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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

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

An Approach to Improvisation DVD - Tim May & Dan Miller

An Approach to Improvisation DVD - Tim May & Dan Miller

Price: $10.00

In this instructional DVD Tim May and Dan Miller, authors of the popular eight-volume "Flatpicking Essentials" course, teach you an approach to improvising guitar solos. You will first learn what scale notes will best fit over diatonic (of the key) chord progressions, and how to employ those scale tones using techniques such as scale runs, folded scales, harmonized scales, and crosspicking. Next you will learn how to target chord tones in your solo as the tune changes from one chord to another, thus moving with the structure of the tune and getting closer to the melody. Then you will learn how to use techniques like phrasing, note articulation, and dynamics to make your improvised solos better fit the song while sounding interesting and engaging, while remaining tasteful.

Learning Music By Ear For All Stringed Instruments - Book and CD

Learning Music By Ear For All Stringed Instruments - Book and CD

Price: $10.00

Learning how to play your musical instrument by ear is a skill that is vital to your development as a musician. While reading music is also a valuable skill, in many forms of music—folk, old-time, bluegrass, rock, Celtic, blues, country, jazz—you are not typically going to have a music stand sitting in front of you at a jam session or stage performance. Also, in these genres of music, it is very likely that a given song that you want to learn will not be available to you in written form and so the only way you will be able to learn the song is if you know how to do it by ear.

Flatpick Jam CD Package - Volumes 1 and 2 Hardcopy CDs

Flatpick Jam CD Package - Volumes 1 and 2 Hardcopy CDs

Price: $12.00

Flatpick Jam Volume 1 and 2 Bundle: Hardcopy

With Brad Davis' Flatpick Jam Volume 1, you are never without a jamming partner. Each CD 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. At each tempo Brad takes a solo and 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.

Flatpick Jam CD - Volume 1 - Brad Davis

Price: $14.95

With Brad Davis' Flatpick Jam Volume 1, you are never without a jamming partner. Each CD 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.

Alan Munde Banjo Tunes Arranged for Guitar by Tim May

Alan Munde Banjo Tunes Arranged for Guitar by Tim May

Price: $16.95

Alan Munde is a legend in the bluegrass banjo world and his original tunes have been among the favorite tunes played by banjo players for decades. Unfortunately, until now, when a banjo player brings out one of these great tunes at a jam session, the guitar player may either not be as familiar with the tune, or not know how to play it on his instrument. Tim May has solved that problem.

Flatpicking Guitar Christmas - by Roberto Della Vecchia

Flatpicking Guitar Christmas - by Roberto Della Vecchia

Price: $19.95

Flatpicking Guitar Christmas: 10 Carols Arranged for Solo Flatpicking Guitar
Book and Audio CD
By Roberto Dalla Vecchia

During the holiday season, it is not uncommon for guitar players to be asked by family and friends if they would play a few seasonal tunes. Unfortunately, most guitar players do not spend a lot of time practicing and learning these tunes. For a flatpicker, picking up the guitar and playing a Christmas melody without the accompaniment of other musicians is something that is typically outside of their comfort zone. But that doesn't have to be the case!

Solo Flatpicking Guitar by Roberto Dalla Vecchia

Solo Flatpicking Guitar by Roberto Dalla Vecchia

Price: $19.95

Solo Flatpicking Guitar: 10 Favorite Fiddle Tunes
Since flatpicking guitar players typically perform and record in the ensemble setting, flatpicking solos are usually arranged in the context of other instruments providing rhythmic and harmonic accompaniment. While those single note linear solos sound great when played in the context of an ensemble, they can sound quite sparse and lacking in texture and dimension if the flatpicking guitar player is playing alone. More and more, flatpickers are exploring solo performance. Well known flatpickers like Dan Crary, Beppe Gambetta, Steve Kaufman, David Grier, Robert Bowlin and Orrin Star, and others, are performing and/or recording as solo acts. These players are adding techniques such as open ringing notes, chordal strums, chord-melody style phrases, floating licks, drone notes, and crosspicking to their linear lines in order to add a full texture and broad dimension to solo performances. But still, written material arranged for the solo player is not so easy to find. Solo Flatpicking Guitar aims to fix that problem.

