Acoustic guitar magazine, FLATPICKING GUITAR ESSENTIALS. 12 lessons, 16 songs. CD TABLATURE
Series: Guitar Collection
Publisher: String Letter Publishing
Medium: Softcover with CD
Author: Various Authors
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, 96 pages.
Banish Misfortune
Bury Me Beneath The Willow
Carroll Country Blues
Foggy Mountain Special
Humphrey's Hornpipe
Jesse James
Kentucky Waltz
Mama Don't 'Low
Morrison's Jig
Pretty Peggy
Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms
Sally Goodin
Sandy River Belle
Soldier's Joy
Star Of Munster (Irish)
Will The Circle Be Unbroken
While guitarists in such diverse genres of music as jazz, rock 'n' roll, blues, new age, pop, world, and folk have been known to wield a flatpick, the word flatpicking is most often used to describe a style of guitar playing that evolved from early country music and bluegrass. Musicians such as Riley Puckett, Mother Maybelle Carter, Doc Watson, George Shuffler, Jimmy Martin, Tony Rice, Clarence White, and hundreds more have contributed to a style that allows its practitioners to produce a driving or subtle rhythm and clear, fluid, virtuosic solos. Flatpicking is the ideal style for acoustic guitarists in bands that include instruments with more natural volume than the acoustic guitar. It's also a great technique for solo singers who want a powerful rhythmic accompaniment. In this book, we bring you 12 lessons that explore the roots and branches of flatpicking, taught by Acoustic Guitar magazine's master teachers. Each lesson introduces an essential technique and illustrates it with musical examples from folk, bluegrass, old-time, and Celtic music that you can use immediately. The book is divided into two sections, "Backup Styles" and "Playing Melodies and Leads," each of which begins with basic techniques before delving into flatpicking's more refined subtleties. If you're unfamiliar with any terms or techniques used, check the music notation key. Whether you're new to the flatpick or guitar and want to get started on the right track, or an old hand who's either in search of new ideas or a review of fundamentals, you're sure to find inspiration and fuel for perspiration here.
Scott Nygaard, Assistant Editor, Acoustic Guitar
Exercises, licks, and full songs to play
Standard notation, Tablature, and chord diagrams
CD with music played by the teachers slowly and up to tempo
contents
CD Track List
Introduction
Music Notation Key
About the Teachers
BACKUP STYLES
Strum and Bass Note Patterns LARRY SANDBERG
Jesse James
Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Bluegrass Rhythm Guitar SCOTT NYGAARD
The standard bluegrass strum
Chord Variations
Joining the band
Bluegrass Bass Runs
Playing a Range of Tunes
Rhythm is a group effort
The Lester Flatt G Run HAPPY TRAUM
Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms
Mama Don't 'Low
G-RUN BOOGIE
Rhythm Essentials JOHN McGANN
using a metronome
driving rhythm guitar
cross-picking
Celtic accompaniment
Fiddle Contest Accompaniment JIM WOOD
Sally Goodin, Completo di accompagnamento
Kentucky Waltz - 1942- Bill Monroe
Simple Irish Backup PAUL KOTAPISH
Strumming Reels, Alternate chords, accompanying Jigs
The Star of Munster
Morrison's Jig
PLAYING MELODIES AND LEADS
Flatpicking Fiddle Tunes SCOTT NYGAARD
Fiddle tune basics, Pull-offs and Slide,
soldier's Joy
Sandy River Belle
Bluesy Bluegrass STEVE POTTIER
Adding the Blues Notes, The Flatted Seventh chord, usings slurs, seventh chord, using Blues Shuffle
Cross·Picking SCOTT NYGAARD
Bury Me beneath the Willow
Variations on a Theme SCOTT NYGAARD
Carroll County Blues
Transcribing Solos DIX BRUCE
Foggy Mountain Special
Banjo and bass solos,
Celtic Flatpicking DYLAN SCHORER
The Reel, The Jig, The Air, The Strathspey, Ornaments
Pretty Peggy
Banish Misfortune
Humphrey's Hornpipe
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