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This methodology book designed for the intermediate to advanced mandolinist offers you, as a mandolin player, a new voice. Or, if you're already crosspicking, many new ideas can be added to your arsenal. Each song includes a preparatory study that allows you the opportunity to gain a solid footing before attempting the piece itself. These studies can be applied in other areas as backup ideas, song ideas, or take offs for improvisation. Styles discussed are: Two-String, Bluegrass, Fiddle, Classical, and Jazz/Ragtime. Titles are: 'Wildwood Flower', 'Home Sweet Home', 'Under the Double Eagle', 'John Hardy', 'Redwing', 'Grandfather's Clock', 'Boil Them Cabbage Down', 'Down Yonder', 'Fisher's Hornpipe', 'Eighth of January', 'Bald Headed End of Bloom', 'Soldier's Joy', 'Blackberry Blossom', 'Whiskey Before Breakfast', 'Greensleeves', 'Ode to Joy', 'Malaguena', 'Dill Pickle Rag', 'Beaumont Rag', 'Cotton Patch Rag'.