Mel Bay Modes on Mandolin: Improving Your Improvisation Book

Dimensions (Overall): 12.0 inches (L), .4 inches (H) x 8.75 inches (W)
Weight: .99 pounds
Genre: Method books
Compatible With: Mandolin
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• Product Number:30119
• Format:Book
• Skill Level:Advanced
• Pages:140
• Binding:Squareback Saddle Stitch
Modes on the Mandolin: Improve Improvisation is a collection of exercises for the mandolin student to work through to better understand the fretboard and expand their musicality. The collection includes scales, modes, arpeggios, patterns, intervalic and rhythmic exercises, and progressions. It will serve as a valuable resource and a supplement to, but not a substitute for, a good teacher. do not need to follow the chapters in order, as all of them will help play and improvise over progressions. The exercises are tools to help build muscle memory and musical ideas anywhere on the fretboard. Connect the physical with the theoretical. There are examples of common tune chord progressions with ideas applied to them. By creating own musical ideas over the same progressions, will find that the practical information given (exercises) turns into functional use (playing and improvising). Once gain a better understanding of the fretboard, will notice more fluidity and creativity in playing.