Details
- Genres:
- Bluegrass
- Composers:
- Joe Carr
- Publishers:
- Mel Bay Publications, Inc
- Series:
- First Lessons
- ISBN:
- 9780786687954
- Item types:
- Physical
- Instructionals:
- Lesson Books
- Level:
- Beginning
- Artist:
- Joe Carr
- Usages:
- School and Community
- Number of Pages:
- 40
- Size:
- 8.75 x 11.75 inches
- Shipping Weight:
- 0.31 pounds
SKU: MB.99973M
With online audio and video. Composed by Joe Carr. This edition: Saddle Stitch. Flatpicking Guitar, Guitar Methods, Style, Bluegrass, Country, Saddle-stitched. First Lessons. Country/Bluegrass. Book and online audio/video. 40 pages. Mel Bay Publications, Inc #99973M. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.99973M).ISBN 9780786687954. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.
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 online audio and video 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 online audio and video of all exercises and tunes.
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
Salt River
Playing Up the Neck
Second position "A" Scale
Red Haired Boy 1 and 2
Crosspicking
Wildwood Flower Crosspicking
Hand Me Down My Walking Cane
Bill Cheatham
Conclusion
Advanced Arrangements
Ragtime Annie
Blackberry Blossom
- More by this Composer:
- Joe Carr Joe Carr Bluegrass Fiddle Joe Carr Mandolin Joe Carr Ukulele
- Series:
- First Lessons
- Instrument:
- Folk Fiddle Bluegrass Fiddle Guitar Acoustic Guitar Guitar Electric Guitar Guitar Flatpicking Guitar
- Artists:
- Joe Carr
- Publisher:
- Mel Bay Publications, Inc