The First 15 Lessons series provides a step-by-step lesson plan for the absolute beginner, complete with audio tracks, video lessons, and real songs! Designed for self-teaching or for use with an instructor, you’ll build a solid foundation as you work through each lesson, learning the basics of the instrument and music reading while practicing the many exercises, concepts and song excerpts within. Must-know instruction so you can start playing right away, with a free online tuner and metronome! This mandolin book features video and print lessons by world-renowned author Fred Sokolow on: mandolin fundamentals; music reading; tuning; chords; scales & basic theory; strumming; arpeggios; double stops; moveable chop chords; sawing & tremolo; and chord/melody playing. You also get to strum & pluck along with 28 songs including: Ain’t Misbehavin’ · Hallelujah · Hey Jude · I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow · Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door · Maggie May · Rocky Top · Stand by Me · Wayfaring Stranger · and many more.

Songlist:

1. Ain’t Misbehavin’
2. Wayfaring Stranger
3. Wildwood Flower
4. Stand by Me
5. Knockin’ On Heaven’S Door
6. Careless love
7. I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow
8. Take Me Out to the Ball Game
9. Turkey in the Straw
10. Hallelujah
11. Arkansas Traveler
12. Home on the Range
13. I’ll Fly Away
14. Blue Moon Of Kentucky
15. Little Brown Jug
16. House of the Rising Sun
17. (They Call It) Stormy Monday (Stormy Monday Blues)
18. Rocky Top
19. Will the Circle be Unbroken
20. Happy Birthday to You
21. The Godfather (Love Theme)
22. Mr. Tambourine man
23. Hey Jude
24. Jamaica Farewell
25. Maggie May
26. Mister sandman
27. Sailors Hornpipe
28. They’Re Red Hot