Download or read book Flatpickin the Gospels For Guitar written by Steve Kaufman and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book three time National Flatpicking Guitar Champion Steve Kaufman presents rousing guitar solos on 24 gospel favorites. Each song is shown with a melody part in notation and tablature, lyrics, an accompaniment part in tablature and a stirring flat- picking solo in notation and tablature. This recording is designed for listening first and second as an instructional tool. All 24 songs are played through three times at least. The first time is as it appears in the book and the two versions that follow are improvised versions. Making this a listening tool and an ear training tool. Recorded Digital to Analog in true stereo sound. This recording can be used with either Flatpickin' the Gospels or Autoharping the Gospels. Audio and Video download available online

Download or read book Flatpickin the Gospels for Mandolin written by Steve Kaufman and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 24 bluegrass/gospel favorites arranged for mandolin with rhythm guitar accompaniment. These intermediate/advanced solos are comprised of melodic embellishments and standard runs that may be utilized with other songs with similar chord structures. All solos are written in notation and tablature.

Download or read book Championship Flatpicking Guitar written by Steve Kaufman and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, three-time national flatpicking guitar champion, has compiled this rousing collection of dazzling flatpicking guitar solos. A companion audio featuring Steve's foot-tapping rendition of each arrangement is included. The book is in notation and tablature. All the songs in the book are performed on the audio. Onthe video, Steve plays both slow and fast versions of each solo. Steve's performance on the up-tempo versions of the challenging solos is absolutelyastonishing. Includes access to audio and video online

Download or read book Autoharping the Gospels written by CAROL STOBER and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an extension of Flatpickin' the Gospels by Steve Kaufman with autoharp arrangements written by Carol Stober. She makes it easy to learn these great gospel tunes on the autoharp! This book can be used to play chords along with singing, or for playing the melody solo. the arrangements are written as simply as possible to facilitate sight reading, so that you do not have to memorize the tune in order to play up to tempo. Complete lyrics are included. In notation and tablature.

Download or read book My First Gospel Banjo Picking Songs written by Steve Kaufman and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My First Gospel Banjo Picking Songs is a fun and easy approach to gospel music for five-string banjo. The book explains right and left hand techniques, notes, basic chords, and practice tips. Twenty-four great gospel songs are presented intablature, including Amazing Grace, Just Over In Glory Land, What a Friend We Have In Jesus, and more. This method is a great introduction to the banjo and its wonderful role in gospel music. The book comes with audio

Download or read book Tunes from 17th Century Scotland Arranged for Flatpicking Guitar written by Rob MacKillop and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many great Scottish traditional tunes can be traced back to 17th century lute music. In this collection, multi-instrumentalist Rob MacKillop has transcribed and arranged 25 popular tunes derived from various lute manuscripts. While idiomatic to the guitar, some of these arrangements include fast runs and chord changes, so are best suited to the intermediate-level flatpicking guitarist. This guitar collection consists of the same melodies in the same keys found in its mandolin counterpart, Tunes From 17th Century Scotland Arranged for Mandolin (Mel Bay Publications). In both books, suggested chords are provided wherever appropriate. Consequently, the settings work fine as either mandolin/violin and guitar duets, or as solos for either instrument. Until now, most of these appealing dance tunes and airs have not been available as guitar arrangements. Here, except for two tunes in drop-D tuning, all are in standard guitar tuning. With MacKillop’s spirited online recording, generous performance notes and standard notation and tablature for each selection, get ready to explore a wonderful new take on an old repertoire! Includes access to online audio.

Download or read book Flatpicking the Rags and Polkas written by Steve Kaufman and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a brilliant collection of ten favorites arranged for flatpicking guitar from top to bottom by three-time National Flatpicking Champion Steve Kaufman, with some tunes running 10 to 12 pages. These extensive and exciting arrangements are designed for the intermediate through advanced student who is looking for a real challenge. Performance of this type of tune will increase your awareness of concentration and build your stamina. Flatpickers generally play a two-part tune or AABB tune. These tunes are AA BB AA CC AA DD AA and possibly with an EE AA section. These electrifying arrangements will soon become favorites of yours and those around you through Steve's clear and precise arrangement notes and comprehensive text.

Download or read book Power Flatpicking Guitar written by Steve Kaufman and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful flatpicking technique book offering bluegrass licks, scales, basic chords, and solos in various positions up the neck in the keys of G-C-D-A-E-,B-flat and F. The companion audio features selections from throughout the book, played both slowly and at normal speed. Steve's solo guitar is recorded on both channels with no rhythm accompaniment. This book of basic technical studiespresents only a few flatpicking repertoire pieces illustrating each concept and key. Features: Fisher's Hornpipe; Lonesome Road Blues; and The Bluegrass Boogie.Novice players will find the recording a great asset in learning this material. All studies and pieces are written in notation and tablature. Includes a 60-minute companion video. Includes access to online audio and video

Download or read book You Can Teach Yourself Flatpicking Guitar written by Steve Kaufman and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three-time national flatpicking champion Steve Kaufman teaches you how to buy a guitar, the easy way to fret a note, how to read chord charts and play all the basic chords, basic bluegrass strumming patterns, bass runs and walks, hammer-ons and pull-offs, how to read tablature, picking lead, crosspicking, practice techniques, and much more.

