Guitar

This program has been designed to give the Beginning Guitarist a solid foundation on which to build good technique and working repertoire that will fit in with informal Bluegrass Jam Sessions. This book is in two sections: ‘Exercises in Picking’ and the ‘Song Section’. If you are a complete beginner, then you will want to start at the beginning. If, on the other hand, you already know something about the Guitar, you can move directly into the song section. The power of this program is the audio recording, which presents the faster songs at a variety of
slower tempos to build technique.

• Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms
• My Home’s Across the Blueridge Mountains
• Kentucky Waltz
• Feudin’ Five Strings
• Cripple Creek
• Eight More Miles to Louisville
• Blackberry Blossom
• Wabash Cannon Ball
• Boil the Cabbages

Bluegrass Guitar Volume 2 of this 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 your many email and phone-in 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’.

• Cabin in Caroline
• Big Sandy
• Arkansas Traveler
• Precious Memories
• Orange Blossom Special
• Big Mon
• Foggy Mountain Breakdown
• Mama Don’t ‘Low
• Black Mountain Rag
• Man of Constant Sorrow
• Angel Band
• Train 45

Bluegrass Guitar 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.

• Blueridge Cabin Home
• Nine Pound Hammer
• Walls of Time
• Foggy Mountain Top
• Little Cabin Home on the HIll
• Blue Moon of Kentucky
• Lonesome Road Blues
• Salt Creek
• I’ll Fly Away
• Reuben

Bluegrass Guitar 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.

• Fireball Mail
• Gold Rush
• Blue Kentucky Girl
• Ragtime Annie
• Clinch Mountain Backstep
• Some Old Day
• Banjo Signal
• How Mountain Girls Can Love
• Wheel Hoss
• Wayfaring Stranger
• Shenandoah Breakdown
• Think of what You’ve Done

Bluegrass Guitar 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 Banjo to play tasteful backup behind the vocals. The book includes detailed tablature for all Guitar solos and backup.

• High on a Mountain Top
• Sweet By and By
• You’re Drifting Too Far From the Shore
• Maiden’s Prayer
• What a Friend We Have in Jesus
• Rank Stranger
• Life is Like a Mountain Railroad
• Get Up John
• Old Crossroads
• Sweet Hour of Prayer
• Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
• Will the Circle be Unbroken

Bluegrass Guitar 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 and B as well as D minor
(Lonesome Moonlight Waltz), the G minor tonality (Working on a Building) as well as 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!

• Bluegrass Breakdown
• Road to Columbus
• How Great Thou Art
• Bugal Call Rag
• Nashville Blues
• Wreck of the Old 97
• Shuckin’ the Corn
• Working on a Building
• Lonesome Moonlight Waltz
• Dear Old Dixie
• Foggy Mountain Special
• Wild Bill Jones

Bluegrass Guitar 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.

• Band of Angels
• Fiddlers last Waltz
• Lonesome Banjo
• Milk Cow Blues
• Ninety Nine Years
• Red Hair Boy
• Remington Ride
• Salty Dog Blues
• Sleep Walk
• Someday Soon
• You’re Love is Like a Flower

Bluegrass Guitar 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 Guitar completely removed.

• Amazing Grace
• Blue Night
• Devil’s Dream
• Girl I Left Behind
• Gotta Travel On
• Ground Speed
• I Saw the Light
• Liberty
• Little Maggie
• Old Joe Clark
• Old Rugged Cross
• Uncle Pen
• Waiting for a Train
• Red Wing

Bluegrass Guitar Volume 9 continues the program with more popular jamming tunes.

• America
• Bill Cheatham
• Carroll County Blues
• Colored Aristocracy
• Down Yonder
• Great Speckled Bird
• In the Pines
• Jesu Joy of Man’s Desire
• June Apple
• One Wife is Good Enough for Me
• Sailor’s Hornpipe
• Waltzing Matilda
• Wearing of the Green
• Whiskey Before Breakfast

Bluegrass Guitar 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’.

This book includes both standard music notation and Guitar tablature and chords.

• Bourree in E Minor
• Cherokee Maggie
• Columbus Stockade Blues
• Planxty Fanny Poer
• Southwind
• Fire on the Mountain
• Flowers of Edinburgh
• Off to California
• Road to Lisdoonvarna
• Snow Deer
• Temperance Reel
• Tennessee Waltz
• Boys of Bluehill

Best Value!

All of the Volumes listed above in a package.

• All of the songs listed above.

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 Guitars. They are cleverly arranged to match the complimentary books in this series: Mandolin Christmas, Bass Christmas, Fiddle
Christmas, Dobro Christmas and Banjo 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 Fiddle and Mandolin picker to jam with. You can split up
the parts between the three of you. The Guitar could play part 1, the Fiddle 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 Guitar could switch to part 2, the Fiddle 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!

This book includes both standard music notation and Guitar tablature and chords.

• Angels We Have Heard On High
• Away in a Manger
• Christmas Hornpipe
• Coventry Carol
• Deck the Halls
• God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
• Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
• Silent Night
• Oh Come All Ye Faithful
• O, Holy Night
• The First Noel
• We Wish You a Merry Christmas
• What Child is This?
• What Child is This? – Guitar Solo