A wonderfully diverse collection of 33 great Tommy Flint fingerstyle guitar solos in Nashville lead bluegrass blues and ragtime guitar styles. Tunes include: 'Fisher's Hornpipe' 'Soldier's Joy' 'Amazing Grace' and more. Allselections are in notation and tablature. The audio recording is available as a free download.

Here's the Mandolin music and tab for 15 stirring and uplifting traditional hymns. The CD features gorgeous performances by Butch Baldassari along with other luminaries of the Nashville bluegrass scene.

Bluegrass Classic-This book helps guitarists who are currently stuck playing simple melodies develop fiddle-tune-like solos to bluegrass songs and tunes. Thirteen songs are presented in both a simple ?Carter-style? melody-based arrangementfollowed by a more ?fleshed out? fiddle-style arrangement. Using the licks and concepts presented here guitarists can develop their own unique solos to popular songs. ?Angeline the Baker? is presented in a specialfour-part arrangement that details how to take a simple quarter-note-type melody and develop it into a full eighth-note-based flatpicking solo.

Here is the Forgotten Heritage: Great Banjo Music! Discover the birth of the American fingerstyle banjo in this collection of 28 of the finest tunes culled from banjo publications between 1860 and 1887. Learn amazing banjomusic by some of the early leading players James Buckley Albert Baur and the great Frank B. Converse the greatest virtuoso of his day. From folk-style dances to parlor dances such as the Polka Mazurka and Schottische toadvanced Romantic-period classical-style solos. Can be played on modern banjos or period-style instruments. The audio recording by Rob MacKillop features a gut-strung banjo and is played with the flesh of the fingertips in theold American tuning. For modern instrument players Rob has provided TAB and a Standard Notation stave at modern banjo pitch. Clawhammer players will find many of the pieces in the book suitable for their technique andbluegrass/fingerstyle players will be able to play all the pieces. Rob MacKillop provides a fascinating introductory essay placing the music in its historical context while his audio of performances can be viewed as astand-alone recording by a leading player in the revival of this great American banjo heritage. Includes access to online audio.

This fun and easy bluegrass fiddle book and CD takes you from the very beginning. Starting with an introduction to the instrument the book teaches you basic fiddle technique such as holding the bow and provides scales andexercises setting the foundation for the repertoire found in the book. Featuring classics such as 'Boil E'm Cabbage Down' 'Cripple Creek' and 'Old Joe Clark' this book will get you playing in no time!

After the Civil War the ?up picking? finger style of playing the 5-string banjo came into vogue ? eventually finding its way into the Victorian parlor and later college glee and music clubs. The original down picking style didn't entirely die out because throughout the reaminder of the 19th Century new methods for the banjo often included a number of songs in the older two-finger banjo style of performance. Perhaps the most intricate set of songs to appear in the ?original? banjo style were these 34 progressive pieces found in Frank B. Converse's Analytical Banjo Method from 1887. Those songs presentedin this book for clawhammer banjo offer a nice mix of banjo characteristic pieces medleys and new compositions from Converse.

This is not just another book of Irish session tunes. It represents the relatively unknown repertoire of a single Irish traditional musician Packie Manus Byrne of Donegal. There has been considerable interest in the music ofDonegal over the past 10 years or so especially with the rise of groups such as Altan. Packie Manus Byrne is a familiar name to traditional-music lovers in Ireland and the UK where he enjoyed a successful career as a folkperformer for more than 20 years. Almost all these tunes were being played in Packie's home area between 1925 and 1935; the collection is thus something of a 'time capsule' with a unity of origin and style that sets it apart fromother collections. The 85 genuine old traditional tunes are being made public for the first time. This unique collection with all the background information and stories gives the reader a real sense of the community out of whichthe music came and the characters who played it. Suitable for fiddle tin whistle flute and other traditional instruments. The CD includes 33 of the tunes performed by Jean Duval Stephen Jones Johanne St. Laurent Lynda Dowker and Reinhard Görner on a variety of instruments.

Recorded lessons from one of America’s greatest guitarists Johnny Hiland teaches rhythm patterns essential to the working guitarist in the styles of Bluegrass Country Country Rock Blues and Swing. Lessons in standard notationand TAB with complete audio instruction.

The ukulele has had a place in American acoustic music for decades; recently however interest in the instrument has surged. Historically overlooked by traditional bluegrass groups the ukulele - an indispensable component ofmany newgrass bands - is becoming increasingly featured in bluegrass-at-large often performing the roles traditionally associated with the mandolin. Ukulele Bluegrass Solos will teach you how to use the uke in any bluegrasssetting. It demonstrates a variety of roles for the uke presenting various concepts in the context of the repertoire associated with the genre.

You need only minimal playing skills and three chords--G C and D7--to accompany all the great songs in this innovative book. If you are just getting started or if you are a 'casual' player on a chording instrument this is theperfect book for you. The book is absolutely bursting with a great variety of music: Old-time bluegrass gospel Christmas children's tunes Stephen Foster British and Celtic cowboy blues and more. Because melody and lyricsare provided with every song singers will also enjoy this wonderful collection of the world's favorite songs. Truly a book of outstanding arrangements made playable for folks who play for their own enjoyment. (Some of thesesongs like 'Dark Hollow' and 'Way Downtown ' are hard to find in print.) Guitar uke and five-string banjo diagrams are included for the three chords along with tips on strumming and transposing tips for singers. An invaluablereference book for teachers and pros too!

Steve Kaufman takes his favorite American fiddle tunes for the Mandolin and puts them alphabetically in four volumes. Steve plays the Mandolin exactly as it is written so the student can hear the melody and dynamics just as hewould play it. Accompanying the large set of books are audio tracks online with Guitar rhythm accompaniment included. Build your repertoire right and left hand skills and have fun playing at jam sessions with your friends. This 4volume set written specifically for the Mandolin also has a sister series for Guitar.

With My Banjo On My Knee... The Banjo Songs of Stephen Foster includes some of the first and most popular songs written for this evocative instrument. As well as the complete lyrics to each song and an extensive bibliography there are also historical notes that describe the meaning of the songs their place in history the significance and influence of the musicians who first performed them. The included CD contains demonstration recordings of each arrangement performed on solo minstrel banjo.

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 thegiants 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 andsong to any key! Includes access to online audio of every song in the book.