by Wayne Erbsen

Book with Instructional CD $14.95 

Painless Mandolin Melodies (book)There's NEVER been a simpler mandolin method. Great for the TOTAL beginner. This book will get you to "first base" on the mandolin. Includes: Tuning Hints, Selecting and Holding a Pick, The Cure for Sore Fingers, How to Read Mandolin Tab, Fighting The Fear of Scales and More. Comes Complete with an Instructional CD.

This book is guaranteed to get you started to learn to play the mandolin. (How many books come with a personal guarantee by the author?)

You WILL learn to play:  Shortening Bread, Frere Jacques, Go Tell Aunt Rhody, Oh Susanna, Columbus Stockade, Hush Little Baby, Jimmy Crack Corn, Old Time Religion, Yankee Doodle, She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain, Buffalo Gals, I’m a Little Tea Pot, The Old Grey Mare, Cripple Creek, Leaning on the Everlasting Arms, Turkey in the Straw, Golden Slippers, Old Joe Clark, Wildwood Flower, When the Saints Go Marching In.

"This book is exactly what the basic beginner needs." --Jerry Brittain

"Painless Mandolin Melodies was very helpful in getting me started. Thank you!" --Tim Evans

"Thanks for sending Painless Mandolin Melodies to my father. He is 85 years old and is in the hospital right now. Thanks so much for giving a great person one more reason to fight for life." --Cathy Burt

"Your Painless Mandolin Melodies book is very helpful. Thanks to your easy-to-follow instructions I can now pick out a few tunes that are not in your book. I've never played an instrument before but your book makes it easy." --Kenneth Klein

My newest book, Bluegrass Jamming on Mandolin, will be available late spring, early summer 2011. This book will cover how to play with others, how to improvise, how to add licks and fills, and pretty much everything you'll need to march confidently into your next jam or picking session. If you would like us to contact you when this book becomes available, email me at this This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Be sure to omit the "nospam" when writing, unless you're a spammer!  

If you have suggestions as to what you'd like to see in this book, by all means, let me know!!!

Thanks, Wayne Erbsen