Download or read book Band in a Book Gospel Vocal Tunes for Bluegrass Ensemble written by Steve Kaufman and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2010-12-17 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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: lead guitar, 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 for your 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 organize ensemble play, help develop a steady sense of timing and give you hours of enjoyment as well.View the lyrics for this book.

Download or read book My First Bluegrass Guitar Picking Songs written by Steve Kaufman and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2010-12-29 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 method and 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 bundled with 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's books. Audio CD included.

Download or read book My First Blues Guitar Picking Songs written by Steve Kaufman and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book and accompanying audio are the perfect primer for anyone interested inlearning blues guitar played with a pick. An addition to Steve Kaufman's My First series, the book starts the student from the very beginning. Basic chords and notation are presented, progressing to blues strumming patterns and lines. Lessons also cover blues scales, tablature, I-IV-V chords and more. The book is perfect for anyone interested in learning blues guitar, and experienced tab readers who wish to learn standard notation

Download or read book Steve Kaufman s Favorite Celtic Hornpipes for Guitar written by Steve Kaufman and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve Kaufman, Three Time National Flatpicking Champion, does it again. the third installment of a four part series brings us Steve's favorite hornpipes transcribed for guitar. Though the title says Fifty hornpipes, there are actually a few more. This large collection of hornpipes will build your repertoire as well as help you develop more ideas, licks and runs for arranging your own melodies. Your goal is to learn the song, memorize it and then race with the Champ.

Download or read book Steve Kaufman s Favorite Celtic Jigs Waltzes for Guitar written by Steve Kaufman and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2009-07-22 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve Kaufman, three-time National Flatpicking Champion, does it again. This edition brings us Steve's favorite jigs and waltzes transcribed for guitar. This large collection will build your repertoire as well as help you develop more ideas, licks and runs for arranging your own melodies. Companion audio is available for thistitle in which all the songs are played note for note at about 3/4 speed

Download or read book Steve Kaufman s Favorite 50 American Traditional Fiddle Tunes written by Steve Kaufman and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of fiddle tunes originally appeared in Kaufman's Collection of American Fiddle Tunes for Flatpicking Guitar (MB 95748) but the book was so large and heavy that they couldn't put all the songs on CDs to include with the package so it was divided into four great, melody packed volumes. Each book now includes a CD that holds all the songs in the volume.Steve Kaufman says he can't emphasize enough the importance of developing a large repertoire of tunes. Fiddle tunes give us melodies that eventually allow us to begin to improvise. Sometimes without even knowing it. the more tunes you know, the more melodies and intersecting melody lines you know. This allows you to eventually cut and paste portions of the melody line into another song. In the beginning you will probably unknowingly replace and ending run. These are the last two measures of the section of a tune. Many of them in the same key are interchangeable, unless they are specific to the melody of the song. After a while you will cut out measures in the middle of the song and then you will be able to take the snips of melodies and play them in another song in a different key thus beginning to improvise. All of this is possible because you built up your repertoire of tunes.

Download or read book My First Mandolin Picking Songs written by Steve Kaufman and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fun and easy mandolin 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 method and 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 bundled with 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's books. Audio CD included.

Download or read book A Study in Flatpicking written by Jeff Troxel and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2024-06-20 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, journalist, composer, songwriter, teacher, and 2003 Winfield Flatpicking Guitar Champion, Jeff Troxel, delivers a masterclass in arranging fiddle tunes for flatpicking guitar. These 20 themes and variations on favorite bluegrass melodies are designed to improve overall musicianship and augment your own arranging skills. Ideal for the intermediate to advanced flatpicking guitarist, the author reveals techniques for enabling readers to create their own theme and variations settings. Suggested rhythm guitar chords and light left-hand fingerings are also provided. Troxel points out that one of the unexpected benefits of learning and memorizing themes with variations is that the process will ultimately facilitate linear and harmonic improvisation. It would be a painstaking process to learn this skill from a teacher or a harmony textbook, but once memorized, the scale and arpeggio patterns within these tunes and variations will set you on a viable path towards original improvised lines. As a bonus, the author includes a generous appendix containing several of his Flatpicking Guitar Magazine articles that deal with aspects of musicianship that every guitarist should know. While written in standard notation and tab, if you have relied solely on tablature and recordings in the past, this book can provide the key to understanding essential music theory and reading standard notation. If you’re not quite ready to learn to read standard notation, you can still use the tab and the author’s excellent online recordings to learn these delightful arrangements. In any case, it will be fun to get these settings of standard bluegrass tunes “in-hand” and use them in future jam sessions.