Steve Kaufman: Kaufman Teaches Crowd Pleasers And Show Stoppers: Guitar Solo:

On this compelling video lesson Steve Kaufman introduces essential Instrumentals for Flatpickers and teaches his arrangements to some of the most beautiful pieces in the guitar repertory. This lesson will delight lower intermediate to advanced players and will show you how to add the Flatpick style Waltz ‘feel’ and waltz phrases to your playing. Steve Kaufman is internationally known as a consummate bluegrass and waltz guitarist having won numerous Flatpicking contests and produced many tutorials and Guitar Methods. This 70 minute lesson includes a booklet that contains all the music from the DVD in tablature and standard notation.

Steve Kaufman teaches you how to play solid rhythm from playing behind the simplest two-chord song to the complex chord progressions needed to accompany Texas-style fiddle tunes.He starts with the fundamentals showing you how to hold a pick get good tone and play the basic bass/chord rhythm patterns solidly and accurately. Then he moves on to important embellishments such as adding bass walks playing the famous Lester Flatt 'G Run' altering your chord shapes to add moving bass lines within a song and other essential techniques.This lesson in back-up rhythm guitar is illustrated with some classic bluegrasas tunes. Playing along with Steve on 'Wabash Cannonball Blackberry Blossom and Sally Goodin' will give you the practice you'll need to use these techniques in other bluegrass songs.

In A Guitarist's Guide To Solo Arranging And Performing master guitarist and teacher Steve Kaufman provides invaluable advice drills ideas tunes and techniques that will get a player primed for solo instrumental performing. He teaches arrangements in a variety of acoustic genres folk bluegrass Celtic and ragtime that range from early- to advanced-intermediate levels. Songs include: Amazing Grace; The Water Is Wide; Randall Collins; Lament for Lowrie O'da Lea; Alabama Jubilee; My Grandfather's Clock; June Apple; and more. Includes music and tab PDF file on disc. 2 hours.

Media Type : Book Level : Beginning Musical Genre : Bluegrass & Country Series : You Can Teach Yourself Number of pages : 84 Three-time national flatpicking champion Steve Kaufman teaches you how to buy a guitar, the easy way to fret a note, how to read chord charts and play all the basic chords, basic bluegrass strumming patterns, bass runs and walks, hammer-ons and pull-offs, how to read tablature, picking lead, crosspicking, practice techniques, and much more.

20 Swing Tunes That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know teaches essential swing Guitar repertoire to bluegrass flatpickers. Steve's unique method features three levels: - a beginner's version in which he teaches the basic melody - an intermediate arrangement that will give players a solid musical grounding - and a full-blown solo that will challenge any aspiring swing guitarist. Backup tracks make for productive and exciting practice sessions. Tunes include After You've Gone Back Home Again in Indiana Georgia on My Mind Limehouse Blues It's Only a Paper Moon Over the Rainbow Summertime The Sunny Side of theStreet and more.

This fun and easy book and CD takes you from the very beginning. Learning right and left-hand techniques learning your first chords 18 great songs AND you painlessly learn them by reading notes. Anyone can do it. Steve's method and approach to learning to read notes is so simple that 4 year olds have done it. You will start with 4 simple notes. Steve then teaches songs using just those four notes. He systematically adds a few more notes at a time bundled with easy to understand instructions and songs so that in a short time you will know all the notes chords strumming patterns to play hundreds of songs. This is a perfect primer for many of Steve's best sellers and other author'books. Includes access to online audio.

This fun and easy bluegrass fiddle book and CD takes you from the very beginning. Starting with an introduction to the instrument the book teaches you basic fiddle technique such as holding the bow and provides scales andexercises setting the foundation for the repertoire found in the book. Featuring classics such as 'Boil E'm Cabbage Down' 'Cripple Creek' and 'Old Joe Clark' this book will get you playing in no time!