If you've been looking to learn some great flatpicking solos, this book will give you a great place to start! It includes 50 popular bluegrass songs (with lyrics!) and fiddle tunes, each written in st...
This complete guide to learning the tenor banjo was written by acclaimed author and musician Fred Sokolow. If features popular songs to teach you the basics of rhythm and lead playing in Dixieland, re...
Movie Songs for Solo Fingerstyle Ukulele features 25 classic songs presented in two ways (except for the two instrumentals): as solo fingerstyle arrangements for playing simple chord-melody style with...
Ready to take your playing to the next level? Renowned fretted instrument performer and teacher Fred Sokolow presents valuable how-to insight that mandolin players of all styles and levels can benefit...
Bluegrass Ukulele features 21 of the most popular bluegrass songs and fiddle tunes arranged for ukulele by Fred Sokolow. Each song comes with three tablature arrangements: one arrangement where you st...
Learn the essential patterns that all great guitarists know and use! This book/Online Audio pack will have you playing lead and rhythm anywhere on the fretboard, in any key. You'll learn chord-based l...
Solo Transkriptionen von Django Reinhardt, Charlie Christian, Les Paul, u.a. mit Analysen und ihren typischen Phrasen
arr. Fred Sokolow 20 favorites, including: And I Love Her* Eleanor Rigby* Here Comes The Sun* Here, There And Everywhere* Hey Jude* Michelle* Norwegian Wood* While My Guitar Gently Weeps* Yesterday* a...
This book provides beginning banjo players with easy streamlined arrangements of 40 popular songs. Learn the basics of clawhammer style, strum and sing along, or pick the melody lines. Arrangements ar...
Learn to play a variety of Dobro/lap-steel guitar styles using moveable scale patterns, common licks and techniques with this outstanding book/CD pack. The CD includes 46 demonstration tracks, and the...
The updated edition of this bestselling guitar instruction book now includes new music examples! This book will show you how to: play lead and rhythm anywhere on the fretboard, in any key; play a vari...
Take your baritone uke playing to the next level with this great package that will teach you how to: strum backup chords all over the fretboard, in any key; play chord solos up and down the fretboard;...
Two uke books in one - one for slide ukulele and the other for slack key ukulele! The slide ukulele pages cover choosing a slide, how to use the slide, and slide in C, G and standard tuning.
Includes notes & tab for fingerpicking and Travis picking arrangements of 15 favorites: Amazing Grace - Blessed Assurance - Do Lord - I've Got Peace like a River - Just a Closer Walk with Thee - O Hap...
The latest installment in our popular Fretboard Roadmaps series is a unique book/Online Audio pack for all mandolin players. The Online Audio includes 48 demonstration tracks for the exercises that wi...
This handy book/Online Audio pack will get you playing all over the banjo fretboard in any key! You'll learn to: increase your chord, scale and lick vocabulary; play chord-based licks, moveable major...
Take your uke playing to the next level with this great package that will teach you how to: strum backup chords all over the fretboard, in any key; play chord solos up and down the fretboard; solo in...
Ready to take your uke playing to the next level? Renowned fretted instrument performer and teacher Fred Sokolow presents valuable how-to insight from which ukulele players of all styles and levels ca...
Ready to take your banjo playing up a notch? Renowned teacher Fred Sokolow presents valuable how-to insight from which banjo players of all styles and levels can benefit. The text, photos, music, diag...
Learning to play the 5-string Banjo is a highly rewarding experience, but getting started can be a challenge!Here at last is a book that helps you choose the right instrument and accessories and then...
If you are a banjo player whose enjoyment of music isn't limited to bluegrass and country, you'll find this collection of tunes fun and sometimes challenging. Contains ragtime, blues, old-time jazz, a...
Fred Sokolov. Shows you all you need to know in order to start playing this enjoyable instrument. Simple explanations backed up by superb photographs.
