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Bluegrass guitar tab (short for tablature) is a musical notation system that has been around for many years. Unlike standard notation, that depicts only the note name, bluegrass guitar tab shows you which string to play, which fret to hold down on the left hand, as well as other information such as slides, pull-offs and hammer-ons. All of our bluegrass guitar tab books are written by highly qualified instructors. Don't waste your time on questionable free bluegrass guitar tabs.

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Beginning Bluegrass Guitar Books
You Can Teach Yourself Flatpicking Guitar
You Can Teach Yourself Flatpicking Guitar
Three-time national flatpicking champion Steve Kaufman teaches you 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, read tablature, picking lead, crosspicking, practice techniques, and more.
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Bluegrass Guitar Basics - Ultimate Beginners Series
Bluegrass Guitar Basics - Ultimate Beginners Series
Covers all the basics and will have you playing all the classic bluegrass favorites in no time. You'll learn classic bluegrass guitar techniques in the context of classic bluegrass standards.
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Bluegrass Guitar
Bluegrass Guitar
A guitar workbook that covers every aspect of bluegrass playing from simple accompaniment to advanced instrumental. Over 30 bluegrass and traditional songs graded from easy to advanced in both standard music notation and tablature. Compact disc included.
Product# OK63024
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Teach Yourself Bluegrass Guitar
Teach Yourself Bluegrass Guitar
Written by a master player who shares his insights and personal playing advice with the student and offers hints for creating an authentic bluegrass sound, and the basics like backup, solos and right and left-hand techniques. B/w photos.
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Bluegrass Guitar
Bluegrass Guitar
A collection of traditional and Southern mountain songs progressively arranged in flatpicking guitar style. Many tunes are shown as both lyric versions with guitar chords and as flatpicking guitar solos.
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First Lessons Flatpicking Guitar
First Lessons Flatpicking Guitar
This new book is perfect for beginners, players with a little experience and guitarists who want a good grounding in the flatpicking style. Using popular American fiddle tunes, Joe introduces the important basics of good flatpicking including pick direction, fingering, and hand position.
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Christmas Classics for Guitar
Christmas Classics for Guitar
Arranged by Robert T. Tarchara. It is a collection of Christmas carols arranged for easy guitar. Lyrics have been provided for the guitarist who wishes to sing, chord diagrams for the guitar strummer, and tablature for the melody.
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Bluegrass Guitar 1
Bluegrass Guitar 1
10 Bluegrass instrumental standards. For every song, Dan gives you a fast version, a slow version and a phrase-by-phrase lesson, plus a rhythm guitar part recorded separately so you can practice your solos.
Product# 6915
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Bluegrass Guitar 2
Bluegrass Guitar 2
10 Bluegrass instrumental standards. For every song, Dan gives you a fast version, a slow version and a phrase-by-phrase lesson, plus a rhythm guitar part recorded separately so you can practice your solos
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Bluegrass Guitar 3
Bluegrass Guitar 3
10 Bluegrass instrumental standards. For every song, Dan gives you a fast version, a slow version and a phrase-by-phrase lesson, plus a rhythm guitar part recorded separately so you can practice your solos
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Bluegrass Guitar 4
Bluegrass Guitar 4
10 Bluegrass instrumental standards. For every song, Dan gives you a fast version, a slow version and a phrase-by-phrase lesson, plus a rhythm guitar part recorded separately so you can practice your solos.
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Fingerpicking Fiddle Tunes For Fingerstyle Guitar
Fingerpicking Fiddle Tunes For Fingerstyle Guitar
With this book/CD pack, Ken Perlman presents a systematic approach to playing classic fiddle tunes fingerstyle on the guitar. Learn hoedowns, reels, set tunes, marches, hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys and airs from a pioneer of the style!
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Bluegrass Guitar Set
Bluegrass Guitar Set
Bluegrass Guitar The Right Way is the Easy Way! with Dan Huckabee 40 Bluegrass guitar solos to build & enhance your flatpicking repertoire. Each of the 4 courses includes step-by-step instruction on CD with corresponding tablature for 10 Bluegrass instrumental standards. Complete 4 CD set.
