Flatpicking Guitar

Teach Yourself Bluegrass Guitar (Teach Yourself Bluegrass)
Written by a master player who shares his insights and personal playing advice with the student and offers hints for creating an authentic bluegrass sound, and the basics like backup, solos and right and left-hand techniques. B/w photos.

Hot Licks for Bluegrass Guitar
Over 350 authentic bluegrass licks and how to apply them to create your own solos while expanding your knowledge of the fingerboard. Includes a demonstration soundsheet of the licks played by Orrin.

Flatpicking Guitar Essentials (Acoustic Guitar Magazine's Private Lessons)
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.

Kaufman's Collection of American Fiddle Tunes for Flatpicking Guitars Book/2CD Set
A massive collection of 250 delightful American fiddle tunes brilliantly arranged for flatpicked guitar. All of these tunes are written in guitar friendly keys in notation and tablature. Intermediate in difficulty, the book includes an explanation of the guitar tablature system and the execution and notation of essential techniques such as bends, slides, hammer-ons and pull-offs. The tunes are thoughtfully printed in alphabetical order and include both standards and lesser-known fiddle melodies. Teachers take note-- this book is a great source of sight-reading material as well as a departure point for improvisation. Steve masterfully plays through the tune as it is written in the book to show how it is to be played. Then he plays one or two improvised versions of the tune to show what else you could do with it. The tracks are for practicing your lead as well as you rhythm.
 

Bluegrass Guitar Classics: 22 Carter-Style Solos
Includes standard notation and tab for 22 Carter-style solos from bluegrass classics such as: Back Up and Push * The Big Rock Candy Mountain * Cotton Eyed Joe * Down Yonder * Jesse James * John Henry * Little Sadie * Man of Constant Sorrow * Midnight Special * Mule Skinner Blues * Red Wing * Uncle Joe * The Wabash Cannon Ball * Wildwood Flower * and more.

Complete Flatpicking Guitar Book
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 the microphone, 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 CD features Steve Kaufman's rousing performance of each flatpicking solo!

101 Red Hot Bluegrass Guitar Licks and Solos
In music, the term "bluegrass" describes the hot string-band style pioneered by Kentuckian Bill Monroe, which blends old-time country music with blues rhythms and jazz-influenced improvisation. This book contains 101 authentic bluegrass guitar licks in the favorite bluegrass keys of C, G, D, and A minor. The licks are broken down into phrases of two, four, and eight bars. In addition, several endings and crosspicking licks are included. Each lick is played to a chord progression that is standard in bluegrass, country, and folk music. All 101 examples are recorded on the companion CD with guitar accompaniment at a moderate tempo. Whether you are a fan of old-time country music, traditional bluegrass, or newgrass, you are sure to find lots of great ideas in this new collection of bluegrass licks. So, grab your instrument, put on the CD, pull up a chair, and let's start pickin'.

Bluegrass Guitar
A guitar workbook that covers every aspect of bluegrass playing from simple accompaniment to advanced instrumental. Over 30 bluegrass and traditional songs graded from easy to advanced in both standard music notation and tablature. Compact disc included.

Creative Bluegrass Guitar
Contains 27 top bluegrass songs, including: Cripple Creek ¥ Cumberland Gap ¥ Dixie ¥ Keep on the Sunny Side ¥ Mountain Dew ¥ Roll in My Sweet BabyÕs Arms ¥ Salty Dog ¥ ShuckinÕ the Corn ¥ Under the Double Eagle ¥ and more.

Improvising Bluegrass Guitar
Marty Stewart’s lead guitarist "Brad Davis" teaches Hot Licks & 11 classic Tony Rice solos! Brad Davis teaches..... 28 Very Hot Licks that fit G, C, or D chords Then he uses three tunes as examples to link together different combinations of the licks so that they will fit each tune. He uses three different combinations of the licks for each tune to give you lots of experience. Note: This is not an exact science, but it is a wonderfully helpful way to start jamming, improvising, & inventing your own solos.Songs used: Blue Ridge Cabin Home,Why Don’t You Tell Me So, Roll On Buddy.
 

Flatpicking Guitar Songs
 

Richard Lieberson's Old-Time Fiddle Tunes for Guitar
A song collection for the flat-picker with helpful notes on how to play back-up and special effects. Forty tunes. Selected discography and bibliography. Standard notation and easy-to-read tablature.

Fiddle Tunes & Irish Music for Guitar
 

Flatpicking Guitar Festival Book/CD Set
A collection of 16 hot, intermediate-level flatpicking guitar solos from five of the leading exponents of this technique, plus a CD featuring performances of all of the tunes. David Bromberg is known as the leader of one of the most successful acoustic bands of the 1970's and 1980's. The Kitchen Girl, a fine Kentucky tune, is an example of Bromberg's good taste in choosing material. Dick Fegy is a master picker of fiddle tunes and is the most heavily-featured player in the collection. San Francisco Bay area favorite Eric Thompson crosses old-time with traditional Irish playing. Michael Aumen contributes three tunes associated with Clarence White and a very interesting version of Soldier's Joy, with a flair that pushes the limits of the hot country style. Richard Lieberson is a fine bluegrass picker who has developed a convincing swing jazz style with exciting results, and a touch of humor. Written in notation and tablature.
 

First Lessons Flatpicking Guitar Book/CD Set
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.
 

Championship Flatpicking Guitar
 

You Can Teach Yourself Flatpicking Guitar