BRAZILIAN MANDOLIN by Carlos Almada & Flavio Henrique Medeiros

Book/CD set. The mandolin was brought to Brazil by Portuguese colonists in the 15th and 16th centuries. In this book's eighteen progressively arranged character studies, you'll find, besides a great number of aspects of the idiomatic technique of the instrument (i.e., changes of fingering positions, double stops, tremolos, arpeggios, legatos, chords, etc.), no less than fourteen different styles. The pieces are presented first in notation only as mandolin/guitar duets, followed by the mandolin part repeated with tab. Beginner/intermediate.