This book/Online Audio pack will get you playing bass lines anywhere on the fretboard, in any key. You'll learn to build bass lines under chord progressions; major, minor, and pentatonic scale pattern...
The most thorough blues guitar book yet. Over 35 blues tunes covering electric and rock blues, folk, fingerpicking and bottleneck blues, B.B. King and Chuck Berry styles, jazzy blues and more. Plus po...
These essential fretboard patterns are roadmaps that all great blues guitarists know and use. This book teaches how to: play lead and rhythm anywhere on the fretboard, in any key; play a variety of le...
A must for every slide guitarist, this book/Online Audio pack teaches how to: play lead and rhythm anywhere on the fretboard, in any key; play a variety of slide guitar styles using moveable scale pat...
Fred Sokolow takes you from tuning up and your first chords, to rockin' the Blues in one 70-minute tutorial! Sokolow teaches the Blues in several keys, including Boogie Woogie basslines, Blues turnaro...
If you want to play blues guitar like B. B. King, Eric Clapton or Buddy Guy then this eighty minute DVD will get you on track. Starting at the beginning with first-position key-of-E blues licks, Fred...
Using the very best classic Blues tunes and standards, Fred Sokolow gives a complete guide to the muddy Mississippi sound of the slide guitar. Discover the licks and techniques of Blues pioneers such...
LESSON ONE: KING OF MODERN BLUES: B. B. KING, ALBERT KING, FREDDIE KING and T. BONE WALKER - By analyzing sample tunes, Fred teaches how to play electric single-string blues licks. You will learn seve...
These tunes were inspired by the great 'first generation' acoustic blues guitarists: Huddie Ledbetter, Mance Lipscomb, Gary Davis, Jesse Fuller, Blind Blake, and others. Author Fred Sokolow 's tunes c...
A popular and easy to understand book which teaches and explores the many aspects of bottleneck/slide guitar techniques developed nearly a century ago and made famous through the recordings of legenda...
Starting from ground zero, Fred Sokolow teaches you how to accompany yourself while singing the blues. You'll learn to play melodies and solo in several keys, throughout the neck. This book will help...
LESSON ONE: BEGINNINGS - THE ROOTS OF ELECTRIC BLUES - Electric blues stylists grew out of the guitar picking of versatile single-string soloists like Lonnie Johnson and Scrapper Blackwell and the cou...
This book/CD pack will teach you how to play hot country lead and rhythm anywhere on the fretboard, in any key! You'll play basic country progressions, boogie licks, steel licks and other melodies and...
Country music is more popular than ever and all you need to put over a good country song is your voice and a guitar. This 65 minute DVD gives you the tools you need to play old-fashioned country, honk...
In this 75 minute DVD Fred teaches nine standards every country picker/singer should know... from start to finish. You'll learn an intro for each song, a backup pattern and bass runs to play while sin...
Johnny Cash left us a wonderful country songbook, and in this one-hour and twenty minute lesson Fred shows you how to play and sing eight of Cash's most popular gems. You'll learn to back yourself up...
Fred Sokolow's Complete Country Guitar provides an impressive array of exercises and songs in a variety of country styles such as Carter flat picking style back-up, Carter flat picking style lead, Blu...
The Hal Leonard Bluegrass Guitar Method is your complete guide to learning bluegrass guitar. This book uses popular bluegrass songs to teach you the basics of rhythm and lead playing in the styles of...
The Hal Leonard Folk Guitar Method is your complete guide to learning folk guitar. This book uses popular folk songs to teach you the basics of rhythm and lead playing in the styles of Bob Dylan, Pete...
Improvisation mit Jazz-Akkorden, mit zahlreichen Übungen und Begleit-CD
This book/CD pack will get guitarists playing lead & rhythm anywhere on the fretboard, in any key! It teaches a variety of lead guitar styles using moveable patterns, double-note licks, sliding pentat...
