Finding Your Bluegrass Voice-Finding Your Bluegrass One of America's most renowned bluegrass musicians imparts wisdom and advice based on decades of experience playing in bands from Bill Monroe an d the Blue Grass Boys to Old And In The Way. With Peter Rowan's help you'll improve your lead singing and establish an authentic bluegrass guitar sound. Peter's invaluable tips on breathing phrasing vocal improvisation and his exercises to increase your power and range will help you excel as a lead singer. His guitar accompaniment techniques show you how to back up your singing wiht a strong sense of time add bluegrass style bass runs embellish with blues licks and pick simple but effectivesolos. Illustrating his lesson with concert style performances of well known songs from the bluegrass repertoire and first-hand accounts of his days on tour with Bill Monroe Peter teaches each arrangement phrase by phrase. He takes apart Bill Monroe's Blue Moon of Kentucky; the bluesy Walls of Time; the traditional gospel song Wayfaring Stranger and the powerful waltztime classic In The Pines. This is a lesson filled with lots of great instruction singing and playing and is a must-have for every bluegrass lover's library.

This book/2-CD collection contains 45 extended blues jams in the styles of Eric Clapton George Thorogood Jeff Healey Booker T. and the MGs and many more. With Jam Tracks musicians at any level can practise soloing ideas andtechniques while playing with a live back-up band. The best way to learn or improve improvising skills is to play with a live band and now you can take advantage of this opportunity in the privacy of your own room withThe Blues Jam Trax CollectionInside this book you'll find an easy-to-read chord chart for each of the songs on the CDs showing you what chords to play and how long to play them. Each song includesseveral suggested scale patterns licks and riffs that fit the progressions. CD 1 contains traditional 12- and 24-bar blues progressions while CD 2 focuses on the Chicago style and more modern blues sounds. All of theseprogressions have served as the basis for some of the greatest songs in the history of popular music. All examples are written in standard notation and tablature.

A collection of over 200 great Bluegrass Old Time Country and Gospel standards. Melodies are presented with standard notation and tablature along with lyrics and chords.Learn to play songs written and recorded by thegiants of traditional American music: Bill Monroe The Stanley Brothers Flatt &Scruggs Ralph Stanley The Osborne Brothers Jimmy Martin Doc Watson and many more. Also included: Step-by-Step instruction on how to transpose anysong to any key!The online audio download include recordings of EVERY song in the book.

A Personal Collection of Fingerstyle Guitar Music. This collection of fingerstyle guitar pieces is a voyage from 18th century country dance tunes to 19th century parlor or domestic guitar music, to music that found its way to traditional rural players in the U.S., to slack key players in Hawaii, and from there to Doc Rossi's own music. Along the way, you'll explore some of the most important contemporary guitar tunings.

Pumping Nylon is a valuable resource to all serious classical guitarists and includes exercises and studies compiled by Scott Tennant to improve and develop technique. This book includes Giuliani's 120 right-hand studies original compositions by Andrew York and Brian Head Tarrega arpeggio studies and musical examples by Bach Turina Rodrigo and others.The music in this book is presented in both traditional music and tablature notation.

Dave Van Ronk's DVD lesson spans a wide variety of exciting and powerful music. The blues of Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell the 'old fashioned' picking of Rev. Gary Davis the ragtime bounce of Blind Blake the sophisticatedblues of Brownie McGhee the country blues of Jim Jackson a children's ring song and a Van Ronk original all receive the unique Dave Van Ronk treatment. Each arrangement is discussed and explained in detail. This is acomplete lesson for the intermediate guitarist that clearly illustrates how traditional music can be placed in a fingerstyle setting. Titles include: Green Green Rocky Road Kansas City Blues Sportin' Life Blues Sunday Street Spike Driver's Moan That Will Never Happen No More Midnight Hour Blues Cocaine Bluesand Down South Blues.

