Mandolin Christmas (Download)

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The Holiday Season is a wonderful time for family and friends to be together. It is also a great opportunity to play music! That was the thought behind this series; playing Christmas Carols as a family or with friends.

The arrangements presented in this book are for 1, 2 or 3 Mandolins. They are cleverly arranged to match the complimentary books in this series: Banjo Christmas, Bass Christmas, Fiddle Christmas, Dobro Christmas and Guitar Christmas. You can mix and match any of the arrangements in many different combinations to create some very unique and entertaining Holiday Music and Caroling.

As an example, let’s say that you have a Guitar and Fiddle picker to jam with. You can split up the parts between the three of you. The Mandolin could play part 1, the Guitar part 2 and Fiddle part 3. For variety, you can switch these as you perform. The second time through the song, as an example, the Mandolin could switch to part 2, the Guitar to part 3 and the Fiddle could go to part 1. On the next repeat, switch the parts again! There are many possibilities. Add a Bass and you will have an authentic, Christmas Carol Quartet!

Here's an example of how this works. The audio track below includes all three mandolins plus bass and rhtyhm guitar:

Angels We Have Heard On High - Mandolin All.mp3

Next, the bass, guitar and mandolin 1 have been removed. This way, you can fill in the missing mandolin part:

Angels We Have Heard On High - Mandolin 2, 3.mp3

There are many more play-along audio recordings and mixes included to give you variety and performance possibilities. This book includes Standard Music Notation and Mandolin Tablature.

Song List: Angels We Have Heard On High Away in a Manger Christmas Hornpipe Coventry Carol Deck the Halls God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Oh Come All Ye Faithful O, Holy Night Silent Night The First Noel (Nowell) We Wish You a Merry Christmas What Child is This?

The download package contains all of the tablatures in pdf format and play along mp3s. Click here to learn how to download.