Media Type : Book Level : Beginning-Intermediate Musical Genre : Bluegrass Number of pages : 160 Crosspicking technique on guitar is similar to bluegrass banjo, filling in all of the spaces between melody notes with a steady stream of harmony notes. With applied crosspicking technique, the guitar becomes a forceful solo instrument capable of filling a room with colorfully supported melodies. Not only does the guitar support itself, but crosspicking technique also works effectively for supporting other lead instruments and vocals in many styles of music including classical, rock, country, bluegrass, jazz, and new age. The methodology section of this book offers the intermediate to advanced guitarist many new ideas which can be added to their arsenal. The book also includes a full songbook section with an even wider repertoire to pursue. All of the lessons and songs are written in tablature only, so you don't have to read music, just count!

The Hal Leonard Guitar Method is designed for anyone just learning to play acoustic or electric guitar. It is based on years of teaching guitar students of all ages and it also reflects some of the best guitar teaching ideas from around the world. Book 2 includes: Am Dm A E F and B7 Chords Power Chords Fingerstyle Guitar Syncopations Dotted Rhythms and Triplets Carter Style Solos Bass Runs Pentatonic Scales Improvising Tablature 92 Great Songs Riffs and Examples Notes in First and Second Position.

ASAP Bluegrass Guitar is designed for folks wishing to become highly proficient bluegrass players. You'll be able to combine sophisticated left-hand fingerings with both simple and intricate right-hand picking patterns.Appropriate for beginning guitar players or more experienced players wishing to learn specifics and songs in the bluegrass style. With this book and the accompanying 2 CDs you'll learn the basics single-note melodies how to embellish basic melodies embellish melodies by adding notes from the major scale embellishing melodies with added chords strums Carter-style playing shuffle rhythm patterns alternate bass strumming the bluesin bluegrass intros turnarounds and endings using the capo cross picking improvising a solo practising effectively and much more!Some of the more popular bluegrass songs you'll learn are: Billy in the Lowground • New River Train • Wildwood Flower • Foggy Mountain Blues • Clinch Mountain Blues • Red Haired Boy • Forked Deer • Bill Cheatham • All the Good Times Past and Gone • Blackberry Blossom • Temperance Reel • Salt Creek • Devil's Dream • June Apple • Black Mountain Rag • Saint Anne's Reel • Banks of the Ohio • Beaumont Rag • Salty Dog Blues • John Henry • and many more. Start playing bluegrass guitar... ASAP!

Foundations Of Rock - Guitar Riffs In The Style Of The 80s And 90s is a fun and exciting beginner/intermediate instructional Guitar book/CD/DVD featuring 17 rock Guitar riffs and/or solos reminiscent of the80s and 90s. Stylistically the examples range from 80's pop/rock hard rock and metal to 90's pop/rock metal and grunge. A wide range of important rock guitar techniques are covered. Music notation tablature and chorddiagrams are provided for each riff. Full performances of each riff as well as backing tracks are also provided with the play along CD. The 68-minute DVD features detailed close-up step by step instruction on how to play eachriff taught by guitarist Don Lappin.

William Bay and Mike Christiansen have collaborated to produce an outstanding comprehensive guitar method addressing all styles of both flatpicking and fingerstyle technique. Guitar teachers take note: Mastering the Guitar seriesis the ideal method for the beginning student who has yet formed a stylistic preference or for the intermediate player limited to one particular style who wishes to expand his horizons and improve his technique. An impressivedouble CD set with more than 80 tracks per CD is offered for both books 1A (96620;96620CD) and 1B (96621;96621CD). Each written example in the books is carefully cross-referenced to its corresponding audio sample on the CD bymeans of a disk and track number printed above each piece. The student is encouraged to learn to read standard notation and tablature as both systems are used throughout this 3-volume series. The Technique Studies book providessupplementary more challenging pieces including chord studies in various keys as well as a few pieces in dropped-D tuning. Together these three books comprise a powerful learning tool for Mastering the Guitar in a contemporaryidiom.

Written by technical wizard Stephen Delach The Rock Guitar Workout is a collection of technique building etudes that will catapult your playing to new heights. All of the techniques used in modern rock guitar are covered startingfrom the most basic picking exercises to blistering arpeggio studies. When used as a daily practice routine The Rock Guitar Workout will undoubtedly unleash the technical virtuoso lurking within you. Topics include alternate legato and hybrid picking string skipping two-hand tapping pentatonic blues harmonic and natural minor scales melodic patterns arpeggios and much much more. A word of caution: not for the faint of heart. In standardnotation and tablature.

Media Type : Book/CD Set Level : Beginning-Intermediate Musical Genre : All Styles Series : Getting Into Number of pages : 104 Getting Into Guitar Styles is the guitarist's guide to playing different musical styles. The styles that are covered include Blues, Rock, Country, Funk, R & B, Latin, Reggae, Fingerstyle, and Classical as well as different styles of Jazz such as Traditional Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, and Fusion. The musical elements and techniques that are used in different styles of music are looked at. The book not only looks at and demonstrates different musical styles, but in the process it shows the practical application of scales and other musical elements. Many of the examples on the companion CD are played with the written guitar part and also without the written part so you can play the written part with the rhythm tracks or improvise your own part. The book has standard notation and tablature as well as fingerboard diagrams. The companion audio CD is included.

