Everything Country: Techniques

A wide variety of country tunes are included with lessons that teach the stylistic elements of country music, such as the addition of grace notes, certain styles of bass playing, and the use of parallel thirds and sixths.

Anyone interested in learning to play blues keyboard can pick up this book and get started right away. This well-paced, comprehensive method covers everything from basic to advanced techniques. Beginning concepts include basic chords, scales, blues melodies, improvisation, turnarounds, intros, the 12-bar blues form, walking bass, and playing in a band. Intermediate topics include chord extensions, blues techniques, building bass lines, playing in key, ii--V substitutions, and slow blues. Advanced techniques include tremolo, octaves, grace notes, and two-handed chords. The book covers a variety of styles, including Chicago blues, New Orleans R&B, and jazz blues, as well as topics like chromaticism, motivic development, melodic expansion, groove, and articulation. Packed with sample licks and songs, this book is essential for any keyboardist serious about learning the blues. Online audio demonstrating examples in the book is included.

(Keyboard Instruction). Ever wanted to play country piano, but weren't sure where to start? Country Piano will teach you the basic skills you need! From comping to soloing, you'll learn the theory, tools and tricks used by the pros to get that authentic country sound. At the end of the book, you'll get seven complete tunes to jam on. Listen to the audio and start playing along! Covers: scales and chords; walkup and walkdown patterns; comping in traditional and modern country; bluegrass arpeggio styles; Nashville "fretted piano" techniques; and more. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be downloaded or streamed according to personal preference.

A great introduction to the fundamentals of Country piano playing. All exercises sound great as well as teaching the necessary notes and techniques. Contains all the information and techniques necessary for playing in a band, accompanying a vocalist and solo piano playing.

Country Riffs for Piano & Keyboards by Andrew D. Gordon is a book with 45 examples showing how to play professional sounding Country, Western Swing, Bluegrass, Honky Tonk, Blues, Country Rock and Country Pop styles. Learn to play fills or riffs to such Country favorites as: Rocky Top, San Antonio Rose, On The Road Again, Desperado, Sweet Home Alabama, Orange Blossom Special etc.
The music is recorded with piano left hand on the left stereo channel and the piano right hand on the right stereo channel along with rhythm accompaniment of bass, drums, organ and either violin, banjo, guitar or accordion depending on the track. All the 45 examples are recorded with the accompaniment on their own and many of the examples are recorded a third time at a slowed down tempo. The Nashville Numbering System is also explained and how it is used in playing Country music.

(Bass Method). The Hal Leonard Blues Bass Method is your complete guide to learning blues bass. This book with online audio uses classic blues songs and standards to teach you how to lay down your own solid blues bass lines. Learn to play by studying the songs of famous bluesmen such as B.B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughan (Tommy Lee Shannon), Muddy Waters, Freddie King, Albert King, The Allman Brothers, Otis Rush, T-Bone Walker, Louis Jordan, and many more. Learn actual riffs from blues classics including: Born Under a Bad Sign * Hideaway * Hoochie Coochie Man * Killing Floor * Pride and Joy * Sweet Home Chicago * The Thrill Is Gone * and more. Audio is accessed online for download or streaming and includes PLAYBACK+ tools that enable you to adjust the tempo without changing pitch, loop passages, and more.

This unique play-along volume provides a cross-section of contemporary country styles as played by today's top country musicians. The package includes a play-along CD covering 12 focus grooves and their variations, written charts for every track, plus playing suggestions and recommended listening for each style. Each groove comes complete with written charts (plus invaluable information), a breakdown of the groove's key elements, analysis of the form, playing suggestions and a selected discography. Recorded in Nashville by some of the best session players around, the top-quality CD has been mixed with the drums on the left channel and the bass on the right so that either instrument can be dialed out, allowing you to substitute the track with your own playing. Includes styles such as country pop, contemporary 2-beat, country cajun and much more!

(Bass Play-Along). The Bass Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily! Just follow the tab, listen to the CD to hear how the bass should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are also included in the book in case you want to sing, or to simply help you follow along. The audio CD is playable on any CD player, and also enhanced so PC & Mac users can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch! Songs: Achy Breaky Heart (Don't Tell My Heart) * All My Ex's Live in Texas * Boot Scootin' Boogie * Chattahoochee * Guitars, Cadillacs * I like It, I Love It * Should've Been a Cowboy * T-R-O-U-B-L-E.

