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Bluegrass Fakebook - 150 All-Time Favorites NEW!
Author: Bert Casey Media: Book Level: All Levels
The Bluegrass Fakebook by Bert Casey features 150 All Time Favorites (including 50 Gospel songs) for guitar, banjo, mandolin, and more. This handy songbook contains lyrics, chord progressions, and melody lines (no guitar tab) to bluegrass and gospel standards. The book is printed in large, easy-to-read type with one song per page. A very nice reference for all Bluegrass players.
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Bluegrass Guitar Solos Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know - Complete Set NEW!
Author: Steve Kaufman Media: Book + CD / DIGITAL Level: All Levels
All four Parking Lot Pickers CD Series. A fabulous set of EIGHTY flatpicking arrangements at all levels, at a great price, by Steve Kaufman. In this unique teaching system, Steve first teaches the basic melody to familiarize the novice flatpicker with the tune in its most basic form. He then gets the intermediate players started on a series of great licks and runs that will dress up the tune and add spice to this or any other piece you are playing. Finally, he develops a complete bluegrass solo using advanced techniques for the more experienced pickers, making each tune a real showpiece!
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Bluegrass Guitar Solos Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know - Series 1
Author: Steve Kaufman Media: Book + CD / DIGITAL Level: All Levels
This set of six one-hour CDs plus a 172-page book teaches beginning, intermediate and advanced versions of 20 great traditional instrumentals. It includes music and tablature. Tunes include: Arkansas Traveler, Big Sandy River, Bill Cheatham, Billy In The Low Ground, Blackberry Blossom, Under The Double Eagle, Forked Deer, Gold Rush, Old Joe Clark, Salt Creek, Soldiers Joy, St. Annes Reel, Ragtime Annie, Red-Haired Boy, Whiskey Before Breakfast and more.
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Bluegrass Guitar Solos Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know - Series 2
Author: Steve Kaufman Media: Book + CD / DIGITAL Level: All Levels
This set of six one-hour CDs plus a 139-page book teaches beginning, intermediate and advanced versions of 20 great traditional instrumentals. It includes rhythm tracks, music and tablature. Tunes Include: Alabama Jubilee, Black Mountain Rag, Blackberry Rag, Cherokee Shuffle, Dixie Hoedown, Down Yonder, June Apple, Katie Hill, Liberty, Mississippi Sawyer, Red Wing, Stoney Creek, Temperance Reel, Texas Gales, Wheel Hoss, Wildwood Flower and more.
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Bluegrass Guitar Solos Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know - Series 3
Author: Steve Kaufman Media: Book + CD / DIGITAL Level: All Levels
Steve Kaufman's third set of popular lessons for Parking Lot Pickers teaches how to work out guitar breaks to well-known bluegrass songs. Once again, turn off Steve's lead guitar on your stereo and play along with the rhythm tracks. Perfect practice for a live picking situation.Songs include Nine-Pound Hammer, Blue Moon Of Kentucky, Blue Ridge Cabin Home, I Am A Pilgrim, In The Pines, Jimmy Brown, Keep On The Sunny Side, Little Maggie, More Pretty Girls Than One and more.
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Bluegrass Guitar Solos Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know - Series 4
Author: Steve Kaufman Media: Book + CD / DIGITAL Level: All Levels
This set of six one-hour CDs plus a 136-page book teaches beginning, intermediate and advanced versions of 20 great traditional instrumentals. Includes rhythm tracks, music and tablature. Songs include Angeline the Baker, Back Up and Push, Bonaparte's Retreat, Cuckoo's Nest, Fire on the Mountain, Flowers of Edinburgh, Leather Britches, Lost Indian, Miller's Reel, Molly Brown, New Camptown Races, Over the Waterfall, Rickett's Hornpipe, Sailor's Hornpipe, Silver Bells, Spinning Wheels, Whistlin' Ruffus, Woodchopper's Reel and more.
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Flatpicking Banjo Tunes
Author: Steve Kaufman Media: DVD / DIGITAL Level: Intermediate
Master instructor and flatpicking great Steve Kaufman breaks down fifteen of the most-played banjo-driven songs, showing step-by-step how to build a powerful flatpick solo. Tunes include: Shuckin' the Corn, Nashville Blues, Cripple Creek, Nashville Skyline Rag, Pike County Breakdown, Farewell Blues, Clinch Mountain Backstep, Fireball Mail, Farewell Blues and the Earl Scruggs classics Foggy Mt Special, Foggy Mountain Breakdown, Flint Hill Special, Earl's Breakdown, Randy Lynn Rag and Dear Old Dixie. 100-minute DVD.
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Old-Time Fiddle Tunes For Guitar
Author: Richard Lieberson Media: Book Level: Beginner - Intermediate
This book was originally published in 1974, so it is one of the "classics." It is a collection of forty fiddle tunes that are common in Bluegrass. It is written for the flatpicker with helpful notes on how to play back-up and special effects. Also includes a selected discography and bibliography. Standard notation and easy-to-read tablature.
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Russ Barenberg Teaches 20 Bluegrass Guitar Solos
Author: Russ Barenberg Media: Book + CD Level: Intermediate
One of America's top bluegrass guitarists teaches a variety of flatpicking solos for twenty favorite songs and instrumentals. Played slowed-down and up-to-speed for learning players, with rhythm tracks for great practice sessions. Songs:'Liberty, Soldier's Joy, Forked Deer, Eighth of January, Hot Corn, Cold Corn, Down Yonder, John Henry, Blackberry Blossom, Leather Britches and more.
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Sixteen Fiddle Tunes for Guitar
Author: Russ Barenberg Media: Book + CD / DIGITAL Level: Intermediate
This audio course from Russ Barenberg teaches intermediate to advanced skills for aspiring Bluegrass guitarists. If you have always wanted to play the hot licks and impressive solos of the great bluegrass guitar players, then this exciting series of lessons is for you. Russ gives flatpickers new challenges and classic tunes to play. Best of all, when it’s time to step up and play a solo in a jam session or performance situation, he gives you the tools you need to get it right. Tunes include Dominion Reel, Flowers of Edinburgh, Goodbye Liza Jane, Fishers Hornpipe, Opera Reel, Midnight on the Water, and more.
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Swing Tunes That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know
Author: Steve Kaufman Media: Book + CD / DIGITAL Level: All Levels
This book/CD set introduces the player to those swing tunes that always come up in jams. Steve Kaufman applies the same format used for the Bluegrass volumes in the Parking Lot picker series to Swing tunes. Notable tunes include Limehouse Blues, Minor Swing, Panhandle Rag, Remington's Ride and Georgia on My Mind. Besides teaching lead breaks at three levels, the book also introduces rhythm playing and chords for swing.
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Tony Rice Teaches Bluegrass Guitar
Author: Tony Rice Media: Book + CD Level: Intermediate - Advanced
Tony Rice is known world-wide for his spectacular technique, brilliant improvisation and powerful soloing. In this lesson, he personally passes on to you the style he has developed as the top bluegrass flatpicker of his generation. He carefully analyzes licks, runs, solos and rhythm parts to hot bluegrass songs and fiddle tunes that will challenge and delight all flatpickers. Before long you'll be picking solos to the following essential bluegrass tunes: Red Haired Boy, Little Sadie, Your Love Is like a Flower, Blue Railroad Train, Home from the Forest and more.
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