This book/CD package features easy to follow instruction for the beginner to learn bluegrass mandolin. Includes lead playing and rhythm technique, with a complete chord chart. Each song is written in music notation and tablature and the songs are played at 2 speeds on the accompanying CD (slow for practicing and up tempo for performing). Songs include Worried Man Blues, Wildwood Flower, Cripple Creek, John Hardy, Red Haired Boy, Sally Goodin, Soldier's Joy, 8th of January, Billy In The Lowground, Blackberry Blossum, Bill Cheatum, Old Joe Clark, and Salt Creek.
Bert Casey has been a professional performer and teacher in the Atlanta area for over 30 years. Bert plays several instruments (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar, mandolin, banjo, ukulele, and flute) and has written eight instructional books (Acoustic Guitar Primer, Acoustic Guitar Book 2, Electric Guitar Primer, Bass Guitar Primer, Mandolin Primer, Ukulele Primer, Flatpicking Guitar Songs, and Bluegrass Fakebook) and has made six DVDs (Introduction to Acoustic Guitar, Acoustic Guitar DVD Part 2, Introduction to Electric Guitar, Introduction to Bass Guitar, Introduction to Mandolin, and Ukulele Primer DVD). Bert performed for several years in Atlanta and the Southeast with his bands Home Remedy and Blue Moon.
25 years ago, Bert Casey and Geoff Hohwald started Watch & Learn to help revolutionize music instructional courses by developing well thought out, step by step instructional methods that were tested for effectiveness on beginners before publication. These products, which have dramatically improved the understanding and success of beginning students, have evolved into the Watch & Learn system that continues to set the standard of music instruction today. This has resulted in sales of more than three million products since 1979.
