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In Netscape, repeat Enter for further occurrences In Internet Explorer, Ctrl + Home, click in the box again, then Enter for next occurrence Free JavaScripts provided by The JavaScript Source TablEdit FAQ for mandolin players at http://www.mandozine.com/help/ Bluegrass Texty is a Czech site with some useful bluegrass links (and quite a lot of text in English) http://www.mujweb.cz/www/bluegrass_cz/texty.htm Tabs and sound files at http://www.mujweb.cz/www/bgtabs/ Introduction to transcribing music from recordings courtesy Andy Robinson http://www.seventhstring.demon.co.uk/xscribe/introxsc.html Music related links at MusEdit including lots of tab sites (mostly guitar) http://www.musedit.com/med/Links/Links.htm The Traditional Music Library has lots of bluegrass, old time, Celtic and other tunes available in notation and MIDI playback http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/ New URL for Pickin' Pete's Mandolin Chords and Scales http://www.geocities.com/dm9man/ Digital Tradition Folk Music Database includes scores, ABC and MIDI files - index at http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/ Big fiddle players' site, lots of tunes and sound files to download (free registration required) http://fiddlefork.com/ Nigel Gatherer's CoMando Tune of The Week pages Tab and/or standard notation and/or ABC plus commments Access to lots of Irish music including O'Neill's and Allan's collections, and many links http://www.sosyourmom.com/Oneils1.html Music transcribing tools listed and discussed at http://www.alisdair.com/educator/transcribingtools.html And another useful listing at http://www.seventhstring.demon.co.uk/links.html Davy Rogers traditional Irish guitar tabs & MIDIs plus lots of useful links http://homepage.tinet.ie/~davyr/links.html Morris tunes in ABC format courtesy Lester Bailey, plus other useful ABC links at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/goldfrog/lester/music.htm Lester's home page http://www.lesterbailey.org Stacy Phillips' dobro and fiddle page includes some sample lessons and tunes http://www.stacyphillips.com/ Manuscripts Department at the Southern Folklife Collection, Chapel Hill, NC http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/sfc1/ Includes some fascinating on-line recordings at http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/sfc/ncfolk/archive/clip.html A miscellany of links on Ken Cort's bluegrass page, including some chord charts for bluegrass standards http://www.people.hbs.edu/kcorts/bluegrass.htm Hetzler's Fakebook of traditional fiddle music - an online collection of 351 tunes in MIDI format plus selected sheet music http://hetzler.homestead.com/TOC.html Mandola/mandocello chords in DAda tuning http://www.musicaviva.com/mandolin/dadachords.tpl Some Celtic tunes in notation and MP3s (played quite slowly) at http://www2.uiuc.edu/ro/CelticCultures/slowsessions.html Chord maps for fretted instruments (including mandolin) - this one is probably for eggheads http://www.dna.fi/~aitwise/ Norton Music's User Styles for Band-in-a-Box http://www.nortonmusic.com/ More Band-in-a-Box stuff at http://biab.8m.com/ http://www.m3c-berlin.de/html/body_65527.html and http://www.pgmusic.com/solosets.htm Masses of music materials in digital form in the American Memory collections; for example Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection, including musical transcriptions and sound recordings, at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/hrhtml/hrhome.html Some useful practice material including MP3s courtesy Berklee, and more here Directories of free sheet music (and tab) sites and free MP3s http://www.free-scores.com/index_uk.php3 Very useful listing of mandolin pages at http://www.free-scores.com/centre-uk.php?CATEGORIE=50 Music theory for the short attention span, courtesy FolkBlues.com http://www.folkblues.com/theory/default.htm Lots of other helpful pages and links for aspiring musicians and singers at this site http://www.folkblues.com/index.htm Introduction to chords and scales by Mike Perry, includes MP3 files http://mikeperryweb.com/chords/index2.html Links to a variety of ABC tunes (mostly Celtic) at Cranford Publications http://www.cranfordpub.com/tunes/abcs/abc_tunes.htm John McGann music transcription service - mandolin and other instruments http://www.johnmcgann.com/ Fretboard Roadmaps for mandolin book/CD by Fred Sokolow and Bob Applebaum - "the essential patterns that all the pros know and use" http://www.elderly.com/books/items/49-695357.htm All you will ever want to know about music theory on line! Thanks to Dr Brian Blood http://www.dolmetsch.com/introduction.htm Irish traditional tune index at http://www.irishtune.info/ A novel way of