The Real Bluegrass Book

Welcome to Bluegrass Breaks: Guitar! This book is a collection of 23 Guitar solos or 'breaks' plus 16 introductions or 'kickoffs' in a range of styles and levels of difficulty. The solos are aimed at advancedbeginner to intermediate guitarists looking to expand their repertoire of lead Guitar solos. All the solos are recorded in split-track format at two speeds and are available online.This book includes:Easy Carter-stylesolos with the melody played on the bass strings punctuated by chord strums.More advanced Carter-style solos with hammer-ons pull-offs slides and more.Hot flatpicking solos with lots of eighth notes played with up anddown picking.Essential fiddle tunes for every modern bluegrass lead Guitar player.Crosspicking solos played with two different crosspicking patterns.Solos using the 'real dropped D' and the 'faux dropped D'tunings.A variety of kickoffs generic and for specific songs.Extensive notes on the breaks and the techniques used to play them.The breaks in this book are based on are some of the most performed bluegrass old-time and gospel songs - songs that you're sure to hear played at jam sessions picking parties and on stage. Includes access to online audio.

This package contains six one-hour CDs and a printed music/tab book. Steve Kaufman is a champion flatpicker and using popular favourite bluegrass solos he breaks them down so you can really hold your own in a hot jamsession! This unique 6 CD course has been produced for all levels of players: Steve Kaufman teaches the melody to familiarize the beginning guitarists with the tune in its most basic form; then he gets the intermediateplayer started on a series of great licks and runs. The advances technique will spice up the tune so it becomes a real showpiece!

A Beginner's Guide Featuring Step-By-Step Lessons with Audio Video and Bluegrass Songs!-The First 15 Lessons series provides a step-by-step lesson plan for the absolute beginner complete with audio tracks video lessons and real songs! Designed for self-teaching or for use with an instructor you'll build a solid foundation as you work through each lesson learning the basics of the instrument and music reading while practicing the many exercises concepts and song excerpts within. Must-know instruction so you can start playing right away with a free online tuner and metronome!This banjo book features video and print lessons by author and banjo master Kristin Scott Benson on: banjo fundamentals; music reading; tuning; three-finger Scruggs style;bluegrass banjo rolls; chords and scales; and slides hammer-ones and pull-offs. Includes lead and backup banjo parts for these bluegrass songs: Boil Them Cabbage Down ? Cripple Creek ? Oh! Susanna ? Old Joe Clark ? When the Saints Go Marching In.

The mandolin is used in nearly every type of music today so it is a great choice of instrument whether you like jazz folk classical country bluegrass rock blues Irish or many kinds of world music. Much of this music isavailable only in standard notation so that is where this book starts; TAB comes later. By learning the basic information presented in this volume you will be prepared to approach any style. This book introduces the student tothe instrument explaining basics such as tuning and how to hold the instrument. The student is introduced to notes on each string and various left- and right-hand techniques. Chords scales and arpeggios are introduced andstudents begin applying their new skills to real world repertoire in a variety of keys. Includes access to online audio.

Cultivate your acoustic Guitar skills with this German edition of the Hal Leonard: Acoustic Guitar Method.This book uses real songs to teach the basics of acoustic Guitar playing. Covering many styles - from folk country and bluegrass to acoustic blues and rock - Gitarrenmethode Für Akustikgitarre includes practical lessons in strumming fingerpicking using a capo and open tunings.Written in standard notation and tablature this volume contains 45 great riffs including Barely Breathing Dust in the Wind Here Comes the Sun Name and more.

A complete guide for beginning guitarists with step-by-step lessons and 45 great acoustic songs to learn and play. The Hal Leonard Acoustic Guitar Method uses real songs to teach you all the basics of acoustic Guitar in the style of The Beatles Eric Clapton John Mellencamp the Indigo Girls Robert Johnson James Taylor and many others. Lessons include: strumming fingerpicking using a capo open tunings folk country and bluegrass styles acoustic blues acoustic rock and more. Songs include: Angie Barely Breathing Behind Blue Eyes Building a Mystery Change the World Dust in the Wind Fast Car Here Comes the Sun Jack and Diane Landslide Leaving on a Jet Plane Maggie May More Than Words Name You've Got a Friend Yesterday and more. This book is written in standard notation and tablature.

Unlock the secrets of improvising in traditional American fiddle styles with this Grammy-nominated stage and studio master. In only ten years as a professional musician, Jim Van Cleve has made quite a name for himself in bluegrass and acoustic music. He's spent time with Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, saw his debut solo CD nominated for a Grammy and toured all over the world with Mountain Heart. He's become a sought-after Nashville session player and one of the most admired fiddlers in bluegrass. Jim covers many things on these 2 DVDs, but they really break into three sections. After some discussion about early learning experiences, AcuTab's John Lawless leads Jim through a discussion on improvising and building solos on a number of popular bluegrass standards. Two songs, Banks of The Ohio and Pretty Polly, are each played and demonstrated in 3 different keys. Before demonstrating the tunes, Jim breaks down the scale and common positions for each key in turn. He shows where to find the melody, and where adjacent double stops are located, as well as licks and phrases that suit each song. Attention is given to both playing a melody-based solo and what a fiddle can do to assist the band sound in accompaniment. He also carefully teaches four songs he has recorded - three of his own (Nature of the Beast, Devil's Courthouse and #6 Barn Dance) plus Bill Monroe's classic Wheel Hoss. After being slowly demonstrated lick-by-lick, they are each shown (fast and slow) in a split screen orientation. A printed booklet with standard notation for each of these songs is included. Two screen orientations are available for the split screen sections, based on whether the left or right hand is of greater interest. Simply switch between them using the Angle key. Over 4 hours of instructiona on 2 DVDs. / Violon (Traditionnel) / 240 pages / niveau : Débutant / 2-Dvd Set - Format: 7,5 X 5,25

Description The non-jazz improvisation series is a concept that germinated in Dick Weissman's mind while he was attending music school. He wrote a 15-piece arrangement of the old square dance tune, Cripple Creek, and wanted the trombone to take a solo as part of the arrangement. When the trombonist kept playing a bebop solo that was totally unsuitable for the chart, Dick realized that - in addition to the many musicians who do not improvise - there are even jazz musicians who don't know how to improvise outside the limits of their own stylistic backgrounds. This book approaches the five-string banjo as a musical instrument freed from the prison of specific musical genres. Old-time music, clawhammer, bluegrass and many eclectic adaptations of the banjo are utilized to demonstrate a variety of musical styles. A number of the selections are in different tunings. All examples are written out in traditional and tablature notation.