In addition to being one of the world's greatest bluegrass musicians Sam Bush is a clear and dynamic instructor. This terrific two-part series will help aspiring mandoling players improve their technical prowess build repertoire and develop formidable musicianship on their instrument. Teaching traditional fiddel tunes Bill Monroe-style instrumentals and his own compositions Sam provides detailed instruction in pick technique rhythm chopping speed building warm-up exercises tremolo improvised soloing and much more. You'll learn how to create variations on melodies use drone strings for fiddle-like effects employ crosspicking tecniques for a smoother sound and move upthe neck to play in higher positions. The songs and variations you'll be playing include: Ragtime Annie Bile Them Cabbage Down Blackberry Blossom Sally Goddin Big Mon Get Up John Brilliancy Whayasay and Big Rabbit. As a bonus Sam privides insight into his instruments and equipment his favourite strings pick gauges and the ways that his instruments have been set up to suit his exacting requirements.

ASAP Bluegrass Guitar is designed for folks wishing to become highly proficient bluegrass players. You'll be able to combine sophisticated left-hand fingerings with both simple and intricate right-hand picking patterns.Appropriate for beginning guitar players or more experienced players wishing to learn specifics and songs in the bluegrass style. With this book and the accompanying 2 CDs you'll learn the basics single-note melodies how to embellish basic melodies embellish melodies by adding notes from the major scale embellishing melodies with added chords strums Carter-style playing shuffle rhythm patterns alternate bass strumming the bluesin bluegrass intros turnarounds and endings using the capo cross picking improvising a solo practising effectively and much more!Some of the more popular bluegrass songs you'll learn are: Billy in the Lowground • New River Train • Wildwood Flower • Foggy Mountain Blues • Clinch Mountain Blues • Red Haired Boy • Forked Deer • Bill Cheatham • All the Good Times Past and Gone • Blackberry Blossom • Temperance Reel • Salt Creek • Devil's Dream • June Apple • Black Mountain Rag • Saint Anne's Reel • Banks of the Ohio • Beaumont Rag • Salty Dog Blues • John Henry • and many more. Start playing bluegrass guitar... ASAP!

Teach yourself fiddle bluegrass authentique avec ce livre et CD pack. Le livre contient des instructions claires sur les principes de base : techniques s'et gauche, solos, sauvegarde des conseils personnels sur le rendement et beaucoup plus, ainsi qu'une sélection complète des meilleures chansons bluegrass à apprendre. Le CD contient des versions audio des exemples contenus dans le livre et sauvegarde des pistes pour plusieurs chansons. Ecrite par Matt Glaser, président du département de la chaîne à la Berklee College of Music à Boston depuis 1980. / Violon / 64 pages / Partition Cd

Cette poursuite de 90 minutes de 'feuille de route du Wernick pour le banjo apportera à votre jeu à un tout autre niveau que vous apprenez à utiliser ses techniques de vos chansons préférées et instrumentales. Wernick introduit le grand arbre de licks, avec l'ascendant et descendant des pistes, les riffs de Scruggs et Reno-style et les méthodes de concevoir des solos de complètes. / Banjo

Bluegrass Flatpicking-Good bluegrass flatpicking is a wondrous and mysterious art. How do those great players get all those notes with just a triangular piece of celluloid? This terrific compilation taken from Homespun’s vast library of music instruction provides lessons at a variety of levels from beginner to advanced. Taught by some of our most celebrated pickers each segment covers a complete song or instrumental that will expand your repertoire improve your technique and enhance your musical knowledge. Before long you’ll be tackling everything from backup in the Texas swing style to playing hot bluegrass solos. Just for this new compilation Happy Traum has recorded a specialintroductory lesson that will give you the tools you’ll need to really start picking in the flatpick style. Includes lessons from Happy Traum Nick Forster Russ Barenberg Steve Kaufman Dan Crary Norman Blake and Tony Rice.

Kenny Kosek is one of the finest fiddle players in the US and will have you jamming with friends in no time. You will learn how to play the melody then add slides drones and double-stop harmonies for authentic bluegrass sounds.

Flatpicking Gtr Jam-26 of Steve Kaufman’s Favorite Jamming Fiddle tunes presented in notation and tablature. Companion Audio available online.

Recorded lessons from one of America’s greatest guitarists Johnny Hiland teaches rhythm patterns essential to the working guitarist in the styles of Bluegrass Country Country Rock Blues and Swing. Lessons in standard notationand TAB with complete audio instruction.

Canadian fiddle music receives the credit and recognition it deserves in this lively collection of tunes from virtually every province and ethnic group in Canada. Originally published in 1990 this project is the result ofgenerous donations by numerous fiddlers and fans of fiddle music. In addition to the preservation and popularization of this folk music form the contributors shared these common goals in this endeavor: composer recognition folkmusic revitalization in Canada and abroad acknowledgement of the violin and its own origins in the development of fiddle music and its place in Canadian society note reading and chording and to pay tribute to many greatfiddlers. This revised edition features contributions of 200 of the best tunes from the first printing as well as 200 new tunes. They consist of hornpipes strathspeys polkas waltzes calypsos reels clogs two-steps jigs airs breakdowns schottishes marches rags and laments. A bibliography and the background of each composer is included.

Southern Appalachian native Dan Levenson and Mel Bay Publications present Clawhammer Banjo from Scratch - A Guide for the Claw-less! This book teaches Clawhammer Banjo the way we play not theway others say. It really begins as though you really have NO knowledge of how to play the five string Banjo clawhammer style. Based on Dan's innovative Meet the Banjo program (where Dan brings 15 Banjos andteaches players who may have never held a Banjo) this book assumes no prior experience.Beginning at the beginning Dan presents a brief history of the 5-string Banjo then goes over the parts of the Banjo holdingthe Banjo right and left hand positions and his basic clawhammer strum. Even the strum is broken down into the steps of the finger and thumb. You are guided through the chords the scale and then the individual notes of each of12 jam session favourite tunes from scratch. Includes audio recordings available for download online with all exercises tunes (slow and up to speed) and a Fiddle version of each tune.

Jerry Garcia the lead guitarist singer and alleged leader of the Grateful Dead became an icon of the 60s youth movement. It was well-known that Jerry was a huge fan and probably considered himself a player of old-timeAmerican music from mountain fiddle and banjo music to English ballads to jug band music to bluegrass and blues and more. On the 'Shady Grove' recordings one can hear the deep commitment respect and love Jerry had for thistraditional American music. He's very faithful to the original artists' music. That may be surprising if you expect more of an ego-driven 'my version' approach from one the biggest rock stars ever. What you have here is a vibrantcollection of wonderful traditional American songs from a great variety of genres played in a style closely based on their traditional sources. Of course within those parameters we hear wonderful and personal readings of thetunes from both Jerry and mandolinist David Grisman. Dix Bruce has carefully transcribed many of Jerry's solos from the album trying to determine not just what he was playing but how he was playing it. Melodies tablature lyrics and chords are included in arrangements designed to be playable on the guitar while presenting the melodies as closely as possible. Jerry's banjo solos are transcribed here for guitar.

This book helps guitarists who are currently stuck playing simple melodies develop fiddle-tune-like solos to bluegrass songs and tunes. Thirteen songs are presented in both a simple "Carter-style" melody-based arrangement followed by a more "fleshed out" fiddle-style arrangement. Using the licks and concepts presented here, guitarists can develop their own unique solos to popular songs. "Angeline the Baker" is presented in a special four-part arrangement that details how to take a simple quarter-note-type melody and develop it into a full eighth-note-based flatpicking solo. Includes access to online audio.