Beginning with basic left- and right-hand techniques, Dennis Caplinger guides you through developing great backup parts and playing all over the neck. You'll learn the classic Scruggs style of picking along with the melodic style. Plus you'll study over 20 classic bluegrass standards, and you'll learn how to play them in several different styles. All books in the Ultimate Beginner Bluegrass Basics series are fully correlated to work together. This is the ideal method for the family that wants to play music together!

With this comprehensive method you get 25 songs in standard notation and tab 77 recorded examples and detailed info from banjo master Fred Sokolow on a host of other topics including: the selection care and feeding of your banjo; tuning; reading tablature; chords; three-finger rolls; backup licks; playing in any key; picking melody; special effects; different tunings; music theory; and many more. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+ a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch set loop points change keys and pan left orright.

Par ORR BUD. Une méthode facile à comprendre, enseigner les éléments essentiels de la performance de mandoline bluegrass. Contient la corde et l\'échelle des formes, des connaissances techniques, ainsi que les deux simples arrangements mélodiques et plein de 21 tunes en notation et tablature. Le DVD inclut des versions de la performance des solos des mandoline. Comme une caractéristique supplémentaire, la mandoline peut être muselée afin que l\'élève puisse jouer avec l\'accompagnement de guitare enregistrée. / Niveau : Débutant / Bluegrass - Methods / Tablatures / Mandoline Tablatures

The definitive step-by-step guide to playing 5-string bluegrass banjo. From learning how to hold the banjo to playing complete bluegrass songs, this easy-to-understand method will turn you into a 5-string banjo player no time. You'll learn how to read banjo tablature, all the basic banjo rolls, chords, authentic bluegrass techniques, banjo tuning and maintenance, and more! This book also has an audio CD with demonstration tracks of the essential bluegrass songs including: Cripple Creek, John Hardy, Nine Pound Hammer, Red River Valley, among others. With detailed photographs and simple instructions, this is the 5-string banjo method for getting results - fast! / Banjo / 48 pages / Partition Cd

Par WAYNE ERBSEN. WAYNE de l\'amical et approche FUN pour l\'apprentissage a enseigné à des dizaines de milliers de débutants totales de jouer la musique bluegrass. Rejoignez le club ! En cela, son livre 26e, Wayne traverse le désordre et la confusion d\'apprendre à jouer avec son approche SIMPLE à jouer la mélodie. Il dirige ensuite le débutant sur la voie de pouvoir IMPROVISER sur la mélodie en ajoutant plusieurs rythmes simples. Avec l\'aide de Wayne, vous allez bientôt être brouillage jusqu\'à une tempête. Garantie. / Niveau : Débutant / Bluegrass - Methods / Méthode / Mandoline

This book/2-CD pack delivers the meat & potatoes of bluegrass Mandolin way beyond just teaching fiddle tunes! Players will discover how to find their way around the neck using common double stops develop creative back-up skills play solos to vocal tunes in the style of Bill Monroe make up their own solos and a whole lot more. For the average learner this pack represents nearly two years' worth of lessons! Includes two instructional CDs: one plays every example in the book and the second contains 32 songs performed by a bluegrass band with the Mandolin parts separated on the right channel.

The Getting Into Bluegrass Banjo book and audio by Alan Munde is the accumulation of successful teaching concepts developed in his 40 plus years as a professional bluegrass musician and teacher.Munde presents a straight-forward and well-founded course of bluegrass Banjo essentials. Designed for those who have never played a stringed instrument to those taking up bluegrass Banjo as a second instrument. Access toonline audio available provided. Getting Started - Covers the parts of the Banjo hand positions first picking patterns pull-offs hammer-ons slides exercise songs ending with the professional sounding'Levelland Mountain Breakdown.' Review of Rolls New rolls and combinations of Rolls with Examples - Offers the most used rolls in bluegrass Banjo playing with often-played examples of each. The player learns many ofthe licks used in the style with an example of how to combine them to make a solo. Roll Logic - How to place a melody into the several different roll patterns. Tools and Techniques - Helps develop left handtechniques through the use of intervals of thirds and sixths. Creating Solos to Songs - At the heart of the book is this revealing section with many examples of how to create many many solos to the song 'JesseJames.' Songs - Put to use all you have learned on these great standards 'Ground Hog ' 'Wildwood Flower' (two versions) 'Nine Pound Hammer ' 'Worried Man Blues ' 'Lost All MyMoney ' 'Old Country Church ' 'Kneel at the Cross ' and 'Train 45.'

