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101 Essential Riffs for Acoustic Guitar
101 Essential Riffs for Acoustic Guitar
Here are over a hundred great riffs that can be played in virtually any style! Easy to learn, these sizzling licks will make learning guitarists better players, whether in blues, folk, bluegrass or country music. Numerous examples are included that will show how to use these lead lines in songs. LEVEL 3
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101 Essential Rock 'n' Roll Chord Progressions
101 Essential Rock 'n' Roll Chord Progressions
This innovative book teaches the chord progressions and rhythms heard on hundreds of legendary rock recordings. This is a great learning/reference sourcebook for beginners and pros alike. All creative musicians and writers who study, perform, or compose rock music will benefit from this book.
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101 Kickin' Country Rhythm Guitar Runs
101 Kickin' Country Rhythm Guitar Runs
This book/CD set teaches 101 rhythm guitar runs played to 21 popular traditional songs. Included in the collection are up-tempo songs ("Cotton-Eyed Joe"), waltzes ("Knoxville Girl"), minor-key songs ("The Wayfaring Stranger"), train songs ("New River Train"), gospel standards ("Amazing Grace"), blues ("Corrine, Corrina"), and more.
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101 Three-Chord Songs for Guitar, Banjo
101 Three-Chord Songs for Guitar, Banjo
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 the perfect book for you.
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20 Gospel Songs That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know
20 Gospel Songs That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know
This detailed course in beginning, intermediate and advanced flatpicking techniques teaches a dazzling set of gospel standards that are great for playing at bluegrass jam sessions or family gatherings.
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20 Swing Tunes That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know
20 Swing Tunes That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know
This series of CDs teaches essential swing guitar repertoire to bluegrass flatpickers. Steve's unique method features three levels: a beginner's version in which he teaches the basic melody; an intermediate arrangement that will give players a solid musical grounding; and finally, a full-blown solo that will challenge any aspiring swing guitarist. Backup tracks make for productive and exciting practice sessions.
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Acoustic Blues Guitar
Acoustic Blues Guitar
This book for intermediate-level guitarists is a follow-up to Kenny's Introduction to Acoustic Blues. It covers blues in five different keys and positions, and incorporates slide or bottleneck playing in both open and standard tunings. All songs are primarily fingerstyle with a monotone bass used for most.
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Acoustic Blues Guitar Essentials
Acoustic Blues Guitar Essentials
Straight from the experts at Acoustic Guitar magazine! The 12 "private lessons" in this book/CD pack are full of helpful examples, licks, great songs, and excellent advice on blues flatpicking rhythm and lead, fingerpicking, and slide techniques from some of the finest teachers around.
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Acoustic Guitar Book 2
Acoustic Guitar Book 2
Acoustic Guitar Book 2 with CD by Bert Casey is the followup course to Acoustic Guitar Primer. This comprehensive book for intermediate players takes your rhythm playing to the next level. By using 17 popular songs, the student plays and sings along with a full band on extended versions of all songs. Video and DVD also available.
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Acoustic Guitar Chord and Harmony Basics
Acoustic Guitar Chord and Harmony Basics
Learn the fundamentals of acoustic guitar, from your first chords and beyond! Whether you're a beginning or an intermediate acoustic guitarist, chords are the foundation for the songs you play. Here's a book that teaches you the real-world chord voicings, shapes and progressions used by today's top acoustic players.
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Acoustic Guitar Lead and Melody Basics
Acoustic Guitar Lead and Melody Basics
The latest in the Private Lessons series from the editors of Acoustic Guitar magazine, this book introduces students to the essentials of playing melodies and leads in a number of roots styles, including folk, blues, Celtic and bluegrass. Includes a full lineup of lessons and 9 songs expertly played.
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Acoustic Guitar Primer
Acoustic Guitar Primer
The only book designed to take the raw beginner through the basics of bluegrass and country guitar, including both rhythm and lead playing. Contains a complete chord chart and all music is written in both standard music notation and tablature. Includes lyrics and melody lines. Companion DVD or VHS tape also available.
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Acoustic Guitar Slide Basics
Acoustic Guitar Slide Basics
David Hamburger, leading sideman, solo performer and teacher, guides players through this complete introduction to bottleneck slide guitar playing with progressive lessons in open tunings and fingerstyle technique, tips on slide guitars and gear, technical exercises, and full songs.
