Bluegrass Jamming on Fiddle

Description Bluegrass Jamming on Fiddle is Wayne's newest instruction book and the second in a 4-part series of fun books that will teach the tools, tricks and tunes to jam in bluegrass style. It covers: 31 bluegrass jam standards, how to jam with others, how to improvise and make up your own tasteful licks and fills, almost painless music theory, how to play harmony, how to transpose and play in different keys, and pretty much everything you'll need to march fearlessly into your next jam or picking session! This FUN book is fully illustrated with almost 200 vintage photos. Coming soon: Bluegrass Jamming on Banjo (available Winter, 2012) and Bluegrass Jamming on Guitar (available Spring, 2013). All the books in the series will teach the same 31 tunes and will be 96 pages, 9 x 12 and will include an audio instructional CD. Price: $22.95 (a steal!) You WILL learn how to play and jam on: All the Good Times Are Past & Gone, Back Up and Push, Black-Eyed Susie, Cherokee Shuffle, Columbus Stockade, Colleen Malone, Dark Hollow, Deep Elem Blues, East Virginia, Footprints in the Snow, Katie Dear, Hand Me Down My Walking Cane, High on a Mountain, I Am a Pilgrim, I've Just Seen the Rock of Ages, John Henry, Just Over in the Gloryland, Little Birdie, Lonesome Road Blues, Love of the Mountains, Mama Don't Allow, Man of Constant Sorrow, More Pretty Girls Than One, Pig in a Pen, Pretty Polly, Red Rocking Chair, Rocky Road Blues, Roll on Buddy, Run and Hide, Sittin' on Top of the World, Working on a Building.

A Fiddle Player's Guide To Jamming features everything the Fiddle player needs to know to participate in a jam session. Suitable for beginning-intermediate level Fiddle players this book coversall-important topics such as the anatomy of a jam session jam session etiquette and chords and keys for jamming and vamping. A play-along online audio recording download is included with 9 typical bluegrass jam tunes.The tunes are played twice: once with the tune played on the left channel and a verbal description on the right channel and once in stereo.

DVD 3-Move beyond the basics and get into the finer points of bluegrass flatpicking. You''ll be jamming with the best of them once you've mastered the tunes and techniques on this final DVD in this series.Steve Kaufman broadens your musical vocabulary by focusing on the essentials of good picking techniques. You'll learn to play six classic fiddle tunes - Liberty Salt Creek Blackberry Blossom Clarinet Polka Home Sweet Home and Ragtime Annie. Steve slows each one down highlighting the tricky areas and then playing it up-to-speed so you'll hear how it should sound in performance.You'll learn how to dress up your solos usingslides arpeggios bends accents and a variety of intros and endings. Detailed instruction in the intricacies of crosspicking will help give your playing more rhythmic appeal and style. Steve devotes much-needed attention to one of the most challenging areas for intermediate players - how to build speed - giving you invaluable advice on practicing testing yourself and perfecting left and right hand positions to help you accomplish your goals.