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Flatpicking Guitar Magazine, Volume 8, Number 1, November / December 2003

Flatpicking Guitar Magazine, Volume 8, Number 1, November / December 2003

Price: $5.00

The November/December 2003 issue of the Flatpicking Guitar Magazine includes:
We have a 68-minute Audio CD to accompany this issue!

An article about Jimmy Martin
Flatpick Profile: Audie Blaylock: tab to "Trains Are The Only Way to Fly"
Bruce Petros Guitars
Masters of Rhythm: Kathy Chiavola: tab to "Going Away Party Rhythm"
Winfield 2003
New Release Highlight: The Guitar Extravaganza by Steve Lewis("Cherokee Shuffle")

Orrin Star's Bluegrass Rhythm Guitar Workshop DVD/tab

Orrin Star's Bluegrass Rhythm Guitar Workshop DVD/tab

Price: $10.00

Having created the first day-long workshop devoted exclusively to rhythm playing, renowned flatpicker Orrin Star has helped guitarists around the country improve their rhythm skills. This 95-minute video offers an enhanced version of Orrin's live workshop, featuring additional bass runs and songs, a new section on playing with other guitarists, and a guest appearance by Kenny Smith.

Advanced Bluegrass Rhythm Guitar DVD - Wyatt Rice

Advanced Bluegrass Rhythm Guitar DVD - Wyatt Rice

Price: $10.00

In this 90-minute DVD, rhythm guitar master Wyatt Rice teaches you how to greatly expand your rhythm guitar abilities by teaching: crosspicking rhythm; syncopated rhythm; a variety of right hand patterns combined with left hand technique to develop a "groove" rhythm; unique bass runs; passing chords; chord substitutions; and chord inversions. Additionally, Wyatt is shown improvisationally accompanying various instruments (banjo, fiddle, guitar, mandolin) and then analyzing what he has done to provide the rhythmic foundation behind each instrument. Special guest appearances by Rickie Simpkins, Kenny Smith, Sammy Shelor, and Tony Rice. Wyatt Rice has been one of the top rhythm guitar players in bluegrass and acoustic music for the past 20 years. He has been a member of the Tony Rice Unit since 1984. Of Wyatt's rhythm, Tony Rice has said, "He gave the band a fuller voice and an easily identifiable sound. Things that I did with the guitar I could not otherwise have done if Wyatt's rhythm guitar had not been there."

This item is also available for digital download at Flatpick Digital Academy: Click Here to Access that Website.

Flatpicking Guitar Magazine: Best Of 10 Years CD-ROM - Rhythm Guitar Articles

Flatpicking Guitar Magazine: Best Of 10 Years CD-ROM - Rhythm Guitar Articles

Price: $14.95

Welcome to the CD-based version of Flatpicking Guitar Magazine the "Best of the First Ten Years." This CD is the second in the series and contains all rhythm guitar articles and interviews that Flatpicking Guitar published from November/December 1996 (Volume 1, Number1) through September/October 2006 (Volume 10, Number 6). All pages from each article are presented in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document File (.PDF) format.

This disc includes over 90 rhythm guitar articles and 29 interviews with rhythm guitar players

Flatpicking Essentials - Volume 1: Rhythm, Bass Runs, and Fill Licks Book / Audio CD by Dan Miller

Flatpicking Essentials - Volume 1: Rhythm, Bass Runs, and Fill Licks Book / Audio CD by Dan Miller

Price: $24.95

Flatpicking Essentials, Volume 1: Rhythm, Bass Runs, and Fill Licks - Spiral Bound Book and CD
Written and Compiled by Flatpicking Guitar Magazine Editor Dan Miller
This 96-page spiral bound instructional book, with audio CD, teaches you how to play interesting and exciting rhythm guitar accompaniment by showing you how to fill the rhythm guitarist roles of: Keeping Good Time, Outlining the Chord, Leading the Listener's Ear to the Chord Change, and adding Texture, Excitement, Drive, and Interest. The goal of this book and accompanying CD is to make you a better rhythm player, and to also prepare you to begin playing lead guitar in Volume 2 (Learning How to Solo: Carter Style Leads and Beyond).

The Big Book of Crosspicking

Price: $24.95

During our twenty years of publication, Flatpicking Guitar Magazine columnists produced 40 articles that specifically related to the crosspicking technique. All of those articles are included in this archive book and appear exactly as they appeared in the magazine. We also include transcriptions of a few of the tunes whereby George Shuffler famously employed this guitar technique (the last three pages of the book).

Christmas Flatpicking Collection

Price: $24.95

This book is one in a series that provides every article that was published in Flatpicking Guitar Magazine about a particular topic or genre. Here, in this book, we have included the best Christmas Tunes.

Flatpicking Essentials, Volume 7 Book: Advanced Rhythm & Chord Studies / Audio CD by Dan Miller and Tim May

Flatpicking Essentials, Volume 7 Book: Advanced Rhythm & Chord Studies / Audio CD by Dan Miller and Tim May

Price: $29.95

Advanced Rhythm and Chord Studies
Flatpicking Essentials, Volume 7 is a 170 page book, with 67 audio tracks, that will show you how to add texture, variety, and movement to your rhythm accompaniment in the context of playing bluegrass, fiddle tune music, folk music, acoustic rock, Western swing, big band swing, and jazz. The best part of this book is that it doesn't just present you with arrangements to memorize. It teaches you how you can create and execute your own accompaniment arrangements in a variety of musical styles.

The Guitar Player's Guide to Rhythm, Timing, and Groove

The Guitar Player's Guide to Rhythm, Timing, and Groove

Price: $29.95

he Guitar Player's Guide to Rhythm, Timing, and Groove - 240 page book with 3 Audio CDs (over 200 audio tracks!)

This book presents material that will help you provide strong acoustic guitar accompaniment in any musical situation by teaching you how to:

1) Keep better time and learn to develop and maintain a solid groove.

2) Outline and define the chords and chord changes in ways that provide texture and interest.

3) With the use of bass runs and passing chords, lead the listener’s ear through the chord progression in a way that helps provide forward movement and momentum to the music.

4) Provide texture, dynamics, and interest to the rhythm accompaniment in ways that positively and tastefully support the vocalist and lead instrumentalists and improve the overall band sound by using fill licks, bass runs, passing chords, chord substitutions, chord extensions, and chord inversions.

The Guitar Player's Guide to Developing Creative Solos

Price: $29.95

In this new 260-page book Flatpicking Guitar Magazine editor Dan Miller presents three different approaches to learning how to develop creative, interesting, and tasteful melody-based solos on the acoustic guitar. After outlining the process of finding key, chords, and melody on the guitar by ear, the first approach to developing a solo uses a variety of guitar techniques to embellish and add to the melody. Each technique is taught using many song examples. The techniques start with the Carter style chord-melody technique and then add hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, bends, double stops, various chord strum patterns, bass runs, crosspicking, drone strings, tremolo, neighboring notes, and short scale runs.

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