A wonderfully diverse collection of 33 great Tommy Flint fingerstyle guitar solos in Nashville lead bluegrass blues and ragtime guitar styles. Tunes include: 'Fisher's Hornpipe' 'Soldier's Joy' 'Amazing Grace' and more. Allselections are in notation and tablature. The audio recording is available as a free download.

Bluegrass Classic-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 arrangementfollowed 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 specialfour-part arrangement that details how to take a simple quarter-note-type melody and develop it into a full eighth-note-based flatpicking solo.

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.

You need only minimal playing skills and three chords--G C and D7--to accompany all the great songs in this innovative book. If you are just getting started or if you are a 'casual' player on a chording instrument this is theperfect book for you. The book is absolutely bursting with a great variety of music: Old-time bluegrass gospel Christmas children's tunes Stephen Foster British and Celtic cowboy blues and more. Because melody and lyricsare provided with every song singers will also enjoy this wonderful collection of the world's favorite songs. Truly a book of outstanding arrangements made playable for folks who play for their own enjoyment. (Some of thesesongs like 'Dark Hollow' and 'Way Downtown ' are hard to find in print.) Guitar uke and five-string banjo diagrams are included for the three chords along with tips on strumming and transposing tips for singers. An invaluablereference book for teachers and pros too!

This book is the ideal primer for anyone wishing to participate in an 'Irish session'. This musical gathering is apparently quite different than a blues jazz or bluegrass jam session in that it is customary at Irish sessions toplay in tight unison with the other musicians adapting appropriate tempos rhythms and ornaments in an attempt to fit in with the 'groove'. The 'Irish Session Tune Book' features 300 reels hornpipes polkas slides andslip-jigs written without chord symbols for the melody instruments commonly played in Irish Sessions. The author shares a wealth of melodies collected over the past 10 years the majority learned by ear at Irish sessions: fiddle accordion tinwhistle tenor banjo mandolin bouzouki etc. Authentic ornamentation is suggested for each tune with the admonition that ornamentation may vary from region to region and chorus to chorus.

Flatpicking Guitar Magazine declares Norman Blake a legend and includes him in the 'first name club' on the Internet flatpicking news list. The Norman Blake Anthology offers complete lyrics and melody lines to 40 original songs written and notated just as Norman sings them. Often the vocal version is followed by a second flatpicking solo edition in notation and tablature including introductions and solos within a given tune- all authorized by Normanhimself! 200 pages illustrated with photos from a distinguished 30-year career. Intermediate in difficulty.

Zac Brown calls the band's 2012 album ?Your basic country-Southern rock-bluegrass-reggae-jam record.? Here are artist-approved note-for-note guitar transcriptions of all 11 danceable tracks from this chart-topper including the hit singles Day That I Die Goodbye in Her Eyes and The Wind. Includes a bio of the band/notes on the making of the album.

Guitar Play-Along Volume 138-The Bluegrass Classics volume of the Guitar Play-Along Series features 8 classic Bluegrass songs expertly arranged for Guitar in TAB notation.The Guitar Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily! Just follow the tab listen to the CD to hear how the guitar should sound and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are also included in the book in case you want to sing or to simply help you follow along. The audio CD is playable on any CD player. For PC and Mac computer users the CD is enhanced so you can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch!

Open Tunings For Blues Guitar is a groundbreaking Guitar concept for studying the scale and chord shapes relevant to the most popular open tunings.By utilising a combination of modal scales and perfectchords this book effectively maps out the lead and rhythm Guitar essentials for all blues styles. Open Tunings for Blues Guitar successfully removes the confusion surrounding alternate tunings and allows thestudent to learn in a more straightforward and immediate way.Open Tunings For Blues Guitar covers the 20 most common open tunings including open D open G open C and DADGAD.

Flatpicking Guitar has taken an interesting journey since its inception first with Maybelle Carter then Don Reno Doc Watson and Clarence White. Younger players who began by listening to the original masters have melded thoseinfluences with other styles including blues swing classical and even various world music styles.When first listening to Doc Watson and Clarence White Barry Solomon was particularly attracted to their use of swing andjazz licks and phrasing and their choices of songs straight from the Tin Pan Alley and Great American Songbook.Tunes like Limehouse Blues All of Me and Honeysuckle Rose were exciting challenges toexplore after becoming comfortable with bluegrass and fiddle tunes. Barry always thought that bluegrass and jazz were a wonderful combination and the most gratifying challenge has been to create arrangements that meld both stylesin a tasteful and exciting manner.Titles presented in Volume 2 include: The Way You Look Tonight All of Me Oh Baby and Limehouse Blues. Accompanying audio tuition is included.

Rev. Gary Davis is the real thing. The authentic blind-seer. He is a genius with a brightly burning spirit enormous musical intelligence technical brilliance an encyclopedic memory driving passion deep faith araunchy and gracious sense of humor. A mystic. He is an icon of the style of Guitar he was born into known today as the Piedmont blues. Through players of the first half of the twentieth century like Alfred Shultz MoseRanger Merle Travis and Chet Atkins this is the signature American fingerpicking style that would so deeply inform the country folk blues and even rock and roll of our day.Rev. Davis (1896-1972) was bornblack in deep poverty in South Carolina blind from an early age. He overcame these longest of odds to become world famous a giant of American music. He brought together black and white styles country gospel folk themes blues jazz ragtime minstrel songs dance tunes and popular song. He developed his own brilliant fingerpicking style that was deep economical and adaptable enough to easily cover all these genres. Supporting all hiscreativity was an unshakable faith that pulled him through the obscurity the bitter hard times and crushing poverty he would endure until the folk music awakening of the fifties and sixties caught up to him.In this bookand accompanying audio Ernie Hawkins has transcribed 18 of Rev. Davis' best known gospel arrangements. The playing of Rev. Davis has influenced generations of Guitar players from Blind Boy Fuller to Dave VanRonk David Bromberg Ry Cooder Jorma Kaukonen Bob Weir Stefan Grossman and Woody Mann. His tunes have been recorded by a host of today's finest rock musicians: The Grateful Dead Hot Tuna Bob Dylan Jackson Browne and others.

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.

For Fngrstyle Guitar-This volume is intended as a folio of arrangements from the repertoire of a working musician. As such there is only a minimum of discussion about the technical aspects of playing. Students who have already dealt with theAmerican style called fingerpicking or fingerstyle guitar which is quite distinct from other kinds of guitar playing will be at an advantage. The easiest arrangements here are early intermediate level while the other end of thescale includes pieces that may challenge even a professional. Tunes within each section are presented generally in order of difficulty. The bulk of the tunes presented are fiddle tunes with a couple of banjo tunes and severalsongs as well as tunes originally played on other instruments such as harp pipes or accordion. There are even a small number composed for the guitar. For the most part differences in approach among the tunes here are unrelatedto the instrumental sources. All the tunes are presented in notation and tablature. Includes access to online audio.

Develop solid flatpick guitar technique build a repertoire of great tunes and get ready to solo in a band! In this method one of America's top bluegrass guitarists teaches a tremendous set of flatpicking songs. This selection ofrepertoire tunes for intermediate players includes Liberty Soldiers Joy Forked Deer Eighth Of January and Hot Corn. This book also comes with a CD of accompaniments to play along to.

Media Type : Book/CD Set Level : Beginning Musical Genre : Bluegrass Series : McCabe's 101 Series Number of pages : 48 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 authentic bluegrass 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 is played 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 country music, 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'.