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Gypsy Picking for Mandolin

This lesson demonstrates how to employ the Gypsy Picking technique on the mandolin. Includes 5 notated examples, 9 MP3 audio examples, and 3 pages of text. Several of the examples are mandolin versions of Django's most classic phrases. Written by mandolin virtuoso John McGann.

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a good purchase

It's good to have gypsy jazz lessons for mandolin. So much instruction is tangential as it's for guitar. It might be nice to have a lesson dealing with basic rest strokes for the mando.This lesson assumes you've mastered them,as McGann generally begins at a fairly advanced level.

Submitted by: Richard on 06/02/2011 01:45:25 PM

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gypsy picking

Pros: great exercises

Cons: would like more examples of using the picking exercises in whole, simple gypsy jazz songs

A good book to help players make the switch to the specific picking technique needed to emulate gypsy jazz style. Lots of meat in the book. Enough to last me for several months!

Submitted by: jank on 04/25/2011 12:49:53 PM

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