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.

Duet Singing-Dailey and Vincent are the hottest band in bluegrass. They swept all the major awards at this year's IBMA Convention and are barnstorming the country with their exquisite vocal harmonies and amazing instrumental prowess.This unique DVD captures their ideas on duet singing as they take apart eight of their show-stopping songs including By The Mark Music of the Mountains and More Than a Name on the Wall.

This DVD lesson is perfect for those who want to play three-finger style bluegrass banjo - from scratch. You may never have touched a banjo before but that's OK. Pete (Dr. Banjo) Wernick will have you picking right from the opening minutes of this DVD. By the time you finish you'll accompoany songs play solos and have a real understanding of the instrument. Here are just some of the things you'll be learning: Basic chords and how to use them Slides hammer-ons and pull-offs Right hand 'rolls' in the three-finger bluegrass style Finding the melody notes on the neck of the banjo and incorporating them into roll paterns How to play more than a dozeneasy songs in the bluegrass style In short this one DVD will give you everything you'll need to get your bluegrass banjo picking off to a great start!

Authentic Guitar Accompaniments for 7 Classic Songs-During a brilliant three-decade career Dan Fogelberg's iconic songs soaring vocals and rich Guitar arrangements gained him millions of avid fans and secured him a place in the pantheon of American popular music.His acoustic-based songs drew from a variety of sources: rock pop bluegrass and the California folk-rock sounds of the '70s and '80s. Pete Huttlinger was smitten at an early age by Dan's recordings and he absorbed and analyzed the Guitar techniques that helped create the unique Fogelberg sound. He describes in note-for-note detail how to play seven classics all taken from the album Souvenirs.

This book/2-CD pack delivers the meat & potatoes of bluegrass Mandolin way beyond just teaching fiddle tunes! Players will discover how to find their way around the neck using common double stops develop creative back-up skills play solos to vocal tunes in the style of Bill Monroe make up their own solos and a whole lot more. For the average learner this pack represents nearly two years' worth of lessons! Includes two instructional CDs: one plays every example in the book and the second contains 32 songs performed by a bluegrass band with the Mandolin parts separated on the right channel.

Increase your lick repertoire. 400 Smokin' Bluegrass Mandolin Licks utilizes 24 common bluegrass chord progressions to teach you over 400 licks which will allow you to create solos to literally hundreds of bluegrass tunes. Licks are developed from major pentatonic and blues scales. Mandolin-specific techniques such as tremolo double stops drone strings and cross picking are included in many of the phrases. Licks and solos are presented in numerous different keys including the keys of F Bb and B. The demo CD includes every lick performed at learning speed. Each practice progression uses sample licks and is played with rhythmaccompaniment on the included CD. ?Nine-Pound Hammer ? ?Black Mountain Rag ? ?Little Maggie ? ?Salt Creek ? and ?Ragtime Annie? are just some of the many traditional bluegrass tunes included.

Learn from the master of bluegrass Mandolin - Jethro Burns. More than 70 tunes and two dozen exercises are found in this bluegrass bonanza. The Complete Jethro Burns Mandolin Book and audio isan incomparable resource of bluegrass Mandolin repertoire - all in standard notation and tablature just the way the maestro played them - with chord symbols for an accompaniment instrument. This book presents some ofBurns' finest and most challenging solos in addition to a special section on his Mandolin techniques. Ample performance notes and Mandolin lore are provided along with many photographs of Burns in thelatter half of a career lasting more than half a century. The recording presents 52 of the tunes in the book. Includes access to online audio.

This book/CD pack contains 10 classic bluegrass tunes arranged for solo flatpicking and fingerstyle guitar in standard notation and tab. The CD features renowned picker Wayne Henderson performing each tune note for note.

A choice selection of Foster's most famous and enduring songs arranged specifically for the uke but suitable for all chord instruments. Songs include: Oh! Susanna ? Beautiful Dreamer ? Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair ? Camptown Races ? Massa's in the Cold Ground ? Ring the Banjo ? Nelly Bly ? and more. Melodies are presented in standard notation and tab with large easy-to-read chord diagrams and symbols and a CD for song reference and accompaniment.

Play and improvise with more expression and freedom in bluegrass and related styles. These ideas exercises and etudes will help you expand your palette of improvisational and compositional techniques and sounds. Develop yourversatility over the fingerboard and master rhythmic ideas on the banjo. The CD features demo and play-along tracks performed by an all-star bluegrass band!?This book opens up new vistas on the banjo particularly usefulfor advanced players.? Tony Trischka Banjo Great

The Hal Leonard Bluegrass Guitar Method is your complete guide to learning bluegrass guitar. This book uses popular bluegrass songs to teach you the basics of rhythm and lead playing in the styles of Doc Watson Tony Rice Maybelle Carter Lester Flatt and many others.Lessons include Carter strumming alternating bass waltz strums using the capo hammer-ons pull-offs slides crosspicking and much more. The accompanying online audio includes 43 tracks for demonstration and play-along.

Here is the Lost Heritage of the Irish-American Banjo! The Irish-style Tenor banjo has become immensely popular of late yet the roots of Irish influence on American Banjo music extends right back to the 1840s when the legendary Joel Sweeney picked up a gourd Banjo from Black American Banjo players and proceeded to perform 'jigs reels and breakdowns'. Other Irish-Americans played a leading role in the development and popularity of theBanjo in America and Rob MacKillop has collected 27 of their finest pieces in this collection the first of its kind. Early Irish-American Banjo is a solo instrumental collection writtenin standard notation plus 3 lines of tablature for the 5-string Banjo the 4-string tenor Banjo in standard tuning (CGDA) and for the Irish tenor Banjo in octave-mandolin tuning (GDAE low-to-high). Lyrics are not included in thisvolume.Can be played with either a flat pick or fingerstyle.The audio recording contains brilliant performances of all 27 pieces by Rob MacKillop a leading performer of historical Banjo music.Rob performs fingerstyle with the flesh of his fingertips on gut strings on a period-appropriate banjo in the old American tuning. This online recording is a treasure in itself.Tunes included: StPatrick's Day; Rocky Road To Dublin; Savourneen Deelish; McCormick Party Reel Sheridan's Hornpipe Connaught Man's Rambles and many others. Includes access to online audio.

Klezmer the celebratory dance music of Eastern European Jews has gained popularity in recent years partly through the work of the musical super-group the Klezmatics. Lisa Gutkin their virtuosic fiddler has made a DVD that's perfect for anyone including bluegrass Celtic and classical players who wants to delve into this still-living tradition. She teaches the songs and techniques that make this music unique and instantly recognizable.

Written by Mandolin master Dix Bruce Getting Into Bluegrass Mandolin is specifically designed to quickly and simply show you how to play bluegrass Mandolin. This comprehensive book teacheseverything you'll need to know including: chords (both open and 'bluegrass chop' variety) rhythm single-note playing double stops fiddle tunes playing in all keys (transposing from one key to another) playing backup introductions or 'kickoffs' and tremolo. Lessons use classic bluegrass songs and tunes to help you build a great bluegrass repertoire as you learn. All songs and examples from the book are recorded at both slow andregular speeds on the included online audio. Written in standard notation and tablature.