Steve Kaufman: Learn To Play Waltzes: Guitar Solo: Instrumental Tutor

DVD 3-Move beyond the basics and get into the finer points of bluegrass flatpicking. You''ll be jamming with the best of them once you've mastered the tunes and techniques on this final DVD in this series.Steve Kaufman broadens your musical vocabulary by focusing on the essentials of good picking techniques. You'll learn to play six classic fiddle tunes - Liberty Salt Creek Blackberry Blossom Clarinet Polka Home Sweet Home and Ragtime Annie. Steve slows each one down highlighting the tricky areas and then playing it up-to-speed so you'll hear how it should sound in performance.You'll learn how to dress up your solos usingslides arpeggios bends accents and a variety of intros and endings. Detailed instruction in the intricacies of crosspicking will help give your playing more rhythmic appeal and style. Steve devotes much-needed attention to one of the most challenging areas for intermediate players - how to build speed - giving you invaluable advice on practicing testing yourself and perfecting left and right hand positions to help you accomplish your goals.

DVD One: From the Beginning-Steve Kaufman's comprehensive '101-level course' lays down all the groundwork needed to really dig into the flatpicking style. He starts at the beginning with close-up examinations of how to hold and use the pick the distinctions between lead and chord playing and how to get good clarity from your hand positions. Steve introduces you to a variety of essential techniques and skills concentrating on the pick and the finer points of strumming and accompanying vocals. His detailed instruction will help you develop your mastery of ringing and sustain notes ahmmer-ons pull-offs note bending C runs and other skills. With this method you get ampleopportunity to advance at your own pace. You'll play along with Steve on slow renditions of popular flatpicking tunes gradually working up to regular speed;

50 Celtic Jigs And Waltzes For Mandoln-Steve Kaufman Three Time National Flatpicking Champion does it again. This installment of a four part series brings us Steve's favorite Celtic Jigs and Waltzes transcribed for the mandolin (and fiddletoo).This is a large collection of reels will build your repertoire as well as help you develop more ideas licks and runs for arranging your own melodies. All the songs in the book are played note for note on theaccompanying online audio download. Your goal is to learn the song memorize it and then race with the Champ. Includes access to online audio.

A Song For Every Holiday-Learn to play Bluegrass-style arrangements of eleven beloved songs each one associated with an important season or holiday. Designed with the elementary player in mind this DVD tutorial will transform your flatpick technique whilst adding a bunch of well-known songs to your repertoire.Fear not - these are not just simple songs as Steve throws in enough licks chord-shapes cross-picking patterns and melody lines to get you really hooked! Not only will your playing reach a new level but both you and your audience will also enjoy a new take on some truly timeless American holiday classics.

My First Blues Guitar Picking Songs is the perfect primer for anyone interested in learning blues guitar played with a pick. An addition to Steve Kaufman's 'My First' series the book starts the student from the very beginning. Basic chords and notation are presented progressing to blues strummingpatterns and lines. Lessons also cover blues scales tablature I-IV-V chords and more. The book is perfect for anyone interested in learning blues guitar and experienced tab readers who wish to learn standard notation.

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'books. Includes access to online audio.

The idea here is to help coordinate the pickers so you all have solos to play and they can be played in the same key. What a concept - a 'Band in the Book'. Within these pages you will find solos for the entire band: leadguitar rhythm guitar banjo mandolin fiddle and bass. The mandolin and fiddle share the same tunings so their solos are just written once for both. If you are just starting out and you are having difficulty-finding solos foryour level - look no more. These solos are written for the beginner level student assuming you can already play a few simple solos or lead breaks. This series will help you to learn solos on multiple instruments help organizeensemble play help develop a steady sense of timing and give you hours of enjoyment as well.

This book is an extension of Flatpickin' the Gospels by Steve Kaufman with autoharp arrangements written by Carol Stober. She makes it easy to learn these great gospel tunes on the autoharp! This book can be used to play chordsalong with singing or for playing the melody solo. The arrangements are written as simply as possible to facilitate sight reading so that you do not have to memorize the tune in order to play up to tempo. Complete lyrics areincluded. In notation and tablature.