classifying modes, courtesy Gallery of Strings http://www.galleryofstrings.com/academic/ModeChart.html Mandolin music for sale at Active Musician Michael Falk plays traditional music on the mandolin - his page includes ABC transcriptions and sound files (Mac only) http://odin.math.nau.edu/~mjf/musical/indexmusical.html Free tablature for mandolin and other instruments at Strum Hollow Acoustic Music http://www.strumhollow.com/free_tab.htm Musix Newsletter #2 Winter/Spring 2003 - "news, music, tablature, MP3s to download & learn" http://www.musixnow.com/newsletter2.html Free Sheet music of all sorts! http://www.freesheetmusic.net/ Lots of tablatures and MIDI files for mandolin and other instruments at AllTabs.com http://www.alltabs.com/mandolin_tabs.php The LeSession pages have tunes in a variety of musical styles in ABC format http://www.lesession.vcisp.net/index.htm Music Publishers Association of the United States site includes info on standard music notation practice and copyright/publishing http://www.mpa.org/document.html Music notation: its purpose and use in traditional music Historical background of shape notes http://web.mit.edu/user/i/j/ijs/www/sn/sn-hist.html Interactive chord books for mandolin, guitar and tenor banjo/guitar (Mac only, not PC) at DRS Digital Image & Sound http://www.drsdigital.com/index.html Loads of guitar tabs and other guitar stuff at Mike Wright's Flatpick Guitar http://www.raccoonbend.com/flatpick/fp_main.html Mandolin 2000 book/CD from Mel Bay - 2 CDs with 47 recorded tracks of songs played by a galaxy of mandolin stars transcribed in both standard notation and tablature. http://www.mandolincentral.com/rec.html#m2000 First Lessons on Mandolin by Dix Bruce (Mel Bay) teaches beginners the absolute basics of learning to play mandolin - lots of well known tunes plus CD http://www.musixnow.com/First%20Lessons.html Henrik Norbeck's ABC tunes http://home1.swipnet.se/~w-11382/abc.htm Henrick's home page has other items of musical interest, including some Swedish material http://home1.swipnet.se/~w-11382/ Sheet Music World is UK based and has a big online selection including mandolin material - go to the link below and type in a search for mandolin http://www.sheetmusicworld.co.uk/shop/ Pachelbel's Cannon in music and mandolin tab Download FretBoard for Palm handheld computers - shows notes and chords for tunings of your choice ChordFind suggests chords for mandolin and some other 4-string instruments (you can even set up custom tuning) at http://chordfind.com/4-string/ Lots of guitar tabs at http://www.guitaretab.com/ Country music guitar tabs, chords and lyrics at About.com http://countrymusic.about.com/library/blgtclindex.htm Mandolin chords at Tremolo site http://tremolo.no/english/misc/chords/mandolinindex.htm and (tenor) mandola chords at http://tremolo.no/english/misc/chords/tenorindex.htm OLGA, the On Line Guitar Archive, has loads of useful tab and other goodies http://www.olga.net/ Jazz tablatures and transcriptions at Guitare Jazz http://jazz.chansons.free.fr/jazz/guitarejazz.htm Lots more guitar stuff in TablEdit at http://freetabs.members.easyspace.com/listtabs.htm and at http://www.consult-eco.ndirect.co.uk/guitar/tab.htm Hank's Home Page has bluegrass related tunes available in TablEdit for guitar http://users.cwnet.com/mtnhigh/ Modal mando chords courtesy Paul Slater http://www.banjolin.co.uk/chordtheory/power.htm Links to all sorts of music freebies at http://runelli.virtualave.net/sheetmusic.html Nigel Gatherer's CoMando Pages - "a supplement to the Comando list, where I'll post useful information, tablature, whatever" http://users.argonet.co.uk/users/gatherer/mando/coma.html Pickin' Pete's mandolin chords, scales and licks at http://pickinpete.tripod.com/Main.html Country music lyrics, chords and tabs at About.com http://countrymusic.about.com/cs/lyricschordstabs/ Includes Nickel Creek page. How to transcribe - OK, it's about jazz solos but lots of helpful ideas! http://faculty.adams.edu/~dmwilken/transcribe.html And see Dr Wilkens' Jazz Resources home page for a ton of other useful stuff http://faculty.adams.edu/~dmwilken/jazzresources.html Man of Constant Sorrow mando tab and MP3 courtesy Roland White http://www.rolandwhite.com/constantsorrow2.htm The Cyber Hymnal has over 3,700 Christian hymns and Gospel songs - lyrics, scores, MIDI files, pictures, history and more http://www.cyberhymnal.org/ Tablatures of jazz standards for mandolin courtesy Bruce Moffatt The Guitar Guy's Golden Classics - words and chords to classic songs http://www.theguitarguy.com/home.htm What Chord Do I Play? Paul Goelz has some strategies at http://www.eaglequest.com/~pgoelz/whatchord.html Werner Icking Music Archive (includes lots of classical sheet