Dobro Tablature with Play-along Audio Tracks
Dobro Volume 1
$19.95
Overview:
If you are new to the Dobro, this book is the perfect place to start! This book has been designed
to give the first year Dobro student a solid foundation with this wonderful instrument. All too often, instructional books for the Dobro focus on playing just a solo, ‘fiddle tunes’ and ‘hot licks’. The thrust of my arrangements has always been to encourage folks to play their music together with friends or family. Solos AND the backup fills behind the vocalist are included.
Dobro Volume 1 will take the learning process to the next level emphasizing the theory behind the music, and encourage creativity. A special chapter, ‘Seeing the Music in Your Mind’ puts this in layman’s terms. The 103 audio tracks, included with this project, provide 2 hours and 21 minutes of music in a variety of tempos and mixes to get the most benefit from the program.
The first part of this book is set up to help a complete beginner get a quick start on the Dobro.
Following this start up section, you will find the ‘Song Section’, which includes a wide cross
section of music styles. Click here for the Table of Contents. The download package contains all of the tablatures in pdf format and play along mp3s.
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Song List:
- Hound Dog Blues
- Hound Dog Blues (with tremolo)
- Sierra Waltz
- Are You Washed in the Blood
- Shady Grove
- Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms
- I’ll Be All Smiles Tonight
- Feudin’ Five Strings
- Blackberry Blossom
- Wildwood Flower – Key of G
- Wildwood Flower – Key of C
- Crawdad
- Shenandoah
- Wabash Cannonball
- Just a Closer Walk with Thee
Dobro Volume 2
$19.95
Overview:
Bluegrass Dobro Volume 2 picks up where we left off in Volume 1. The arrangements for this
book were selected for their ‘jamming appeal’ at bluegrass festivals. The material was inspired by many requests including a mix of songs ranging from bluegrass standards, vocal tunes, gospel, banjo instrumentals, fiddle tunes and so on. There’s a little something for everyone in this project. You will find many of the techniques that you’ve been working on in Volume 1 in this follow up work.
The solos are ‘razor sharp’, accurate and faithful to the recordings and designed to be playable, interesting and practical in jamming with others. The greatest care has been exercised in making
this recording as professional as possible giving you the desire to practice along with ‘the Virtual
Band’.
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Dobro Volume 3
$19.95
Overview:
Bluegrass Dobro Volume 3 highlights some of the most popular vocal songs in the bluegrass
repertoire. This Volume contains both slow and faster recordings in a variety of bluegrass keys to aid your accuracy. The guide instrument will be on the right side of your stereo, so it can be isolated for further study. The arrangements are realistic and designed so that you can play solos and backup behind the vocalist. The program is a balanced mix of singing and instrumental numbers that will give you many hours of enjoyable, quality practice time.
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Dobro Volume 4
$19.95
Overview:
Bluegrass Dobro Volume 4 continues with the same format, including hot instrumentals, great
parking lot picking and singing tunes heard at any major bluegrass festival or campground jam session.
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Dobro Volume 5
$19.95
Overview:
Bluegrass Dobro Volume 5 is based on many requests for an all Gospel set. Many of the songs
are presented in a slow to medium format allowing the Dobro to play tasteful backup behind the vocals. The book includes detailed tablature for all Dobro solos and backup.
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Dobro Volume 6
$19.95
Overview:
Bluegrass Dobro Volume 6 adds more and more great bluegrass tunes to your growing
repertoire! The solos have been carefully thought out to represent the actual way the professional musician
would execute them on the festival stage. You will also note that some of the faster songs have an increased tempo from the standard ‘fast’ speed of 200 bpm (beats per minute).
The arrangements are in the standard bluegrass keys of G, A, B, D minor (Lonesome Moonlight Waltz), the G minor tonality (Working on a Building) also E and F. The lineup includes singing songs, banjo songs, fiddle tunes and more. Learn them all and get to the next bluegrass festival in your area to try them out!
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Dobro Volume 7
$19.95
Overview:
Bluegrass Dobro Volume 7 is based on the many requests that I have received. The song
selection this time is not strictly all bluegrass. There is a balanced mix of bluegrass, country, gospel, Irish, waltz and boogie.
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Dobro Volume 8
$19.95
Overview:
Bluegrass Dobro Volume 8 presents a wide variety of songs ranging from Old Time, Bluegrass,
Swing/Jazz, Irish, Country, Fiddle and Banjo tunes and Gospel. There is something here for everyone in your audience. The arrangements are for the intermediate to advance player. The recording includes two versions of each song, a complete arrangement with a full band back up and a second arrangement with the Dobro completely removed.
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Dobro Volume 9
$19.95
Overview:
Dobro Volume 9 continues the program with more popular jamming tunes.
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Dobro Volume 10
$19.95
Overview:
Dobro Volume 10 covers a nice cross section of music from around the world. These songs were
chosen by popular requests and favorites of my students. There are many play along audio
recordings included with this package, slow, medium and faster versions to aid accuracy and others with the lead instrument removed so that you can be part of the ‘band’.
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Dobro Volumes 1 thru 10
$99.95
Overview:
Best Value!
All of the above Volumes listed above are included in this package.
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Song List:
- All of the songs listed above
Dobro Christmas
$19.95
Overview:
The Holiday Season is a wonderful time for family and friends to be together. It is also a great
opportunity to play music! That was the thought behind this series; playing Christmas Carols as a family or with friends.
The arrangements presented in this book are for 1, 2 or 3 Dobros. They are cleverly arranged to match the complimentary books in this series: Mandolin Christmas, Bass Christmas, Banjo Christmas, Fiddle Christmas and Guitar Christmas. You can mix and match any of the
arrangements in many different combinations to create some very unique and entertaining
Holiday Music and Caroling. As an example, let’s say that you have a Guitar and Mandolin picker to jam with. You can split up the parts between the three of you. The Dobro could play part 1, the Guitar part 2 and Mandolin part 3. For variety, you can switch these as you perform. The second time through the song, as an example, the Dobro could switch to part 2, the Guitar to
part 3 and the Mandolin could go to part 1. On the next repeat, switch the parts again! There
are many possibilities. Add a Bass and you will have an authentic, Christmas Carol Quartet!
The arrangements use Dobro Tablature with standard Bluegrass G Tuning (G, B, D, G, B, D low to high)
Several play-along audio recordings have been prepared to give you and idea of how the
arrangements sound with the instruments together and other recording mixes minus the
individual instruments affording you the opportunity to fill in the missing parts.
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Song List: