First Lessons Mandolin teaches the absolute basics of learning to play mandolin from holding the pick to performing easy mandolin tunes. You learn how to hold the mandolin correctly, how to read mandolin tablature, basic note reading, the most popular mandolin chords, how to play easy melodies in several musical styles, basic picking technique, and how to tune the mandolin. Along the way you will learn about the greatest mandolin players and their music. The main emphasis of First Lessons Mandolin is to get you playing immediately and to have fun doing it! Publisher - Mel Bay Publications, Inc. Date Published - 3/2/2005 Song Titles - Billy Boy, Buffalo Gals, Careless Love, East Virginia Blues, Go Down Moses, Greensleeves, In the Pines, John Henry, Just a Closer Walk with Thee, Lonesome Valley, My Home"s Across the Blue Ridge Mountains, My Walking Cane Oh, Them Golden Slippers, Poor Wayfaring Stranger, Red River Valley, Roll in My Sweet Baby"s Arms, Roving Gambler, Seventh Blues, Skip to My Lou, Soldier"s Joy, Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, St. James Infirmary, The Blue Tail Fly, The Great Speckled Bird, This Train Unit Dimensions - 8.75 x 11.75 inches