This comprehensive study of contemporary flatpicking guitar technique presents numerous solos for the beginning through advanced flatpicking guitarist along with tips on creating your own flatpicking arrangements. The book addresses the tablature system,
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This comprehensive study of contemporary flatpicking guitar technique presents numerous solos for the beginning through advanced flatpicking guitarist along with tips on creating your own flatpicking arrangements. The book addresses the tablature system, tuning, right and left-hand technique, use of the capo and the microphone, transposing using the Nashville numbering system, bluegrass back-up, arranging flatpicking solos and instrumentals. If you're into country or bluegrass music, or if you just want to develop outstanding flatpicking technique, this book is for you. Written in standard notation and tablature. The stereo play-along CD features Steve Kaufman's rousing performance of each flatpicking solo! Also includes a
DVD containing some of the solos and techniques presented in the book
Understanding the Notation and Tablature
Notes on the Strings
Types of Notes
Timing
Let's Get Started
Tuning the Guitar the Conventional Way
Harmonics
Tuning with Harmonics
Tuning Your Guitar with a Tuner
Left Hand Placement
The Right Hand
Correct Posture: Playing While Sitting or Standing
Understanding the Capo
The Microphone
Bluegrass Back-Up
Basic Chord Chart
"Amazing Grace" #1
"Amazing Grace" #2
Basic Rhythm Patterns for 1st Position Chords
"The Worried Man Blues"
Beginning Bass Walks
"Lonesome Road Blues"
Complete Bass Walks for Most Bluegrass Situations
"Don't Let Your Deal Go Down"
"Tom Dooley"
"Freight Train"
Transposing: Unlocking the Mystery
Master Numbers Chart
"Yonder Stands Little Maggie"
Arranging Flatpicking Solos for Bluegrass Vocals
"Bury Me Beneath the Willow" #1
"Bury Me Beneath the Willow" #2
Crosspicking Drill
"Bury Me Beneath the Willow" #3
"Will the Circle Be Unbroken" #1
"Will the Circle Be Unbroken" #2
"Wabash Cannonball"
"Way Down Town"
"Going Down the Road Feelin' Bad"
"Wreck of the Old '97"
Arranging Instrumentals from Start to Finish
Flatt Runs
Bluegrass Boogie
"Liberty" -- A
"Old Joe Clark" -- A
"Devil's Dream" -- A
"Sailor's Hornpipe" -- A
"Liberty" -- B
"Old Joe Clark" -- B
"Devil's Dream" -- B
"Sailor's Hornpipe" -- B
Flatpickers Who Influence the Flatpickers
Norman Blake
"Bully of the Town"
"Done Gone"
"High Dad in the Morning"
"Black Mountain Rag"
Doc Watson
"Don't Let Your Deal Go Down"
"Brown's Ferry Blues"
"Salt Creek"
"Billy in the Low Ground"
Tony Rice
"Temperance Reel"
"8th of January"
"Cattle in the Cane"
"Red Haired Boy"
Dan Crary
"Dill Pickle Rag"
"Flop Eared Mule"
"Done Gone"
The Steve Kaufman Approach
"St. Ann's Reel" #1
"St. Ann's Reel" #2
"St. Ann's Reel" #3
