Eddie Collins

ASAP Bluegrass Guitar

ASAP Bluegrass Guitar is designed for folks wishing to become highly proficient bluegrass players. You'll be able to combine sophisticated left-hand fingerings with both simple and intricate right-hand picking patterns.

Appropriate for beginning guitar players or more experienced players wishing to learn specifics and songs in the bluegrass style. With this book and the accompanying 2 CDs you'll learn the basics, single-note melodies, how to embellish basic melodies, embellish melodies by adding notes from the major scale, embellishing melodies with added chords strums, Carter-style playing, shuffle rhythm patterns, alternate bass strumming, the blues in bluegrass, intros, turnarounds and endings, using the capo, cross picking, improvising a solo, practising effectively, and much more!

Some of the more popular bluegrass songs you'll learn are: Billy in the Lowground - New River Train - Wildwood Flower - Foggy Mountain Blues - Clinch Mountain Blues - Red Haired Boy - Forked Deer - Bill Cheatham - All the Good Times Past and Gone - Blackberry Blossom - Temperance Reel - Salt Creek - Devil's Dream - June Apple - Black Mountain Rag - Saint Anne's Reel - Banks of the Ohio - Beaumont Rag - Salty Dog Blues - John Henry - and many more. Start playing bluegrass guitar... ASAP!