Mandolin Exercises For Dummies

Learn to:

• Build your skills playing scales
• Play arpeggios with confidence
• Master chord forms and progressions

Practise makes perfect with this hands-on resource for mandolin players of all skill levels

For mandolin players, practise makes perfect! Use this hands-on resource to get the most out of your practise sessions. Get hundreds of exercises in various keys and positions, use drills to help practise time, build your technique like a pro, practise scales and full-length pieces, and much more. Take your mandolin playing to the next level today!

• Get ready — pick up an overview of the fundamentals, use exercises to limber up, and much more
• Explore arpeggios — dive into the major and minor arpeggios with triad patterns, then move on to major 7th and minor 7th patterns
• All about chords — practise major and minor inversions, and get groovy with major 7th chord inversions
• Get on the scales — start up with the major scales, then move on to mastering the minor scales with practise exercises
• Tips and tricks — get tips to help you practise better, including using a metronome, playing with recordings, and more

Open the book and find:

• A full review of the basics and reading music
• Warm-ups specific to mandolin players
• Major and minor scale patterns
• Practise exercises for chords and scales
• Tips and exercises for connecting scale patterns
• Tricks for chord progressions, along with practise notes
• Ten tunes to practise everything at once