Bass

This program has been designed to give the Beginning Bassist 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: ‘Note Exercises’ 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 Bass you can move directly into the Song Section.

The power of this program are the audio recordings, which presents the faster songs at a variety
of slower tempos to build technique. The songs are arranged in Standard Bass Music Notation with Bass Guitar Tablature and Guitar chords.

• Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms
• My Home’s Across the Blueridge Mountains
• I’ll Be All Smiles
• Feudin’ Five Strings
• Cripple Creek
• Shenandoah
• Blackberry Blossom
• Wabash Cannon Ball
• Just a Closer Walk with Thee
• … and more!

Bluegrass Bass 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 your 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 ‘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 Bass 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 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
• El Cumbanchero

Bluegrass Bass 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 Girl’s Can Love
• Wheel Hoss
• Wayfaring Stranger
• Shenandoah Breakdown
• Think of What You’ve Done
• Jerusalem Ridge

Bluegrass Bass Volume 5 is based on many requests for an all Gospel set.

• 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 Bass Volume 6 adds more and more great bluegrass tunes to your growing repertoire!

• Bluegrass Breakdown
• Road to Columbus
• How Great Thou Art
• Bugle 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 Bass 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
• Fiddler’s Last Waltz
• John Hardy
• 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 Bass 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.

• 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 Bass 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 Bass 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’.

• Bouree 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
• What Would You Give? (in exchange for your soul)
• Wildwood Flower – Key of G
• Wildwood Flower – Key of D

Best Value!

All of the Volumes above in a package discount.

• 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 are cleverly arranged to match the complimentary books in this series:
Mandolin Christmas, Banjo Christmas, Fiddle Christmas, Dobro 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 Bass could play the lead, 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 Bass could switch to the backup, 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.
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. This book includes standard Bass music notation and Bass Guitar Tablature.

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