This book has 17 pieces in dropped-D tuning covering a wide array of musical genres. All are played fingerstyle. CD included. Book includes: Traditional Folk Songs Joseph Spence Style Blues in D An Irish Tune Latin Pieces Blues And Folk Songs In A Classical Pieces

For Fingerstyle Guitarists Book/Cd Set-How do you combine the elegance of the classics with the energy of contemporary grooves? The answer is Global Adventures for Fingerstyle Guitarists. Considered by critics as the Fernando Sor of the 21st Century Steve Eckels hascomposed and arranged 23 fingerstyle guitar arrangements based on the styles of Carlos Santana Yanni Klezmer Bollywood Bob Marley Brazil 66 Mariachi Jose Feliciano Harry Belofante Flameco and others. Eckels aNational Board Certified teacher has tested and perfected the arrangements in his high school guitar classes and the music is playable and recreational for high school age and older. Eckels arrangements are known to millions ofguitarists for their clarity of notation playability and 'hit-song' sound. This book continues the tradition that Mason Williams started with hit song Classical Gas by combining classical techniques with excitingrhythms. This book is a perfect supplement for Eckels landmark book 'A Modern Method for Fingerstyle Guitar.” Audio CD includes a recording of each tune played by the author. Standard notation and Tablature.

The East Coast, from Florida up to Virginia, gave birth to a vibrant fingerstyle blues tradition, documented on recordings from the mid-1920s up into the 1970s and 1980s. In East Coast Fingerstyle Blues Guitar, author John Miller has selected some of the most interesting and exciting recorded performances from that period to present to you, with transcriptions of the performances in TAB and standard notation, lyrics to the songs provided, playing tips that will help you get the songs up and running as soon as possible, and links to the original recorded performances, so that your own playing can be informed by the playing of the masters.A particular focus of the book is the repertoire of three of the strongest practitioners of East Coast Blues?Buddy Moss, Blind Willie McTell and Blind Boy Fuller. You?ll also find two songs each by Luke Jordan and William Moore, a Blind Blake tune and a host of songs from artists who qualify for the designation talent deserving of wider recognition: Peg Leg Howell, Carl Martin, Floyd Council, Virgil Childers, Sonny Jones, Gabriel Brown, Ralph Willis, Willie Trice and Henry Johnson, many of whose songs are being made available for the first time.If you?re looking for fingerstyle guitar pieces with a great range of feeling, musical variety and depth of expression, you need look no further than East Coast Fingertyle Blues Guitar. It will give you the information and background you need for a total immersion in this exciting music. Includes access to online audio.

Based on his popular book published by Acoustic Guitar magazine David Hamburger's DVD lessons provide a comprehensive examination of the two most essential fingerstyle approaches: Travis picking and steady-bass blues style. He teaches each concept and follows it up with a classic song or instrumental from the blues country folk and ragtime traditions: John Henry • Delia • Alberta • St. James Infirmary • St. Louis Blues • and more. LEVEL 2 • INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB .PDF • 2 HRS. AND 30 MIN.

Now even guitarists can enjoy The Real Book format with this great collection of 120 top songs spanning all genres and decades that all gigging guitarists should know. It features rhythm tablature for guitar in the famous and easy-to-read Real Book notation.Since the 1970s The Real Book has been the most popular book for gigging jazz musicians. Hal Leonard is proud to publish completely legal and legitimate editions of the original volumes as well as exciting new volumes to carry on the tradition to new generations of players in all styles of music! All the Real Books feature hundreds of time-tested songs in accurate arrangements in the famous easy-to-read hand-written notation with comb-binding.

This introductory-level book provides an overview of fingerstyle techniques for the guitarist who may not be familiar with the classical/fingerstyle technique or who just wants to learn more. The first few chapters discuss some basic techniques and how to approach these techniques while developing good habits and correcting or avoiding the development of bad habits. The later sections focus on some basic repertoire from the classical and fingerstyle traditions and will implement the techniques learned in the previous chapters. Written in notation and tablature.