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Flatpicking Guitar Magazine Back Issue "Legends of Flatpicking" Package
Flatpicking Guitar Magazine Back Issue "Legends of Flatpicking" Package
Price: $8.00

This Back Issue Package includes 6 of our "Legends of Flatpicking Guitar" issues. This includes all of our issues that feature Doc Watson, Tony Rice, Clarence White, Dan Crary, and Norman Blake on the cover.
You get:
Volume 1, Number 5: Norman Blake Issue
Volume 2, Number 1: Dan Crary Issue
Volume 2, Number 5: Clarence White Issue
Volume 2, Number 6: Doc Watson Issue
Volume 3, Number 1: Tony Rice Issue
Volume 16, Number 6: Doc Watson Tribute Issue
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Acoustic Guitar Fundamentals DVD - Tim Stafford
Acoustic Guitar Fundamentals DVD - Tim Stafford
Price: $10.00

In this 2-hour DVD from bluegrass guitar veteran Tim Stafford you will learn the fundamental skills that will make you a better guitar player no matter what your current ability level.

Tuning, Timing, Tone, Technique, and Taste are all essential skills that guitar players from beginners to professionals need to address on a regular basis. Tim's masterful presentation of these concepts and the practical, time tested methods he teaches you on this video will not only help you understand, improve and maintain these skills, but will advance your overall guitar skills considerably.
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Clinch Mountain Guitar DVD / TAB -  James Alan shelton
Clinch Mountain Guitar DVD / TAB - James Alan shelton
Price: $10.00

In this one-hour instructional DVD James Alan Shelton and George Shuffler demonstrate and teach the guitar techniques that helped change the role of the guitar in bluegrass music. The music of the Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys has featured lead guitar work since Bill Napier and George Shuffler brought the guitar to the forefront of the Stanley's music in the late 1950s. This video begins with James Alan Shelton, the current lead guitar player for Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys, picking a tune with the legendary George Shuffler. James then interviews George regarding the development of his "crosspicking" guitar technique. George demonstrates the technique and provides a guitar solo to one of the tunes he helped to make a bluegrass standard, "Will You Miss Me." George and James then pick "Katy Dear" together and demonstrate their crosspicking talents. more info
Flatpick Jam - Volume 2 DVD - Brad Davis
Flatpick Jam - Volume 2 DVD - Brad Davis
Price: $10.00

With Brad Davis' Flatpick Jam Volume 2, you are never without a jamming partner. Each of these two-hour videos is packed with flatpicking jam session favorites (11 tunes on each video). Brad plays each tune at four different tempos (slow, slow/medium, medium/fast, and fast) so that you can work on your tone, timing, note clarity, and fluidity at the slower tempos and then work to develop your speed at the higher tempos.
At each tempo Brad takes a solo then plays rhythm so you can take your solo. At the three higher tempos Brad swaps solos and rhythm with you twice. This gives you the opportunity to practice your solo and rhythm seven times on every tune. On each tune Brad plays a variety of rhythmic and lead styles. A bass line and mandolin chop accompany every song at every tempo, and chord changes are indicated on-screen (for the slow tempo).
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Flatpick Jam - Volume 3 DVD - Brad Davis
Flatpick Jam - Volume 3 DVD - Brad Davis
Price: $10.00

With Brad Davis' Flatpick Jam Volume 3, you are once again never without a jamming partner. This two-hour session is packed with 11 flatpicking jam favorites. Brad plays each tune at four different tempos (slow, slow/medium, medium/fast, and fast) so that you can work on your tone, timing, note clarity, and fluidity at the slower tempos and then work to develop your speed at the higher tempos. more info
Orrin Star's Bluegrass Rhythm Guitar Workshop DVD/tab
Orrin Star's Bluegrass Rhythm Guitar Workshop DVD/tab
Price: $10.00

Having created the first day-long workshop devoted exclusively to rhythm playing, renowned flatpicker Orrin Star has helped guitarists around the country improve their rhythm skills. This 95-minute video offers an enhanced version of Orrin's live workshop, featuring additional bass runs and songs, a new section on playing with other guitarists, and a guest appearance by Kenny Smith. more info
Advanced Bluegrass Rhythm Guitar DVD - Wyatt Rice
Advanced Bluegrass Rhythm Guitar DVD - Wyatt Rice
Price: $10.00

In this 90-minute DVD, rhythm guitar master Wyatt Rice teaches you how to greatly expand your rhythm guitar abilities by teaching: crosspicking rhythm; syncopated rhythm; a variety of right hand patterns combined with left hand technique to develop a "groove" rhythm; unique bass runs; passing chords; chord substitutions; and chord inversions. Additionally, Wyatt is shown improvisationally accompanying various instruments (banjo, fiddle, guitar, mandolin) and then analyzing what he has done to provide the rhythmic foundation behind each instrument. Special guest appearances by Rickie Simpkins, Kenny Smith, Sammy Shelor, and Tony Rice. Wyatt Rice has been one of the top rhythm guitar players in bluegrass and acoustic music for the past 20 years. He has been a member of the Tony Rice Unit since 1984. Of Wyatt's rhythm, Tony Rice has said, "He gave the band a fuller voice and an easily identifiable sound. Things that I did with the guitar I could not otherwise have done if Wyatt's rhythm guitar had not been there."

This item is also available for digital download at Flatpick Digital Academy:  Click Here to Access that Website.
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Flatpick Jam DVD - Volume 4 - Brad Davis
Flatpick Jam DVD - Volume 4 - Brad Davis
Price: $10.00

With Brad Davis' Flatpick Jam Series, you are never without a jamming partner. Each DVD contains 11 flatpick jam favorites. Brad plays each tune at four different tempos (slow, slow/medium, medium/fast, and fast) so that you can work on your tone, timing, note clarity, and fluidity at the slower tempos and then work to develop your speed at the higher tempos. more info
Improving Technique DVD - Tim May & Dan Miller
Improving Technique DVD - Tim May & Dan Miller
Price: $10.00

n this 90-minute DVD video Tim May and Dan Miller teach the details of right and left hand technique and mechanics that will help any pick style acoustic guitar player improve their speed, tone, note accuracy, fluidity, volume, and power. more info
Creating Solos & Embellishing the Melody DVD - Tim May & Dan Miller
Creating Solos & Embellishing the Melody DVD - Tim May & Dan Miller
Price: $10.00

In this 102 minute (1 hour and 42 minutes) instructional DVD video Tim May and Dan Miller teach you how to find the chord progression and melody to any vocal song or instrumental tune by ear and then they show you how to embellish that melody in order to create your own interesting and tasteful guitar solo. more info
   
 
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