Mel Bay's latest series, Guitar Journals, is the ultimate reference guide of exercises and solos in different genres. This comprehensive collection of studies and solos presents a diverse and eclectic array of music. In addition to great sounding warm-ups and picking studies, solos are presented in the following categories: Fiddle Tunes, Ballads and Waltzes, Celtic, Rags and Swing, Gospel, Classics, Playing on Up the Fingerboard, Playing in Mixed Positions, Advance Solos and for the truly adventurous Strange Solos. All music in notation and tablature. Hard cover, covered spiral binding and premium stock paper make this a volume so beautifully printed and bound and containing so much valuable music that you will treasure it for years to come.•Comprehensive collections of flatpicking study and solo material•Warm-Up and Picking Studies, Fiddle Tunes, Ballads and Waltzes, Celtic, Rags and Swing, Gospel, Classics, Playing on the Up the Fingerboard, Playing In Mixed Positions, Advance Solos and "Strange" Solos.•All music in notation and tablature•Beautiful hard cover with covered spiral binding and premium paper.

(Guitar Collection). Learn bluegrass and folk with this book/CD pack featuring lessons by Acoustic Guitar assistant editor Scott Nygaard, award-winning guitarist Dix Bruce, legendary guitarist Happy Traum, and many others. Includes 16 complete songs to play: Banish Misfortune * Kentucky Waltz * Sally Goodin * Soldier's Joy * Will the Circle Be Unbroken * more.

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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

(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!

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

(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!