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Title: Not necessarily the best chords, or the easiest
Review: I give it two stars for being affordable, and for the fact that some of the chord formations are indeed the correct basic patterns. But several of the suggested chords are pointlessly hard to play, and don't really sound all that good anyway. The overarching problem with this book is that it only encourages players to use chord formations involving a range of, usually, three frets, as opposed to the first seven--which is actually easier, and results in much fuller and cleaner sounding chords. For that matter, bar chords on the mandolin are never going to sound as clear as open chords, but you'd never know it from looking at this resource. It may not be a total washout, but buyer, beware. A rare misstep from the Mel Bay catalogue.
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