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The Online Guitar Store - Parking Lot Picker's Songbook: Mandolin
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List Price: $29.95
Our Price: $19.77
Your Save: $ 10.18 ( 34% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
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Binding: Spiral-bound
Dewey Decimal Number: 781
EAN: 9780786674923
ISBN: 078667492X
Label: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Manufacturer: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 2007-08-21
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Studio: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
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Editorial Reviews:
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A collection of over 225 great Bluegrass, Old Time, Country and Gospel standards; Melodies are presented with standard notation and tablature along with lyrics and chords. Learn to play songs written and recorded by the giants of traditional American music: Bill Monroe, The Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs, Ralph Stanley, The Osborne Brothers, Jimmy Martin, Doc Watson and many more. Also included: Step-by-Step instruction on how to transpose and song to any key! The two CDs include recordings of EVERY song in the book.
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Customer Rating: 
Summary: Too easy!
Comment: This book has a great collection of songs. However it is way too easy. I've been playing Mandolin for less than a month and I'm beyond most of the songs. I wanted a book with great songs that was a little more challenging to encourage me to keep playing. This book is just too darn easy. Many songs are just a few transitions between the C, G, and D cords. I have to find ways to make this more challenging myself. Be sure to "look inside" at few or more songs to see if it is the right level for you. Don't forget that in the week it takes to get the book you might be beyond it too.
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Summary: Very Good Book!
Comment: This is a very good book to learn to play the mandolin. It is easy to read and a great selection of old bluegrass and gospel songs. I can also use the book to learn the rythm chords on my guitar. Also, the type is large so I can easily see the tabs and words.
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Summary: Fantastic for beginners
Comment: This is really a great book for a beginner like myself. It has a large amount of songs that are well known standards. There are companion recordings of each song. The lyrics, music, and tab are all printed. Also noted are common alternate keys and recommendations on each song of artists who have recorded good versions of the songs. This is the perfect book for beginners and I would recommend it highly. The arrangements are not chock full of notes, which allows a lot of space. This makes them easy to learn for beginners and a good starting point for learning how to improvise on the songs.
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Summary: Good Collection of Songs
Comment: Dix Bruce collects roughly 200 songs, most complete with lyrics (up to 9 verses, some of them), garnished with photos. The book includes short, but fantastic, recordings (entertaining even). Each of the songs can be approached by a beginner, and the recordings give some idea of how to improve. The book suggests keys for male and female voices, and includes instruction for how to change key to accommodate vocalists.
The only fault I find with _The Parking Lot Picker's Songbook_ is that it is not mandolin specific, aside from tablature. None of the songs include any hint of double stops. Few of the songs use more than four chords, and there are no hints for how to embellish the simple chord progressions with alternate voicings (3-string chords) or transitions. The notation and tablature, like other fake books, is really for the singer, so it would be nice to have some suggestion for how to differentiate the mandolin parts from the vocal melody.
The book is probably worth the price solely for the recordings and it's a good resource for bluegrass song lyrics. I would award a fifth star if it were really a mandolin book, rather than a fake book for mandolin players who want tablature.
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Summary: Best Picking Book I own
Comment: I have many 'picking' books and 'fake' books. This is the best I own. I like everything about it. The spiral bound book, the number of songs in the book and the fact that every single song is on the cds. You can't go wrong.
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