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!

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.

In this new multi-volume series author Joe Carr introduces beginning to intermediate guitarists to classic bluegrass ballads and waltzes. The object of the series is to ground players in good technique and to impart the essentialskills required for continued self-guided development. The tunes are presented in both 'Carter-style' and flatpicking arrangements. Perfect for beginning lead guitarists.

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.

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.

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.