Flatpicking Guitar Magazine Back Issue Fundamentals Package

Flatpicking Guitar Magazine Back Issue Fundamentals Package

Price: $20.00

In the Flatpicking Fundamentals Value Package you will receive the following back issues, with audio CDs included:

Flatpicking Fiddle Tunes (Volume 13, Number 4)
Flatpicking Fiddle Tunes, Number 2 (Volume 15, Number 3)
The Back to Basics Issue (Volume 16, Number 1)
The Crosspicking Issue (Volume 16, Number 5)

Flatpicking Guitar Magazine Back Issue Fiddle Tune Package

Flatpicking Guitar Magazine Back Issue Fiddle Tune Package

Price: $20.00

This Special Back Issue Package includes 4 of our special Fiddle Tune style issues. This includes our two Fiddle Tune Issues plus our Waltz Issue and our Old-Time Music Issue. Each of these issues are packed with two arrangements each of 20 different tunes. This complete package gives you two arrangements 80 great tunes!
You get:
Volume 13, Number 4: Fiddle Tune Issue 1
Volume 15, Number 3: Fiddle Tune Issue 2
Volume 17, Number 4: Waltz Issue
Volume 18, Number 4: Old-Time Tune Issue

Flatpicking Guitar Magazine Back Issue Guitar Styles Package 1

Flatpicking Guitar Magazine Back Issue Guitar Styles Package 1

Price: $20.00

This Special Back Issue Package includes 4 of our special Guitar Style issues. This includes our Gypsy Jazz Issue, our Western Swing Issue, our Blues Issue, and our Swing and Jazz Issue.
You get:
Volume 6, Number 3: Gypsy Jazz Issue
Volume 10, Number 2: Western Swing Issue
Volume 12, Number 3: Blues Issue
Volume 14, Number 6: Swing and Jazz Issue

Flatpicking Guitar Magazine Back Issue Guitar Styles Package 2

Flatpicking Guitar Magazine Back Issue Guitar Styles Package 2

Price: $20.00

This Back Issue Package includes 4 of our special Guitar Style issues. This includes our Celtic Guitar Issue, our Pioneers of Flatpicking Issue, our Folk Music Issue, and our Gospel Guitar Issue.
You get:
Volume 8, Number 3: Celtic Guitar Issue
Volume 11, Number 4: Pioneers of Flatpicking Issue
Volume 11, Number 6: Folk Music Issue
Volume 19, Number 3: Gospel Guitar Issue

Flatpicking Guitar Magazine Back Issue Guitar Technique Package

Flatpicking Guitar Magazine Back Issue Guitar Technique Package

Price: $20.00

This Back Issue Package includes 4 of our special Guitar Technique issues. This includes our Rhythm Guitar Issue, our Guitar Jam Issue, our Back to Basics Issue, and our Crosspicking Issue.
You get:
Volume 8, Number 1: Rhythm Guitar Issue
Volume 14, Number 2: Guitar Jam Issue
Volume 16, Number 1: Back To Basics Issue
Volume 16, Number 5: Crosspicking Issue

Flatpicking Essentials - Volume 1: Rhythm, Bass Runs, and Fill Licks Book / Audio CD by Dan Miller

Flatpicking Essentials - Volume 1: Rhythm, Bass Runs, and Fill Licks Book / Audio CD by Dan Miller

Price: $24.95

Flatpicking Essentials, Volume 1: Rhythm, Bass Runs, and Fill Licks - Spiral Bound Book and CD
Written and Compiled by Flatpicking Guitar Magazine Editor Dan Miller
This 96-page spiral bound instructional book, with audio CD, teaches you how to play interesting and exciting rhythm guitar accompaniment by showing you how to fill the rhythm guitarist roles of: Keeping Good Time, Outlining the Chord, Leading the Listener's Ear to the Chord Change, and adding Texture, Excitement, Drive, and Interest. The goal of this book and accompanying CD is to make you a better rhythm player, and to also prepare you to begin playing lead guitar in Volume 2 (Learning How to Solo: Carter Style Leads and Beyond).

