Flatpicking Guitar for the Complete Ignormaus!

Flatpicking Guitar for the Complete Ignormaus!
Author: Wayne Erbsen
Publisher: Native Ground Music
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-02
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781883206581

Book & CD. This FUN instruction book will get you playing forty old-time and bluegrass guitar tunes in no time flat! Wayne's many years of teaching guitar are evident on each page of this book. The instruction audio CD is complete with a whopping 91 tracks and the complete lyrics to all forty songs found in the book. This book is guaranteed to help the beginning and intermediate guitarist.

Classic Arrangements of Vintage Songs for Flatpicking Guitar

Classic Arrangements of Vintage Songs for Flatpicking Guitar
Author: Steve Kaufman
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2011-08-18
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1610658787

This book and 2-CD set was intended for the mature picker who desires great arrangements to the classic songs we hear, sing, and play. Included are great sounding solid songs which are fun to play, but not with those "impossible" blinding runs. This unique book is also perfect for the beginner who is ready to branch into the intermediate world of guitar. 'Amazing Grace', 'Blue Ridge Mountain Blues', 'When the Roses Bloom In Dixie Land', 'Georgia Mail', 'When You and I Were Young Maggie' are just a few of the 45 full blown songs in this terrific volume. Lyrics, notation and TAB along with pictures, performance notes and, of course, companion CDs are all included; another must-have from Steve Kaufman.

Irish Music for Flatpicking Guitar Made Easy

Irish Music for Flatpicking Guitar Made Easy
Author: Philip John Berthoud
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2015-11-24
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1610653580

An exciting collection of 29 traditional tunes from Ireland, arranged for easy flatpicking guitar. All tunes are written clearly in standard notation as well as guitar tablature. an accompanying CD contains all the tunes, played at a manageable speed, with guitar accompaniment.The collection contains airs, well known songs, polkas, slip jigs, slides, double jigs, hornpipes and reels, all of which are specially arranged by the author with the beginning/intermediate guitarist in mind. on the CD, the tunes are played 2 or 3 times, so you can really get into the feel of the tune, when playing along. the speed of the tunes is quite slow, but not so slow as to take away from the essential feel of the music.Irish music is rightly popular all over the world. the haunting beauty of the slow airs and infectious foot-tapping rhythms of jigs and reels are here to be discovered in this selection of great traditional music.

Bluegrass Banjo for the Complete Ignoramus!

Bluegrass Banjo for the Complete Ignoramus!
Author: Wayne Erbsen
Publisher: Native Ground Books & Music
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2014-05-26
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1883206677

Beginning banjo lessons have never been more fun! Written for the absolute beginner, this FUN book is guaranteed to help you learn to play bluegrass banjo (How many books come with a personal guarantee by the author?). · Teaches the plain, naked melody to 23 easy bluegrass favorites without the rolls already incorporated into the tune. · Wayne shows simple ways to embellish each melody using easy rolls. · With Wayne’s unique method, you’ll learn to think for yourself! · Learn how to play a song in different ways, rather than memorizing ONE way. · Includes a link to download 99 instructional audio tracks off our website! You WILL learn to play: Bile ‘Em Cabbage Down, Blue Ridge Mountain Blues, Columbus Stockade Blues, Down the Road, Groundhog, Little Maggie, Long Journey Home, Lynchburg Town, Man of Constant Sorrow, My Home’s Across the Blue Ridge Mountains, Nine Pound Hammer, Palms of Victory, Pass Me Not, Poor Ellen Smith, Pretty Polly, Put My Little Shoes Away, Red River Valley, Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms, Shall We Gather at the River, Wabash Cannonball, When I Lay My Burden Down, When the Saints Go Marching In.

Southern Mountain Banjo

Southern Mountain Banjo
Author: Wayne Erbsen
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2010-10-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1609740475

This friendly book is filled with clawhammer banjo instruction, tablature, lyrics, tune histories, chords, playing tips, vintage photos, and more. Includes such classid oldtime tunes as, Soldier's Joy; Cluck Old Hen; Arkansas Traveler; Leather Britches; Mississippi Sawyer; Chicken Reel; Shady Grove; Red Rocking Chair; John Henry; Uncle Joe; Little Rosewood Casket; the State of Arkansas; Hogeye; the Old Spinning Wheel; and When You and I Were Young Maggie. A companion recording, Southern Mountain Classics, is available on CD.

Old-Time Fiddle for the Complete Ignoramus!

Old-Time Fiddle for the Complete Ignoramus!
Author: Wayne Erbsen
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2005-10
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781883206482

Here, at long last, is the perfect fiddle book for the true and total beginner. No previous experience needed! Wayne takes you through every step of adjusting, tuning, holding and playing the fiddle. The tunes are written out in Waynes unique and easy tab system an also in standard notation. Fiddle instruction has never been simpler, clearer, or more humorous. Includes instructional CD.

Parking Lot Picker's Songbook - Dobro

Parking Lot Picker's Songbook - Dobro
Author: Dix Bruce
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2011-01-13
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1610658701

A collection of over 200 great Bluegrass, Old Time, Country and Gospel standards. Melodies are presented with standard notation and tablature along with lyrics and chords.Learn to play songs written and recorded by the giants of traditional American music: Bill Monroe, the Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs, Ralph Stanley, the Osborne Brothers, Jimmy Martin, Doc Watson and many more. Also included: Step-by-Step instruction on how to transpose any song to any key!The two CDs include recordings of EVERY song in the book.

Bluegrass mandolin basics [flatpick technique, playing backup, chord basics and rhythm chop, more than 90 complete music examples and songs, 16 complete arrangements fully correlated to other books in the series]

Bluegrass mandolin basics [flatpick technique, playing backup, chord basics and rhythm chop, more than 90 complete music examples and songs, 16 complete arrangements fully correlated to other books in the series]
Author: Dennis Caplinger
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2005-06
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780769285412

Covers all the fundamentals and will have you playing bluegrass favorites in no time. Beginning with right and left handed techniques, then moving through traditional mandolin basics, learn how to develop great backup parts or solos and how to play within the context of a bluegrass band.

Easy 2-chord Songs for Guitar

Easy 2-chord Songs for Guitar
Author: Wayne Erbsen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2019-11-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781883206772

If you want to play the guitar, but don't want to play a zillion chords, this is the book for you! Includes music, tab and lyrics to 33 familiar bluegrass, old-time, folk and gospel songs, each with only TWO CHORDS.

Rousing Songs and True Tales of the Civil War

Rousing Songs and True Tales of the Civil War
Author: Wayne Erbsen
Publisher: Native Ground Books & Music
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-09
Genre: Folk music
ISBN: 9781883206338

Here are the songs and stories that made history. Includes lyrics, music, song histories, trivia, humor plus 100 Civil War photographs and illustrations. All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight, Battle Cry of Freedom, Battle Hymn of the Republic, The Bonnie Blue Flag, Dixie's Land, The Faded Coat of Blue, Goober Peas, Hard Crackers Come Again No More, Home! Sweet Home!, Here's Your Mule, Just Before the Battle, Mother, Lorena, Maryland, My Maryland, Marching Through Georgia, O I'm a Good Old Rebel, Tenting on the Old Camp Ground, Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!, The Vacant Chair, Weeping, Sad and Lonely, When Johnny Comes Marching Home.