Bluegrass Guitar Solos That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know (Series 1) 6 CD (Homespun Learning Discs) Review

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(More customer reviews)The product description doesn't do this justice.This is a terrific resource if you want to flatpick fiddle/bluegrass/OT tunes.There are 20 standard tunes.Each has the following 4 parts laid out in notation and tab

1.A beginner's version;
2.An intermediate version;
3.An advanced "hotrod" version worthy of a contest;
4.An ending that can probably also be used to end any other tune in the same key, so it's very versatile.

It's recommended you work through all the beginner versions before going onto the intermediate; it'll take you several months do that.

The CDs walk you through each tune, though I'm not big on CD instruction.Nevertheless, the CDs also have a full speed version of each tune where Steve plays through all three versions (and then repeats the beginner version).I found that putting all 20 fullspeed versions on a CD makes its own great CD and is a good way to "get the songs in your head."

Here are the songs on Vol. 1:Ragtime Annie; Bill Cheatham; Gold Rush; Flop-Eared Mule; Forked Deer; Old Joe Clark; Soldier's Joy; Nothing To It; Red-Haired Boy; Salt Creek; Big Sandy River; Billy In The Low Ground; Under The Double Eagle; Fisher's Hornpipe; Blackberry Blossom; Turkey In The Straw; St. Anne's Reel; Arkansas Traveler; Sweet Georgia Brown; Whiskey Before Breakfast

All that's just to give a worthy description.As for my take on it all -- terrific.I was a beginner flatpicker and at first it took some time to get a song under my belt.As I've progressed it takes less time and it's just plain fun to learn good arrangements to standard tunes.And I've still got the intermediate and advanced versions to learn!Just a terrific resource for great tunes.I'm through the beginner versions and am half way through Volume 2 (same set up; same quality).

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Bluegrass Guitar Solos (That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know) features 20 great bluegrass tunes in standard notation and guitar tab and al so contains six 1 hour CD's for play-along with the rhythm track for a low price of $69.95.

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The Frank Gambale Technique Book II: The Essential Soloing Theory Course for all Guitarists! Review

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(More customer reviews)This is an excellent book for anyone who is serious about learning to play guitar.Although, I bought this book for $40 not $100+ as listed here.Gambale breaks everything down into chord types.Minor 7, major 7, unaltered dominant 7, altered dominant 7, minor 7 (b5), diminished.He attacks each chord type with several soloing approaches.He lists and gives examples of appropriate modes, arpeggios, pentatonics that can be used over that specific chord type.For example.When discussing a minor 7 chord he says there are two ways to look at it.You can look at it as a II chord or a VI chord.Say you are playing a dmin7.Dmin 7 is the II of C and the VI of F.So in this case you can use D Dorian or Aeolian.He also says that if you treat Dmin7 as the second of C you can use.Dmin, Emin, Amin blues/pentatonic scales over the Dmin7.Since the minor chords are II, III, and VI in any major scale.You can also approach soloing using arpeggios from cmaj over the Dmin and you can play these in fourths to get a more interesting sound, rather than just running up or down arpeggios.He has gone through all of that by page 8 and there is about 80 pages in the book.So basically, there is a huge wealth of knowlege in this book and it is an excellent way for a guitarist to get away from moving to the trusty pentatonic scales as soon as its time to solo.This book also comes with a Cd containing samples of each excercise as well as a couple short songs that Gambale has put together.Im not a big fan of the effects he uses while playing the excercises, but it doesn't really take anything away from the learning experience. If you can get a chance to get a hold of this book you should give it a chance, but know that it will take some serious time and experimentation to make these theoretical ideas come out of your guitar as music.They cant really be charging $107 for this, can they?Keep your eyes open and you should be able to find this book for around $40.

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A method that looks at the way the legendary Frank Gambale solos over chordal harmonies. It shows how to use simple musical materials to create sophisticated solos. Book II covers the last two chordal types and includes a 70-minute recording.

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Speed Metal: Heavy Metal Neo Classical Styles from Paganini, Bach to Rock Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a great book to learn classical pieces arranged for electric guitar to broaden your soloing repertoire. It helps you practice techniques such as tapping, sweep picking, rolling, and speed. It contains the following pieces:
Jesu, joy of man's desire
Toccata No 4
Etude
Caprice No 24
The Four Seasons
The Flight Of The Bumble Bee
Canon
Toccata
Fugue
The book is short (46 pages), but you will spend a good amount of time practicing this stuff.

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In an attempt to teach the aspiring rock guitarist how to pick faster and play more melodically, Dave Celentano uses heavy metal neo-classical styles from Paganini and Bach to rock in this great new book/CD pack. The book is structured to take the player through the examples in order of difficulty, from easiest to most challenging.Now with CD!

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