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All Volumes Now On SALE!
These items are currently on sale from now through September 10th, 2010. The prices shown are the sale prices ($5 discount off of the regular price)
Flatpicking Essentials
About the Flatpicking Essentials Series:
The Flatpicking Essentials instructional series is designed to teach you the art of flatpicking the acoustic guitar in a sequential, step-by-step method that will gradually build your flatpicking skill in a way that leaves no "gaps" or "holes." While this method will be extremely beneficial to beginners, this series will also be of great value to those guitar players who have been working to learn how to flatpick for quite some time, yet can't seem to get beyond a certain plateau. If you are having trouble moving beyond memorized solos, adding interest and variety to your rhythm playing, learning how to play up-the-neck, learning how to come up with your own arrangements to songs, learning how to play by ear, or learning how to improvise, then this series is for you!
Too many flatpickers are learning how to play by simply memorizing transcribed fiddle tune solos from tab books and video tapes. In doing that they are learning ineffectively and inefficiently. They are skipping over many vital elements in the learning process and thus they have a weak foundation. In this series our goal is to help you build a strong foundation so that you can easily maintain consistent forward progress in your study of flatpicking.
Each volume of this series presents material that provides the foundation for the next volume. Volume 1: In this first volume "Rhythm, Bass Runs, and Fill Licks" you will learn how to develop all of the basic skills you will need in order to become a solid rhythm player. This book is designed to teach you rhythm skills in a way that will thoroughly prepare you for Volume 2, which is titled, "Learning How To Solo: Carter Style and Beyond". Volume 2 will teach you how to learn chord progressions and melodies to vocal songs by ear, and then show you how to create your own interesting solos to those songs using a variety of flatpicking techniques. Volume 3 will start to build your fiddle tune repertoire by studying fiddle tune structure and providing you with melody-based versions of the most popular jam session tunes, then giving you further instruction regarding how you can create your own interesting solos. Volume 4 ("Understanding the Fingerboard and Moving Up-The-Neck") will teach you how to become familiar with the entire fingerboard and understand how to use it to your advantage in creating interesting solos. You will learn how to explore the fingerboard using chord shapes, scales, and arpeggios. Volume 5 ("Improvisation and Style Studies") will explore the styles and contributions of the flatpicking legends: Doc Watson, Clarence White, Tony Rice, Dan Crary, Norman Blake, and others. Volume 5 also contains a detailed section pertaining to improvisation. Volume 6 ("Advanced Flatpick Soloing") will provide you with advance flatpicking techniques and advanced arrangements of songs and tunes (arranged by Tim May). Volume 7 ("Advanced Acoustic Guitar Rhythm") will explore advance rhythm ideas such as syncopation, passing chords, chord substitutions, movable chord forms, and how to play rhythm in styles such as Western swing, swing, and jazz. Finally, Volume 8 will explore lead acoustic guitar playing in other genres such as Celtic, Western Swing, and Gypsy Jazz.
This method is very "hands-on". Meaning we are going to "teach you how to fish", not just catch fish for you. From the first Volume you will be creating your own rhythm runs, your own arrangements to vocal tunes, your own fiddle tune arrangements, learning how to improvise, developing your ear, and learning how to create your own style and your own voice on the guitar. We don't want you to just memorize, we want you to create—and this method will show you how.
Flatpicking Essentials Customer Support
In addition to all of the material that is provided in each book and on each audio CD, Flatpicking Essentials customers have direct access, through email, to both authors of this course (Dan Miller and Tim May). Additionally, they have access to a web site that offers supplemental exercises, songs, techniques, audio files, homework problem answers, and answers to frequently asked questions. Additionally, Dan Miller initiated a group on the Flatpicking Network that allows Flatpicking Essentials customers to communicate with each other and share ideas, songs, etc.
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