Alfred Music: Three New Titles to Teach Yourself Series, Mastering Ukulele

Alfred's Teach Yourself to Play Classical Guitar begins with the fundamentals of the classical guitar. Users start by learning the parts of the guitar, how to hold, tune, and care for their instrument, and reading standard music notation and TAB. Then, users will move on to playing new notes, scales, and essential classical guitar pieces. Users will be able to read music and play famous guitar repertoire pieces by some of the greatest classical masters, including J. S. Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, and Scott Joplin.

The best-selling Alfred's Teach Yourself to Play Mandolin is now available with accompanying DVD and CD. This book, CD, and DVD package will teach users about the history of the mandolin, its unique parts, tuning the mandolin, how to play with a pick, and reading standard musical notation. Notes, scales, and songs are introduced lesson-by-lesson to gradually increase the users' mastery of the instrument. The book teaches important mandolin techniques like tremolo, cross picking, and more.

Alfred's Teach Yourself to Play Banjo starts with fundamentals, such as the history of the banjo, its components, how to hold tune and care for the instrument, and how to read standard musical notation. Included are fingering charts and a dictionary of chords in G and C tunings. All books include Alfred Music's TNT 2 Custom Mix software that lets users adjust the tempo and isolate parts. Retail: $19.99 each.

Meanwhile, Alfred Music's Complete Ukulele Method: Complete Edition book and CD pack combines three books into one complete volume. The first section is perfect for beginning players, as well as more seasoned players who wish to enhance their knowledge. Beginning Ukulele teaches everything to get started on the instrument. Intermediate Ukulele takes users to the next level with detailed lessons on new grooves, the blues, melody and chord-melody playing, and jazz. Mastering Ukulele teaches how to arrange chord-melody solos using the entire ukulele fretboard, among many other advanced topics. It instructs the technique of triple strums, bursts, split strums, and fan strokes. Each section/book features fun songs in a variety of styles, including rock, blues, Hawaiian, and fiddle tunes.

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