You Can Teach Yourself Mandolin

Bruce, Dix

Mel Bay Publications,Inc.

Welcome to Bluegrass Breaks: Guitar! This book is a collection of 23 guitar solos or breaks plus 16 introductions or kickoffs in a range of styles and levels of difficulty. The solos are aimed at advanced beginner to intermediate guitarists looking to expand their repertoire of lead guitar solos. All the solos are recorded in split-track format at two speeds and are available online.This book includes:Easy Carter-style solos with the melody played on the bass strings, punctuated by chord strums.More advanced Carter-style solos with hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides and more.Hot flatpicking solos with lots of eighth notes, played with up and down picking.Essential fiddle tunes for every modern bluegrass lead guitar player.Crosspicking solos played with two different crosspicking patterns.Solos using the real dropped D and the faux dropped D tunings.A variety of kickoffs, generic and for specific songs.Extensive notes on the breaks and the techniques used to play them.The breaks in this book are based on are some of the most performed bluegrass, old-time, and gospel songs - songs that you're sure to hear played at jam sessions, picking parties and on stage. Includes access to online audio.

Bluegrass Breaks: Guitar

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Jerry Garcia, the lead guitarist, singer, and alleged leader of the Grateful Dead, became an icon of the 60s youth movement. It was well-known that Jerry was a huge fan, and probably considered himself a player, of old-time American music, from mountain fiddle and banjo music, to English ballads, to jug band music to bluegrass and blues, and more. On the "Shady Grove" recordings one can hear the deep commitment, respect, and love Jerry had for this traditional American music. He's very faithful to the original artists' music. That may be surprising if you expect more of an ego-driven "my version" approach from one the biggest rock stars ever. What you have here is a vibrant collection of wonderful traditional American songs, from a great variety of genres, played in a style closely based on their traditional sources. Of course within those parameters we hear wonderful and personal readings of the tunes from both Jerry and mandolinist David Grisman. Dix Bruce has carefully transcribed many of Jerry's solos from the album, trying to determine not just what he was playing but how he was playing it. Melodies, tablature, lyrics, and chords are included in arrangements designed to be playable on the guitar while presenting the melodies as closely as possible. Jerry's banjo solos are transcribed here for guitar.

Shady Grove Acoustic Guitar Solos

García, Jerry

This book presents some of the most important and exciting material in the traditional American repertoire! Doc Watson's stellar performances from this period revolutionized the role of the guitar in folk, old time, bluegrass, and country music. This collection contains transcriptions of all 48 selections from the two-CD Folkways set including melodies, chord progressions, lyrics, Doc's leads, and several examples of his backup playing. These tunes are derived from Doc's first commercial recordings and many have become standards in a variety of styles. The musicianship of Clarence Ashley, Doc Watson, Gaither Carlton, Fred Price, Jack Burchett, Samuel Johnson, Clint Howard, and others represented here is expert and steeped in the traditional country sound. They range from fiddle and banjo solos on a breakdown like Fire on the Mountain or fingerpicked guitar on I'm Sitting on Top of the World, to hot flatpicked guitar on Cluck Old Hen plus ballads and unaccompanied religious songs like Hick's Farewell and Daniel Prayed. Some aspects of the performances have been simplified in the book to make them easier to read and learn while remaining as faithful as possible to the original recording. Written in standard notation and tablature.

Doc Watson and Clarence Ashley: The Original Folkways Recordings 1960-1962

Mel Bay Pubns

Another great "Teach Yourself" book with "play-along" examples to help you get started. You'll learn all about accompanying yourself and others, common chords and useful strums, reading simple melodies, playing a colorful assortment of mandolin folk songs, and much more. In notation and tablature. The CD is in split-track format and features each song played at both slow and normal tempos!

This popular book begins with basic music theory about scales and keys and teaches how to transpose several songs with and without the capo. Then we look at chords in keys and explore some typical chord progressions by swapping numbers ("one, four, five") for the chord names ("D, G, A"). Finally we study the "Nashville Numbering System" in depth by examining different notation styles and converting several well-known songs to number charts. The more advanced number charts show detailed arrangements with modulations, intros, extros, a variety of chords, repeats, fermatas, strum patterns, beat accents, and much more. If you're interested in why the capo works as it does; if you're a songwriter or gigging musician who needs to know how to read, write, and understand "Nashville Number charts," this book is for you!

Mel Bay Guide to Capo, Transposing, and the Nashville Numbering System

Mel Bay Publications

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.

You can Teach Yourself Country Guitar

First Lessons Mandolin teaches the absolute basics of learning to play mandolin from holding the pick to performing easy mandolin tunes. It doesn't get any easier than this! Students learn how to hold the mandolin correctly, how to read mandolin tablature, basic note reading, the most popular mandolin chords, how to play easy melodies in several musical styles, basic picking technique, how to tune the mandolin, and much more. Along the way students will learn about the greatest mandolin players and their music. The main emphasis of First Lessons Mandolin is to get the student up and playing immediately and to have fun doing it!

Mel Bay First Lessons Mandolin

Mel Bay Backup Trax: Basic Blues for Guitar Booklet/CD Set

Learn melodies and practice soloing on fourteen of the most popular old time and fiddle tunes. Play along with a great string band rhythm section: guitar, mandolin, and string bass. The compact disc has all of the tunes at slow and regular speeds with melodies, and allows you to hear just rhythm, just lead, or both. Great for cello, string bass, bass guitar, or any bass clef instrument. We'll jam all night long!

Mel Bay BackUp Trax: Old Time & Fiddle Tunes for Cello

Bratt, Renata

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You Can Teach Yourself Mandolin

Bluegrass Breaks: Guitar

Shady Grove Acoustic Guitar Solos

Doc Watson and Clarence Ashley: The Original Folkways Recordings 1960-1962

You Can Teach Yourself Mandolin

Mel Bay Guide to Capo, Transposing, and the Nashville Numbering System

You can Teach Yourself Country Guitar

Mel Bay First Lessons Mandolin

Mel Bay Backup Trax: Basic Blues for Guitar Booklet/CD Set

Mel Bay BackUp Trax: Old Time & Fiddle Tunes for Cello