The Bluegrass Classics volume of the Guitar Play-Along Series features 8 classic Bluegrass songs expertly arranged for Guitar in TAB notation.The Guitar Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily! Just follow the tab, listen to the CD to hear how the guitar should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are also included in the book in case you want to sing, or to simply help you follow along. The audio CD is playable on any CD player. For PC and Mac computer users, the CD is enhanced so you can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch!

Super Country/Flatpicking Guitar Techniques DVD by Joe Carr. For Guitar (Flatpicking). Licks and Phrases. Bluegrass. Beginning-Intermediate. DVD. Duration 30 minutes. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.96002DVD). Hot electric country guitar licks, bluegrass runs and lightning-quick acoustic flatpicking all require strong right-hand technique. In this thirty-minute DVD designed for acoustic and electric guitarists, country guitar master Joe Carr reveals his method for developing super fast and strong picking. Play-along exercises concentrate on alternating, combination and consecutive down picking. Also featured are Chicken-Picking and Crosspicking. Long after you have learned the basic techniques of flatpicking presented here, you will use this DVD as a great workout, warm-up or exercise tool for developing right-hand power and control. A PDF file for the free instructional booklet that accompanies this DVD is available for download on the internet.

ASAP Bluegrass Guitar is designed for folks wishing to become highly proficient bluegrass players. You'll be able to combine sophisticated left-hand fingerings with both simple and intricate right-hand picking patterns. Appropriate for beginning guitar players or more experienced players wishing to learn specifics and songs in the bluegrass style. With this book and the accompanying 2 CDs you'll learn the basics, single-note melodies, how to embellish basic melodies, embellish melodies by adding notes from the major scale, embellishing melodies with added chords strums, Carter-style playing, shuffle rhythm patterns, alternate bass strumming, the blues in bluegrass, intros, turnarounds and endings, using the capo, cross picking, improvising a solo, practising effectively, and much more! Some of the more popular bluegrass songs you'll learn are: Billy in the Lowground • New River Train • Wildwood Flower • Foggy Mountain Blues • Clinch Mountain Blues • Red Haired Boy • Forked Deer • Bill Cheatham • All the Good Times Past and Gone • Blackberry Blossom • Temperance Reel • Salt Creek • Devil's Dream • June Apple • Black Mountain Rag • Saint Anne's Reel • Banks of the Ohio • Beaumont Rag • Salty Dog Blues • John Henry • and many more. Start playing bluegrass guitar... ASAP!

Flatpicking Guitar Songbook by Mike Bailey. For Guitar (Flatpick). SongBook. Archive Edition. Bluegrass. Beginning. Book. 112 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.93683). ISBN 9780786678150. Bluegrass. 8.75x11.75 inches. An outstanding song and solo collection for flatpicking guitar. Each song has a melody line in tablature with lyrics and a solo arrangement in notation and tablature. Songs include Bill Cheatum, New River Train, Maple on the Hill, Miss Julie, Bound to Ride, Cripple Creek and more.

Rob Ickes: Contemporary Dobro Artistry DVD/CD Set by Rob Ickes. For Guitar (Resonator). Concert/Documentary. Bluegrass. DVD/CD Set. Duration 67 minutes. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.21785CDVD). In these extraordinary studio performances, Dobro virtuoso Rob Ickes (Blue Highway, Three Ring Circle) is joined by bluegrass prodigy Andy Leftwich (Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, Three Ring Circle) on mandolin, and then by jazz pianist Michael Alvey. These powerful sets of richly improvisational instrumental duets are followed by two signature solo works that showcase Ickes' tradition-steeped but highly contemporary musical vision. Tunes include Angeline the Baker, Monrobro, Stanford and Son, Wheel Hoss, Lullaby of Birdland, Stars Fell on Alabama, Made in France, The Old Rugged Cross and more. Bonuses include an interview and photo gallery. DVD length: 67 minutes. Also, included with this DVD is a bonus audio CD of all 17 tunes. Listen to your favorite tunes from the DVD anywhere and anytime!