This book uses real country songs to teach you the basics of rhythm and lead country guitar in the style of Chet Atkins James Burton Albert Lee Merle Travis and many others. Lessons include: Chords Scales and Licks · Common Progressions and Riffs · Carter Style and Travis Picking · Steel Licks String Bending and Vibrato · Standard Notation and Tablature · and much more! Songs include: Could I Have This Dance · Green Green Grass of Home · I Fall to Pieces · Satin Sheets · Yakety Sax · Your Cheatin' Heart · and more.

With Online Audio and Video-This is a step-at-a-time enjoyable method for learning to play great sounding country Guitar.Dix Bruce in his humorous yet musically 'right-on' teaching style introduces you to country back-up bass runs Carter-style bluegrass picking the Nashville Numbering System for indicating chord changes use of the capo transposition and much more.Work at your own pace and learn to sound like the country greats! Written instandard notation and tablature. Includes access to online audio and video.

With Online Audio-This beginner's method for 12-string Guitar by veteran guitarist Tommy Flint covers all of the basics for getting started. Topics include tuning and strings; reading chord diagrams notation and tablature; blues; triplets; slurs;slides; melody playing on the 1st and 2nd strings; two and three part harmony; movable chords; and rolls. Numerous solos give the student a chance to practice the skills being taught. The audio download available online is ahelpful audio tool for attaining the correct sound.

Bluegrass Flatpicking-Good bluegrass flatpicking is a wondrous and mysterious art. How do those great players get all those notes with just a triangular piece of celluloid? This terrific compilation taken from Homespun’s vast library of music instruction provides lessons at a variety of levels from beginner to advanced. Taught by some of our most celebrated pickers each segment covers a complete song or instrumental that will expand your repertoire improve your technique and enhance your musical knowledge. Before long you’ll be tackling everything from backup in the Texas swing style to playing hot bluegrass solos. Just for this new compilation Happy Traum has recorded a specialintroductory lesson that will give you the tools you’ll need to really start picking in the flatpick style. Includes lessons from Happy Traum Nick Forster Russ Barenberg Steve Kaufman Dan Crary Norman Blake and Tony Rice.

Bert Jansch was one of the most influential and unique guitarists to emerge from the British folk music scene of the sixties.His influence can be traced in the playing of Neil Young Jimmy Page Johnny Marr andcountless others. Over the course of nearly fifty years he produced a prodigious body of work as a solo guitarist singer and songwriter as a member of the seminal'folk-baroque' band Pentangle as a duo with his equallyrevered friend John Renbourn and in a variety of other ensemble situations.On The Guitar Of Bert Jansch Taught By Rolly Brown we explore a representative selection from the folk traditional and bluessegment of his Guitar arrangements ranging from simple early folk Guitar settings like 'Running From Home' to his most iconic sophisticated and original accompaniments(e.g. Reynardine Black Waterside). These are carefullyarranged little gems and his virtuosity as a guitarist allowed him to have a very specific and beautifully wrought arrangement while still showing an ability to create a number of subtle variations which occurred in hisrecordings over the years.Rolly Brown first heard Bert's playing in the mid-60s and has been a fan ever since. Along with basic arrangements Rolly discusses variations introductions and endings whereappropriate.Titles include Running From Home Blues Run The Game Strollin' Down The Highway In The Bleak Midwinter and more.

Zweite Ausgabe-The Hal Leonard Guitar Method is designed for anyone just learning to play acoustic or electric guitar. It is based on years of teaching guitar students of all ages and it also reflects some of the best guitar teaching ideas from around the world.Book 2 includes:Am Dm A E F and B7 ChordsPower ChordsFingerstyle GuitarSyncopations Dotted Rhythms and TripletsCarter Style SolosBass RunsPentatonic ScalesImprovisingTablature92 Great Songs Riffs and ExamplesNotes in First and Second PositionCD Includes 57 full-band tracks fordemonstration or play along

Fingerpincking des Solos de guitare est la suite du DVD de Fred Sokolow ' Beginners' Fingerpicking Guitar '. Dans cet enregistrement Fed Sokolow vous vidéeo commentaire jouer 6 classiques (solos et accomagnement) et de blues au goût de pays. Il joue et chante chaque arrangement normalement puis lentement pour vous expliquer les difficultés. 55 min, en anglais, livet de partitions (tablatures) inclus. / Guitare / Dvd

This handy case-size QWIKGUIDE book offers a baker?s dozen effective warm-up exercises plus 31 progressive ?Warm-Up Solos?. The book is written in notation and tablature with above average backup chords suggested for the solos.While written with the flatpicking guitarist in mind fingerstyle and classic players would also benefit from sightreading these pieces. The original solos present a wealth of bluegrass and swing material that can be played with arhythm guitarist or the companion CD which includes all of the tunes and exercises in the book. The solos are presented in the keys of C/Am (no sharps or flats) the sharp-bearing major and relative minor keys through Emajor/C# minor (4 sharps) and in the flat-bearing keys and their relative minor keys through E-flat major/C minor (3 flats). The tunes offer a great introduction to swing eighths triplets and syncopated rhythms. Author andcompany president William Bay?s gift for writing engaging tunes that offer insight to the fretboard is clearly evident here making this book an excellent sight-reading resource.