Butch Baldassari: You Can Play Bluegrass Mandolin: Vol.1 (1992)

This easy, hands-on beginner's lesson will teach you to play the mandolin in minutes. Butch Baldassari provides a solid introduction to the instrument, showing you essentials such as how to hold the mandolin, get tuned up, use the pick and play a basic scale and chords in the key of G. Before long you'll be picking out melodies to classic tunes and "chopping" the rhythm to get that familiar bluegrass backup sound.