{"id":94,"date":"2004-07-16T22:17:56","date_gmt":"2004-07-17T05:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/?p=94"},"modified":"2014-01-15T21:45:02","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T05:45:02","slug":"new_ebook_the_bickford_mandolin_method_volume_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/new_ebook_the_bickford_mandolin_method_volume_2\/","title":{"rendered":"New eBook: <i>The Bickford Mandolin Method: Volume 2<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the second volume of the celebrated Bickford Mandolin Method. An excellent way to improve your rest stroke  picking technique (i.e. <a href=\"http:\/\/djangobooks.com\/books\/gypsy_picking\/\">Gypsy Picking<\/a>) on the mandolin.<br\/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/archives\/Bickford_Vol.2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bickford_Vol.2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/archives\/Bickford_Vol.2-thumb.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"206\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\n<p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/archives\/TOC2.pdf\">Table of Contents<\/a><p>\n<p>Like the first volume, there is heavy emphasis on learning the rest stroke picking technique. Bickford has analyzed this technique in great detail. He explains many of the virtuosic techniques possible with rest strokes: Gliding (or sweep picking), various tremolo effects, alternate strokes, string crossing techniques, etc.<br\/>\n<p>Mandolinists with a background in bluegrass and celtic music will be pleased to find numerous hornpipes, reels, and jigs throughout the book (with picking notation).<br\/>\n<p>86 pages with over 100 examples\n<p>For more info or to buy: <a href=\"http:\/\/shoppingcart.djangobooks.com\/Item\/Bickford2\">Click Here<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the second volume of the celebrated Bickford Mandolin Method. An excellent way to improve your rest stroke picking technique (i.e. Gypsy Picking) on the mandolin. Table of Contents Like the first volume, there is heavy emphasis on learning the rest stroke picking technique. Bickford has analyzed this technique in great detail. He explains [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2990,"href":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/2990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}