Picking at Peaceful Bend II by Scott Nygaard, Jack Lawrence & Robert Bowlin. For Guitar (Flatpicking). Concert/Documentary. Fingerstyle Gtr Mag.. Bluegrass. DVD. Published by Flatpicking Guitar Magazine (MB.FGM2530). In this concert performance DVD, filmed at the Peaceful Bend Americana Music Festival in Steelville, MO, Flatpicking Guitar Magazine and SimpleFolk Productions present three of the country's most highly respected acoustic guitar players performing a very special evening of music. Jack Lawrence (Doc Watson's long-time musical partner) is joined here by flatpicking veterans Scott Nygaard and Robert Bowlin. In this concert these three masters of the acoustic guitar perform as a trio, in different duo configurations, and solo. Plus singer/songwriter Wil Maring joins them as a special guest. Guitar players will appreciate the left and right hand close-ups that are prevalent throughout this DVD. 14 tunes are presented plus special bonus footage featuring young stars Josh Williams and Tyler Grant.

Easy to Play Country Guitar by William Bay, Steve Griffin, Roger Filiberto & Tommy Flint. For Guitar (Flatpicking & Fingerpicking). Solos. Bill's Music Shelf. Country. Beginning. Book. 24 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.22245). ISBN 9780786683420. Country. 8.5" x 11" inches. Easy to Play Country Guitar is a collection of strumming, fingerpicking and flatpicking songs and solos for the guitarist wanting to easily play country and bluegrass favorites. In notation and tablature. Chord diagrams are included.

Parking Lot Picker's Songbook - Bass Edition by Dix Bruce. For Electric Bass Guitar. Songbook. Parking Lot Pickers. Bluegrass. Multiple Levels. Book & 2-CD Set. 312 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.21929BCD). ISBN 9780786682591. Bluegrass. 8.75" x 11.75" inches. A collection of over 200 great Bluegrass, Old Time, Country and Gospel standards. 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! Melodies are presented with a BASS LINE, lyrics and chords. The two CDs include recordings of EVERY song in the book! Also included: Valuable information on how to play bass plus step-by- step instruction on how to transpose any song to any key! We now have versions of The Parking Lot Picker's Songbook for every instrument in a typical bluegrass band --- guitar, mandolin, banjo, fiddle, dobro, and bass --- so every member, no matter what instrument they play, can work from the same collection of songs!

Chickin' Pickin', Volume 2 by Johnny Hiland. For Guitar (Flatpicking & Fingerpicking). Licks and Phrases. Hiland Series. Country. Intermediate-Advanced. Book/CD Set. 16 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.20376BCD). ISBN 9780786671465. Country. 8.75" x 11.75" inches. Johnny Hiland is one of the brightest stars in the world of country guitar. In this followup to his revolutionary book "Chickin' Pickin' Vol. 1", Mr. Hiland teaches his amazing virtuosic style of guitar playing and his stellar hi-low, low-hi soloing techniques in a 1-4-5 pattern across the keys of C, F & G. Lessons are presented in standard notation and TAB with complete step-by-step audio instruction.

Johnny Cash. (Piano Play-Along Volume 112). By Johnny Cash. For Piano/Vocal/Guitar. Piano Play-Along. Softcover with CD. 32 pages. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.312156). ISBN 1458404307. 9x12 inches. Play 8 of your favorite songs with sound-alike CD tracks. Each volume in this series comes with a CD of orchestrated arrangements. The music in this book matches these recorded orchestrations. There are two tracks for each – a full performance for listening, plus a separate backing track which lets you be the soloist! The music even includes a separate vocal staff, plus guitar frames, so you or your friends can also sing or strum along!Songs: Cry, Cry, Cry • Daddy Sang Bass • Don't Take Your Guns to Town • Folsom Prison Blues • I Walk the Line • (Ghost) Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend) • Ring of Fire • Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down.

