• Bluegrass Breaks: Mandolin

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    Bluegrass Breaks: Mandolin

    Fenton, Mo. — Mel Bay Publications, Inc. has announced the coming release of Bluegrass Breaks: Mandolin, 23 Bluegrass Mandolin Solos, 13 Kickoffs and 4 Back-Up Parts by Dix Bruce.

    Online recordings are available with purchase and set at slow and regular speeds. Includes easy melodic solos/breaks; more advanced solos with blue notes, arpeggios, and more; double stop solos; essential fiddle tunes every mandolin player should know; crosspicking solos; a variety of kickoffs or introductions; different styles of back-up mandolin.

    Contents

    • Introduction
    • Pig in a Pen up and down picking
    • Sitting on Top of the World up and down picking, tremolo
    • Bile Them Cabbage Down fiddle tune
    • Ground Hog solo in the key of A
    • Midnight on the Stormy Deep double stops, tremolo
    • I’ll be All Smiles Tonight waltz time
    • New River Train continuous eighth notes, closed positions, transposing
    • Somebody Touched Me closed position in B
    • Darling Cory blue notes
    • Wedding Waltz waltz, roadmaps
    • East Virginia Blues closed position, key of E
    • Columbus Stockade Blues blue notes, key of C
    • Fair and Tender Ladies crosspicking
    • Lonesome Valley crosspicking
    • Flop-Eared Mule fiddle tune
    • Shebeg and Sheemore Irish tune
    • Reuben’s Train solo with drones
    • My Home’s Across the Blue Ridge Mountains double stops, slides
    • Little Rosewood Casket closed position, key of F
    • John Henry blue notes, position changes
    • Blackberry Blossom fiddle tune
    • Handsome Molly up and down picking, slides
    • The Old Gray Mare fiddle tune
    • Silent Night closed position, double stops, Christmas song
    • Will the Circle be Unbroken crosspicking
    • Amazing Grace back up part
    • Take this Hammer back up part, call and response
    • Midnight on the Stormy Deep back up part, crosspicking
    • There’s More Pretty Girls than One back up part, double stop tremolo
    • Kickoffs
    • Little Rosewood Casket kickoff key of F, eight measures
    • East Virginia Blues kickoff key of E
    • I’ll be All Smiles Tonight kickoff key of A, eight measures, waltz time
    • Somebody Touched Me kickoff key of B
    • Amazing Grace kickoff key of G, double stops, tremolo, single notes
    • There’s More Pretty Girls than One kickoff #1 key of F, double stops, short
    • There’s More Pretty Girls than One kickoff #2 key of F, double stops, long
    • Will the Circle be Unbroken kickoff #1 key of G, double stops, tremolo
    • Will the Circle be Unbroken kickoff #2 key of G, crosspicking

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