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1 LE OF CONENS OU HE UHOR INROUCION Chord Substitution Rollin In My Sweet aby s rms (Straight) 2 Rollin In My Sweet aby s rms (ritone Substitution) Rollin In My Sweet aby s rms (Minor rd Substitution) Rollin In My Sweet aby s rms (im7 Substitution) 6 CHER 1 WRM-US 6 Exercises for the Left Hand 7 Working Fingers in airs 8 Right-Hand Exercises 1 CHER CHOR/MELOY 8 Mississippi Sawyer (Melody) 9 Creating a Chord/Melody Mississippi Sawyer (ethro Style) 1 R ONE HRMONY CHER 2 IMORN CHORS 11 Extended Maor Chords 11 Extended Minor Chords 1 Extended ominant Chords 1 iminished 7th Chords 1 Other Important Chords 17 ltered Chords 18 Chord Reference Charts 18 Finding Other Voicings 2 CHER CHOR RORESSIONS 2 lues Forms 2 8-ar lues 2 12-ar lues 2 16-ar lues (1st Variation) 2 16-ar lues (2nd Variation) 2 2-ar lues ar lues in 27 lmost ime 28 lues rass Ramble 29 azz Rhythm Changes Rhythm Changes (asic) 1 Rhythm Changes Swing 2 Rhythm Changes ebop Rhythm Changes (ritone Substitution) nthromorphology 6 Criminal Satisfaction 8 R WO MELOY CHER SCLES N MOES 2 enerating the Modes from a arent Scale he Relative View 2 he arallel View Mode Characteristics and Fingerings Using the Modes 6 he Rights of Man 7 runken Sailor 8 une pple 6 Over the Waterfall 61 entatonic Scales 62 Spootiskerry Reel 6 he lues Scale 6 he Whole-one Scale 66 he Chromatic Scale 67 he Five asic Scale ypes Every Mandolin layer Should Know 68 2 able of Contents

2 R HREE RHYHM CHER 6 EXLORIN IME SINURES 7 Review of Compound Meter 7 rip to the Cottage 71 anish Misfortune 72 he utterfly 7 an O Keefe s Slide 7 Odd Meters 7 -ime Waltz 76 Sillyford 77 R FOUR UIN I LL OEHER CHER 8 IMROVISION 8 Raking Leaves No 1 8 Raking Leaves No 2 8 Raking Leaves No 86 Raking Leaves No 88 Raking Leaves No 9 Raking Leaves No 6 91 CHER 7 MELOIC RHYHM 78 Soldier s oy 8 Soldier s oy Waltz 81 Soldier s oy ig 82 CHER 9 FININ MERIL FROM ROUN HE WORL 9 Old French (Canada) 9 Simo Ligeri 9 WRIN U FINL HOUHS N SUESIONS 9 rack 1 compact disc is available with each book of this series Using these discs will help make learning more enoyable and the information more meaningful he C will help you play the correct notes, rhythms and feel of each example he track numbers below the symbols correspond directly to the example you want to hear Have fun! able of Contents

3 Following are a few tunes that make use of blues progressions First, here s a pretty straight forward 12-bar blues in the key of Maor 12-R LUES IN rack 1 Swing 8ths R ONE HRMONY 7 n C 7 b b H H H H b n b n n C 7 b n b n n b n w Chapter Chord rogressions 27

4 Here is another tune that makes use of some of the extended and altered chords that you ve learned lay along with the C that is included with this book, with a friend or record the melody and play the chords along with yourself trying to focus on how the chords function to support the melody Note the quintuplet in bar 1 his is five sixteenth notes in the time of four (one beat) R ONE HRMONY b Swing 8ths b Ma7 rack 18 b CRIMINL SISFCION min min b C b Ma7 b min b n b Πmin Π1 min7 b 7 min7 b b ( ) Chapter Chord rogressions

5 Let s try the same tune again, this time as a ig in rack 2 SOLIER S OY I R HREE RHYHM Hopefully, as you played through these different versions of Soldier s oy, you found yourself needing to focus with intensity on playing this familiar material in a new, different feel Focusing in this way will help develop a powerful internal sense of rhythm and will prove invaluable to you his exercise also serves as proof positive that rhythm is critical in defining the nature and feel of a piece 82 Chapter 7 Melodic Rhythm