Country

101 Kickin' Country Rhythm Guitar Runs  MB 98131BCD

Larger picture	By Larry McCabe
	This book/CD set teaches 101 rhythm guitar runs played to 21 popular traditional songs. Included in the collection are up-tempo songs ("Cotton-Eyed Joe"), waltzes ("Knoxville Girl"), minor-key songs ("The Wayfaring Stranger"), train songs ("New River Train"), gospel standards ("Amazing Grace"), blues ("Corrine, Corrina"), and more. Full music charts are included for each song in both standard notation and tablature, and extra lyrics for singers. The stereo CD enables you to "sit in" with a country band that includes a singer, rhythm guitar, and bass. To facilitate learning, each of the 21 songs is performed at two tempos, moderate and slow. The stereo format allows you to hear the rhythm guitar runs clearly isolated on the right speaker. Beginning - Intermediate level. 48 Pages.

Acoustic Masters Series: Doyle Dykes Virtuoso Fingerstyle Guitar   AP 0664B

	Doyle Dykes / transcr. Jon Chappell
	Doyle Dykes is the natural heir to Chet Atkins' throne. This Nashville-based virtuoso fingerstyle guitarist plays solo guitar arrangements of originals, hymns, and secular pop music with astounding feel and unheard-of technique. This volume includes Doyle's original guitar compositions and his hugely popular arrangement of The Beatles' song "Girl." Songs are: Angels Desire * Birmingham Steel * Caleb's Report * Celtic Cowboy * The Changing of the Guard * Country Fried Pickin' * Girl * The Howling of the Wood * The Jawbone * Martha's Kitchen * Miss Haley's Music Box * Misty Nights in Tokyo * The Road Back Home * Self Portrait on Acoustic Guitar * The Visitation * Wabash Cannonball * White Rose for Heidi.

Alan Munde - Festival Favorites Revisited - Book  MB 97296

Larger picture	Mel Bay Pub., Inc
	Alan Munde is one of the finest players to ever pick up the five string banjo. From his early days with Jimmy Martin through his tenure with Country Gazette, Alan has continually expanded the breadth of his vision. Drawn from a series of recordings released on Slim Richey's Ridge Runner label in the early 1980's, this compilation contains an incredible display of banjo musicianship. Each cut combines logic, beauty and rhythmic propulsion. The tunes sparkle with freshness as the old is made new. The tunes are presented in tablature only. Intermediate level. 48 Pages.

Anyone Can Play Country Fiddle  MB 95348DVD

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	This course is designed to teach beginners of any age how to play country fiddle. No previous musical experience is needed to be successful with this method. You will learn the basics of bowing, fingering, chord playing, shuffle bowing, and several famous fiddle tunes. Includes free instructional booklet at http://www.melbay.com/DVDbooklets/index.asp. 45 minutes.

ANYONE CAN PLAY COUNTRY GUITAR DVD  MB 94888DVD

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	No music reading ability is needed to learn from this video lesson. You'll start with easy chords, strumming, and fingerpicking techniques by playing along with songs on the video. In addition, you will learn the country boogie-woogie guitar style and Travis picking as well as how to solo over back-up rhythm track on the video. The songs in- clude Amazing Grace, Wabash Cannonball, and Will the Circle Be Un- broken. A companion booklet is included.

Basic Country Flatpicking Guitar  MB GW308DVD

Larger picture	By Dix Bruce
	Dix Bruce carefully teaches lead and backup guitar to nine great and classic country, bluegrass, and folk standards, ballads and hot breakdowns played by musicians the world over. Dix demonstrates the basic "bass note/strum" technique and shows how melodies can be easily integrated into known chord patterns. You'll first learn leads on the country classics Worried Man Blues; Lonesome Valley; Storms are on the Ocean; and Handsome Molly in a variety of different keys. You'll also learn the all-time guitar hit Wildwood Flower and how to transpose it from the key of G to the key of C. Dix also demonstrates more complex leads on Redwing; John Hardy; Jimmie Brown the Newsboy; and more on the invaluable skill of transposing a song from one key to another. The instruction in this DVD will prepare you to play flatpicked leads in virtually any country, folk, and bluegrass ensemble. A detailed tab/music instructional booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD.