Christmas Tunes for Fiddle-Mel Bay's first fiddle DVD taught by Murphy. This beginning level disc has tunes your family will surely recognise. Murphy worked out these arrangements for the Fiddle Sisters a group of her students that she plays within Winchester Va. These very tunes have been performed in nursing homes all around the town and will be again this Christmas. This DVD features easy versions of holiday favorites: Silent Night Jingle Bells LittleDrummer Boy Good King Wenceslas Away In A Manger and Joy To the World - just in time for Christmas.

This handsome 172 page book has over 100 of your favorite bluegrass gospel songs with lyrics music (melody line) guitar chords 100+ vintage photos song histories the roots of bluegrass gospel music painless gospel musictheory how to choose the right key how to operate a capo using the guitar in gospel music harmony 101 tips on how to sing lead baritone tenor and bass. 9' x 12.' Large easy-to-read font.

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!

For Gtr Bnjo and Uke-You need only minimal playing skills and three chords - G C and D7 - to accompany each song in this innovative book. This is the perfect book for beginners casual musicians and teaching studios. The book is absolutely burstingwith an abundance of timeless standards many of which are rarely found in print. All songs are made playable for folks who play for their own enjoyment. Melody lyrics and chords are included for each song. We invite your entirefamily to enjoy this unique book. It is also an excellent compact fakebook for pros.

This encyclopedia is designed to provide mandolin players with a wide variety of chords in different voicings. This book is intended as both a starting point of learning chord voicings and patterns as well as a dictionary ofcommon mandolin chords. Each key section includes the first position scale for that key as well as the chord formula and notes for each chord. If you want to learn to be a bluegrass rhythm player it helps to have a guide or 'map'to take you through the initial learning stage. This book provides a small but powerful set of starter chords used in this style of music. Once these chords are learned you'll be able to jam with other musicians in no time. Theseare the same chords used by greats like Bill Monroe Doyle Lawson David Grisman and hundreds of other bluegrass players in this genre. While there are only a few chords presented in the 'map' section they form the foundation ofbluegrass mandolin and with them you can play literally thousands of songs in every key. Chords are presented by key.

The idea here is to help coordinate the pickers so you all have solos to play and they can be played in the same key. What a concept - a 'Band in the Book'. Within these pages you will find solos for the entire band: leadguitar rhythm guitar banjo mandolin fiddle and bass. The mandolin and fiddle share the same tunings so their solos are just written once for both. If you are just starting out and you are having difficulty-finding solos foryour level - look no more. These solos are written for the beginner level student assuming you can already play a few simple solos or lead breaks. This series will help you to learn solos on multiple instruments help organizeensemble play help develop a steady sense of timing and give you hours of enjoyment as well.

Book/Cd Set-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 methodand 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 bundledwith 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’sbooks. Audio CD included.

This beginner's book designed as a follow-up to Fun with the Mandolin aids the beginning mandolin player in playing strums applicable to folk and bluegrass music. A variety of keys are studied and the student will gainversatility in playing chord progressions. Chords and songs are presented in the keys of G E minor C A minor D E A F and D minor. Songs include: 'Shady Grove' 'Old Joe Clark' 'Amazing Grace' 'Banks of the Ohio' andmany more. May be used in ensemble playing with the companion guitar and banjo texts.