Starting Bluegrass Mandolin - Book & CD. This music book takes you from learning how to hold the mandolin to playing complete bluegrass songs, This easy to understand method will turn you into a mandolin player in no time. You'll learn: how to read standard notation & tablature, rhythm accompaniment, melodic-playing style, chords, tuning and more. This book has an Audio CD with demonstration tracks of the essential bluegrass songs including: Cripple Creek, John Hardy, Old Joe Clarke, and More.