TEXAS STYLE FIDDLE TUNES FOR MANDOLIN BOOK AND CD BY PETER MARTIN Texas style fiddle tunes are played by many of today's best mandolin players, including top contestants. These tunes have multiple parts (Grey Eagle has 24 parts!) with ornate variations. A great way to learn more licks, how to embellish melodies, learn tunes for contests, or just to play for fun. Texas Style Fiddle Tunes for Mandolin ................................... $18.00 CD for Texas Style Fiddle Tunes for Mandolin .................... $15.00 CLICK HERE TO ORDER

Learn to play some of the most popular fiddle tunes anywhere. Good versions of breakdowns, rags, and hornpipes common in Texas style playing, arranged for the mandolin. Written in standard music notation and mandolin tablature, the book is very easy to read. Explanations at the beginning of each tune help you through the tricky sections. The tunes are exact transcriptions of the tape, allowing you to hear how each tune will sound.

Many Texas style tunes in other books are incomplete, usually with simplified versions. However "Texas Style Fiddle Tunes for Mandolin" contains stylistically accurate versions of these tunes adapted to the mandolin. This way you are certain of learning authentic Texas tunes. These versions are only available from this book.

"The stuff you sent me is really brilliant, the books and also the cassette. Very fine job. Congratulations." Ondra, Czech Republic

"Thank you for sending the materials. I am excited to learn those tunes. I have especially wanted to learn variations of Grey Eagle and Cotton Patch Rag for a long time." Hide, Massachusetts

"I was playing Leather Britches this morning with you and it felt good. This is a timely addition to my instruction books." Arthur, California

"I thought I knew how to play Cotton Patch Rag. Until I picked up Pete Martin's Texas Style Fiddle Tunes for Mandolin. WOW. There must be 25 variations." John, COMANDO (internet mailing list)

"Warning. The tunes in this book are HOT. Do not approach them unless you have thick calluses and strong fingers! Actually, though Texas fiddle tunes are really challenging, they're usually played at a moderate pace, 200 to 220 BPM. They rely on melodic content and endless variation for their punch. They'll really give your hands a workout and give you endless improv ideas and licks. I've learned several of his tunes but still haven't gotten them up to speed. They're a real blast. Over the next few years I plan to work my way through Peter's book, it's one of the best mandolin tablature books I've ever run into." Mike, COMANDO

"I'll gladly second Mike's endorsement. It's a great book that I'm looking forward to working through myself." David, COMANDO

Reviews for Cotton Patch Rag
This tune from the CD "Texas Style Fiddle Tunes for Mandolin" was also on the compilation CD COMANDO Sessions II. The reviews are from the COMANDO CD.

"Pete Martin, Cotton Patch Rag --WOW! Great, great playing. Such fine technique, tone and touch. This is another favorite track for me--I can learn so very much from this. Thanks, Pete. Makes me want to buy some of his instructional materials--maybe some of this can rub off on me!" John, COMANDO

"Pete, what a great version of this tune on the CoMando CD. It's the kind of stuff I like to play. My wife even commented while this tune was flowing out of my PC -- "wow, who's that?" Nice work" Scott, COMANDO

"My hands are finally in good enough shape to take on your Texas Style Fiddle Tunes for Mandolin book. I've pretty much got Tom and Jerry and have started on a few others. I think I'll skip over Cotton Patch Rag, your is about the best version I've ever heard" Mike, COMANDO