Flatpicking Essentials - Volume 2: Learning How to Solo - Carter Style and Beyond Book / audio CD by Dan Miller

Flatpicking Essentials - Volume 2: Learning How to Solo - Carter Style and Beyond Book / audio CD by Dan Miller

Price: $24.95

Learning How to Solo - Carter Style and Beyond This Edition is the Spiral Bound Hardcopy Book with 2 CDs
You CAN learn how to take a guitar solo on ANY vocal tune!! In the 108-pages of Volume 2 of the Flatpicking Essentials series you will be given very detailed instruction designed to teach you how to:
1) Select a Vocal Song
2) Learn the Chord Progression by Ear
3) Learn the Basic Melody by Ear
4) Find the Carter Style Arrangement
5) Learn How to Simplify the Melody
6) Embellish the Carter Style Arrangement using techniques such as hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, alternate chord strums, tremolo, double stops, crosspicking, neighboring notes, scale runs, drones, and fill licks.

Flatpicking Essentials - Volume 3: Flatpicking Fiddle Tunes Book / 2 CDs by Dan Miller

Flatpicking Essentials - Volume 3: Flatpicking Fiddle Tunes Book / 2 CDs by Dan Miller

Price: $24.95

Flatpicking Fiddle Tunes
Flatpicking and fiddle tunes go hand-in-hand. However, in this day and age too many beginning and intermediate level players rely too heavily on tablature when learning fiddle tunes. This becomes a problem in the long run because the player eventually reaches a plateau in their progress because they don't know how to learn new tunes that are not written out in tablature, they do not know how to create their own variations of tunes that they already know, and it becomes very hard to learn how to improvise. Flatpicking Essentials, Volume 3 helps to solve all of those problems. In this volume of the Flatpicking Essentials series you are going to learn valuable information about the structure of fiddle tunes and then you are going to use that information to learn how to play fiddle tunes by ear, and create your own variations.

The Flatpicker's Guide to Irish Music by Dan Miller and Tim May

The Flatpicker's Guide to Irish Music by Dan Miller and Tim May

Price: $24.95

Tim May and Dan Miller's book and audio CD "The Flatpicker's Guide to Irish Music" (116 pages) introduces the flatpicking guitar player to ten common Irish tunes and the theory and technique of Irish rhythm. The first part of the book discusses the theory and technique of Irish guitar rhythm, to include right hand technique, chord substitutions, and bass movement within chords. In a typical Irish session, the lead instruments will all play the melody simultaneously and the rhythm guitar player will improvise the chord changes behind the melody. In the second part of the book each of the ten tunes presented include a study the melody of the tune, variations on the melody, standard chords for the tune, and chord substitution variations. The tunes presented cover 3/4, 4/4, 6/8, and 9/8 time signatures and a variety of typical embellishments that are common to Irish music. The concept of modes is also addressed as the tunes that are presented include tunes played in the Ionian, Aeolian, and Dorian modes. Additional rhythm ideas that include harmonized scale rhythm, Drop D rhythm, and DADGAD chords are also presented.

The Big Book of Crosspicking

Price: $24.95

During our twenty years of publication, Flatpicking Guitar Magazine columnists produced 40 articles that specifically related to the crosspicking technique. All of those articles are included in this archive book and appear exactly as they appeared in the magazine. We also include transcriptions of a few of the tunes whereby George Shuffler famously employed this guitar technique (the last three pages of the book).

Christmas Flatpicking Collection

Price: $24.95

Flatpicking Essentials DVD Value Package by Dan Miller and Tim May

Flatpicking Essentials DVD Value Package by Dan Miller and Tim May

Price: $25.00

With the Flatpicking Essentials DVD Value Package you will receive all three of the Tim May and Dan Miller instructional DVDs for half price!

