This comprehensive user-friendly mandolin method takes you from bare-bone basics to solidly intermediate material in a singl e two-hour lesson. Butch Baldassari has distilled his popular teaching workshops into one jam-packed DVD providing detailed instruction in all aspects of mandolin playing. Butch gives you exercises to build your technique and teaches you how to mast er fiddle tunes take solos and play the famous Bill Monroe licks that make up 'the language of bluegrass'.