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August 10, 2025
Great must have book for the holidays. Clear and easy chord rendition even for beginners.
Princesky
April 27, 2025
Easy to follow the music.
benoit beaudet
March 1, 2025
book with music sheet notes and tabs, easy for a beginner like me,easy arrangements, good printing book
Darwin
February 15, 2025
Ordinaire
Customer
February 4, 2025
It was what I expected
Two Tents
January 29, 2025
I've played guitar for years but have been playing mandolin for a year or so. This book fits perfectly where I'm at in terms of my ability and continued fruitful practice. As others have said the arrangements are really mandolin arrangements, not simply fake book melodies. So as an intermediate player (+/-) its pushing me gently to improve. But the cool thing is these arrangements are not crazy difficult, requiring 6 months of dedication to master, and nerves of steel to play, for the holidays. A huge gripe of mine with holiday guitar arrangements: too simple or too hard considering the material. Don't get me wrong, I love xmas tunes, just not so much in July.This book strikes a great balance for an intermediate player. The earlier pieces in the book would suit a beginner. Things get more difficult as you progress through the book. But the progression is fluid, if that makes sense. Its pretty obvious the pieces are arranged by a dyed in the wool, experienced instructor. Allot of material out there does not live up to obvious expectations.The biggest thing this book does for my playing is helping me get better tone from the instrument. I never thought xmas tunes were so suited to the mandolin. The mandolin techniques are very well applied to the material. So if your phrasing is right, the technique is there, and you apply the right touch, its really quite moving. Something about the mandolin.The selection and number of tunes suit me fine too. I see myself playing from this book for many christmases to come.Its good to have a music book for the holidays I can comfortably play with friends while not having to put my lessons on hold while I learn the material. For what it is and my stage in the game I really can't think of much that would improve this book.
Mr. David E. Buckley
December 21, 2024
I wanted to learn mandolin chords and so (as it was near Christmas) brought this book. It was great for what I wanted. The one slight drawback is that some of the tunes are American and so different from the British tunes. "Away in a Manger", Oh Little Toen of Bethlehem" and "It came upon a Midnight clear" are examples, but the US tunes are worth knowing along with the UK ones.
DaveG
December 5, 2024
There is a good selection of tunes and most are not that difficult for a beginner like me. It includes TAB and standard musical notation and there is a quick reference in the back for the mandolin notations used.
Alison Lowery
November 27, 2024
Clear and simple music with tablature so I could learn easily.
DE
November 24, 2024
Not bad, but not the most exciting. Some pieces are essentially just the melody with some tremolos thrown in. That said, as a learner/beginner, it is approachable and has some harder and more interesting arrangements as well, so you can have things to play more immediately and some things to dig into.
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