Rascal Flatts - Nothing Like This by Rascal Flatts. For Piano/Vocal/Guitar. Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook. Softcover. 72 pages. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.307225). ISBN 1617804843. 9x12 inches. Our matching folio to the 2010 release from this rockin' country trio offers 11 tracks, including the hit single “I Won't Let Go” and: All Night to Get There • Easy • Nothing like This • Play • Red Camaro • Summer Young • Sunday Afternoon • They Try • Tonight Tonight • Why Wait.

There's A Place For Us by Carrie Underwood. For solo voice (High/Medium/Low Voice). Modern Christian. Adult Contemporary and Sacred. CD Trax - Performance/Accompaniment CD. Published by Sound Performance (IN.787771125520). Praise Hymn has come to be known as the leader in innovation of Christian music soundtracks. Praise Hymn was the first soundtrack line to introduce the high-medium-low format, which has now been imitated by most every other track line. In addition, each of the 3 keys is available with and without background vocals. PLEASE NOTE: Praise Hymn Soundtracks do not use the original artist's tracks. They are re-recorded by a team of musicians and singers. In some cases, long introductions or instrumentals as well as fade outs are taken out in order to make each track as singer-friendly as possible.

Never Grow Up by Taylor Swift. For solo voice (High/Medium/Low Voice). Modern Christian. Adult Contemporary and Sacred. CD Trax - Performance/Accompaniment CD. Published by Sound Performance (IN.787771125629). Praise Hymn has come to be known as the leader in innovation of Christian music soundtracks. Praise Hymn was the first soundtrack line to introduce the high-medium-low format, which has now been imitated by most every other track line. In addition, each of the 3 keys is available with and without background vocals. PLEASE NOTE: Praise Hymn Soundtracks do not use the original artist's tracks. They are re-recorded by a team of musicians and singers. In some cases, long introductions or instrumentals as well as fade outs are taken out in order to make each track as singer-friendly as possible.

There's A Place For Us by Carrie Underwood. For solo voice (High/Medium/Low Voice). Modern Christian. Adult Contemporary and Sacred. CD Trax - Performance/Accompaniment CD. Published by Praise Hymn (IN.767667162228). Praise Hymn has come to be known as the leader in innovation of Christian music soundtracks. Praise Hymn was the first soundtrack line to introduce the high-medium-low format, which has now been imitated by most every other track line. In addition, each of the 3 keys is available with and without background vocals. PLEASE NOTE: Praise Hymn Soundtracks do not use the original artist's tracks. They are re-recorded by a team of musicians and singers. In some cases, long introductions or instrumentals as well as fade outs are taken out in order to make each track as singer-friendly as possible.

Bluegrass Music Profiles - July/August 2011. Bluegrass Music Profiles. 46 pages. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.77770367). Cover feature story on actor/musician Steve Martin.

The "Billy Tell" Overture (A Violin Section Feature). By Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868). Arranged by Richard Meyer. Orchestra. Masterworks; Score; String Orchestra. Highland String Orchestra. Form: Overture. Country; Light Concert; Masterwork Arrangement; Romantic. Grade 2. 8 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing (AP.36015S). This bluegrass "fiddle" version of Rossini's famous overture will get your audiences' toes tappin' and your violinists' fingers flyin'. The entire violin section is featured in this fun, virtuosic-sounding rendition that is perfect for recruiting concerts, encores, or just plain showing off! Loaded with string crossings and "doubled" notes, this piece will give your violins a workout. Included is an alternate violin part for those violinists not yet ready to solo.Section Feature. About 2011 Midwest Clinic Performance Pieces This title was performed at the 2011 Midwest Clinic, the largest band and choral educational conference in the United States. Over thirty performances are given each year by diverse ensembles of varying levels - elementary school, high school, college, military and more. Each performance title is carefully selected and represents the very best in educational sheet music. The Midwest Clinic aims to raise the standards of music education while supporting teachers and music educators.

