Flatpicking Up The Neck

A thorough and practical approach to understanding the upper positions on the fingerboard for the flatpicking guitarist. Chord shapes scale patterns position studies and repertoire teach guitarists to visualize how melodiesand chords work together up the neck. Concepts presented here are invaluable for arranging and improvising in the flatpicking idiom. Written in standard notation and tablature with access to online audio. Guitarists willlearn a system for organizing chords and scales up the neck as well as moving horizontally between positions. Open strings are blended with upper position notes in keeping with the flatpicking style and concepts are applied toreal music through tunes and variations. Concepts presented are transferable to other styles of music besides flatpicking. Thorough and practical approach to playing up the neck. Guitarists learn howmelodies and chords work together. Invaluable concepts for arranging and improvisation. Tunes and variations provide practical application for the material.

Rolly Brown: Solo Flatpicking Guitar (DVD) is a vast collection of Flatpicking Guitar lessons taught by the master of this technique Rolly Brown>.Rolly Brown teaches 3 basicflatpick rhythm techniques playing a melody keeping a beat and conecting chords with the bass runs runs corsspiciking middle finger floating and arpeggios up the neck.

In this seventy-five minute DVD Fred teaches nine standards every country picker or singer should know...from start to finish! You???ll learn an intro for each song a backup pattern and bass runs to play while singing aninstrumental solo and an ending. Fred keeps the arrangements fairly simple but includes a few up-the-neck chord positions and hot licks. You???ll learn solos and runs in five different keys. Each song is played atregular speed and then slowed down on a split-screen that gives you a close-up look at the picking hand and the chording hand. All the arrangements are clearly written out in tab and music in the included PDF along with lyrics.

In Beginner's Blues Guitar Fred Sokolow starts from ground zero and teaches you how to accompany yourself while singing the blues. You'll learn to play melodies and solo in several keys throughout the neck.This book will help build the foundation for your understanding of blues guitar techniques and styles for both acoustic and electric guitar. Addresses the simple blues form in E G and C gradually expanding on concepts. Includessimple first position blues scales needed for soloing (both fingerpicking and flatpicking) in the keys of E G and C. Songs and solos are presented in both standard notation and tablature with lyrics. As part of StefanGrossman's Guitar Workshop Audio Series not only does this 32-page book contain valuable lessons but as an added bonus the three accompanying CDs also contain three full hours of instruction featuring note-by-note phrase-by-phrase instruction.