Celtic World Collection – Mandolin

Celtic World Collection – Mandolin is a 2nd edition mandolin book featuring 56 Celtic, traditional, and original tunes in standard GDAE tuning, with standard notation, mandolin tablature, chords, warm-ups, scales, arpeggios, ornamentation, tune sets, and reference material. Mandolin recordings with guitar accompaniment below.

Celtic World Collection – Mandolin

Celtic World Collection – Mandolin is an expanded and updated mandolin book for players who want a practical collection of Celtic, traditional, and original tunes arranged for mandolin in standard GDAE tuning.

This updated edition includes 56 tunes with standard notation, mandolin tablature, and chords, along with supporting material to help you read, practise, and understand the music more clearly.

Before the tune section, you will find help with reading tablature, tips for flatpicking on the mandolin, Celtic ornamentation, a mandolin fretboard and note chart, 15 warm-up exercises, major, minor, and dominant 7th arpeggios, two-octave major and minor scales, and suggested tune sets.

What’s Included

• 56 Celtic, traditional, and original mandolin tunes
• Standard mandolin tuning: GDAE
• Standard notation, mandolin tablature, and chords
• How to read mandolin tablature
• Flatpicking tips for mandolin
• Celtic ornamentation guide
• Mandolin fretboard and note chart
• 15 warm-up exercises
• Major, minor, and dominant 7th arpeggios
• Two-octave major and minor scales
• Suggested tune sets for practice and performance
• Mandolin chord library with diatonic chords in all major keys
• Suspended and drone mandolin chords
• Strumming patterns in 4/4 and 6/8 time
• Mandolin scale patterns
• Fretboard note-reading challenges

Tune Collection

The tune collection includes Irish, Scottish, Cape Breton, English, song-based, and original material. Familiar pieces include Carolan’s Concerto, Danny Boy, Flowers of Edinburgh, Haste to the Wedding, Irish Washerwoman, John Ryan’s Polka, Kesh Jig, Morrison’s Jig, Red Haired Boy, Sí Bheag, Sí Mhór, The Parting Glass, Whiskey in the Jar, and Wind That Shakes the Barley.

The book also includes original mandolin pieces such as April Snow Reel, Bay of Fundy, Black Tar Jig, Concession Eight, Late for Dinner, Mimi’s Backyard, Raccoon in the Attic, and Strong Bow.

Companion Resources

Companion resources for this book include audio, video, MuseScore examples, a searchable tune index, and related mandolin learning resources.

View the Celtic World Collection – Mandolin companion page

Who This Book Is For

This book is useful for mandolin players who want a comprehensive Celtic repertoire and practical reference material in one place. It can be used for reading practice, tune memorization, flatpicking development, session preparation, ornamentation study, or building tune sets for performance.

Use the tunes one at a time, work through the warm-ups and scale material, or treat the book as a long-term Celtic mandolin resource that you can return to whenever you need new repertoire, technique work, or reference material.

From the 2016 Edition One:
Top 20 mandolin books on Amazon "Celtic World Collection - Mandolin" contains 46 most requested traditional tunes plus new original mandolin tunes with standard notation, chords and mandolin tablature. Over 40 mandolin recordings with guitar accompaniment. The recordings are played at a slower speed to facilitate learning. Also included: a useful mandolin chord chart, commonly used mandolin scales charts, a page of warm-up technical exercises, strumming and picking, plus a full fingerboard chart for mandolin. The traditional music is of Irish, Scottish, Cape Breton and Old-Time origins and the original content follows in those same footsteps with a more contemporary approach and a few Middle Eastern-inspired tunes to spice it up.