Bluegrass Rhythm Guitar, Vol.2

Media Type : Book/CD Set Level : Intermediate Musical Genre : All Styles Series : Mastering Guitar Number of pages : 144 Mastering the Guitar is an innovative, comprehensive method for learning the guitar. Level 2 Book C includes a wealth of challenging and creative guitar solos, duets and studies in the keys of A-flat,F-minor, G-minor,D-flat, and B-flat minor. Special concepts presented in this volume include: basic improvisation, rhythmic variation, barre chords, key of A-flat/closed position, passing tone studies, harmonized scales, western swing, fingerstyle performance, chord progression studies, blues, chords, common rock and blues licks, bass string chords, Latin rhythms, and comping. Guitar solo material provided in rock, jazz, bluegrass, Latin, blues, Baroque, Renaissance, and from a wide variety of historical periods and contemporary musical styles. Mastering the Guitar 2C Double CD set is a recording to accompany the volume of the same title. These CDs contain most all of the solo and duet settings found in the book as performed by William Bay, Mike Christiansen, and John McClellan.

2-DVD Set- Award-winning instrumentalist Rob Ickes has created a comprehensove course to help you master all aspects of the resonator guitar from bar tachnique to fingerpicking rolls. He covers ererything you'll need to hold your own in a bluegrass band from a fine-tuning the strings to achieving good tone timing and volume control. You'll learn correct hand positions for fast and clean playing powerful forward and reverse right hand rolls basic music theory and all aspects of good bar techniques. With Jim Hurst on vocal and guitar you'll gain an understanding of how to play back-up rhythm and fills behind a vocalist create effective solos build chords andscales and much more. Rob teaches or demonstrates several great tunes including Will the circle be unbroken Dixie Hoedown Ol' Dangerfield Sailin' To Hawaii Monrobro Reuben How great Thou Art and Flat Lonesome. Whether you want to play bluegrass or explore country blues Hawaiian or other styles these DVDs will get you on the right track-fast.