At last, here is a method book for the upright string bass or dog house bass as it is affectionately known in bluegrass circles. Although bluegrass bass has a style of its own, the knowledge gained through this method is applicable to virtually any musical genre. This book addresses the elements of tuning, hand positions, essential chord theory, slap bass technique, and playing in positions 1-10. A handy chart is provided for transposing chord progressions from one key to another. Written in standard notation only.

(Bass Instruction). An introduction to country bass for electric or upright players. This book with online audio is an insider's look at country bass playing on stage and in the studio. The book includes lessons and music in the style of Hank Williams, Lefty Frizzel, Marty Stuart, David Ball, and more. It includes access to 35 songs with full band backing. You'll learn classic and modern country bass lines, how to be a studio bassist, how to read music with the Nashville Number System, and more! A killer country primer.' Bass Player magazine Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.

The first step towards experiencing the fun of playing blues music. This book & CD package will guide you through everything you need to know to begin playing blues drums. Topics include practice tips, note values, shuffle patterns, slow blues patterns, alternate cymbal patterns for a shuffle, hi-hat coordination exercises, bass drum variations, blues rumba, the open hi-hat sound, the "Steve Gadd Shuffle," new fill ideas, developing a groove with a bass player, four play-along charts and much more.

This unique play-along volume provides a cross-section of contemporary country styles as played by today's top country musicians. The package includes a play-along CD covering 12 focus grooves and their variations, written charts for every track, plus playing suggestions and recommended listening for each style. Each groove comes complete with written charts (plus invaluable information), a breakdown of the groove's key elements, analysis of the form, playing suggestions and a selected discography. Recorded in Nashville by some of the best session players around, the top-quality CD has been mixed with the drums on the left channel and the bass on the right so that either instrument can be dialed out, allowing you to substitute the track with your own playing. Includes styles such as country pop, contemporary 2-beat, country cajun and much more!

A complete method for learning to play authentically in the Country idiom. Explains and demonstrates beats and fills in a variety of Country and Country Rock styles. Several full length solos are also given to show how to play these styles in the context of a song.

(Guitar Educational). Turn your acoustic guitar into a full band with this comprehensive book by guitar virtuoso Chris Woods. Providing detailed, step-by-step instruction on a variety of percussive guitar techniques, this book includes warm-ups, exercises, full pieces, and practical "how-to" training that will get you slapping, tapping, and enjoying your guitar like never before. The book also includes access to high-definition video that reinforces all the material in the book and features Chris Woods himself as your personal instructor. No matter what style of music you play, Percussive Acoustic Guitar will change, enhance, and progress your entire approach to the guitar! Covers: string slapping, body percussion, tapping, harmonics, alternate tunings, standard notation and tab, and more, with lots of exercises and full pieces to play!

(Technical). In Mixing the Hits of Country , Nashville engineer Dave Martin expertly guides you through the process of recording and mixing 10 sound-alike songs so that you can achieve amazing results in your home or professional studio. This first-of-its-kind package includes high-resolution multitrack session files that can be loaded into any multitrack audio sequencing-and-editing program on Windows or Mac computers. Songs include "Before He Cheats," "Bless the Broken Road," "Redneck Woman," and seven other famous hits.

Inside Country Music provides a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at the music industry through a series of in-depth interviews with the experts on the business. Following the course of a record from the time it's written, through its recording, manufacture, release, and promotion, you'll learn how a record makes it to the top of the charts.

Sections include: Songwriting, Record Companies, Recording Artists, Artist Management, Record Production, and Promotion.

Advice, anecdotes, and personal experiences are given by some of the industry's most celebrated figures, including Loretta Lynn, Ricky Scaggs, Gail Davies, Steve Gatlin, and Label Chiefs, Rick Blackburn of CBS, and Jimmy Bowen of MCA.

