On this compelling video lesson Steve Kaufman introduces essential Instrumentals for Flatpickers and teaches his arrangements to some of the most beautiful pieces in the guitar repertory. This lesson will delight lower intermediate to advanced players and will show you how to add the Flatpick style Waltz ‘feel’ and waltz phrases to your playing. Steve Kaufman is internationally known as a c…

Steve Kaufman teaches you how to play solid rhythm from playing behind the simplest two-chord song to the complex chord progressions needed to accompany Texas-style fiddle tunes.He starts with the fundamentals showing you how to hold a pick get good tone and play the basic bass/chord rhythm patterns solidly and accurately. Then he moves on to important embellishments such as adding bass walks…

In A Guitarist's Guide To Solo Arranging And Performing master guitarist and teacher Steve Kaufman provides invaluable advice drills ideas tunes and techniques that will get a player primed for solo instrumental performing. He teaches arrangements in a variety of acoustic genres folk bluegrass Celtic and ragtime that range from early- to advanced-intermediate levels. Songs include: Amaz…

Media Type : Book Level : Beginning Musical Genre : Bluegrass & Country Series : You Can Teach Yourself Number of pages : 84 Three-time national flatpicking champion Steve Kaufman teaches you how to buy a guitar, the easy way to fret a note, how to read chord charts and play all the basic chords, basic bluegrass strumming patterns, bass runs and walks, hammer-ons and pull-offs, how to read tabla…

20 Swing Tunes That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know teaches essential swing Guitar repertoire to bluegrass flatpickers. Steve's unique method features three levels: - a beginner's version in which he teaches the basic melody - an intermediate arrangement that will give players a solid musical grounding - and a full-blown solo that will challenge any aspiring swing guitarist. Backup tracks mak…

This fun and easy book and CD takes you from the very beginning. Learning right and left-hand techniques learning your first chords 18 great songs AND you painlessly learn them by reading notes. Anyone can do it. Steve's method and approach to learning to read notes is so simple that 4 year olds have done it. You will start with 4 simple notes. Steve then teaches songs using just those four note…

This fun and easy bluegrass fiddle book and CD takes you from the very beginning. Starting with an introduction to the instrument the book teaches you basic fiddle technique such as holding the bow and provides scales andexercises setting the foundation for the repertoire found in the book. Featuring classics such as 'Boil E'm Cabbage Down' 'Cripple Creek' and 'Old Joe Clark' this book will ge…