Here is what you will receive:

DVD 1: Improving Technique: Tone, Accuracy, Speed & Fluidity
DVD 2: Creating Solos: Embellishing the Melody
DVD 3: Improvisation

Flatpicking Essentials - Volume 4: Understanding the Fingerboard and Moving Up-the-Neck Book / Audio CD by Dan Miller

Flatpicking Essentials - Volume 4: Understanding the Fingerboard and Moving Up-the-Neck Book / Audio CD by Dan Miller

Price: $29.95

Understanding the Fingerboard and Moving Up-the-Neck
Flatpicking Essentials, Volume 4: Understanding the Fingerboard and Moving Up-The-Neck, as the name implies, teaches you how to become familiar with using the entire fingerboard of the guitar and it gives you many practical exercises and song examples that will help you become very comfortable playing up-the-neck. With this book and CD you will learn how to explore the whole guitar neck using a very thorough study of three important fingerboard familiarization "road maps," including: chord shapes (chord "centers"), scale patterns (both horizontal and vertical), arpeggios, and song examples. You will also learn how to comfortably move up-the-neck and back down using slides, open strings, scale runs, harmonized scales, floating licks, and more. Over 150 pages in length, this book provides a very thorough study of each topic. If you've ever sat and watched a professional player's fingers dance up and down the fingerboard with great ease and you thought "I wish I could do that!" This book and 2 CD set are for you!

Flatpicking Essentials - Volume 5: Improvisation & Style Studies Book / Audio CDs by Dan Miller and Tim May

Flatpicking Essentials - Volume 5: Improvisation & Style Studies Book / Audio CDs by Dan Miller and Tim May

Price: $29.95

Flatpicking Essentials, Volume 5: Improvisation and Style Studies
152 page book, 2 Audio CDs (over 120 minutes of audio)
Improvisation is one of those things that flatpickers always ask about at workshops and seminars. It is one of those mysterious and elusive concepts that is hard for many people to grasp. In this Volume of the Flatpicking Essentials series authors Dan Miller and Tim May take away the mystery by presenting a step-by-step gradual learning method that will have you improvising immediately and then build your skill slowly and steadily. By the end of this book you will have the confidence and the skill to step out and start improvising at your next jam session.

Flatpicking Essentials Volume 6: Improvisation (Part II) & Advanced Technique Book / 2 CDs by Dan Miller and Tim May

Flatpicking Essentials Volume 6: Improvisation (Part II) & Advanced Technique Book / 2 CDs by Dan Miller and Tim May

Price: $29.95

Flatpicking Essentials, Volume 6, Improvisation (Part 2) and Advanced Technique
by Dan Miller and Tim May, provides you with 152 pages (and 2 audio CDs) worth of valuable information that is designed to help you take your flatpicking to the next level.
Improvisation, Part II
Flatpicking Essentials, Volume 6 is divided into two main sections. The first section is Part II of our study of improvisation. Volume 5 introduced readers to a step-by-step free-form improv study method that we continue here in Volume 6. The improvisation section of Volume 5 introduced improvisation over various I, IV, V chord progressions using chord tones and scale notes. Volume 6 continues with the same course of study; however, chord progressions get more complicated.
An added feature of this Volume of the course is the inclusion of an appendix that will serve as an easy reference for all of the chord progressions that you were given in Volumes 5 and 6. We are also providing slow, medium, and fast back up tracks for all of these progressions.

Flatpicking Essentials, Volume 7 Book: Advanced Rhythm & Chord Studies / Audio CD by Dan Miller and Tim May

Flatpicking Essentials, Volume 7 Book: Advanced Rhythm & Chord Studies / Audio CD by Dan Miller and Tim May

Price: $29.95

Advanced Rhythm and Chord Studies
Flatpicking Essentials, Volume 7 is a 170 page book, with 67 audio tracks, that will show you how to add texture, variety, and movement to your rhythm accompaniment in the context of playing bluegrass, fiddle tune music, folk music, acoustic rock, Western swing, big band swing, and jazz. The best part of this book is that it doesn't just present you with arrangements to memorize. It teaches you how you can create and execute your own accompaniment arrangements in a variety of musical styles.

Flatpicking Essentials Volume 8: Improvisation (Part III) & Intro to Swing and Jazz Book / 2 CDs by Dan Miller and Tim May

Flatpicking Essentials Volume 8: Improvisation (Part III) & Intro to Swing and Jazz Book / 2 CDs by Dan Miller and Tim May

Price: $29.95

Improvisation Part 3 & Intro to Swing and Jazz
The eighth and final book in the Flatpicking Essentials series teaches you how to begin to play swing and jazz tunes in the context of a flatpick jam, including how to learn to improvise over swing and jazz chord changes. After presenting how to study and utilize scales and arpeggios in the context of using them as "road maps" for improvisation, and providing examples of how to build from a simple song melody to a jazz style arrangement, this book presents three variations of ten standard swing and jazz tunes. You will learn the basic melody, plus two arrangements of each tune by Tim May. The tunes presented include: Avalon, Bill Bailey, 12th Street Rag, The Sheik of Araby, Rose Room, After You've Gone, St. James Infirmary, St. Louis Blues, Limehouse Blues, and I Ain't Got Nobody.

