Mandolin Chords Plus [Paperback]

Ron Middlebrook (Composer)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 1984

A helpful booklet with chords, scales, and tuning information essential to all mandolin players. Also includes 'hot licks' and two tunes.

Product Details

• Paperback: 8 pages
• Publisher: Centerstream Publications (November 1, 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1574240072
• ISBN-13: 978-1574240078
• Product Dimensions: 12 x 9 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,251,186 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Underwhelming, May 2, 2007

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Naoise O'hannain "Naoise O hAnnain" (Dublin, Ireland - Europa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mandolin Chords Plus (Paperback)

This 'pamphlet' (cover page + 7 A4 pages) provides a jog note review for chords.

For Improver to Intermediate Mandolin chord players, has

. - Chords (4 pages - with 156 chords)

. - Chord 'Licks' (1.5 pages -with 17 chords)

. - Tunes (1 page - 2 tunes) and some bits on tuning and a very good and 'compact' notation for chords.

A bit too parsimonious for my liking but may be useful as jog notes for a chord player. Note NO CD is included.

Watch out for Amazon back room logistic 'geniuses' who will build a megalithic cardboard structure ensuring that this pamphlet will not fit in any letterbox (that is 'mailbox' for those of you who don't speak English properly!) resulting in an expedition to the nearest collection point.

For further references on chords and progressions:-

101 Red Hot Bluegrass Mandolin Licks & Solos with CD ISBN-10: 0786659025; Fretboard Roadmaps Mandolin: The Essential Patterns That All the Pros Know and Use ISBN-10: 0634001426

How to Play Mandolin by Morton Manus ISBN-10: 0739008706 ;

For training your ear to hear chord progressions - `Harmonic Ear Training' with Roberta Radley of Berklee [Hal Leonard] 0876390270 ASIN: B00029RRHS

`One Note Complete' by Bruce Arnold 1890944475

The bible for your music career (a 5* reference) `Hearing and Writing Music' by Ron Gorow [Garow] 0962949671

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Nice little book -- one serious problem, July 5, 2010

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LEG (Greenville, SC) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Mandolin Chords Plus: Chords, Scales, Tuning, Hot Licks, Songs Sheet Music (Kindle Edition)

I like the concept and feel that this little book could be helpful. Unfortunately, I bought the Kindle version and there are pages that are not scanned into the file! Several pages of chord diagrams are missing!

5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not Perfect, BUT Real GOOD for "Mandolists-to-be"., December 19, 2008

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Rick "Fourstrings" Lauzon "Rit" (Lehigh Acres,FL.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mandolin Chords Plus (Paperback)

Hi, friends,

My name is Rick, aka:Fourstrings, Ol'Bassman, and Rit-d'-Git" and I have been playing now for over 50 years, as I am 62, and started with my Harmony Archtop Guitar #1214 which ate my fingertips off in a few weeks, as "dad" didn't know how to adjust the playability of any instrument, but was good at anything he picked up!

I have his talent and more as God granted me, for as long as I played my heart was deeply into it, but, never did I take a lesson, and haven't still.

I will say this: I have used all that I sell and have sold, which now is up to sheetsmusic, books, Bluegrass, Country, European Melodies Love themes, and of course , I got my Blues, R&B, and everything else "melded" into the styles of those I play with.

I have always wanted to twist what instrument I played into "MY STYLE" which had many times been called "great", and "the Best", but never by me~!

I now build, upgrade, and improve the sounds of the tonalities of any instrument I have in my hands, I always did that.

And, I have almost every publication, book, CD, DVD, magazines, "D-I-Y" and more.

I will make a special exclaimation about this small few pages that is for sale here and I'll bet that many haven't given it the chance that it needed to be useful to them.

I have found in these pages all that I could NOT understand about the subject of MUSIC in school, I just never understood what someone was trying to say, It was quantum-physics to me, but, as I got into this li'l set of sheets, it dealt with what I needed, down deep: Scales, Notes, Tabulature, which I find as the easiest Music language that is in existance today, and I followed it all, and I understood it all, as it was basic, "YES", but it was so easy for a block-head like me, who would be happy just doing what I have done for 50 years, do it all by ear, never picking up a sheet of paper, nor a book to learn, I did all of the hard work myself.

But payed a price, as I felt deficient as a musician, now this has changed, for in this "MANDOLIN CHORDS PLUS" booklet, I finally caught on in spite of my lacking prior study, their were also "licks"..the sweet li'l riffs you pull off when you wish to end a song, go into a chorus, or a bridge, or into a different pitch, and it was done so I understood, easily, and I shall keep it, and wholeheartedly tender it to others...it has a huge advantage over the books with 200 pages.

I got too frustrated trying to teach myself, as time was passing as I am now.

Do youself a favor, get one and keep it in your case, and after a while, you'll hand it to your son, or friend and he will speak well of you when you do pass.

Thank you, Ron Middlebrook, the author.

Very Sincerely, "Rit-'d-git"

"Strings"