Book/Cd Set-This fun and easy book and CD takes you from the very beginning. Learning right and left-hand techniques learning your first chords 18 great songs AND you painlessly learn them by reading notes. Anyone can do it. Steve's methodand approach to learning to read notes is so simple that 4 year olds have done it. You will start with 4 simple notes. Steve then teaches songs using just those four notes. He systematically adds a few more notes at a time bundledwith easy to understand instructions and songs so that in a short time you will know all the notes chords strumming patterns to play hundreds of songs. This is a perfect primer for many of Steve's best sellers and other author’sbooks. Audio CD included.

Diese unschätzbar wertvolle Sammlung typisch amerikanischer Musik enthält über 50 Songs aus den Bereichen Blues Bluegrass Folk und anderen traditionellen Musikgenres! Alle Lieder sind in übersichtlicher Tabulatur für Ukulele.

Traditional Southern old-time fiddling from the world-renowned Round Peak area of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina focusing on the style and repertoire of master fiddler Tommy Jarrell (1901-1985). AuthorBrad Leftwich himself an acclaimed fiddler who learned the music in person from Jarrell presents detailed accurate transcriptions of 83 tunes (the bulk of Jarrell's repertoire) both in standard musicnotation and fiddle tablature along with interesting anecdotal information relating to each tune. Comes with access to online audio played solo at a moderate tempo to facilitate learning. Helpful stylistic tips and importantbackground information on the area and the music along with biographical information on Jarrell and many of the musicians from whom he learned illustrated with many fascinating old photographs. Featuringthe old-time Round Peak fiddle style and repertoire of Tommy Jarrell. Detailed accurate transcriptions of 83 tunes in standard notation and tablature. Online audio including all 83 tunes played solo at moderatetempo. Stylistic tips photos and background information on Round Peak music and musicians.

Rev. Gary Davis is the real thing. The authentic blind-seer. He is a genius with a brightly burning spirit enormous musical intelligence technical brilliance an encyclopedic memory driving passion deep faith araunchy and gracious sense of humor. A mystic. He is an icon of the style of Guitar he was born into known today as the Piedmont blues. Through players of the first half of the twentieth century like Alfred Shultz MoseRanger Merle Travis and Chet Atkins this is the signature American fingerpicking style that would so deeply inform the country folk blues and even rock and roll of our day.Rev. Davis (1896-1972) was bornblack in deep poverty in South Carolina blind from an early age. He overcame these longest of odds to become world famous a giant of American music. He brought together black and white styles country gospel folk themes blues jazz ragtime minstrel songs dance tunes and popular song. He developed his own brilliant fingerpicking style that was deep economical and adaptable enough to easily cover all these genres. Supporting all hiscreativity was an unshakable faith that pulled him through the obscurity the bitter hard times and crushing poverty he would endure until the folk music awakening of the fifties and sixties caught up to him.In this bookand accompanying audio Ernie Hawkins has transcribed 18 of Rev. Davis' best known gospel arrangements. The playing of Rev. Davis has influenced generations of Guitar players from Blind Boy Fuller to Dave VanRonk David Bromberg Ry Cooder Jorma Kaukonen Bob Weir Stefan Grossman and Woody Mann. His tunes have been recorded by a host of today's finest rock musicians: The Grateful Dead Hot Tuna Bob Dylan Jackson Browne and others.

A comprehensive collection of nearly 50 Bluegrass standards expertly arranged for Piano Vocal and Guitar. Songs include: Ballad of Jed Clampett • Blue Ridge Cabin Home • Doin' My Time • Foggy Mountaintop • Footprints in the Snow • I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow • I'll Fly Away • In the Pines • Keep on the Sunny Side • Midnight Moonlight • Molly and Ten Brooks • Old Home Place • Rocky Top • Salty Dog Blues • Turn Your Radio On • Wabash Cannonball • The Wreck of the Old '97 • and more.

This beginner's book designed as a follow-up to Fun with the Mandolin aids the beginning mandolin player in playing strums applicable to folk and bluegrass music. A variety of keys are studied and the student will gainversatility in playing chord progressions. Chords and songs are presented in the keys of G E minor C A minor D E A F and D minor. Songs include: 'Shady Grove' 'Old Joe Clark' 'Amazing Grace' 'Banks of the Ohio' andmany more. May be used in ensemble playing with the companion guitar and banjo texts.

This volume in the Guitar Recorded Versions series contains 14 detailed transcriptions from American Guitar sensation Doc Watson. The pieces in this collection include highlights from Watson's recordings written note-for-note with tab. Now you can learn the songs licks and fingerpicking style that made Doc Watson famous. Songs include: Beaumont Rag Black Mountain Rag Deep River Blues Doc's Guitar Little Sadie Shady Grove Sitting on Top of the World Tom Dooley Windy and Warm and more.

The mandolin delivers the clean sharp solo sound that defined some of the greatest bluegrass recordings of the 1950s. Now you can learn to play famous fiddle tunes specially arranged for mandolin. Each song includes performance notes which give you helpful hints and tips on playing slides double stops fiddle shuffles tremolos ornaments syncopations and much more! The accompanying CD features specially mixed tracks that let you hear the mandolin alone the mandolin with the backing track or just the backing track so you can play along! Get started flatpickin' now!