A Guitarist's Guide to the Art of Chord Melody Playing Whether you're a beginner or an intermediate guitarist, this book/CD pack will help you to understand and learn the art of jazz chord soloing in...
The quintessential tutorial to get you started in the complex but satisfying world of Jazz guitar. Fred Sokolow gives you all the basics you will need, including chords, scales, licks and theory, to g...
Fred Sokolow introduces six timeless standards that demonstrate the self-accompanying art of chord solos. Sokolow introduces the melodies and chords for familiar tunes including Fly Me To The Moon and...
A big collection of 29 songs that have become classics because of their guitar riffs, including: (Ghost) Riders in the Sky - Hawaii Five-O - Pipeline - Scuttle Buttin' - Sleepwalk - Wipe Out - and mor...
Wegweiser für das Gitarrengriffbrett: Intervalle, Akkorde, Akkordverbindungen, Barréakkorde u.v.m.
Discover the very roots of modern Rock n' Roll with over an hour of Rockabilly guitar magic. The combination of electric Blues, country Blues, Travis fingerpicking and Boogie Woogie rhythms remains as...
Before rock n' roll became a big corporate industry, playing rock guitar used to be the most fun you could have with your pants on! Fred Sokolow shows why in this 72 minute DVD that uses your favorite...
Mel Bay Publications, Inc. is proud to present this new series of lessons as part of Stefan Grossman's highly successful Guitar Workshop Audio Series. In support of the book's contents, the three comp...
Mehr als 25 Stücke und Übungen in allen Stilistiken, Begleittechniken, rhythmische Grooves, Solos, u.m.
Fred Sokolow's best-selling guitar method and series has helped hundreds of thousands of guitar players. For the first time, this system is presented for the absolute beginner. While teaching the basi...
Alle wichtigen Strum- und Picking-Patterns für Rock, Blues, Soul/Funk, Heavy Metal, Jazz, u.a., über 150 Patterns und 100 Grooves in Noten und Tab
Fred Sokolow gives a comprehensive introduction to fingerpicking, with a library of patterns that can be applied to any style. Designed for the beginner, and starting with tuning and simple chords, So...
This DVD is the follow-up lesson to Fred Sokolow's Beginner's Fingerpicking Guitar. It presents six classic fingerpicking tunes, including solos and accompaniments, with a bluesy and country flavour....
As part of Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop Audio Series this comprehensive and thorough collection of fingerpicking guitar lessons contains invaluable tips and instruction implemented throughout the...
A fantastic collection of 50 accessible, must-know favorites for the beginner who's learned enough to start playing popular songs! This book features melody, lyrics, and chord diagrams.
With this comprehensive method, you get 25 songs in standard notation and tab, a Online Audio with 77 examples, and detailed info from banjo master Fred Sokolow on a host of other topics, including: t...
This one-of-a-kind collection features 50 must-know bluegrass songs that every banjo picker should have in their toolbox! Songs are appropriate for three-finger style 5-string banjo. Created especiall...
Best-selling author Fred Sokolow teaches you how to play blues on the banjo with this instructional book and audio pack! You'll learn: how to play the blues in several banjo tunings; how to play in th...
Blues Ukulele is a collection of 16 blues standards arranged for the ukulele by Fred Sokolow. Each song comes with two arrangements: The first one gives you lyrics, melody and uke chord grids to strum...
How To Do Jazz Chord Substitution For Accompaniment And Soloing Jazzing Up the Ukulele by Fred Sokolow is a method book/CD for uke players who want to add jazz chord substitution principles to their a...
15 of the most popular ragtime piano pieces for the ukulele are arranged by Fred Sokolow in this collection featuring music notation, tablature, and online audio demonstration tracks. Each rag has sev...
The Beatles for Fingerstyle Ukulele contains 25 favorite songs, each presented two ways: first as solo fingerstyle arrangements for playing simple chord-melody instrumentals with tab and chord diagram...
18 of the Fab Four's finest for five string banjo.
