Virtuoso multi-instrumentalist Dennis Caplinger gives you a flying start with the Bluegrass guitar. Learn to play using the very best of the Bluegrass standards so you can apply your knowledge straight away. Once you've got the basics you can play along with the amazing Bluegrass band featuring John Moore Kenny Blackwell and Bill Bryson. Includes deomnstartions and minus-one backing tracks to get you playing with confidence straight away.

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.

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/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.

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.

A comprehensive method for learning to play guitar in the bluegrass flatpicking style. The first part includes instruction on tuning reading notation and tablature learning chords from diagrams bass runs left and right handtechniques plus short pieces and studies. The second part offers dozens of progressively arranged solos in standard notation and tablature with suggested accompaniment chord symbols.

Bluegrass star Eddie Adcock provides note-for-note arrangements of some of his best-loved pieces revealing the secrets of his lightning-fast guitar techniques.Learn how Adcock combines Travis-style fingerpicking bluegrass runs to build his amazing guitar instrumentals. He shows you how to use right-hand rolls slides pull-offs and hammer-ons alternating thumb/index finger combinations and a host of other exciting techniques to make your blugrass playing really shine.

Here's an easy and fun way for beginners to play favourite bluegrass tunes. Happy teaches all the basic techniques and helps guitarists begin to build their own repertoire. He covers pick technique elementary theory song accompaniment and how to play instrumental solos.

Fast Jam With Murphy And Casey-Learn Bluegrass By Ear: Fast Jam With Murphy And Casey is a fantastic tuition DVD Taught by Murphy Henry and Casey Henry for all instruments.This exciting DVD willreally put you through your paces and improve you playing by ear and improvising technique. The question is can you keep up'

Better get ready to start pickin' and strumming with the best in the business as Nashville's super country-session player Ray Flacke takes you through his hottest licks tricks and leads.Flacke has set the standards in the true meaning of country guitar playing. His overwhelming style is a melting pot of pedal steel guitar effects banjo-inspired bluegrass playing slick stops speedy scales and harmony guitar soloing. This special lesson provides a step-by-step guide to a barrage of amazing licks with careful attention paid to right-hand pick and finger techniques.A booklet of supporting musical examples and diagrams is included.

In music the term 'bluegrass' describes the hot string-band style pioneered by Kentuckian Bill Monroe which blends old-time country music with blues rhythms and jazz-influenced improvisation. This book contains 101 authenticbluegrass guitar licks in the favorite bluegrass keys of C G D and A minor. The licks are broken down into phrases of two four and eight bars. In addition several endings and crosspicking licks are included. Each lick isplayed to a chord progression that is standard in bluegrass country and folk music. All 101 examples are recorded on the companion CD with guitar accompaniment at a moderate tempo. Whether you are a fan of old-time countrymusic traditional bluegrass or newgrass you are sure to find lots of great ideas in this new collection of bluegrass licks. So grab your instrument put on the CD pull up a chair and let's start pickin'.

Finding Your Bluegrass Voice-Finding Your Bluegrass One of America's most renowned bluegrass musicians imparts wisdom and advice based on decades of experience playing in bands from Bill Monroe an d the Blue Grass Boys to Old And In The Way. With Peter Rowan's help you'll improve your lead singing and establish an authentic bluegrass guitar sound. Peter's invaluable tips on breathing phrasing vocal improvisation and his exercises to increase your power and range will help you excel as a lead singer. His guitar accompaniment techniques show you how to back up your singing wiht a strong sense of time add bluegrass style bass runs embellish with blues licks and pick simple but effectivesolos. Illustrating his lesson with concert style performances of well known songs from the bluegrass repertoire and first-hand accounts of his days on tour with Bill Monroe Peter teaches each arrangement phrase by phrase. He takes apart Bill Monroe's Blue Moon of Kentucky; the bluesy Walls of Time; the traditional gospel song Wayfaring Stranger and the powerful waltztime classic In The Pines. This is a lesson filled with lots of great instruction singing and playing and is a must-have for every bluegrass lover's library.

Teach Yourself Bluegrass Guitar. Teach yourself authentic bluegrass guitar with this book and audio pack. The book contains clear instructions on the basics: right- and left-hand techniques, solos, backup, personal advice on performance, and much more, as well as a complete selection of the best bluegrass songs to learn from. The audio contains recorded examples contained in the book and backing tracks for several songs. Written by Russ Barenberg, an acclaimed Nashville session player, whose playing has been featured on dozens of top country and bluegrass albums over the years. Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK , a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.

Here's your chance to learn from an award-winning guitarist and develop the bluegrass soloing abilities you've always dreamed of having.David Grier outlines an encyclopedic range of techniques in the flatpicking style that will truly set your solos on fire. He takes in all the elements of a hot bluegrass solo including:SlidesHammer-ons/Pull-offsrosspickingPick-and-fingersBendsDouble-stopsRakingBefore long you'll be digging into arrangements of well-known bluegrass standards such as Liberty and Bill Cheatham as well as a spectacular version of Nine Pound Hammer. Grier provides additional insights designedto help you realise your own abilities and achieve your guitar-playing goals.Become the best bluegrass soloist you can be with this exciting DVD tutorial.

Explore the essential songs of bluegrass and country Guitar as played by Maybelle Carter and Jimmie Rodgers and carried on by masters like Tony Rice Norman Blake and Bryan Sutton. These ten lessons teach the basics of rhythm from the classic boom-chuck to bass runs and embellishments as well as how to flatpick melodies and solos. Features exercises licks and full songs in notes and tab with demos of everything on the CD.Teachers: Andy Ellis David Hamburger David Hodge Steve Kaufman Carol McComb Scott Nygaard Nicole Solis Sue Thompson.