Parking Lot Picker's Songbook - Dobro
Parking Lot Picker's Songbook - Dobro

Author: Dix Bruce

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2011-01-13

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1610658701

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A collection of over 200 great Bluegrass, Old Time, Country and Gospel standards. Melodies are presented with standard notation and tablature along with lyrics and chords.Learn to play songs written and recorded by the giants of traditional American music: Bill Monroe, the Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs, Ralph Stanley, the Osborne Brothers, Jimmy Martin, Doc Watson and many more. Also included: Step-by-Step instruction on how to transpose any song to any key!The two CDs include recordings of EVERY song in the book.

All-Time Favorite Parking Lot Picker's Mandolin Solos
All-Time Favorite Parking Lot Picker's Mandolin Solos

Author: Dix Bruce

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2012-10-26

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 1619113406

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This book and accompanying audio are an essential compilation of songs, solos, and techniques that every mandolin player should know. The book is aimed at beginning and intermediate mandolinists, and contains 40 mandolin solos of all- time favorite Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Gospel songs. The written music includes melodies, tablature, chords, and all the solos can be heard at both slow and regular speeds on the accompanying audio. Included are easy open string solos, closed position moveable and transposable solos, solos with tremolo, doublestops, bluesy solos, crosspicking solos, and backup mandolin parts. This book has everything you need to play great solos in jam sessions and performances! Includes access to online audio

Flatpickin' the Gospels (For Guitar)
Flatpickin' the Gospels (For Guitar)

Author: Steve Kaufman

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2015-06-01

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 161911500X

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In this book three time National Flatpicking Guitar Champion Steve Kaufman presents rousing guitar solos on 24 gospel favorites. Each song is shown with a melody part in notation and tablature, lyrics, an accompaniment part in tablature and a stirring flat- picking solo in notation and tablature. This recording is designed for listening first and second as an instructional tool. All 24 songs are played through three times at least. The first time is as it appears in the book and the two versions that follow are improvised versions. Making this a listening tool and an ear training tool. Recorded Digital to Analog in true stereo sound. This recording can be used with either Flatpickin' the Gospels or Autoharping the Gospels. Audio and Video download available online

My First Mandolin Picking Songs
My First Mandolin Picking Songs

Author: Steve Kaufman

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2016-01-12

Total Pages: 37

ISBN-13: 1610652290

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This fun and easy mandolin 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's books. Audio CD included.

Bluegrass Jamming on Mandolin
Bluegrass Jamming on Mandolin

Author: Wayne Erbsen

Publisher: Bluegrass Jamming

Published: 2011-08-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781883206611

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This is the first of a new series of easy and fun books by Wayne Erbsen that teaches 31 bluegrass jam standards. It covers: how to jam with others, how to improvise, how to make up your own tasteful licks and fills, almost painless music theory, how to play harmony, how to transpose and play in different keys, and pretty much everything you'll need to march fearlessly into your next jam or picking session! The other books in the series will teach the same songs so you can jam with friends and family. You WILL learn how to play and jam on: All the Good Times Are Past & Gone, Back Up and Push, Black-Eyed Susie, Cherokee Shuffle, Columbus Stockade, Colleen Malone, Dark Hollow, Deep Elem Blues, East Virginia, Footprints in the Snow, Katie Dear, Hand Me Down My Walking Cane, High on a Mountain, I Am a Pilgrim, I've Just Seen the Rock of Ages, John Henry, Just Over in the Gloryland, Little Birdie, Lonesome Road Blues, Love of the Mountains, Mama Don't Allow, Man of Constant Sorrow, More Pretty Girls Than One, Pig in a Pen, Pretty Polly, Red Rocking Chair, Rocky Road Blues, Roll on Buddy, Run and Hide, Sittin' on Top of the World, Working on a Building.

Getting into Bluegrass Mandolin
Getting into Bluegrass Mandolin

Author: Dix Bruce

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2015-10-30

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 1610651197

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Getting into Bluegrass Mandolin is specifically designed to quickly and simply show you how to play bluegrass mandolin. It teaches everything you'll need to know including: chords (both open and 'bluegrass chop' variety), rhythm, single-note playing, double stops, fiddle tunes, playing in all keys (transposing from one key to another), playing backup, introductions or "kickoffs", and tremolo. Lessons use classic bluegrass songs and tunes to help you build a great bluegrass repertoire as you learn. All songs and examples from the book are recorded at both slow and regular speeds on the CD. Written in standard notation and tablature.

Blazing Mandolin Solos
Blazing Mandolin Solos

Author: Steve Kaufman

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2016-07-14

Total Pages: 57

ISBN-13: 1619116367

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This mandolin edition includes the same 16 tunes found in Kaufman's out-of-printTwin Pickin' flatpicking guitar book, soon to be available as Blazing Solos for Flatpicking Guitar for One Player or More. The tunes in both editions are in thesame keys so the books can serve as a foundation for fabulous twin-picking jam sessions in which either guitarists or mandolinists can take the lead and harmony parts. In addition to the tunes, Kaufman includes performance notes, guidelines for reading standard notation and tab plus his take on the harmonization process. A play-along audio with three tracks for each tune (Lead, Harmony, and Lead & Harmony) completes the package. Includes access to online audio

Bluegrass Fakebook
Bluegrass Fakebook

Author: Bert Casey

Publisher: Cassette & Video Learning Systems

Published: 1999-12-01

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 9781893907492

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Bluegrass Fakebook by Bert Casey - This handy songbook contains bluegrass lyrics, bluegrass gospel lyrics, chord progressions, and melody lines to 150 of the all-time favorite Bluegrass songs, including 50 gospel tunes, as well as many new bluegrass songs. Printed in large, easy-to-read type with one song per page, this book is excellent for use on stage or in jam sessions, because everyone can read along. Also includes chord charts for the guitar, banjo, and mandolin to help you learn your favorite bluegrass chords and a listing of currently available recordings of each song. Now all those obscure verses you can never remember are right at your fingertips.

The Real Bluegrass Book
The Real Bluegrass Book

Author: Hal Leonard Corp.

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2011-05-01

Total Pages: 877

ISBN-13: 1495033163

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(Fake Book). This collection gathers more than 300 bluegrass favorites presented in the straightforward Real Book format favored by musicians including lyrics where applicable: Alabama Jubilee * Ballad of Jed Clampett * Bill Cheatham * Blue Ridge Mountain Blues * Bury Me Beneath the Willow * Dixie Hoedown * Down to the River to Pray * Foggy Mountain Top * Highway 40 Blues * How Mountain Girls Can Love * I'm Goin' Back to Old Kentucky * John Henry * Keep on the Sunny Side * The Long Black Veil * My Rose of Old Kentucky * Old Train * Pretty Polly * Rocky Top * Sally Goodin * Shady Grove * Wabash Cannonball * Wayfaring Stranger * Wildwood Flower * The Wreck of the Old '97 * and hundreds more!

Great Mandolin Picking Tunes
Great Mandolin Picking Tunes

Author: Joe Carr

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2015-11-04

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 161065188X

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A new collection of 30 great tunes from a variety of fiddle traditions. Each tune has been specially arranged for mandolin and is presented in both standard notation and tablature. the accompanying CD features all 30 tunes. the tunes include a variety of styles including bluegrass, Texas style, Old Time, Irish reels, some underplayed gems and even a Joe Carr original! This tune book is perfect for building your repertoire.