Flatpick Jam, Volume 4 DVD by Brad Davis. For Guitar (Flatpick). Improvisation. Bluegrass. Beginning-Intermediate. DVD. Duration 120 minutes. Published by Flatpicking Guitar Magazine (MB.FGM1012). With Brad Davis' Flatpick Jam DVDs (Volume 1, 2, 3 & 4), you are never without a jamming partner. Each of these two-hour DVDs is packed with flatpicking jam session favorites (at least 11 tunes on each DVD). Brad plays each tune at four different tempos (slow, slow/medium, medium/fast and fast) so that you can work on your tone, timing, note clarity, and fluidity at the slower tempos and then work to develop your speed at the higher tempos. At each tempo Brad takes a solo then plays rhythm so you can take your solo. At the three higher tempos Brad swaps solos and rhythm with you twice. This gives you the opportunity to practice your solo and rhythm seven times on every tune. On each tune Brad plays a variety of rhythmic and lead styles. A bass line and mandolin chop accompany every song at every tempo and chord changes are indicated on-screen (for the slow tempo).

First Jams: Dobro by Lee Drew Andrews. For Guitar (Resonator). Improvisation. First Jams. Bluegrass. Beginning. Book/CD Set. 24 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.21514BCD). ISBN 9780786678358. Bluegrass. 8.75" x 11.75" inches. The First Jam series was created to give children and beginners of all ages a book of simple, common tunes to learn. These are standard "Jam" tunes in the Bluegrass/Old Time music styles. All the books in this series are written in the same keys; they can all be played together without any problems. So get your friends or family who play guitar, mandolin, banjo, ukulele, dulcimer or Dobro together, grab these books and start jamming. Improvisation -- Another idea behind writing the First Jam series was to provide a number of tunes that were easy to learn, but that are also a great to begin working on improvising. Each book in the series offers the melody for that particular instrument as well as back-up chords for another instrument to accompany you. Each song is represented in Tab, notation and chord symbols. The accompanying CD has two tracks for each song. The first playing the song with the melody line, the second track offers just the backup so you can play the melody over it or even improvise. Tunes include: Cripple Creek, Old Joe Clark, Will the Circle Be Unbroken and many more.

My First Bluegrass Guitar Picking Songs by Steve Kaufman. For Guitar (Flatpicking). Solos. Bluegrass. Beginning. Book/CD Set. 36 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.20793BCD). ISBN 9780786682133. Bluegrass. 8.75" x 11.75" inches. This fun and easy book and CD takes you from the very beginning. Learning right and left-hand techniques, learning your first chords, 18 great songs AND you painlessly learn them by reading notes. Anyone can do it. Steve's method and approach to learning to read notes is so simple that 4 year olds have done it. You will start with 4 simple notes. Steve then teaches songs using just those four notes. He systematically adds a few more notes at a time bundled with easy to understand instructions and songs so that in a short time you will know all the notes, chords, strumming patterns to play hundreds of songs. This is a perfect primer for many of Steve's best sellers and other author's books. Audio CD included.

A Dobro Player's Guide to Jamming by Carl Yaffey and Mark Panfil. For Guitar (Resonator). Improvisation. Bill's Music Shelf. Bluegrass. Beginning-Intermediate. Book + Online Audio. 40 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.21757). ISBN 9780786679973. Bluegrass. 8.5" x 11" inches. You're a beginner or intermediate Dobro player; you know a few tunes such as "Cripple Creek", "Old Joe Clark", and "Fireball Mail". You might have learned the basics of playing, but you may not have played with other people much or at all. You're at your favorite festival, and you've just come up on a HOT jam session. You'd love to join in, BUT you're afraid that (a) you won't know the tunes, (b) you won't know what to do or how to do it, (c) you'll be embarrassed or choke, (d) they'll ignore you and pretend you're not there, (e) someone will take your Dobro out of your hands and fling it into the woods, (f) they'll all get up and leave, (g) they'll laugh, (h) something even more horrible might happen. It doesn't have to be like that! Our task is to give you some tools and tricks so you can sit in on most any jam session and come out alive and grinning. It's easier than you think. This book will teach you how to do it! Written in notation and tablature. Free audio tracks available online from the publisher.

Beppe Gambetta Blu di Genova - Guitar Transcriptions by Beppe Gambetta. For Guitar (Flatpicking). Transcribed Solos. Bill's Music Shelf. Bluegrass. Intermediate. Book. 80 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.21185). ISBN 9780786675128. Bluegrass. 8.5" x 11" inches. Blu di Genova is a connection between the past and the present, the blue fabric of working clothes. First produced in Genoa, my home town, and then landed in America as blue jeans. It is the melancholy of the fight of art against reality. And it is my life lived on the road between my birth-town and America and the rest of the world. This collection features 14 rousing Beppe Gambetta flatpicking guitar solos from his CD of the same title. All solos are in notation and tablature. Also includes a special interview with Beppe and photos.