The "Billy Tell" Overture (A Violin Section Feature). By Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868). Arranged by Richard Meyer. Orchestra. For string w/ alt vln. Masterworks; Part(s); Score; String Orchestra. Highland String Orchestra. Form: Overture. Country; Light Concert; Masterwork Arrangement; Romantic. Grade 2. 62 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing (AP.36015). This bluegrass "fiddle" version of Rossini's famous overture will get your audiences' toes tappin' and your violinists' fingers flyin'. The entire violin section is featured in this fun, virtuosic-sounding rendition that is perfect for recruiting concerts, encores, or just plain showing off! Loaded with string crossings and "doubled" notes, this piece will give your violins a workout. Included is an alternate violin part for those violinists not yet ready to solo.Section Feature. About 2011 Midwest Clinic Performance Pieces This title was performed at the 2011 Midwest Clinic, the largest band and choral educational conference in the United States. Over thirty performances are given each year by diverse ensembles of varying levels - elementary school, high school, college, military and more. Each performance title is carefully selected and represents the very best in educational sheet music. The Midwest Clinic aims to raise the standards of music education while supporting teachers and music educators.

A Fiddlin' Christmas (Featuring: Jolly Old St. Nicholas / Jingle Bells). Arranged by Bob Phillips. Orchestra. Score; String Orchestra. Highland String Explorer. Christmas; Country; Folk; Light Concert; Secular; Winter. Grade 2. 8 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing (AP.35957S). Have a jolly, jingly holiday, but bring out the blue jeans and red bandanas for a country Christmas! "Jolly Old St. Nicholas" and "Jingle Bells" shine in this fun, foot-stompin' piece.

A Fiddlin' Christmas (Featuring: Jolly Old St. Nicholas / Jingle Bells). Arranged by Bob Phillips. Orchestra. For string w/ vln3, pno acc. Part(s); Score; String Orchestra. Highland String Explorer. Christmas; Country; Folk; Light Concert; Secular; Winter. Grade 2. 72 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing (AP.35957). Have a jolly, jingly holiday, but bring out the blue jeans and red bandanas for a country Christmas! "Jolly Old St. Nicholas" and "Jingle Bells" shine in this fun, foot-stompin' piece.

Hey, Good Lookin' by Hank Williams. By Hank Williams. Arranged by Audrey Snyder. For Choral, Tenor Saxophone (ShowTrax CD). Pop Choral Series. CD only. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.8202796). Your guys will have a blast singing this rockabilly classic by Hank Williams and more recently covered in a 2004 chart hit by Jimmy Buffett and his country cohorts Clint Black, Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith and George Strait. Optional tenor sax part included. Available separately: TTB, ShowTrax CD. Duration: ca. 2:15.

Tony Rice - The Video Collection. For Guitar (Flatpicking). Concert/Documentary. Vestapol. Bluegrass & Country. DVD. Duration 62 minutes. Published by Grossman's Guitar Workshop (MB.13058DVD). Tony Rice has practiced his flatpicked art to great acclaim in both traditional bluegrass and innovative acoustic circle. The bluegrass sound is practically mother's milk to Tony. His father was a "serious amateur on mandolin and guitar" and Tony cannot even recall a time when he didn't know how to play. This DVD presents Tony in three different settings recorded at the 1992 Merle Watson Festival playing a wide variety of music all stamped with his personal style and sound. Tony once remarked in a Country Guitar interview, "Others have said about me from time to time that I have a unique tone and balance on the instrument. I just kind of play it the way I hear it." And play it he does in this exciting one-hour collection. Running time: 62 minutes.

