Bluegrass Breaks: Guitar: 23 Bluegrass Guitar Solos
About this ebook
This book includes:
Easy Carter-style solos with the melody played on the bass strings, punctuated by chord strums.
More advanced Carter-style solos with hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides and more.
Hot flatpicking solos with lots of eighth notes, played with up and down picking.
Essential fiddle tunes for every modern bluegrass lead guitar player.
Crosspicking solos played with two different crosspicking patterns.
Solos using the "real dropped D" and the "faux dropped D" tunings.
A variety of kickoffs, generic and for specific songs.
Extensive notes on the breaks and the techniques used to play them.
The breaks in this book are based on are some of the most performed bluegrass, old-time, and gospel songs - songs that you're sure to hear played at jam sessions, picking parties and on stage. Includes access to online audio.
About the author
Dix Bruce is a musician and writer from the San Francisco Bay Area. He has authored over sixty books, recordings, and videos for Mel Bay Publications. All are available from his website: musixnow.com. Dix performs and does studio work on guitar, mandolin, bass, and banjo. He has recorded two albums with mandolin legend Frank Wakefield; eight big band CDs with the Royal Society Jazz Orchestra; his own collection of American folk songs entitled My Folk Heart on which he plays guitar, mandolin, autoharp, and sings; and a CD of string swing and jazz entitled Tuxedo Blues. He has released four CDs of traditional American songs and originals with guitarist Jim Nunally, including a collection of "brother duet" style recordings entitled Brothers at Heart. His CD with singer and mandolinist Julie Cline is entitled Look at it Rain. Brothers at Heart and Look at it Rain are available from iTunes, CDBaby, and from Dix's web site. Dix also arranged, composed, and played mandolin on the soundtracks to four different editions of the best-selling computer game The Sims.