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All Chords in all Positions
All Chords in all Positions
A pocket reference for constructing and playing guitar chords anywhere on the fingerboard. Includes: building chords of all qualities - over 30 types; terminology and intervals; moving chord shapes; sample songs and progressions; open, barre, power, and extended chords; inversions; and more.
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All Star Bluegrass Jam Along For Guitar
All Star Bluegrass Jam Along For Guitar
These fabulous collections for players of all levels feature 21 must-know bluegrss songs & instrumentals, created especially for learning players by the genre's leading artists. The artist plays a basic solo that states the melody of the tune, then a more adventurous improvisation, and each solo is transcribed in detail.
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Alternate Tunings Guitar Essentials
Alternate Tunings Guitar Essentials
]Unlock the secrets of playing and composing in alternate tunings with this unique, comprehensive book/CD pack! Includes an introduction to alternate tunings and the players who have pioneered them (including tips from David Wilcox, David Crosby, Alex de Grassi, Duncan Sheik and more).
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Anyone Can Play Dobro
Anyone Can Play Dobro
Taught by Paul Hayman, a teacher with over 20 years experience, this DVD is designed to teach the basics of Dobro playing to the beginning student. No previous musical experience is needed to be successful with this method.
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Anyone Can Play Guitar Chords
Anyone Can Play Guitar Chords
Designed to help both the beginning and intermediate guitarist learn the most commonly used chords. Through split-screen viewing, the student learns how the chords are fingered and how they should sound.
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Anyone Can Play Guitar Volume 1
Anyone Can Play Guitar Volume 1
Vern Juran has played and taught guitar professionally for over twenty years. His course presents beginning acoustic and electric guitar students with a practical, easy-to-learn approach. No previous knowledge of music is necessary.
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Anyone Can Play Guitar Volume 1
Anyone Can Play Guitar Volume 1
Vern Juran has played and taught guitar professionally for over twenty years. His course presents beginning acoustic and electric guitar students with a practical, easy-to-learn approach. No previous knowledge of music is necessary.
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Anyone Can Play Popular Chord Progressions
Anyone Can Play Popular Chord Progressions
This course is designed for the beginning guitarist who already understands and uses chords in first position. The student will learn many standard chord changes used in thousands of folk, country, blues and rock songs, and in the development of faster chord changing. Booklet included.
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Autoharp
Autoharp
Detailed step-by-step lessons for 10 songs, slow & fast versions of each, strumming & picking patterns, all words & chords, plus each song written out in tab as well as standard music notation.
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Basic Dulcimer Solos
Basic Dulcimer Solos
This book introduces simplified techniques of chording and fingerpicking for both smaller and larger hands and presents dozens of songs in the Ionian, Aeolian, and Mixolydian modes. Directional arrows are shown for correct strumming, along with lyrics and chords for guitar or banjo accompaniment.
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Basic Guitar Chords Volume 2
Basic Guitar Chords Volume 2
In this video, John teaches you how to connect all the chords with fun-to-play "bass runs". He also teaches advanced strums, fingerstyle accompaniments, "Merle Travis" style picking, and country and folk melody picking. When you finish this video you will be able to accompany most types of songs.
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Beginning Country and Bluegrass Dobro
Beginning Country and Bluegrass Dobro
This video will get your skills started off right! Includes detailed study of: Bar technique - pick technique - chimes - trills, bending strings - hammer-ons - pull-offs, slants - rhythm chops - using the cassette recorder - slow songs, fast songs - and much more.
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Beginning Country Bluegrass Bass
Beginning Country Bluegrass Bass
This course contains everything you need to know to get started as the stand-up bass player in a bluegrass, country, or folk group. (it would also be good beginning foundation knowledge for rock, blues, jazz, or pop). Download now from PlayBetterBluegrass.com!
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Beginning Folk Guitar
Beginning Folk Guitar
This video teaches you how to hold and tune your guitar and shows chords used in the keys of D, A, G, and C. In addition, basic strums and accompaniment flatpicking styles are taught in 4/4 and 3/4 time. Finally, you will learn bass runs, beginning melody flatpicking, and a series of songs.
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Beginning Mandolin
Beginning Mandolin
This DVD is designed for the beginner to intermediate level player. A full range of DVD special features have been integrated with video special effects to create the most powerful learning system yet produced by Specialty Music Productions. With your DVD remote control, you're ready to take full advantage of the interactive menus, scene selections, and other easy-to-use features that are there at your fingertips. See how fun and easy it is to learn to play your mandolin in front of your own TV. Download now from PlayBetterBluegrass.com!