Guitar of Chet Atkins by Chet Atkins. For Guitar (Fingerpicking). Methods. Grossman-Gtr Workshop. Country. Intermediate-Advanced. DVD. Duration 84 minutes. Published by Grossman's Guitar Workshop (MB.GW941DVD). This DVD offers you something unique and powerful--a guitar lesson taught by CGP (Certified Guitar Player) Chet Atkins. Addressing intermediate and advanced fingerstyle guitarists, Chet performs and describes in detail, phrase by phrase, the playing of nine of his classic arrangements. Split-screen techniques allow you to carefully study both his left and right hand movements. Your teacher for this lesson is one of the foremost fingerstyle guitar masters in the history of the guitar. Have fun! 84 minute DVD. A detailed tab/music instructional booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD, or may be downloaded from guitarvideos.com.

Doc's Guitar Jam by Doc Watson. For Guitar (Flatpicking). Concert/Documentary. Vestapol. Bluegrass & Country. Intermediate. DVD. Duration 60 minutes. Published by Grossman's Guitar Workshop (MB.13055DVD). Recorded at the 1992 Merle Watson Festival in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, this incredible jam session brings together five masters of flatpicking guitar - Doc Watson, Tony Rice, Dan Crary, Jack Lawrence and Steve Kaufman. Together they harmonize, improvise and burn the classics and hot guitar instrumentals. Two bonus tracks are also included of Doc playing with his friends David Grisman, Bela Fleck, Mark O'Connor, Tim O'Brien, Roland White, Jerry Douglas, T. Michael Coleman and others. All in all, an amazing 60 minutes of great picking.

Chet Atkins Rare Performances 1955-1975. For Guitar (Fingerpicking). Concert/Documentary. Vestapol. Country. DVD. Duration 58 minutes. Published by Grossman's Guitar Workshop (MB.13027DVD). The much traveled Mr. Guitar is seen playing in this video collection everywhere from Nashville to Norway. His signature Gretsch Tennesseean guitar, on which Chet made it exquisitely effective use of its Bigsby vibrato bar, is heard in all its sweet, reverb-laden glory on many of these clips. But Chet, whose versatility embraces all styles of guitar, is also seen playing a classical guitar and a Martin dreadnaught. No matter what he plays, the produced becomes a distinct auditory fingerprint of the man known in Nashville as C. G. P. (Certified Guitar Player). The relaxed mastery evident in this video explains why Chet, along with such diverse geniuses as Thelonius Monk and Bill Monroe, was honored in 1993 with a Lifetime Achievement Award Grammy "For this peerless fingerstyle guitar technique, his extensive creative legacy documented on more than one hundred albums, and his influential work on both sides of the recording console as a primary architect of the Nashville sound." The booklet for the DVD featuring biographical material, rare photographs and details on the tunes is not included, but can be accessed and downloaded from guitarvideos.com. Running time: 58 minutes.

Merle Travis Rare Performances 1946-1981 Vol. 1. For Guitar (Fingerpicking). Concert/Documentary. Vestapol. Country. DVD. Duration 60 minutes. Published by Grossman's Guitar Workshop (MB.13012DVD). This DVD captures 35 years of rare film and television performances by one of the all-time great American musicians. The music and guitar playing of Merle Travis have been a seminal influence on the American music scene. There is not a fingerstyle guitarist whose playing has not been touched by Merle's style and technique. He wrote over 900 songs, and some, such as "Sixteen Tons" and "Dark as a Dungeon," are so familiar that today they are thought of as "folk songs". The booklet for the DVD can be accessed and downloaded from guitarvideos.com.

Herschel Sizemore. (In His Own Style). By Herschel Sizemore. For Mandolin. Methods. Acutab. Bluegrass. Intermediate. DVD. Duration 120 minutes. Published by Acutab Publications (MB.DHS1). Learn at the feet of a bluegrass legend! Bluegrass mandolin pioneer Herschel Sizemore demonstrates his unique style on 11 great mandolin tunes - five familiar fiddle tunes and six Sizemore originals. Alan Bibey is also featured, leading Herschel through a discussion and demonstration of the tunes and techniques. Tab/notation booklet included.

