
Dan Miller
Flatpicking Essentials Vol. 2: Learning How to Solo - Carter Style and Beyond
by Flatpicking Guitar Magazine editor Dan Miller
$29.95
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Book/2-CD package. You CAN learn how to take a guitar solo on ANY vocal tune! The founder and editor of flatpickin' guitar's hippest magazine teaches you how to get inside of a song, understand it and make it your own, and how to build snappy, idiomatic guitar solos: Carter style, double stops, crosspicking, tremolo, the works - and lots of familar songs to work on, too. Spiralbound, 108 pp. More Details...
Table of Contents for "Flatpicking Essentials, Volume 2":
Introduction
Arranging Solos for Vocal Tunes (Overview)
- Step One: Select a Song
- Step Two: Find the Chords
- Step Three: Find the Melody ("You Are My Sunshine" Examples)
- Step Four: Basic Carter Style
- Step Five: Simplify the Melody ("You Are My Sunshine" Examples)
Practicing the Steps:
- "Will The Circle Be Unbroken"
- "She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain"
Improvisation
- "Nine Pound Hammer"
- "Jesse James"
- "Red River Valley"
- "Old Joe Clark"
Waltz Time
Waltz Time Exercises
- "Down in the Valley"
- "Amazing Grace"
Practice with Carter Style
- "Jimmy Brown the Newsboy"
- "Grandfather"s Clock"
- "Old Spinning Wheel"
- "Uncloudy Day"
- "Home Sweet Home"
- "John Hardy"
- "John Henry"
- "Buffalo Gals"
- "Lonesome Road Blues"
- "Wildwood Flower"
- "Cripple Creek"
- "Banks of the Ohio"
- "East Virginia Blues"
- "Keep On The Sunny Side"
- "Bury Me Beneath the Willow"
- "Yellow Rose of Texas"
Tremolo
- "Twinkle, Twinkle Tremolo"
Tremolo Exercise
- "You Are My Sunshine" Tremolo
- "Worried Man Blues" Tremolo
- "Bury Me Beneath the Willow" Tremolo
- "You Are My Sunshine" Spiced-up Tremolo
- "Boogie-Woogie Blues"
Double Stops
- "Bile the Cabbage Down" Double Stops
Finding Double Stops in Chord Shapes
- "You Are My Sunshine" Double Stops
- "Buffalo Gals" Double Stops
- "Cripple Creek" Double Stops
- "Wildwood Flower" Double Stops
- "Worried Man Blues" Double Stops
- "Streets of Loredo" Double Stops
Crosspicking
Crosspicking Patterns
Crosspicking Exercise
- "Banks of the Ohio" Crosspicking
- "Wildwood Flower" Crosspicking
- "Home Sweet Home" Crosspicking
- "Oh, Susanna" Crosspicking
Alternate Crosspicking Patterns
Pioneer Techniques Summary
Neighboring Notes, Scale Runs, and Drones
Clarence White Excerpt
- "Salty Dog Blues"
Doc Watson Excerpts and Drone Strings
- "She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain"
- "Buffalo Gals"
- "Wabash Cannonball"
- "You Are My Sunshine"
Licks and Soloing C and G Licks
- "Jimmy Brown the Newsboy"
- "The Crawdad Song"
- "Nine Pound Hammer"
- "Storms Are On The Ocean"
- "Old Spinning Wheel"
Fiddle Tunes and Carter Style
- "Arkansas Traveler"
- "Red Wing"
Looking Forward