Hal Leonard

Learn to Play Rhythm and Lead Bluegrass Guitar with Step-by-Step Lessons and 18 Great Songs

Author: Fred Sokolow
Format: Book with Audio Online
Instrumentation: Guitar TAB

The Hal Leonard Bluegrass Guitar Method is your complete guide to learning bluegrass guitar. This book uses excerpts from popular bluegrass songs to teach you the basics of rhythm and lead playing in the styles of Doc Watson, Tony Rice, Maybelle Carter, Lester Flatt, and many others. Lessons include Carter strumming, alternating bass, waltz strums, using the capo, hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, crosspicking, and much more. The accompanying audio tracks include 43 tracks for demonstration and play-along.

The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.

Song List:

• Amazing Grace
• Arkansas Traveler
• Ashes Of Love
• Blue Moon Of Kentucky
• Blue Ridge Cabin Home
• Blue Yodel No. 4 (California Blues)
• Cripple Creek
• How Mountain Girls Can Love
• I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow
• I Saw The Light
• I'll Fly Away
• The Long Black Veil
• My Rose Of Old Kentucky
• Salty Dog Blues
• Way Downtown
• We'll Meet Again Sweetheart
• The Wreck Of The Old '97
• You Don't Know My Mind