Guitar Player's Guide to Developing Speed, Accuracy & Tone - Book / 2 CDs by Brad Davis and Dan Miller

Guitar Player's Guide to Developing Speed, Accuracy & Tone - Book / 2 CDs by Brad Davis and Dan Miller

Price: $29.95

The Guitar Player's Guide to Developing Speed, Accuracy, and Tone (by Brad Davis and Dan Miller) is a 150 page book, with 157 audio tracks, that will show you how to develop speed, accuracy, volume, tone, note clarity, and fluidity for the acoustic guitar. Most books teach you the notes to songs, this book teaches you how to make each note that you play in those songs sound clear and distinct with rich tone and how you can bring all of those notes together in a smooth and fluid flow at any tempo.

Guitar Player's Practical Guide to Scales & Arpeggios by Tim May and Dan Miller

Guitar Player's Practical Guide to Scales & Arpeggios by Tim May and Dan Miller

Price: $29.95

Scales and Arpeggios form the foundation of all song melodies, arranged solos, licks, phrases, and improvisations on the guitar. If you are familiar with scales and arpeggios, and know how to use them, your ability to arrange and improvise your own solos will be greatly enhanced. Scale knowledge is the road map that can take you anywhere you want to go in music.

This new 160 page book (with 136 audio tracks on 2 CDs) by Dan Miller and Tim May not only teaches you how to learn scales in a way that is easy, fun, interesting, and informative, it also shows you how to practically apply scales when learning new melodies, embellishing those melodies to create your own solos and variations, and in exploring improvisations.

Mandolin Player's Guide to Scales and Arpeggios by Tim May and Dan Miller

Mandolin Player's Guide to Scales and Arpeggios by Tim May and Dan Miller

Price: $29.95

Scales and Arpeggios form the foundation of all song melodies, arranged solos, licks, phrases, and improvisations on the guitar. If you are familiar with scales and arpeggios, and know how to use them, your ability to arrange and improvise your own solos will be greatly enhanced. Scale knowledge is the road map that can take you anywhere you want to go in music.

This new 148 page book (with 136 audio tracks on 2 CDs) by Dan Miller and Tim May not only teaches you how to learn scales in a way that is easy, fun, interesting, and informative, it also shows you how to practically apply scales when learning new melodies, embellishing those melodies to create your own solos and variations, and in exploring improvisations.

The Flatpicker's Guide to Old-Time Music by Tim May and Dan Miller

The Flatpicker's Guide to Old-Time Music by Tim May and Dan Miller

Price: $29.95

The Flatpicker's Guide to Old-Time Music 160-page book with 2 audio CDs
Tim May and Dan Miller's "Flatpicker's Guide to Old-Time Music" is a 160 page book (with 2 audio CDs) that is designed for flatpickers who want to study the rhythm playing of old-time rhythm guitarists and learn how to play solos to 11 great old-time fiddle tunes. The book is presented in two sections. The first section (60 pages) presents a very thorough study of old-time rhythm guitar. This section emphasizes learning bass note selection and bass note runs and would be ideal for any acoustic guitar player who not only plays in an old-time setting, but any guitar player who plays in a small ensemble that does not include a bass player. If you play in a duo or trio that does not include a bass player, the rhythm ideas presented in this book will help you add a lot of texture and interest to your rhythm playing.

The Guitar Player's Guide to Rhythm, Timing, and Groove

The Guitar Player's Guide to Rhythm, Timing, and Groove

Price: $29.95

he Guitar Player's Guide to Rhythm, Timing, and Groove - 240 page book with 3 Audio CDs (over 200 audio tracks!)

This book presents material that will help you provide strong acoustic guitar accompaniment in any musical situation by teaching you how to:

1) Keep better time and learn to develop and maintain a solid groove.

2) Outline and define the chords and chord changes in ways that provide texture and interest.

