A Guide to Octave Mandolin (book/Audio Online)

Mel Bay Publications
Level Intermediate-Advanced
Standard Notation and TAB

20 tunes in styles from Irish to American, in a variety of tunings, melody and accompaniment, presented in standard notation and tablature, with audio online (left channel melody, right channel accompaniment).
Left and right hand techniques and chord voicings are thoroughly discussed.
For the first time, the Celtic style "woven texture" accompaniment unique to the instrument is fully notated. Unique to the book are melodic Irish ornamentation, blues, jazz, American fiddle tunes with variations and improvisations (all fully notated), and a chapter "Breaking Away From Block Chords" extending knowledge of the fingerboard.

Tunes:

• Ace of Spades - Benny Thomasson
• Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking?
• Arkansas Traveller
• Bit of Ginger - Joe Derrane
• Cooley's
• Doherty's Favorite - Michael Coleman
• Free Floating Blues
• Galway Bay - Tommy Peoples
• Gold Ring - Andy McGann
• Hickey's - Paddy Cronin
• Kid on the Mountain - Michael Coleman
• La Partida - Ruthie Dornfield
• Men of Ulster - Paddy Cronin
• Peter Street - John Skelton and Seamus Connolly
• Rights of Man - Paddy O'Brien
• Swede Gorgeous
• T Train blues
• The Copper Plate - Joe Derrane
• The Western - Michael Coleman and James Kelly
• Woman of the House - Michael Coleman