Dix Bruce – Basic Country Flatpicking Guitar. Dix Bruce carefully teaches lead and backup guitar to nine great and classic country, bluegrass, and folk standards, ballads and hot breakdowns played by musicians the world over. Dix demonstrates the basic “bass note/strum” technique and shows how melodies can be easily integrated into known chord patterns. You’ll first learn leads on the country classics Worried Man Blues; Lonesome Valley; Storms are on the Ocean; and Handsome Molly in a variety of different keys. You’ll also learn the all-time guitar hit Wildwood Flower and how to transpose it from the key of...

Jason Loughlin’s 50 Country Masters Licks You Must Know. No other style of popular music demands such guitaristic mastery of right and left-hand techniques as does country guitar and that’s why so many blues, jazz and even rock guitarists beg, borrow and steal techniques and licks from the master of country guitar. As with any musical style, studying its history and evolution is key to its understanding and proficiency. So, grab your guitar and jump on Jason Loughlin’s time machine — he’ll guide you through the history of country music across the fretboards of 34 country guitar masters in...

Rockschool Acoustic Guitar Grade 3 PDF. This book contains everything you need to pass your Grade 3 exam in one essential book, featuring a truly diverse range of contemporary repertoire from some of the world’s most iconic artists, including Foo Fighters, Taylor Swift and Rascal Flatts. Guitar Grade 3 features pieces from the worlds of Rock, Pop, Metal, Blues, Country, Jazz and Acoustic Specialists. Professional backing tracks for both pieces and supporting tests. Duet arrangement available at every grade. Fact files and technical guidance. Ear Tests; Technical Exercises; Sight Reading and Improvisation examples; General Musicianship Questions. Songs include: Foo...

Bryan Sutton’s Secrets For Successful Flatpicking. This extraordinary DVD lesson is filled with spectacular picking, detailed instruction and invaluable advice for aspiring bluegrass guitarists at all levels. Bryan Sutton thoughtfully and methodically lays out his tricks of the trade to help you play any tune and improve your flatpicking speed, power, timing and musicianship. Bryan addresses many of the problems that he sees in aspiring pickers, and passes along tips on how to keep your picking hand and arm tension-free and your fretting hand supple and quick. He provides drills and exercises, teaching an arsenal of licks, bends, double...

Max Milligan – Play Knopfler download. The Play series entertaining instructional programs illustrating the methods and technique made famously recognizable by the world’s greatest guitarists, this release focuses on one of the Sultans of Swing, Mark Knopfler. Known for his expressive slide guitar playing and inventive improvisational skill as well as best known as the lead Guitarist in Dire Straits, since their disbanding in 1995, Mark Knopfler has gone on to record and produce many solo albums and film scores. He has recorded and performed with numerous prominent musical artists such as Bob Dylan, Chet Atkins and Steely Dan!...

Stefan Grossman Complete Country Blues Guitar PDF. Don’t miss a chance to learn a lot of beautiful songs from maestro Stefan Grossman. The lessons are from beginner to advanced level. Over 50 fingerpicking guitar solos in notation and tablature in country blues, Delta blues, ragtime blues, Texas blues and bottleneck styles. An extremely comprehensive blues solo collection. 2 CD’s included. He tabs out fifty-seven songs in a variety of styles and tunings, enough to keep any student busy for a year or more. Each song has at least one fully-transcribed verse. Many have intros and outros, and some are...

John Miller Atlanta Blues Guitar. Atlanta, in the period 1920 -1940, rivaled Memphis, St.Louis, Jackson and Chicago in the strength and vitality of its blues scene. It was home to a unique school of 12-string guitarists that included Blind Willie McTell, Barbecue Bob, Charlie Lincoln, Willie Baker and George Carter. Also on hand were the slick slide guitarist Fred McMullen, the accompaniment king, Curley Weaver and the spectacular up-and-comer, Buddy Moss. The scene was rounded out by an earlier generation of players, Peg Leg Howell foremost among them, who kept alive musical traditions that were in the eclipse. Included...

Tom Kolb Amazing Phrasing PDF. This book/CD pack explores all the main components necessary for crafting well-balanced rhythmic and melodic phrases. It also explains how these phrases are put together to form cohesive solos. Many styles are covered rock, blues, jazz, fusion, country, Latin, funk and more and all of the concepts are backed up with musical examples. The 50 ideas are divided into five main sections: The Basics covers fundamental but all too often forgotten techniques, such as slurs and vibrato, that can breathe new life into your phrases; Melodic Concepts explores various aspects of melodic phrasing, such...

Andre Venturini Slide Guitare PDF. Initiation en tablatures. Blues, Rock, Country. Largement remise au goût du jour, la slide-guitare est une technique reconnaissable entre toutes: on fait glisser sur les cordes un tube métallique (bottleneck), ce qui donne cette sonorité si particulière.Cette méthode très progressive permet de maîtriser toutes les facettes de cette technique: positions des mains et du bottleneck, accordages de la guitare (open-tunings), de nombreux exercices et exemples, tous enregistrés sur le compact disc, dont certains avec play backs, et présentant les divers styles où la slide guitare excelle: Blues, Rock, Country… Cet ouvrage comble un vide...

Toby Walker Fingerpicking Hank Williams. Learn fingerpicking guitar instrumental versions of some of the most popular country songs ever written: Your Cheatin Heart, Move It On Over, My Bucket s Got a Hole In It, Hey Good Lookin ! and Honky Tonkin . The solo guitar arrangements of these timeless classics are fun to play and will build your fingerpicking skills, expand your fretboard knowledge and show you some really cool licks! You can choose how complicated you want your arrangements to get. Hank Williams tunes are simple enough for easy strumming and perfect for more advanced alternate-thumb Travis-style...