Download or read book Foundations of Flatpicking Country Guitar written by Eric Thompson and published by Stefan Grossman's Guitar Works. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric Thompson is a pioneer in the field of flatpicking, first attracting attention over 40 years ago in bluegrass bands with David Grisman and Jerry Garcia. Since then, his big tone and soulful picking have graced a myriad of roots bands, including the Blue Flame Stringband, the California Cajun Orchestra, and the Bluegrass Intentions. In Foundations of Flatpicking, Eric shares the building blocks for great flatpicking technique. He takes you step-by-step, beginning with song melodies picked out in the bass, with rhythm, in the styles of Maybelle Carter and Charlie Monroe, and moving up to single-note flatpicking, with exercises to help master playing long runs of notes, clean, smooth and fast. Then he builds your repertoire with classic fiddle tunes and breaks to songs, including characteristic devices, phrases and endings from seminal stylists like Don Reno, Doc Watson, and Clarence White. All in standard notation and TAB with three audio CDs included.
Download or read book Flat Pick Country Guitar written by Happy Traum and published by Oak Publications. This book was released on 1973-06-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the styles of folk guitar, the most familiar is known by a variety of names, such as Carter Family Style, The Church Lick (Woody Guthrie), The Country Lick, or just plain Flat-Pickin’. Whatever its name, though, the foot-tapping boom-chicka, boom-chicka rhythm is as ubiquitous as country music itself; it was played by cowboy balladeers, old-time southern mountaineers, Gene Autry, Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams, The Carter Family . . . well, the list could go on and on. More recently, the art of country flat-picking has been raised to a higher level of virtuosity and skill by pickers such as Doc Watson, Clarence White, and the great Nashville studio musicians. Flat-picking can be as simple or as complicated as you want to make it, and that is what this book is all about. Flat-Pick Country Guitar starts with the simplest strums, and gradually introduces techniques such as bass runs, hammer-ons, and pull-offs, preparing the student for more advanced techniques and at the same time teaching him some fine traditional country songs. Before he is halfway through this book, he will be playing melody breaks with chord accompaniment, and by the time he works his way through to the end he will be playing fiddle tunes, hoedowns, bluegrass licks, fancy cross-picking, and some more modern string-bending techniques known as “The Nashville Sound.” This book is a first of its kind to focus on the whole range of styles that go by the name Flat-picking. Though this book includes a variety of instrumental runs, breaks, and solos, its main emphasis is on flat-picking as an accompaniment—within a string band, bluegrass ensemble, or country rock group, or behind a vocalist (with or without a back-up guitar).
Download or read book First Lessons Flatpicking Guitar written by Joe Carr and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book is perfect for beginners, players with a little experience and guitarists who want a good grounding in the flatpicking style. Using popular American fiddle tunes, Joe introduces the important basics of good flatpicking including pick direction, fingering, and hand position. the accompanying CD provides a clear performance of each exercise and tune. an introduction to playing up the neck in closed positions is included as well as several of Joe's own advanced arrangements of jam session favorites. Includes: Wildwood Flower, Soldier's Joy, Red Haired Boy, Whiskey Before Breakfast, Old Joe Clark, Salt Creek and more.•
Download or read book Flatpicking Guitar Basics written by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation and published by String Letter Press. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Guitar Educational). Explore the essential songs of bluegrass and country guitar as played by Maybelle Carter and Jimmie Rodgers, and carried on by masters like Tony Rice, Norman Blake and Bryan Sutton. These ten lessons teach the basics of rhythm, from the classic boom-chuck to bass runs and embellishments, as well as how to flatpick melodies and solos. Features exercises, licks and full songs in notes & tab, with demos of everything on the CD.
Download or read book You Can Teach Yourself Country Guitar written by Dix Bruce and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 in standard notation and tablature.
Download or read book Complete Flatpicking Guitar Book written by Steve Kaufman and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive study of contemporary flatpicking guitar technique presents numerous solos for the beginning through advanced flatpicking guitarist along with tips on creating your own flatpicking arrangements. The book addresses the tablature system, tuning, right and left-hand technique, use of the capo and themicrophone, transposing using the Nashville numbering system, bluegrass back- up, arranging flatpicking solos and instrumentals. If you're into country or bluegrass music, or if you just want to develop outstanding flatpicking technique, this book is for you. Written in standard notation and tablature. The stereo play-along audio online features Steve Kaufman's rousing performance of each flatpicking solo! Also includes a videio online containing some of the solos andtechniques presented in the book. Audio and video download available online
Download or read book The 50 Greatest Guitar Books written by Shawn Persinger and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing the "What," "How," and "Why," master guitarist and teacher Shawn Persinger shows you how to get the most out of the best guitar books. You'll find insightful commentaries and more than 100 individually tailored guitar lessons - in all styles - that will provide beginner, intermediate, and advanced players with a lifetime of knowledge, insight, and inspiration.Unlike any other guitar method, The 50 Greatest Guitar Books is part guitar instruction, part music appreciation, and part literary criticism. Persinger delivers as much practical musical content as he does analysis and educated insight.Includes contribution from legendary educators and players: Rik Emmett, Henry Kaiser, Steve Kaufman, Wolf Marshall, Tim Sparks, and many more.More than 100 stylized guitar lessons: Chord Voicings, Arpeggios, Two-Handed Tapping, Fingerpicking, Slide Guitar, Walking Bass Lines, Improvisation, and much more.Featuring all styles: Blues, Classical, Funk, Metal, Rock, Jazz, World, Ragtime, Flamenco, Bluegrass, Gypsy Jazz, Pop, Latin, Fingerpicking, Country, Fusion, and more.