Association for Recorded Sound Collections Certificate of Merit for the Best Historical Research in Recorded Roots or World Music, 2019 A&R Pioneers offers the first comprehensive account of the diverse group of men and women who pioneered artists-and-repertoire (A&R) work in the early US recording industry. In the process, they helped create much of what we now think of as American roots music. Resourceful, innovative, and, at times, shockingly unscrupulous, they scouted and signed many of the singers and musicians who came to define American roots music between the two world wars. They also shaped the repertoires and musical styles of their discoveries, supervised recording sessions, and then devised marketing campaigns to sell the resulting records. By World War II, they had helped redefine the canons of American popular music and established the basic structure and practices of the modern recording industry. Moreover, though their musical interests, talents, and sensibilities varied enormously, these A&R pioneers created the template for the job that would subsequently become known as "record producer." Without Ralph Peer, Art Satherley, Frank Walker, Polk C. Brockman, Eli Oberstein, Don Law, Lester Melrose, J. Mayo Williams, John Hammond, Helen Oakley Dance, and a whole army of lesser known but often hugely influential A&R representatives, the music of Bessie Smith and Bob Wills, of the Carter Family and Count Basie, of Robert Johnson and Jimmie Rodgers may never have found its way onto commercial records and into the heart of America's musical heritage. This is their story.

A system more feudal than modern, the Nashville country music business is closely controlled by just a handful of producers who are responsible for four-fifths of the hits from Music Row. This insider's guide explores all the parts of this byzantine system and its group of tightly-knit power players: the producers, writers, artists, publishers, session musicians, studios, labels, and the promotion machine, as well as the deep roots and the promising future of country music and its role in today's culture. As country music continues to be the crossover success story of the 1990s, with artists such as Garth Brooks, Dwight Yoakam, k.d. lang and LeAnn Rimes selling millions of records and putting their names on the top of the pop as well as country charts, country music is no longer thought of as merely southern, rural or American. The music and the city are loved by fans all over the world, and Nashville is Mecca to the thousands of singers, songwriters, and musicians who make the pilgrimage inthe hope of becoming an insider. Nashville's Unwritten Rules is the first guided tour of the inner sanctum of country music's holy city.

"Run Your Music Business(tm)" is the second book in the Music Law Series(tm) written by experienced entertainment lawyer, Audrey K. Chisholm, whose clients have been featured on MTV(r), American Idol(r), and VHI(r). "Run Your Music Business(tm)" picks up where "Start Your Music Business(tm)" left off and is an easy to read guide for songwriters, producers, music publishers, independent record labels, artists, bands, musicians, and individuals in the music industry that want to strategically grow and properly manage their music business: Learn how to: 1. How to Get Paid Licensing Your Music 2. How to Set-up Your Own Publishing Company 3. How to Build Your Own Music Catalog 4. How to Register with a Performing Rights Society 5. How to Negotiate Contracts (Record Label Agreements, Producer Contracts, Songwriter Contracts, etc.) 6. How to Work Full Time in Music 7. How to Know if Your Business is Growing 8. How to Know if Your Business Is Profitable (Understanding Financial Statements) 9. How to Create a Budget for your Music Business 10. How to Manage Debt 11. 10 Ways to Improve Your Credit Score 12. How to Run Your Music Business 13. How to Hold Business Meetings 14. Developing a Strategic Plan for Your Business 15. Business Recordkeeping / How to Keep Proper Business Records 16. 10 Ways to Avoid I.R.S. Trouble 17. How to File Business Taxes 18. Building Your Team 19. And more!

(Berklee Guide). Improvise with more expression and freedom in bluegrass and related styles. These ideas, exercises, and etudes will help you expand your palette of improvisational techniques and sounds. Develop your versatility over the fingerboard, and master harmonic and rhythmic ideas on the mandolin. The CD has demonstration and play-along tracks, performed by an all-star band.

Interviews, history, instructional methods, note-for-note transcriptions of classic tunes for banjo, mandolin, guitar, fiddle, and dobro. The greatest artists describe their music and how they make it. Including: Bill Monroe, Earl Scruggs, Lester Flatt, Ralph Stanley, Don Reno, Ricky Skaggs, David Grisman, and Sam Bush.

(Harmonica Play-Along). The Harmonica Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the notation, listen to the CD to hear how the harmonica should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are also included in the book in case you want to sing, or to simply help you follow along. The audio CD is playable on any CD player, and also enhanced so PC and Mac users can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch! Volume 5 includes: Blue Bayou * Don't Tell Me Your Troubles * He Stopped Loving Her Today * Honky Tonk Blues * If You've Got the Money (I've Got the Time) * The Only Daddy That Will Walk the Line * Orange Blossom Special * Whiskey River.