25 bluegrass standards in easy arrangements with tab. Includes: Alabama Jubilee • Arkansas Traveler • Bill Cheatham • Blackberry Blossom • The Fox • Great Speckled Bird • I Am a Pilgrim • New River Train • Red Rocking Chair • Red Wing • Sally Goodin • Soldier's Joy • Turkey in the Straw • and more.

The Bluegrass Picker's Tune Book is a must for all bluegrass pickers! Included are the melody line and chords to over two hundred favorite gospel and bluegrass songs. Detailed information about the origin and performers isgiven for each song as well as the history and development of the bluegrass genre. The lyrics are large and easy to read during a performance.

Art Rosenbaum is one of America's foremost performers and teachers of traditional five-string Banjo playing. He has a long-time interest in the myriad of old-time tunings that give breadth and richness to mountain andold-time Banjo picking and has learned first-hand from old-timers in the South and Midwest.Pete Seeger (whose pioneering book How to Play the Five-String Banjo gave Rosenbaum his start in the 1950s) praised theinclusion of 23 tunings in Art's 1968 Oak Publications book Old-Time Mountain Banjo. Art Rosenbaum's Old-Time Banjo Book doubles (plus one) that number of tunings. Rosenbaum groups the tunings into'families' and shows how they can be used with various picking styles in playing Banjo tunes and string band music and in song accompaniment.Experienced players will broaden their knowledge of unusual and interestingtunings and styles and novice players can get started with 'common' tunings for easy pieces like Cripple Creek and Shout Lulu - the first tunes many old-timers learned. Combined duration of DVDs: 240minutes.

With Online Audio-50 Tunes For Banjo contains a selection of Bluegrass Old Time and Celtic tunes for ensembles families and individuals. This book contains the same tunes as those found in the other 4 books of the series butthe tunes in this one are carefully arranged for the Banjo. The parts in this book range from beginner to advanced. Though many parts are arranged in standard 'Scruggs' style some are arranged in frailing or clawhammerstyle and many are arranged in melodic style. Where 'Scruggs' style is considered less melody / more finger roll pattern melodic style as the name implies is more melody / less finger roll pattern. Clawhammer style uses nofinger roll patterns; instead it is made up of a melody within a strumming rhythm pattern. This book includes access to online audio recordings of the tunes performed by a full band.

Bluegrass Jamming on Fiddle is Wayne's newest instruction book and the second in a 4-part series of fun books that will teach the tools tricks and tunes to jam in bluegrass style. It covers: 31 bluegrass jam standards how to jamwith others how to improvise and make up your own tasteful licks and fills almost painless music theory how to play harmony how to transpose and play in different keys and pretty much everything you'll need to marchfearlessly into your next jam or picking session! This FUN book is fully illustrated with almost 200 vintage photos. Coming soon: Bluegrass Jamming on Banjo (available Winter 2012) and Bluegrass Jamming on Guitar (availableSpring 2013). All the books in the series will teach the same 31 tunes and will be 96 pages 9' x 12' and will include an audio instructional CD. Price: $22.95 (a steal!) You WILL learn how to play and jam on: All theGood Times Are Past & Gone Back Up and Push Black-Eyed Susie Cherokee Shuffle Columbus Stockade Colleen Malone Dark Hollow Deep Elem Blues East Virginia Footprints in the Snow Katie Dear Hand Me Down My Walking Cane High on a Mountain I Am a Pilgrim I've Just Seen the Rock of Ages John Henry Just Over in the Gloryland Little Birdie Lonesome Road Blues Love of the Mountains Mama Don't Allow Man of Constant Sorrow More Pretty GirlsThan One Pig in a Pen Pretty Polly Red Rocking Chair Rocky Road Blues Roll on Buddy Run and Hide Sittin' on Top of the World Working on a Building.

With Online Audio-Attention all Harmonica enthusiasts! Join in the fun of playing at a bluegrass festival with a bluegrass band. This book brings to you the often performed tunes by every bluegrass and country player of all instruments. Select afew of these tunes and play them on your Harmonica and you will be an instant hit! The book contains diatonic cross harp and chromatic stylings on 48 country/ bluegrass favorites: Bile 'Dem Cabbage Down; ArkansasTraveler; Wildwood Flower; Old Joe Clark; Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms; Crawdad Song; and many more. Bluegrass & Country Music For Harmonica comes with access to online audio stereo accompanimentthat contains 18 of the songs. All 18 songs are recorded on the beginning tracks with the Harmonica and again without the Harmonica included. Shown in standard notation with lyrics Guitar chords & Harmonica tab. Includes accessto online audio.

This fantastic collection features over 25 hits from the legendary rockers in Piano/Vocal/Guitar notation. Includes: Angie Beast of Burden Emotional Rescue Fool to Cry Happy It's Only Rock 'N' Roll (But I like It) Miss You Not Fade Away Rocks Off Shattered Start Me Up Time Is on My Side Tumbling Dice Waiting on a Friend and more.