No matter what style of guitar you play, you will love this DVD! This DVD helps viewers think like musicians. Using familiar tunes, Fred Sokolow teaches the movable fretboard patterns all the pros use...
How do you keep that thumb-bass independent so it doesn't get derailed when your fingers pick the melody? Fred Sokolow makes it easy for beginners or intermediate guitarists by breaking it all down an...
Open tunings are as old as the guitar itself, and they've been used to play blues, folk, country, rock and old-timey music. Who's known for using open tunings? Artists as diverse as Robert Johnson, B...
If you're trying to improve your lead guitar playing by studying scales, that's only half the picture. The best lead guitarists in rock, jazz, country bluegrass and R and B base much of their improvis...
Fred Sokolow's bestselling guitar method has helped thousands of guitar players expand their chord vocabulary and think musically. This value pack includes a book, a full audio CD with 50 demo and pla...
This new version has been given a complete facelift, with new songs and all new engravings! Includes transcriptions of 20 seminal tunes: Crying, Waiting, Hoping - Everyday - I'm Gonna Love You Too - I...
He has been called the Father of Country Music, the Singing Brakeman, and America's Blue Yodeler. Jimmie Rodgers, one of the first recording artists to sell a million records, combined country, blues,...
This deluxe book features 32 songs from The Royal Family of Country Music, plus an introduction & family history, rare photos, a chronological discography, and analysis of their technique and music.
Full transcriptions and lessons to 11 classic tunes, including: Dust My Broom * The Sky Is Crying * Early One Morning * and more.
Take your lap steel guitar playing to the next level with this great package that will teach you how to play solos, licks and backups, all over the fretboard, in any key, plus teach you how to navigat...
Everyone wants to get there faster and easier. This guide from Fred Sokolow features 29 tips that save time and make you a more skillful player in any musical genre. Tip topics include: Sliding Major...
If you're new to the Dobro® or want to expand your repertoire, this book provides a combination of tab, music, chords, and lyrics for the most popular songs Dobro players (or lap steel players) li...
Every guitarist seeks to create unique, meaningful solos in their performances that match those of today's most revered players. It doesn't matter whether you play blues, rock, country, bluegrass, swi...
Legendary blues guitarist Bo Diddley passed away in 2008. This songbook features note-for-note transcriptions with tab for 18 of his best-known songs, with detaled information about his unique style....
These essential fretboard patterns are roadmaps that all great acoustic guitarists know and use. By studying them, you'll learn to play lead and rhythm and chords and progressions anywhere on the fret...
The updated edition of this bestseller features more songs, updated lessons, and a full audio CD! This book will show you how to play lead and rhythm anywhere on the fretboard, in any key; play a vari...
A thorough guide to the most widely used tunings! Tunes and exercises that illustrate each technique are written in tab and music and played on the CD featuring 50 demo tracks. These essential fretboa...
The Spanish edition of this bestseller features more songs, updated lessons, and a full audio CD! This book will show you how to play lead and rhythm anywhere on the fretboard, in any key; play a vari...
A fixture on the Portland indie music scene, singer-songwriter Elliott Smith was introduced to the mainstream via his Oscar-nominated song Miss Misery from the Good Will Hunting soundtrack. This colle...
Full-size wall chart featuring D and G tunings for the Resonator guitar. Each tuning shows chords, scales, and popular licks. Recommended listening is also listed on the chart. Information on slide te...
This collection of 130 mandolin solos is an invaluable resource for fans of bluegrass music. Each song excerpt has been meticulously transcribed note-for-note in tab from its original recording so you...
20 hit songs presented in two different formats for ukulele: one solo fingerstyle arrangement with tab and chord diagrams; one lyric/chord lead sheets for basic strumming & singing. Songs are introduc...
The First 15 Lessons series provides a step-by-step lesson plan for the absolute beginner, complete with audio tracks, video lessons, and real songs! Designed for self-teaching or for use with an inst...
