Learn to play a variety of fantastic tunes as you master the challenging techniques of the Dobro with this second accessible DVD tutorial by Dobro master Stacy Phillips.In this more advanced lesson your repertoire of techniques is extended to include drones rolls and scale patterns this time with an emphasis on bar slants and string pulls. These powerful techniques give you the ability to play more complex chords and to create distinctive effects including some stunning pedal steel-like licks.Four tunes are taught in detail. Cherokee Shuffle and Bill Cheatham emphasise the skills you need to arrange fiddle tunes for Dobro. KentuckyWaltz looks at working forward and reverse slants into your solos and other areas of your repertoire. Finally Last Rose Of Autumn combines everything you've learned in a single complex instrumental. Amass an arsenal of techniques by learning some magical songs all of which will transform and inspire you Dobro playing.

A visual way to master chords and scales on six string Dobro® and lap steel guitars in open G tuning. All chord and scale positions are presented as graphs letting the player familiarize themselves with the instrument. Each graphdescribes a different position showing the neck to its full length so the player will see the book as if the instrument is lying on their lap. The book offers numerous chord options in all twelve keys as well as a clearpicture of how to capture scale and mode positions. The use of slants and reversed positions in this book lets the player learn as many chord positions as possible. A visual way to master chords and scales on six stringDobro® and lap steel guitars in open G tuning. All chord and scale positions are presented as graphs letting the player become fully familiarized with the instrument. Each graph describes a different positionshowing the neck to its full length so the player will see the book as if the instrument is lying on their lap. This book offers numerous positions of chords in all twelve keys as well as most essential scales and modes.

2-DVD Set- Award-winning instrumentalist Rob Ickes has created a comprehensove course to help you master all aspects of the resonator guitar from bar tachnique to fingerpicking rolls. He covers ererything you'll need to hold your own in a bluegrass band from a fine-tuning the strings to achieving good tone timing and volume control. You'll learn correct hand positions for fast and clean playing powerful forward and reverse right hand rolls basic music theory and all aspects of good bar techniques. With Jim Hurst on vocal and guitar you'll gain an understanding of how to play back-up rhythm and fills behind a vocalist create effective solos build chords andscales and much more. Rob teaches or demonstrates several great tunes including Will the circle be unbroken Dixie Hoedown Ol' Dangerfield Sailin' To Hawaii Monrobro Reuben How great Thou Art and Flat Lonesome. Whether you want to play bluegrass or explore country blues Hawaiian or other styles these DVDs will get you on the right track-fast.