3) With the use of bass runs and passing chords, lead the listener’s ear through the chord progression in a way that helps provide forward movement and momentum to the music.

4) Provide texture, dynamics, and interest to the rhythm accompaniment in ways that positively and tastefully support the vocalist and lead instrumentalists and improve the overall band sound by using fill licks, bass runs, passing chords, chord substitutions, chord extensions, and chord inversions.

The Guitar Player's Guide to Developing Creative Solos

Price: $29.95

In this new 260-page book Flatpicking Guitar Magazine editor Dan Miller presents three different approaches to learning how to develop creative, interesting, and tasteful melody-based solos on the acoustic guitar. After outlining the process of finding key, chords, and melody on the guitar by ear, the first approach to developing a solo uses a variety of guitar techniques to embellish and add to the melody. Each technique is taught using many song examples. The techniques start with the Carter style chord-melody technique and then add hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, bends, double stops, various chord strum patterns, bass runs, crosspicking, drone strings, tremolo, neighboring notes, and short scale runs.

Flatpick Rhythm Guitar - Book plus Audio CDs

Flatpick Rhythm Guitar - Book plus Audio CDs

Price: $29.95

For nearly 19 years Joe Carr wrote a column for Flatpicking Guitar Magazine on the topic of rhythm guitar. Each of Joe’s articles not only addressed a very interesting and important rhythm guitar topic, he also provided wonderful historical context in his text, tabs and recordings. He brought our readers many wonderful examples of bluegrass, folk, blues, jazz, swing, Irish, and Western swing rhythm styles.
Over the years Joe’s column featured transcriptions of great early rhythm players such as Riley Puckett, Red Smiley, Jimmy Martin, Jimmie Rodgers, Edd Mayfield, Hank Snow, Doc Watson, Rodney Dillard, John Herald, Josh White, Charlie Monroe, Homer Haynes, Eldin Shamblin, Tommy Allsup, Charlie Waller, Arther Smith, and Lonnie Johnson. His column also covered the styles of more contemporary players like Clarence White, Tony Rice, Charles Sawtelle, Peter Rowan, Roland White, Del McCoury, Wyatt Rice, David Grier, and John Doyle. Additionally, his column covered many technical rhythm guitar topics such as extended chords, chord substitutions, and alternate chord progressions. Joe’s rhythm guitar knowledge was extensive and he graciously and generously shared it though his column in this magazine.

Adam Granger â€”Column Compilation - Book plus mp3 Audio

Adam Granger —Column Compilation - Book plus mp3 Audio

Price: $29.95

This book includes every column that Adam Granger produced during the 20 years we published Flatpicking Guitar Magazine. There are 120 articles in this 258 page book and 123 mp3 audio files are included. We didn't produce audio CDs for our first three years the magazine was published, but for this project Adam went back and recorded audio for those columns to include in this book. So, every column that included tab has corresponding audio tracks.

Kathy Barwick Columnist Compilation

Price: $29.95

This book is one in a series that provides every article that was published in Flatpicking Guitar Magazine by a particular columnist. This volume of the series presents all of the articles, and accompanying audio, written and recorded by Kathy Barwick. This book presents 186 pages of information and includes 124 audio tracks on 3 CDs.

Flatpicking Carter Style

Price: $29.95

In putting together this collection of articles from Flatpicking Guitar Magazine, we have selected articles that not only directly presented the basic Carter Style technique, but we have also presented articles with arrangements that embellish or, to quote our columnist Orrin Star, “super-charge” this technique.

Dan Huckabee Columnist Compilation

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The Big Book of Gospel Songs

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The Ultimate Flatpicking Tune Package (Direct Download)

The Ultimate Flatpicking Tune Package (Direct Download)

Price: $29.95

The Ultimate Flatpicking Tune Collection - 3 Products in One Package (Direct Download)
This collection combines three of our most popular products and can now be directly downloaded to your computer (this download will probably not work to a phone or tablet). As soon as you complete your order, you will see a message that says "Click Here to Download" and will be sent to a hightail page to complete the download.