music) http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/ Mandolin tabs of Irish tunes at http://www.picknowl.com.au/homepages/bmoffatt/celtictabs.html Irish tunes in standard notation, ABC and MIDI at Wild Dismay Tunes http://www.blackflute.com/music/tunes.html Musica Viva, "the Internet center for free sheet music downloads" http://www.musicaviva.com/index.html Music For The Nation - huge American sheet music collection made available by the Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/smhtml/smhome.html Includes Historic American Sheet Music at Duke University http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dukesmquery.html And essential info for viewing and listening http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amviewer.html More sheet music in the Lester S Levy collection at The John Hopkins University http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/index.html Over 31,000 tabs for guitar, bass and drums at http://www.thetabworld.com/ Ed Baggott's site includes transcriptions of some interesting fiddle tunes http://edbaggott.com/ Judi Morningstar's Dulcimer Page includes music books for hammered dulcimer Details of Mike Patton's mandolin music publications, including Manx tunes, O'Carolan arrangements, gypsy and classical music http://www.sutton-acoustic.co.uk/crescentmoon.html Bruce's Home Page includes jazz mando tablature and mando building pics http://www.picknowl.com.au/homepages/bmoffatt/ And even more importantly, read about Bruce's brave fight against cancer. Good article on transcribing (by bass player Lucas Pickford) in the Comando archives, courtesy Elaine Rowley Catalog of American sheet music info, 1850-1920 http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic/browse.html AltCountryTab has info and tabs for alternative country guitar http://www.altcountrytab.com/ The Vanilla Book by Ralph Patt - this web site has the chord changes to many jazz standards http://www.ralphpatt.com/VBook.html Ricci Adams' musictheory.net - huge site of interactive music lessons at http://www.musictheory.net/ A Method for Mandolin by F. de Cristofaro Classical style, notation only. Available from Elderly Instruments http://www.elderly.com/books/items/06-27.htm Swedish traditional music links (huge resource) at http://www.rfod.se/folklink/index.asp?lang=en&cat=top Danish dance tunes (regular notation) at http://www.folkmusic.dk/laesoe/noder/index.htm John Baxter's Deluxe Encyclopedia of Mandolin Chords - info at Mel Bay and CoMando Introduction to mandolin chords and scales by Pickin' Pete http://pickinpete.tripod.com/Main.html Pentecostal on-line hymnal site http://free.gentle.org/users/gospelhymns/page5.html Includes basic mandolin instruction pages by Aaron B Walden http://free.gentle.org/users/gospelhymns/Mandolin.htm plus links to hymns with chords and MIDI files Musicroom.com - "the world's best music in print" http://www.musicroom.com/index.ihtml Edly Musical Edventures sell a variety of materials for learning musical theory and ear training http://www.edly.com/ Dix Bruce's Musix website - lots of goodies including teaching courses, back issues of Mandolin World News and Dawg picks plus developing library of music which can be downloaded in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format. http://www.musixnow.com/ Bits Plucked from the Air - a collection of ABC files http://www.cnnw.net/~oneil/ Mandolin teaching courses and bluegrass fakebook by Bert Casey http://www.cvls.com/mandolin.html Mandolin instruction material from Pro Audio Lots of useful links to folk and roots music, including lyrics, chords and tab http://blues.about.com/cs/folk/index.htm For example there's a particularly valuable page at http://blues.about.com/cs/songcollections/ Terry Couch's on-line guitar study site with bluegrass and country riffs in tab and sound http://www.guitartricks.com/2000/host.php?input=296 Prof's traditional music pages, Irish at http://www.prof.co.uk/irish/index.htm English at http://www.prof.co.uk/english/index.htm Fun page for learning some music theory http://busboy.sped.ukans.edu/~memt450/elliott/ Great website for jazz materials (lots of downloadable .pdf files) Air for Linda, an original tune for mandolin by Nigel Gatherer Michael Smarr's site has some mandolin music notation files in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format http://mywebpages.comcast.net/smarr/notation.htm Irish songs, music, lyrics and MIDI files - "this page provides access to the most popular of Irish traditional, drinking and folk songs" Jim Bottorff's Banjo Page has playalong tracks and chord sequences for many useful tunes - suitable for all instruments! http://www.jbott.com/index.html The Portland Collection - contra dance music in the Pacific Northwest, also links