Power Pickin' Vol. 2: First Position Backup for Bluegrass Banjo by John Lawless. For Banjo (5-String). Rhythm/Backup. Acutab. Bluegrass. Beginning-Intermediate. DVD. Duration 120 minutes. Published by Acutab Publications (MB.DJL1). A step-by-step demonstration of the basic techniques and patterns used to play roll style bluegrass banjo backup in the open, or first position. Contains material of interest to both beginners and more experienced players alike. Starting with the most basic, first look at following a simple chord progression, AcuTab's John Lawless takes you through a detailed discussion and analysis of down the neck backup that encompasses most of the elements that define the bluegrass banjo style. After learning some simple accompaniment patterns, John shows you how to create an effective backup using the forward roll to get the bluegrass sound. An essential part of the presentation is the concept of the escape roll, which allows you to maintain a forward roll over more than a single measure, and then escaping that pattern to lead into a new roll or chord. Also covered: --Leading from one chord to the next --Fiddle tune backup (banjo/fiddle duets) --Filling the holes in vocal songs --Backup in keys other than G (C and D) --Using distinctive rolls and licks 2 hours. Tab booklet included.

Power Pickin' Vol. 1. (Up the Neck Backup for Bluegrass Banjo). By Bill Evans. For Banjo (5-String). Technic. Acutab. Bluegrass. Beginning-Intermediate. DVD. Duration 120 minutes. Published by Acutab Publications (MB.DBE1). A visual method for learning the basic techniques used to play bluegrass banjo accompaniment in up the neck positions. The material is presented in a step by step approach appropriate for all levels of pickers, and a tab booklet is included. Techniques covered include: --vamping - with variations--3/4 time backup--roll patterns based on chord forms --classic backup licks--2 finger backup for slower songs --bluesy backup styles One of the most challenging skills for any banjo player is being able to accompany other musicians in a jam session or band setting. Called backup, this art of accompanying singers and other instrumentalists requires the mastery of a set of traditional banjo techniques often involving distinctive sounds and licks found higher up the banjo neck. In this Power Pickin' video from AcuTab, Bill Evans takes you through a careful description and demonstration of many important backup techniques that you can incorporate into your picking right away. Each new technique is explained in detail, using a variety of camera angles and split screen formats to show you exactly how it's done. First off, Bill shows you how to use the vamping, or chopping technique. A number of right and left hand variations are demonstrated before moving into roll oriented backup. Bill describes the use of the forward roll in closed, up the neck positions as well as the popular two finger backup techniques, sometimes called "teardrop licks." A variety of right hand patterns are taught based on the different left hand chord forms and all examples are demonstrated both alone and in a band setting, using a standard bluegrass chord progression. Lastly, Bill teaches a number of popular backup licks that will appeal to more experienced pickers and shows how to work them into a song.

Chet Atkins Rare Performances 1976-1995 by Chet Atkins. For Guitar (Fingerpicking). Solos. Vestapol. Country. Intermediate. DVD. Duration 71 minutes. Published by Grossman's Guitar Workshop (MB.13091DVD). For more than 40 years, the name of Chet Atkins has been associated with the finest Nashville-based fingerstyle guitar sounds. Even those records he did not play on showed his influence. Yet his own artistic growth never ceased, as is evident in this second volume of Vestapol's chronological documentation of Chet's career. We see this gentle genius exploring the music of Bob Dylan (Don't Think Twice It's All Right), marching band composer John Phillip Sousa (Stars and Stripes Forever), pop standards (Lover Come Back) and progressive funk (Knuckle Buster). Chet's tonal palette draws varied colors from electric guitars, nylon-strung classics, and even a resophonic guitar. Foremost in this collection are his traditional strengths as a tasteful soloist, but we also see him swap licks with the fiery Jerry Reed and Larry Carlton. The overall impression made by these performances is one of a master quietly demonstrating his continued primacy in his field and doing so with a calm assurance unabated by needless grandstanding. The booklet is not included, but may be downloaded from guitarvideos.com. 71 minutes.