First Lessons Flatpicking Guitar
by Joe Carr
Product Number: 99973SET
ISBN: 078662910X
Publisher: Mel Bay Pub., Inc.
Difficulty Level: Beginning
Format: Book+CD+DVD
This new book is perfect for beginners, players with a little experience and guitarists who want a good grounding in the flatpicking style. Using popular American fiddle tunes, Joe introduces the important basics of good flatpicking including pick direction, fingering, and hand position. The accompanying CD and DVD provides a clear performance of each exercise and tune. An introduction to playing up the neck in closed positions is included as well as several of Joe`s own advanced arrangements of jam session favorites. Includes: Wildwood Flower, Soldier`s Joy, Red Haired Boy, Whiskey Before Breakfast, Old Joe Clark, Salt Creek and more.
Perfect for beginners, players with a little
experience and guitarists wanting good grounding
in flatpicking style.
Uses popular American fiddle tunes.
Introduces basics of good flatpicking pick
direction fingering and hand position.
Companion CD and DVD of all exercises and tunes.
DVD 35:00 minutes.
CONTENTS
About the Author/Introduction
Equipment
Tuning
Capo Use Chart
Choosing a Flatpick
Basic Alternating Picking Rules
Basic Chords
Left Hand Techniques
Pull Offs
Bass Strum Pull-off Exercise
Slides
Licks and Runs
The Carter Style
"Wildwood Flower"
Flatpicking Fiddle Tunes
"Old Joe Clark" 1, 2, and 3
"Arkansas Traveler"
"Red Haired Boy"
"Whiskey Before Breakfast"
Developing Speed
Basic Open Major Scales
Fingerboard Note Chart
Chords
Fingering
Syncopation
Jam Session Favorites
"Cripple Creek"
"Temperance Reel"
"Ragtime Annie
"Salt River"
Playing Up the Neck
"Whiskey Before Breakfast"
Second position "A" Scale
"Red Haired Boy" 1 and 2
Crosspicking
"Wildwood Flower" Crosspicking
"Hand Me Down My Walking Cane
Advanced Arrangements
"Blackberry Blossom"
"Bill Cheatham"
Conclusion
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