In this package you will receive the Flatpick Jam: Complete Package by Brad Davis ($34.95 value). This package includes play-along mp3 files for 48 of the most popular flatpicking tunes. For each tune you receive slow, medium, and fast backing tracks and multiple transcribed versions of each tune in both standard notation and guitar tablature (see below for more information). You will also receive the PDF and audio files from our Editor's Pick Song collection ($30.00 value). This collection includes transcriptions of 147 flatpicking tunes and songs presented in both standard music notation and guitar tablature (see below for more information). Lastly, you will receive the PDF and mp3 files from our Fiddle Tune Back Issue Package (a $20 value). The package includes our two special Fiddle Tunes Issues, plus our Waltz Issue and our Old-Time tune issue. Each issue includes two arrangements of 20 different tunes. (see below for more information). This total package provides you with over 275 flatpicking tune arrangements!

1) Flatpick Jam: The Complete Package
On this DVD-Rom disc you will find all of the Flatpick Jam (play-along) tracks for the 49 tunes that appear on all of the Volumes of Brad Davis' Flatpick Jam series. Additionally, in the "Flatpick Jam Tabs" folder on this disc, you will find a folder for each tune that includes transcriptions provided by Brad (the numbered transcriptions), plus any arrangement of that particular tune that has appeared in Flatpicking Guitar Magazine during our first 10 years of publication. This means that you will get anywhere from 4 to 10 different variations of every tune tabbed out.
Additionally, the audio tracks that are companions to those FGM arrangements are also included. This is the ultimate Flatpick Jam package and a must have resource for anyone who wants to build their flatpicking repertoire, learn variations, and study different arrangements of all of the standard jam session tunes. And you are able to practice all of your arrangements at four different tempos by jamming along with Brad Davis! With Brad Davis' Flatpick Jam Series, you are never without a jamming partner.
This DVD-Rom contains 49 flatpick jam favorites (in mp3 format). 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 and 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.
Tunes presented from Volume 1 are: 1. Forked Deer 2. Temperance Reel 3. Sally Goodin 4. Soldier's Joy 5. Blackberry Blossom 6. Salt Creek 7. Wildwood Flower 8. Billy in the Lowground 9. St. Anne's Reel 10. John Hardy 11. Paddy on the Turnpike
Tunes presented from Volume 2 are: 1. Turkey in the Straw 2. Sailor's Hornpipe 3. Whiskey Before Breakfast 4. Black Mountain Rag 5. Red Haired Boy 6. Arkansas Traveler 7. Old Joe Clark 8. Nine Pound Hammer 9. Bill Cheathum 10. Angeline the Baker 11. Reuben
Tunes presented from Volume 3 are: 1. Katy Hill 2. Lonesome Road Blues 3. Cherokee Shuffle 4. Cattle in the Cane 5. Over the Waterfall 6. Coo Coo's Nest 7. Fisher's Hornpipe 8. Liberty 9. Texas Gales 10. Ragtime Annie 11. Redwing
Tunes presented from Volume 4 are: 1. Flowers of Edinburgh 2. Shady Grove 3. John Henry 4. Texas Gales 5. Home Sweet Home 6. Crazy Creek 7. Leather Britches 8. Cotton Patch Rag 9. Eigth of January 10. Flop-Eared Mule
The tunes presented from the Special Edition disc are: 1. Alabama Jubliee 2. Beaumont Rag 3. Big Mon 4. Gold Rush 5. Huckleberry Hornpipe 6. Jerusalem Ridge

2) Editor's Pick Song Collection:
This collection contains PDF versions of 147 song transcriptions that were chosen by Flatpicking Guitar Magazine's Editor from the issues of Flatpicking Guitar that were published from November/December 1996 (Volume 1, Number1) through September/October 2006 (Volume 10, Number 6). All audio tracks are presented in mp3 format.
Note: Due to the fact that Flatpicking Guitar Magazine did not produce audio CDs for the first 17 issue of the magazine, not all of the audio tracks are available. However, of the 147 transcriptions that are in the "Editor's Picks" PDF book, audio tracks for 126 of those transcriptions are available on this disc in mp3 format. To view the song list, click here.

