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Here is the first book with easy bluegrass and old time country tunes arranged especially for children. Your little picker will enjoy countless hours playing these wonderful standards, several of which are difficult to find in print anywhere. Each tune is written in standard notation and tablature (no note reading ability is required). The book is accessible to absolute beginners. Also included are picking tips, lyrics, and chord symbols for big pickers. This unique book will help your child learn about his or her musical heritage, while he or she has fun picking out the tunes. We also recommend this book for casual adult guitar pickers. Tunes include Blue Ridge Mountain Blues, Dark Hollow, Dixie, Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss, Foggy Mountain Top, If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again, Mama Don’t Allow, Man (Maid) of Constant Sorrow, Nelly Bly, Sourwood Mountain, and more.

Easy Bluegrass Songs for Little Guitar Pickers book and CD

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Here’s your chance to learn the basics of bluegrass back-up guitar! Steve Kaufman teaches you how to play solid rhythm, from playing behind the simplest two-chord song to the complex chord progressions needed to accompany Texas-style fiddle tunes.

Steve starts with the fundamentals, showing you how to hold the pick, get good tone, and play the basic bass/chord rhythm patterns solidly and accurately. Then he moves on to important embellishments, such as adding bass walks, playing the famous Lester Flatt “G run,” altering your chord shapes to add moving bass lines within a song and other essential techniques. Steve also provides valuable insiders’ tips, such as “how to keep up when the going gets fast,” and developing “muscle memory” for more accurate chord work.

This lesson in back-up rhythm guitar is illustrated with some classic bluegrass tunes. Playing along with Steve will give you the practice you’ll need to use these techniques in other bluegrass songs. You’ll soon be playing solid back-ups in jam sessions or any picking situation!

Songs: “Wabash Cannonball,” “Blackberry Blossom,” “Sally Goodin.”

Basic Bluegrass Rhythm Guitar

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One of the most frequent questions we get is “What do I do when it’s time to take a solo in a bluegrass song?” If you’re ready to acquire all the skills needed to step out and take a break, Steve Kaufman’s lesson is tailor-made for you!

Steve is joined by veteran singer and guitarist John Herald, best known for his work with the legendary band, the Greenbriar Boys, who lends his bluegrass vocals to six classic tunes. Their in-depth hour of performance and analysis prepares you to create your own distinctive guitar solos, tasteful rhythmic backups, and full arrangements to complement any bluegrass singer.

“Blue Ridge Mountain Blues” sets the stage for Steve’s study method. As with each tune, he slows it down and takes it apart section-by-section, showing you how to find, arrange and embellish melodies while working off the tune’s basic chord structure.

Steve covers a wide variety of picking devices — licks, runs, rolls, endings, triplets, hammer-ons — the true benchmark of an in-demand accompanist. In “Wabash Cannonball,” perhaps the most famous “train song” in the bluegrass vault, Steve steps off the track to show you how to create an authentic “train whistle” guitar lick. He then mirrors John’s vocal yodeling with stringed yodel licks in the evocative “Peach Picking Time In Georgia.”

“East Virginia Blues” highlights essential crosspicking patterns, and Steve gives a detailed examination of its open strings and chordal repetitions. The duo’s lovely rendition of the waltz; “Somebody Loves You, Darling” is an irresistible invitation to dig into the often misunderstood key of F. Steve spices up the standard I-IV-V progressions of “‘Til The End Of The World Goes ‘Round” with the break from “Ragtime Annie” before closing with a red-hot medley that’s downright inspiring.

If you follow Steve’s lead, your entire repertoire of guitar solos and arrangements will soon shine like well-polished gems!

DVD-Lead Guitar Breaks For Bluegrass Songs

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You need only minimal playing skills and three chords – G, C, and D7 – to accompany each song in this innovative book. This is the perfect book for beginners, casual musicians, and teaching studios. The book is absolutely bursting with an abundance of timeless standards, many of which are rarely found in print. All songs are made playable for folks who play for their own enjoyment. Melody, lyrics, and chords are included for each song. We invite your entire family to enjoy this unique book. It is also an excellent, compact fakebook for pros.

Mel Bay Presents 101 Three Chord Songs for Country & Bluegrass Songs For Guitar, Banjo, & Uke

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You need only minimal playing skills and three chords – G, C, and D7 – to accompany each song in this innovative book. This is the perfect book for beginners, casual musicians, and teaching studios. The book is absolutely bursting with an abundance of timeless standards, many of which are rarely found in print. All songs are made playable for folks who play for their own enjoyment. Melody, lyrics, and chords are included for each song. We invite your entire family to enjoy this unique book. It is also an excellent, compact fakebook for pros.

Mel Bay Presents 101 Three Chord Songs for Country & Bluegrass Songs For Guitar, Banjo, & Uke

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