I'm interested in knowing what types of instructional materials (books,DVDs, CDs, etc.) people use for their lessons. I start many of my students with Hal Leonard Mandolin Method Book 1 by Rich DelGrosso. I like to use Tabledit. I use the garageband program on my laptop to make recordings for students that I can burn to CD. Any other useful books, tools, ideas that I should consider?
I use a mix of all that I have accumulated over the years. I like the Greg Horne series since I seem to get mostly beginners. I have a couple of students who use Macs so I'll sometimes send them a video of me explaining a point.
I've used Bert Casey's Bluegrass Mandolin Primer. Most of the tunes are fiddle standards. The arrangements are simple but musically interesting. What do you like about the DelGrosso and Horne books?
I have used the Mandolin Primer book with several students as well. The Greg Horne series is good also. I like the DelGrosso book for students who are interested in learning to read standard notation. It has a good variety of tunes in different genres and harmony parts on many of the tunes for the teacher to play along with the student - which is fun.