Stacy Phillips: Play Dobro¸ Today! - Level 1: Guitar Solo: Instrumental Tutor

Stacy Phillips is an internationally acclaimed soloist and author on Resonator Guitar. This comprehensive book took years to produce and is the culmination of Stacy's many years of playing the instrument studying new Resonator techniques and interviewing other Resonator greats.This book achieves the following objectives: 1. To present an in-depth survey of the styles in which well-rounded lap Guitarist should be competent.2. To examine the playing styles and techniques of some of the world's greatest Resonator Guitarists. 3. To catalog many of the licks that are lingua franca in the world of Resonator guitarists. 4. To indicate some of theunderlying relationships between notes keys and chords by introducing some basic music theory as it relates specifically to the six-string Guitar in G tuning. 5. To gain insights into the world of Resophonic Guitar stylings andperformance through interviews with some of the top players. 6. To demonstrate unconventional concepts in order to stimulate fresh approaches to playing the instrument. Tablature included. The audio presents more than 90minutes of stereo recording featuring Stacy Phillips on Dobro and Paul Howard on Guitar. Play-along tracks are included for several of the tunes. Access to online audio included.

Learn to play a variety of fantastic tunes as you master the challenging techniques of the Dobro with this accessible DVD tutorial by Dobro master Stacy Phillips.Phillips provides detailed instruction on:The use of picksThe barHammer-onsPull-offsRight hand rollsA variety of chord positionsAn in-depth examination of major scale patterns is provided applicable to almost any song and allowing you to create your own melodies and improvisations.Each song has been carefully selected to introduce different playing styles and boost your musical vocabulary. You will discover the blues bluegrass three different open tunings and abreathtaking arrangement of Dixie Hoedown that combines every element from the lessons in spectacular fashion.This intermediate-level tutorial in resonator guitar will have you picking better than you ever dreamed you could!

For Resonator Guitar Chart-This is a handy reference chart detailing the common chord positions that all squareneck resonator slide players should know. Major dominant and minor chords are illustrated in both closed and open string versions.Inaddition four major scale patterns and a diagram of the location of the notes on the neck are included.