Mel Bay A Mandolin Player's Guide to Jamming Review

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(More customer reviews)When some musicians attend a bluegrass festival, they never take in a stage show. Instead, they gravitate to the campground and parking lot to partake in the endless jam sessions with others. They are key to the learning process, and there is "parking lot picking" for all levels of musicianship. Prior to just jumping in, however, one must be grounded in the rules of jamming and how to act in a session. If you don't understand these basics, you could easily be ignored, labelled a "jam buster" or worse. No one wants that reputation hanging over their head. That's where Carl Yaffey's player's guides come in. To date, the multi-instrumentalist from Columbus, Ohio has produced them for guitar, banjo and mandolin.
With this 23-page book/CD set, you'll be introduced to nine standard jam songs (Hot Corn, Cold Corn, Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms, Nine Pound Hammer, John Henry, Two Little Boys, Columbus Stockade Blues, Down the Road, Little Maggie, John Hardy). Of course, knowing these songs will barely scratch the surface of the bluegrass repertoire, but these will give you some minimal confidence as you search out others of your same abilities to pick with. On the accompanying CD, the tunes are played twice. First, the tune is played on the left channel with a verbal description on the right channel. Then, the song is played in stereo.
Don't let jam sessions be intimidating. You need to be familiar with the typical chords and keys for jamming. You need to understand the importance of your right hand technique, no matter what instrument you've chosen to take up. Yaffey's guide discusses the role that each instrument plays for providing bluegrass rhythm. This is one more resource available from Mel Bay Publications that will allow beginning musicians to discover, participate in, and celebrate bluegrass music. (Joe Ross, staff writer, Bluegrass Now)

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Joining a jam session can be intimidating. Presented here is everything a beginning or intermediate mandolin player needs to know to participate in a jam session. There are sections that describe how jam sessions work, and jam session etiquette. The book also describes the typical chords and keys for jamming, and describes right hand usage. A section is included on the role each instrument plays in bluegrass rhythm. A play-along CD is included with 9 typical bluegrass jam tunes. The tunes are played twice: once with the tune played on the left channel and a verbal description on the right channel, and once in stereo.

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