Download or read book Getting into Country Guitar written by Joe Carr and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2010-12-17 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive study, Joe Carr presents all the major country guitar styles in tablature and standard music notation. Beginning with basic chords and strum patterns, this book/CD combination covers flatpicking, fingerpicking and the major country lead styles including Rockabilly, Swing and modern electric. Special sections explain the Nashville Number System, string bending and beginning lead guitar. More experienced players will find a wealth of new material in the sections on lead, scales and chords, crosspicking, harmony and even a tele-style banjo imitation! Accompanying CD includes all music.
Download or read book Country Guitar for Beginners written by Levi Clay and published by WWW.Fundamental-Changes.com. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beginner's guide to playing country guitar with Levi Clay
Download or read book Flatpicking Guitar Master Technique written by Oliver Waitz and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a superb selection of in-depth lessons for players of all levels taught and recorded (slowly and up to tempo) by Flatpicking Master Oliver Waitze. Learn and improve the fundamentals of bluegrass flatpicking guitar! Effective right-hand and left-hand exercises, different backup styles, driving and syncopated rhythm, bass runs, crosspicking, melody and rhythm, gourmet bluegrass endings and licks, variations of your playing, and examples for improvisation. Contains many exercises designed to help you find your way in and out of every possible twist and turn of the left and right hands. Written in standard notation and TAB. Free audio downloads are available for use with this title.
Download or read book Country Guitar written by Al Bonhomme and published by Musicians Institute. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Musicians Institute Press). A comprehensive source for mastering the art of blues guitar soloing. Topics covered include: essential skills, shuffle phrasing, sliding, 12-bar blues, tempo, blues fusions, and much more. Online audio access is included for exercises, licks, and play-alongs. Online audio is accessed at (a href="http://www.halleonard.com/mylibrary" target="_blank")halleonard.com/mylibrary(/a)
Download or read book Bluegrass Guitar written by Sid Griffin and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guitarskole.
Download or read book Country Guitar written by Greg Koch and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Guitar Method). 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 * and more.
Download or read book Country Blues Guitar written by Stefan Grossman and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Descriptive analysis and musical transcriptions, in standard notation and tablature" of the works of various blues guitarists.
Download or read book School of Country Guitar Chords Accompaniment Styles Basic written by Joe Carr and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume from the popular "School of Country Guitar" series covers basic chords and accompaniment styles. Featured throughout are fills and runs made famous by the first generation of recorded country musicians. the Carter and crosspicking styles are introduced and explained. Playing in thirds and other lead guitar tricks are fully detailed lick by lick.• Covers all common open chords and basic accompaniment• Introduces the Carter style and Crosspicking• Explains the Nashville Number System• Presents "playing in thirds" and other lead guitar tricks• Contains fills and runs made famous by the first generation of recorded country musicians• Introductory volume of the School of Country Guitar series• A new approach to beginning guitar• Presents rhythm and beginning lead styles• Series presents material for beginners through advanced players
Download or read book Flatpicking the Blues written by Brad Davis and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2006-01-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new DVD/book/CD set Brad Davis teaches you how to add the blues to your flatpicking repertoire and how to introduce the blues feel to the flatpicking tunes you already know. In this comprehensive course you will learn the scales, rhythm styles, and chord progressions which define the blues, standard blues licks and phrases, and blues styles of players like Robert Johnson, Eric Clapton, and Stevie Ray Vaughn. Brad even demonstrates how to play Bill Monroes bluesy mandolin licks on the guitar. Elements of the blues can be found in all forms of American musicfrom bluegrass, to folk, to rock. On the DVD Brad demonstrates how to play several different arrangements of 12-bar blues rhythm and then shows you how to utilize the blues scales to improvise over the chord progression. This is done in a step-by-step easy to follow method through a variety of written examples in the book and opportunities for you to practice with the practice tracks on the audio CD. The audio CD also contains ear training lessons in the context of the blues! The goal of this book/DVD/CD set is not only to show you the elements of the blues, but to teach you how to be an improvisational player in the context of the blues so that you can jump into any blues jam and hold your own. Additionally, Brad teaches bluesy arrangements of a number of standard flatpicking fiddle tunes (Nine Pound Hammer, Lonesome Road Blues, Salt Creek, John Hardy). If you are tired of playing the same old deedle-deedle-deedle arrangements of fiddle tunes on the guitar, this course will help get you out of that rut! Duration: 81 minutes
Download or read book Killer Technique Flatpicking Guitar written by Colin Botts and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2013-05-24 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Killer Technique: Flatpicking Guitar is designed to serve as a valuable resourceto guitarists of all ability levels interested in developing greater finger dexterity and picking accuracy. A variety of exercises are presented that enable guitarists toisolate and drill many of the technical requirements and stylistic elementscommonly encountered in flatpicking guitar. Topics covered by this book include left-hand chromatic exercises, horizontal shifting up the neck, scalar sequences, alternate picking, economy picking, and cross picking. Most importantly, many ofthe techniques presented within the book are applied to musical etudes and examples that are both challenging and rewarding to play
