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Access to online audio with selections performed by the author completes this highly effective instructional book. More than simple melody chord leadsheets, these are the author's own arrangements of tunes for solo Balalaika and Balalaika orchestra. All but two selections in this section are written in both notation and tab with suggested guitar chords, the exceptions being an arrangement for Balalaika and Piano, and a Balalaika orchestra score.
The Repertoire Section offers a valuable resource of Eastern European folk tunes. Very few method books contain such a comprehensive historical overview of the subject instrument. A Brief History of the Balalaika is well written and nicely illustrated.
A glossary of musical signs and Russian musical terns is included. Perhaps half of the music in this section is shown in both standard notation and tablature. The Tutor jumps right in with exercises and tunes in quarter, eighth, and sixteenth-note values with occasional dotted notes and syncopation. The Tutor or instruction segment is written for the 'prima Balalaika' which is correctly played with the fingers only rather than with a pick. The author even describes how to make a bass Balalaika pick from shoe leather. Rather, the 20-page Foreword offers insights on the tunings of all the instruments in the Balalaika family, hand positions, string sources and height adjustment, and chord shapes. Unlike many method books, The Complete Balalaika Book does not begin with the rudiments of music notation. This 160-page book is divided into four sections: an extensive Foreword, the Tutor, A Brief History of the Balalaika, and a Repertoire Section. In The Complete Balalaika Book, concert and recording artist Bibs Ekkel shares his extensive knowledge of the Balalaika as taught in Russia today. The Balalaika is most often associated with Russian folklore.
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