to other composer and dance sites http://home.teleport.com/~songer/ Bossanova Guitar - a big resource site including chords, lyrics and sound files http://www.bossanovaguitar.com Tunes and (lots of) chord sequences at http://guitar-primer.com/ Links to mandolin chords (courtesy Jim Coon). There are some on Jim's web page, laid out in the keys in which they are used - http://members.tripod.com/liteways/Mandolin/MandoChords.htm Free program for the handheld Palm OS computer, called Fretboard that works well There are chord charts at http://www.mandolincafe.com/two.html (handy two finger chords!) also http://www.home.inreach.com/jsherida/katie/mandolin.html Hymns with mandolin chords http://church-of-the-holy-ghost.freeyellow.com/chords.htm Chord generator for fretted instruments (including mandolin) http://htp.to/guitar/ John Relph's ABC fiddle tune collection http://idiot-dog.com/relph/abc/index.html Gillian Welch lyrics/chords from Revival http://www.guitaretab.com/gtab/t/20642 and a miscellany of GW songs at http://members.aol.com/rongrittz/gillian.htm Christian guitar tablature archive http://www.1christian.net/guitar/ Lessons on composing and writing songs http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Marble/9607/compose.htm Lots of jazz chord sequences and loads of other useful stuff at SongTrellis http://www.songtrellis.com/ Audiogalaxy for bluegrass (and other!) MP3s http://www.audiogalaxy.com/ MP3 track 'Germaine's Dream' by banjo player Bill Evans - includes John Reischman on mandolin http://www.nativeandfine.com/WhatsNew.htm Harold Streeter's LeWalt Publishing - excellent instruction materials and tabs for mandolin, banjo and guitar http://www.lewalt.com/index.html RealAudio tracks from the Blackfoot Brothers, including Star of the County Down and Bully of the Town http://www.blackfootbrothers.inuk.com/music.htm Aaron Walden's Mandolonline - "Traditional music for a classic instrument", includes a variety of tablature http://www16.brinkster.com/arminian/mandolonline/default.htm MIDI guitar sequences by Harry Todd - country, gospel, jazz etc - at http://www.gitpicker.com Also has links to other MIDI sites. Lots of guitar and banjo tabs by Ryan Rucker in MusEdit and text formats http://members.aol.com/rrucker808/tabs.htm The Kitchen Musician - lots of hammered dulcimer music (GIF and MIDI formats), which they helpfully point out can be played on mandolin http://members.aol.com/kitchiegal/kmmusic4.html#anchor5887148 The Official WWW Hammered Dulcimer Page - loads of music and links http://www.rtpnet.org/~hdweb/ Celtic MIDI files at http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Marina/4870/midi.html Eric Foxley's Music Database "of over 1000 traditional British related folk dance tunes" http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~ef//music/database.htm Bluegrass guitar tabs at http://www.bluegrassguitar.com/songtab.htm Irish tunes at Tradsoc, Dublin University http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~tradsoc/archive/ Traditional Music Library - loads of tunes and useful links http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/ Tunes courtesy of Paul Slater http://www.banjolin.co.uk/tunes/tunes.htm Good site for learning to read music http://web1.hamilton.edu/javamusic/ Guitar Primer - lots of music and chords on this site http://www.guitar-primer.com/ charts for jazz standards at http://guitar-primer.com/Charts/index2.html Ed and Carole's website - old-time music MIDI archive http://www.homestead.com/hetzler/music_2.html Music Transcribers group at Yahoo - "if you sometimes transcribe music from recordings then whether you are expert or beginner, please do join and contribute". You have first to subscribe to Yahoo at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MusicTranscribers/ The Session - good Celtic site, lots of tunes http://adactio.com/session/session.shtml Jim Coon's page of mandolin chords, to get you started http://members.tripod.com/liteways/Mandolin/MandoChords.htm "The World's Easiest Scale Books!" http://www.nashvillepattern.com/i2.htm MP3 of music for Jack Tottle Bluegrass Mandolin manual http://www.designstein.com/tottle.htm Swing Cat - swing, old time and cajun instruction materials and recordings http://www.swingcatenterprises.com/catalog_oldtime.asp Janet Davis Music has mandolins, accessories and teaching materials http://www.janetdavismusic.com/mandolin.html The Fiddler's Companion is a huge encyclopedia of fiddle tunes from the Celtic, British and American traditions http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc/ 19th century tunes in .gif format http://www.bestweb.net/~jgarber/music/19ctunes/ Irish mandolin tune book written by Donnacha O Baoighill http://www.angelfire.com/id/mandolins/ Huge TablEdit site (mostly guitar tabs), quite a variety of styles http://www.angelfire.com/music2/blackmack/ Bickford Mandolin Method - possibility of reprint http://freepages.music.rootsweb.com/~mandolin/index.htm Free tablature archive http://freetabs.members.easyspace.com/index.html Big flatpick guitar tab database http://www.pnx.com/thebrowns/jim/flatpicking/tablature.asp?page=home Richard Robinson's Tunebook http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/RRTuneBk/ Voyager Recordings & Publications Old Time Fiddle and Traditional Acoustic Music http://www.voyagerrecords.com/ Traditional Tunes Online - links to lots of tune sites, particularly Irish, plus some old time and bluegrass http://www.geocities.com/nacornett/ Yoshimichi Sato's Home Page has Beethoven's Sonatine in C major for mandolin & harpsichord and J. Pachelbel (transcription by Y.Sato) Kanon for mandolin ensemble: in MIDI and notation (Adobe Acrobat Reader required for the latter) http://member.nifty.ne.jp/ysato/index2.html Jay Buckey site for Virtual Band Bluegrass teaching method http://jaybuckey.com/ Have a look at "the really cool free stuff" http://jaybuckey.com/cool_stuff!.htm The tabs are at http://jaybuckey.com/Music%20and%20Tab.htm (Adobe Acrobat Reader required) Transcriptions of Herschel Sizemore's playing on two Hay Holler recordings, Back In Business and My Style http://www.acutab.com/sizemore/ Music Dictionary http://library.thinkquest.org/2791/MDOPNSCR.htm Easy music theory http://www.musictheory.halifax.ns.ca/ Lesson on modes by Niles Hokkanen http://www.mandolincafe.com/niles2.html List for CoMandos interested in trading or distributing mandolin and related music to one another http://www.egroups.com/group/MandoMusicTrader Superscope varispeed CD player - useful for transcribing at reduced speed http://www.superscope-marantzpro.com/Superscope/PSD.htm Huge collections of Irish tunes (and others) in ABC http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/RRTuneBk/tunebook.html Lots of tunes, not just Irish. http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/TuneList/~jc/music/book/oneills/1850/F/ Most of the O'Neill's collection is here. Find tunes at http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/FindTune.html Dave Marshall's Virtual Bluegrass Band (the ultimate metronome) on your computer. Play along with the free tracks, (including Rawhide!), listed at http://homepage.dtn.ntl.com/david.k.marshall/5string.html The Concertina.net Tune-O-Tron - it slices, it dices, it converts and stores music in ABC format. Make and keep your own tunebook. Win friends and influence people. You are encouraged to add your own tunes. Entries do not have to be concertina-related! At this moment there are 73 tunes available. http://www.concertina.net/tunes.html The guitar playing of Richard Thompson http://people.netcom.co.uk/r.kendrick/rt/transc.htm 1890-1930 songs at http://www.cats.se/banjo/linkpage.html Authentic Mandolin Transcriptions "as performed by Bill Monroe" are available from http://www.sheetmusicplus.com. Published by Hal Leonard, these comprise transcriptions of 16 mandolin solos from Monroe's Columbia period, reissued on the 16 Bluegrass Gems CD. Folk Of The Wood free mandolin lessons (real beginners!). Site owned by Mel Bay author Mickey Cochran has loads of mandolins (plus banjos, guitars, fiddles, dulcimers and dobros), teaching materials and accessories. Home page http://www.folkofthewood.com/index.htm Mike Perry's http://www.aircraftbuyer.com/mando/ page has MP3 files of Jethro Burns playing Little Rock Getaway (in F) and Chris Thile doing two solos for Bill Monroe's Scotland from the True Life Blues CD. There are also tabs of the Scotland breaks. The new CoMando site - wow! Go to http://www.co-mando.com. Particular thanks to John Baxter, Mike Stangeland and others who have got this one up and running. Loads of tablature, including a lot of great bluegrass breaks, in TablEdit format. (You can download a free TablEdit Viewer program direct from the site.) This site is going to constitute one of the Big Three, alongside Mandolin Cafe and Mandozine! Marc Sabella's "Jazz Improvisation Primer" - a great resource for scales, chords and harmonies http://www.outsideshore.com/primer/primer/index.html Danman's Music Library http://www.danmansmusic.com/ More mandolin chords than you may ever want at http://home.inreach.com/jsherida/katie/mandolin.html Simple Gifts Tablature site - some nice tunes http://www.users.csbsju.edu/~eknuth/mandotab/index.html David Grisman transcriptions and MP3 http://www.acousticdisc.com/home.htm Click on Music Room or Music Transcriptions. Use Adobe Acrobat Reader, also 2 MP3 files (full speed and half speed)

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