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Best of Rock 'N' Roll Guitar
Best of Rock 'N' Roll Guitar
Learn the trademark riffs and solos of rock'n'roll's early guitar pioneers! This book/CD pack provides a step-by-step breakdown of the guitar styles and techniques on 17 songs from the mid-'50s to the pre-Beatles '60s. Includes: Blues Suede Shoes - Bo Diddley - Hello Mary Lou - Hound Dog - more.
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Best Of The Flatt and Scruggs TV Show Vol 8
Best Of The Flatt and Scruggs TV Show Vol 8
The Best of the Flatt and Scruggs TV Show series contains the best musical performances from a long lost TV showtaped in the 1950s and 1960s. Never available before, this footage features Flatt and Scruggs in their prime with their group the Foggy Mountain Boys playing many of their most famous songs as well as many other bluegrass classicsFlatt and Scruggs are one of the most popular bluegrass bands of all time.
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Beyond Basic Bluegrass Rhythm Guitar
Beyond Basic Bluegrass Rhythm Guitar
Flatpicking master teacher Steve Kaufman takes rhythm playing to a whole new level with this in-depth lesson. He covers chord substitutions, walking bass lines, complex chord shapes, and accompaniment ideas for a variety of tunes. AVAILABLE ONLY THROUGH DIGITAL DOWNLOADS Download now from PlayBetterBluegrass.com!
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Bluegrass & Country Music for Harmonica
Bluegrass & Country Music for Harmonica
Contains diatonic, cross harp, and chromatic stylings on 48 country/ bluegrass favorites. The accompaniment CD has 18 of the songs recorded on the beginning tracks with the harmonica, and again without the harmonica included. Shown in standard notation with lyrics, guitar chords & harmonica tab.
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Bluegrass Country Guitar Jamming
Bluegrass Country Guitar Jamming
New! Sit in and jam with a top notch bluegrass band. The definitive fun, practice and playing tool for all guitarists. Includes a full-length DVD, and two bonus CDs. The CDs include 13 songs, each recorded twice - once with a guitar solo, and once without (so that you can solo yourself over the backing tracks.) Notes on each song - including the key, to help center your improvisation - are included in the booklet.
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Bluegrass Guitar
Bluegrass Guitar
A guitar workbook that covers every aspect of bluegrass playing from simple accompaniment to advanced instrumental. Over 30 bluegrass and traditional songs graded from easy to advanced in both standard music notation and tablature. Compact disc included.
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Bluegrass Guitar
Bluegrass Guitar
A collection of traditional and Southern mountain songs progressively arranged in flatpicking guitar style. Many tunes are shown as both lyric versions with guitar chords and as flatpicking guitar solos.
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Bluegrass Guitar Bundle Packs
Bluegrass Guitar Bundle Packs
This budget-saving bundle pack includes: All Star Bluegrass Jam Along for Guitar (Book/CD Pack) Bluegrass Guitar (DVD)
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Bluegrass Guitar DVD
Bluegrass Guitar DVD
Joe teaches you how to get the best possible sound from your guitar and how to play the solid rhythm and great bluegrass licks and bass runs used by all of the famous professional artists. When you finish this video you will have the skills to play all the chords, licks, and runs on almost all of the famous records.
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Bluegrass Guitar Solos That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know Vol. 1
Bluegrass Guitar Solos That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know Vol. 1
Bluegrass Guitar Solos (That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know) features 20 great bluegrass tunes in standard notation and guitar tab and al so contains six 1 hour CD's for play-along with the rhythm track.
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Bluegrass Guitar Solos That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know Vol. 2
Bluegrass Guitar Solos That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know Vol. 2
Steve Kaufman's series of favorite bluegrass tunes has been a perennial best-seller. He teaches the basic melody for the beginning guitarists, then he gets the intermediate players started on a series of great licks and runs.
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Bluegrass Guitar Solos That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know Vol. 3
Bluegrass Guitar Solos That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know Vol. 3
Steve Kaufman's third set of popular lessons for Parking Lot Pickers teaches how to work out guitar breaks to well-known bluegrass songs. You can turn off Steve's lead guitar on your stereo and play along with the rhythm tracks.
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