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

Learn from transcriptions in the styles of Clarence White, Dan Crary, Charlie Waller, Peter Rowan and others. Over 30 tunes in tablature and music notation, plus photos.

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(Fake Book). This collection gathers more than 300 bluegrass favorites presented in the straightforward Real Book format favored by musicians including lyrics where applicable: Alabama Jubilee * Ballad of Jed Clampett * Bill Cheatham * Blue Ridge Mountain Blues * Bury Me Beneath the Willow * Dixie Hoedown * Down to the River to Pray * Foggy Mountain Top * Highway 40 Blues * How Mountain Girls Can Love * I'm Goin' Back to Old Kentucky * John Henry * Keep on the Sunny Side * The Long Black Veil * My Rose of Old Kentucky * Old Train * Pretty Polly * Rocky Top * Sally Goodin * Shady Grove * Wabash Cannonball * Wayfaring Stranger * Wildwood Flower * The Wreck of the Old '97 * and hundreds more!

(Guitar Collection). If you've been looking to learn some great flatpicking solos, this book will give you a great place to start! It includes 50 popular bluegrass songs (with lyrics!) and fiddle tunes, each written in standard notation and tab. Historical information and performance notes are also included for each of the easy-to-play arrangements. Songs include: Arkansas Traveler * Ballad of Jed Clampett * Bill Cheatham * Blue Moon of Kentucky * Bury Me Beneath the Willow * Cripple Creek * I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow * I'll Fly Away * Long Journey Home * Molly and Tenbrooks * Old Joe Clark * The Red Haired Boy * Rocky Top * Salt Creek * Salty Dog Blues * Sitting on Top of the World * Turkey in the Straw * Wabash Cannonball * Wayfaring Stranger * Will the Circle Be Unbroken * Wreck of the Old 97 * You Don't Know My Mind * and more!

This book contains a collection of various mandolin solos in a range of styles and levels of difficulty, aimed at advanced beginners to intermediates. Extensive notes are included about the breaks and the techniques used to play them. The material can be practiced alongside accompanying online recordings at slow and regular speeds. Access to the online audio is included. You'll learn: Easy melodic solos/breaks.More advanced solos with blue notes, arpeggios, and more. Double stop solos. Essential fiddle tunes every mandolin player should know. Crosspicking solos. A variety of kickoffs or introductions. Different styles of back-up mandolin

The twentieth anniversary paperback edition, updated with a new preface Winner of the International Bluegrass Music Association Distinguished Achievement Award and of the Country Music People Critics' Choice Award for Favorite Country Book of the Year Beginning with the musical cultures of the American South in the 1920s and 1930s, Bluegrass: A History traces the genre through its pivotal developments during the era of Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys in the forties. It describes early bluegrass's role in postwar country music, its trials following the appearance of rock and roll, its embracing by the folk music revival, and the invention of bluegrass festivals in the mid_sixties. Neil V. Rosenberg details the transformation of this genre into a self-sustaining musical industry in the seventies and eighties is detailed and, in a supplementary preface written especially for this new edition, he surveys developments in the bluegrass world during the last twenty years. Featuring an amazingly extensive bibliography, discography, notes, and index, this book is one of the most complete and thoroughly researched books on bluegrass ever written.