CHET ATKINS OFF THE RECORD  MB 93395

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	Chet's actual recorded solos are: I'll Say She Does; Me and Merle; Yanky Doodle Dixie; Mr. Bojangles; Walk-Don't Run; Wheels; The Odd Folks of Okracoke; Yellow Bird; Windy & Warm; Just As I Am; John Henry; Spanish Fandango; Wimoweh; Liebestraum; and Czardas. In notation and tablature. Intermediate - Advanced level. 56 Pages.

CHET ATKINS COLLECTION  MB 99552

Larger picture	by Craig Dobbins
	Seasoned guitarist, transcriptionist, and composer Craig Dobbins presents note for note standard notation and tab transcriptions of nine Chet Atkins fingerstyle arrangements including: Back to Old Smoky Mountains; The Bells of St. Mary's; Freight Train; I'll Fly Away; Jingle Bells; Road to Gundaghi/Waltzing Matilda; Waltz No. 10 in B minor (Chopin); and Whispering. Includes a generous essay on Chet's life and music by Jim Ohlschmidt. Intermediate level. 80 Pages.

Chet Atkins Rare Performances 1976-1995  MB VS13091DVD

	performed by Chet Atkins.
	For more than 40 years, the name of Chet Atkins has been associated with the finest Nashville-based fingerstyle guitar sounds. Even those records he did not play on showed his influence. Yet his own artistic growth never ceased, as is evident in this second volume of Vestapol's chronological documentation of Chet's career. We see this gentle genius exploring the music of Bob Dylan (Don't Think Twice It's All Right), marching band composer John Phillip Sousa (Stars and Stripes Forever), pop standards (Lover Come Back) and progressive funk (Knuckle Buster). Chet's tonal palette draws varied colors from electric guitars, nylon-strung classics, and even a resophonic guitar. Foremost in this collection are his traditional strengths as a tasteful soloist, but we also see him swap licks with the fiery Jerry Reed and Larry Carlton. The overall impression made by these performances is one of a master quietly demonstrating his continued primacy in his field and doing so with a calm assurance unabated by needless grandstanding. The booklet is not included, but may be downloaded from guitarvideos.com. 71 minutes.

CHET ATKINS/RARE PERFORMANCES 1955-1975 DVD  MB 95990DVD

	The much traveled Mr. Guitar is seen playing in this video collection everywhere from Nashville to Norway. His signature Gretsch Tennesseean guitar, on which Chet made it exquisitely effective use of its Bigsby vibrato bar, is heard in all its sweet, reverb-laden glory on many of these clips. But Chet, whose versatility embraces all styles of guitar, is also seen playing a classical guitar and a Martin dreadnaught. No matter what he plays, the produced becomes a distinct auditory fingerprint of the man known in Nashville as C. G. P. (Certified Guitar Player). The relaxed mastery evident in this video explains why Chet, along with such diverse geniuses as Thelonius Monk and Bill Monroe, was honored in 1993 with a Lifetime Achievement Award Grammy "For this peerless fingerstyle guitar technique, his extensive creative legacy documented on more than one hundred albums, and his influential work on both sides of the recording console as a primary architect of the Nashville sound." The booklet for the DVD featuring biographical material, rare photographs and details on the tunes is not included, but can be accessed and downloaded from guitarvideos.com. Running time: 58 minutes.

Complete Chet Atkins Guitar Method  MB 93232BCD

	This is an updated edition of Chet Atkin's famous guitar method. It contains numerous picking studies, chord etudes and great Atkin's style guitar solos. Written in notation and tablature. Book/CD. Multiple levels. 108 Pages.

COMPLETE GUIDE TO C6 STYLE PEDAL STEEL GUITAR VIDEO  MB 96775VX

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	"It's not just an armrest anymore!" C6 Steel Guitar tuning is no longer a mystery! Steel veteran Wally Moyers unlocks the secrets of the swinging C6 neck in easy-to-follow step-by-step lessons. Special tips help E9 players understand this fun neck quickly. Each pedal is fully explained and a Tab book is included. 50 minute video.

CONGA DRUMMING: A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO PLAYING WITH TIME

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	This is the only complete, step by step course on conga drumming in print. After working through only a few chapters of this book, you'll be able to jam with others in playing the irresistible rhythms that form the roots of Salsa. The clear text, illustrations, and easy to read charts make learning to play authentic Afro-Cuban rhythms easy even without previous experience as a percussionist. The warm, friendly tone of the text creates the intimate feel of private lessons. All 175 rhythms in the book are included on the companion CD.

