I enjoy experimenting with improvising on different types of tunes, but don't have any real idea what I'm doing. That's why I like this book and CD set so much.For an "ultimate" songbook, 26 doesn't sound like a very large number of tunes. However, the book is well worth the price. For each tune, Ms Davis gives you a fairly plain, unadorned version of the tune first, and you can listen to it on the CD. Once you're comfortable with that, she gives you a LOT of alternative licks which you can substitute for certain measures of the tune, adding to the tunes' interest. Then, she gives different versions of each tune, in varying styles such as Texas swing, jazz, romantic, etc. Again, you can listen to the different versions to help you get them under your fingers. It's like having a talented teacher by your side saying "OK, that sounds good. Now try playing it THIS way". I'd highly recommend this book.
Jeff
2025-08-04 10:09:07
I'm more or less a beginning mandolin player, although I have a little bit of other musical background. This book probably would mean more to someone who understands the most basic theory (nothing advanced at all). The thing I like best is that each song has several versions to learn, each with a different style, plus several alternative licks for most of the songs, so that anyone can get good use out of the book, no matter what your experience level with the instrument. A beginner could learn lots, and even an experienced player will pick up stuff that is new to him, too. The only reason I didn't give it five stars is because it will take years to drain this resource of all the goodies in it, and I hate to rate any book before I have finished the final chapter.
David M. Perry
2025-08-03 15:21:09
This book is a fine guide to bluegrass on the mandolin anbd is an excellent companion to "Mandolin Picker's Guide to Bluegrass." Janet does include tunes from other genres of music, but the bluegrass is growing pletiful her. What I like most is she devotes several pages of the book on each tune showing how it could be improvides in a jazz manner, a blues manner, a swing manner and good ole bluegrass manner. This is unbelievable alone, but with each song improvived in different styles she has a lot of alternate phrase examples that can be switched with measures in the original tune. This is a great book on playing in different genres of music and improvising in those styles. This book has audio versions of Janet playing her tunes and varioations, but the book does no come audios of the alternate phrases she provides. GET IT -IT IS AWESOME.
The Poet
2025-05-30 13:57:49
I purchased this book about six weeks ago and I have been playig and studying the pieces out of it every day now (sometimes all day!). I love this book very much but when I first got it I laughed to see musical phrasing referred to as "licks". I guess most American mandolinists TODAY are guitar players and that is their "musical language". I am just trilled with this book and it lives up to its name: Hal Leonard, The Ultimate Mandolin Songbook by Janet Davis. I feel like I have discovered some "real mandolin treasure tunes" (like the very first tune Alabama Jubliee that is just a brilliant simple tune in its "unembellished state" ---- that is true musical genius!) There are so many high drama tunes suited for the mandolin in this book I will be studying it for the next few years --- excitement beyond belief! I highly recommend this book to all mandolinists --- especially for women: it is high drama without killing your left hand on 5-fret stretches that men land so easy!
KSans
2025-05-21 17:04:58
I began learning music on violin as a child, and later learned guitar as a teenager. After learning about mandolin being a combination of the two, and my mom finding one at a yard sale, I had to learn to play it. Finding a book at my level was hard, because I wasn't exactly a beginner, but needed something to teach me more of the mandolin style. This book is exactly what I needed because it teaches so many different styles. The CDs that come with it are a big help and very inspiring. This book is going to help me grow a lot musically and I am super excited!
CJ Nichols
2025-04-20 17:42:09
This book is helpful for understanding playing lead on mandolin but there is Zero emphasis on chords which makes it pretty useless if you plan to play with other live humans. "Melody only" is an issue because a Bluegrass E and a Jazz E and a Pop E are all different when it comes to mandolin but i suppose there are other books for that.
T. A. Glisson
2025-04-15 18:45:04
this was a gift to my son who plays the mandolin. So all I can comment on is what he said to me when he received it. He said it was a very good book and it had a lot of songs that he hasn't been able to find the music for.
roberto
2025-04-01 15:51:25
Lo spartito è fatto molto bene, strutturato con molti lick per variare, molto utili le tracce audio, complimenti, acquisto assolutamente consigliato.
Richard Mende
2025-03-20 10:52:27
I am an advanced player, and I find this book to be remarkable. Janet Davis presents us with the basic melodies of the 26 tunes and then offers a seemingly infinite number of variations. It would take me a year to master everything in this book. At the same time, I was easily able to pick and choose what I wanted to learn from it. It's an extremely valuable addition to my musical library.
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2025-03-17 10:13:39
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Katzs17
2025-02-21 14:40:43
Je suis violoniste pro et je pensais m'en sortir bien mais c'est dur dur!! Par contre les morceaux sont sympas et il y a une quantité immense de materiel à travailler. Mon seul regret concerne les cd... j'aurais préféré avoir des pistes moins rapides pour jouer plus facilement avec dès le debut.
THE MUSIC CHORD
2025-02-11 18:56:56
very good book, detailed
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