3) Fiddle Tune Back Issue Package:
This Special Back Issue Package includes 4 of our special Fiddle Tune style issues. This includes our two Fiddle Tune Issues plus our Waltz Issue and our Old-Time Music Issue. Each of these issues are packed with two arrangements each of 20 different tunes. This complete package gives you two arrangements 80 great tunes!
You get:
Volume 13, Number 4: Fiddle Tune Issue 1
Volume 15, Number 3: Fiddle Tune Issue 2
Volume 17, Number 4: Waltz Issue
Volume 18, Number 4: Old-Time Tune Issue
To view the song list from this package, click here

NOTE: The file download is 1.5 Gigabytes in size. So, depending on your internet connection, it might take some time to download (it usually 3 or 4 minutes, but some people have experienced longer download times). If you get an error message, or have any trouble with the download, email [email protected] (please put "Ultimate Flatpicking Tune Package" in the subject line), or call 573-823-5582.

Orrin Star Columnist Compilation

Price: $29.95

The Big Book of Celtic Tunes

Price: $29.95

This book is one in a series that provides every article that was published in Flatpicking Guitar Magazine about a particular topic or genre. Here, in this book, we have included the best Celtic Tunes. Since many of the bluegrass songs and fiddle tunes that we flatpickers love to play can be traced back to Irish, Scottish, or English roots, we thought it would be interesting to provide an archival compilation that focused on music from these countries and traditions.

John Carlini Columnist Compilation

Price: $29.95

This book is one in a series that provides every article that was published in Flatpicking Guitar Magazine by a particular columnist. This volume of the series presents all of the articles, and accompanying audio, written and recorded by John Carlini in his column the "Taking It To The Next Level."

Brad Davis Columnist Compilation

Price: $29.95

Flatpicking The Blues Book / DVD / CD - Brad Davis

Flatpicking The Blues Book / DVD / CD - Brad Davis

Price: $34.95

In this comprehensive course you will learn the scales, rhythm styles, and chord progressions which define the blues, standard blues licks and phrases, and blues styles of players like Robert Johnson, Eric Clapton, and Stevie Ray Vaughn. Brad even demonstrates how to play Bill Monroe's bluesy mandolin licks on the guitar. Elements of the blues can be found in all forms of American music - from bluegrass, to folk, to rock.

Flatpick Jam: The Complete Package, Volumes 1-4 & Special Edition Tunes DVD-ROM

Flatpick Jam: The Complete Package, Volumes 1-4 & Special Edition Tunes DVD-ROM

Price: $34.95

On this DVD-Rom disc you will find all of the Flatpick Jam (play-along) tracks for the 49 tunes that appear on all of the Volumes of Brad Davis' Flatpick Jam series. Additionally, in the "Flatpick Jam Tabs" folder on this disc, you will find a folder for each tune that includes transcriptions provided by Brad (the numbered transcriptions), plus any arrangement of that particular tune that has appeared in Flatpicking Guitar Magazine during our first 10 years of publication. This means that you will get anywhere from 4 to 10 different variations of every tune tabbed out. Additionally, the audio tracks that are companions to those FGM arrangements are also included. This is the ultimate Flatpick Jam package and a must have resource for anyone who wants to build their flatpicking repertoire, learn variations, and study different arrangements of all of the standard jam session tunes. And you are able to practice all of your arrangements at four different tempos by jamming along with Brad Davis!

Speed, Accuracy, and Tone Discount Bundle

Speed, Accuracy, and Tone Discount Bundle

Price: $34.95

Buy these two products together and save $15.00!

With this bundle you will receive The Guitar Player's Guide to Developing Speed, Accuracy, and Tone book and CD set by Brad Davis and Dan Miller, plus you will receive The Developing Speed, Accuracy, and Tone DVD by Tim May and Dan Miller

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The Ultimate Flatpicking Tune Package on a Flash Drive

The Ultimate Flatpicking Tune Package on a Flash Drive

Price: $39.95

The Flatpicking Essentials Complete Package on a Flash Drive

The Flatpicking Essentials Complete Package on a Flash Drive

Price: $210.00

For the past several years customers have been asking if the complete Flatpicking Essentials Package, including the 8 Flatpicking Essentials books/CDs and the 5 Supplemental Books/CDs could be purchased as a package for a discounted price. We have now made that package available in the digital format on a flash drive, plus we have not only considerably discounted the price, but we have also added free bonus books and CDs.

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