Country Backup-Guitar  MB 95533BCD

Larger picture	By Fred Sokolow
	All the strums and picking patterns you need to accompany your own voice or play rhythm guitar in a country band! Start at the beginning and learn backup for modern country, bluegrass, honky tonk, and Western swing.  Intermediate level. 48 Pages.

Country Blues Guitar

Larger picture	By Stefan Grossman
	Country Blues Guitar styles span a wide horizon. In these three lessons the ideas and techniques of Rev. Gary Davis, Charley Jordan, Tommy Johnson and Mississippi John Hurt are presented. The arrangements vary from alternating bass to a Delta strum to a monotonic bass. In notation and tablature with three compact discs featuring 3 full hours of note-by-note, phrase-by-phrase instruction. LESSON ONE: Rev. Davis's Cocaine Blues and You Got The Pocket Book, I Got The Key both played in the key of C and in what Rev. Davis called "old fashion" pickin'. The popular blues Crow Jane played in the key of E. LESSON TWO: Charley Jordan's Keep It Clean and Hunkie Tunkie Blues both played in the key of E and presenting Jordan's unusual blues approach. Tommy Johnson's Canned Heat played in dropped D tuning. LESSON THREE: We begin with Come Back Baby, a slow blues in A using a monotonic bass. We follow this with Mississippi John Hurt's Monday Morning Blues also played in the key of A but using an alternating bass.

Country Blues Guitar in Open Tunings

Larger picture	By Stefan Grossman
	Open tunings have always been an integral part of the Country Blues Guitar tradition. In this approach the guitar is tuned to a full chord. Most blues players began playing the guitar in an open tuning as it made playing much easier yet gave the guitar a much stronger and richer sound. For a minimum of effort you can produce a maximum of sound, rhythm and music. The most popular Country Blues tunings were the Open G tuning, also called Spanish tuning and the Open D tuning, also called Vestapol tuning. Also used by a few Delta guitarists such as Skip James and Bukka White was the Crossnote tuning where your guitar is tuned to an Open Em chord. In this lesson we will explore all three tunings with seven exciting fingerstyle blues arrangements. Also discussed are Delta blues ideas in Open G tuning as well as applying bottleneck techniques in an open tuning setting. Each tune is taught phrase by phrase and the played slowly on a split-screen. A detailed tab/music booklet is included. Tunes include: Open D Tuning: Vestapol, John Henry, If You Don't Want Me • Open G Tuning: Working On The New Railroad, Special Rider Blues • Crossnote Tuning: Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues and I'm So Glad.

COUNTRY DOBRO GUITAR STYLES  MB 93350

	This is one of the all-time best selling methods for playing Country style Resonator guitar. Written by the legendary Dobro soloist, Tom Swatzell, it features G tuning and includes 27 solos in notation and tablature. Also included are rare photographs of Tom Swatzell and Ed Dopera, one of the original inventors of the Dobro.

Country Electric Guitar Ear Training Course  MB 99896CD

	This double CD course is designed for any level, from beginner to advanced. The first CD covers acoustic style blues and the second CD covers electric style blues. It walks you through simple tried and true steps that will make training your ear a breeze! You will learn to correctly hum acoustic and electric blues licks, memorize a variety of blues licks in several different key signatures, and transpose what you memorize into alternate key signatures.

Country Guitar Book/CD Set  MB 96552BCD

	By Tommy Flint
	A fine collection of flatpicking exercises and solos progressively arranged to teach and illustrate the varied styles and techniques of Nashville's studio guitarists. This book includes tunes in double-stop harmonies, country shuffle rhythm, country ballad style, steel guitar style, "chicken pickin" style and more. This Mel Bay Value Line reissue of Tommy Flint's "classic" country guitar treatise has a lot to offer the beginning to intermediate country style guitarist.

Deluxe Pedal Steel Guitar Method - Book/CD Set  MB 93849BCD

	by Dewitt Scott
	This is the standard-bearer for pedal steel instruction books. It is extremely comprehensive in scope. Written by DeWitt Scott, founder of the International Pedal Steel Guitar Convention and member of the Pedal Steel Guitar Hall of Fame, this course teaches E9 tuning, Nashville set-up pedal steel with three floor and three knee levers. If you want to learn pedal steel, this book will show you how. The accompanying CD is in split-track format, allowing the student to play with the rhythm accompaniment, the pedal-steel solo parts, or both.