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Power Flatpicking Guitar
Power Flatpicking Guitar
A masterful flatpicking technique book offering bluegrass licks, scales, basic chords, and solos in various positions up the neck in the keys of G-C-D-A-E-,B-flat and F. The companion CD features selections from throughout the book, played both slowly and at normal speed.
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Flatpicking Guitar
Flatpicking Guitar
Flatpicking Guitar' is a wonderful collection of 23 up-tempo, foot stompin' tunes arranged for flatpicked guitar. Written in standard notation and tab.
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Fiddle Tunes For Flatpickers
Fiddle Tunes For Flatpickers
25 Traditional Fiddle Tunes Newly Arranged for Bluegrass Guitar. Flatpicking guitar style delivers the clean, sharp solo sound that defined some of the greatest bluegrass recordings of the 1950s. Now you can learn to play famous fiddle tunes specially arranged for guitar.
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Fretboard Roadmaps: - Bluegrass And Folk
Fretboard Roadmaps: - Bluegrass And Folk
Learn the essential patterns that all great guitarists know and use! This book/CD pack will have you playing lead and rhythm anywhere on the fretboard, in any key. The CD includes 41 demonstration tracks to help you perfect your new skills.
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Flatpicking Cookbook
Flatpicking Cookbook
This book contains original and standard tunes performed by two-time National Flatpick Guitar Champion Gary Cook. Borrowing from many styles of acoustic guitar playing, this book will provide an insight into Gary's guitar technique.
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Guitar Roots: Bluegrass
Guitar Roots: Bluegrass
For anyone who's ever wanted to add bluegrass to their list of playing styles but never knew where to begin, Guitar Roots: Bluegrass provides all the elements for finding an authentic bluegrass sound. Clear, easy-to-understand examples demonstrate slides, hammer-ons, pull-offs, alternate picking, syncopation and more.
Product# 20435
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Easy Flatpicking Guitar Solos
Easy Flatpicking Guitar Solos
This book helps the beginning to intermediate flatpicking guitarist in developing control of the pick. The author introduces a number of traditional and ethnic styles and discusses various flatpicking techniques including up and down picking, crosspicking, and playing with a combination of pick and fingers.
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Deluxe Bluegrass Flatpickin Guitar Method
Deluxe Bluegrass Flatpickin Guitar Method
A comprehensive method for learning to play guitar in the bluegrass flatpicking style. The first part includes tuning, reading notation and tablature, learning chords, bass runs, left and right hand techniques, plus short pieces and studies. The second part offers dozens of progressively arranged solos.
Product# 93630
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Acoustic Guitar Primer
Acoustic Guitar Primer
The only book designed to take the raw beginner through the basics of bluegrass and country guitar, including both rhythm and lead playing. Contains a complete chord chart and all music is written in both standard music notation and tablature. Includes lyrics and melody lines. Companion DVD or VHS tape also available.
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Acoustic Guitar Book 2
Acoustic Guitar Book 2
Acoustic Guitar Book 2 with CD by Bert Casey is the followup course to Acoustic Guitar Primer. This comprehensive book for intermediate players takes your rhythm playing to the next level. By using 17 popular songs, the student plays and sings along with a full band on extended versions of all songs. Video and DVD also available.
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Complete Flatpicking Guitar Book/CD/DVD
Complete Flatpicking Guitar Book/CD/DVD
This comprehensive study of contemporary flatpicking guitar technique presents numerous solos for the beginning through advanced flatpicking guitarist along with tips on creating your own flatpicking arrangements.
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Fiddle Tunes For Flatpickers Guitar
Fiddle Tunes For Flatpickers Guitar
This wonderful new book is an ideal collection for the bluegrass guitarist. The book contains at least 25 songs, each written in standard notation and tablature, with chord changes, performance and fingering suggestions, and song histories. A preface in the book covers how to read tablature and rhythmic notation, and picking techniques.
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You Can Teach Yourself Country Guitar
You Can Teach Yourself Country Guitar
Dix Bruce introduces you to country back-up, bass runs, Carter-style bluegrass picking, the Nashville Numbering System for indicating chord changes, use of the capo, transposition, and much more. Work at your own pace and learn to sound like the country greats! Written in standard notation and tablature.
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Bluegrass Guitar Songbooks
Bluegrass Guitar Solos That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know Vol. 1
Bluegrass Guitar Solos That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know Vol. 1
Bluegrass Guitar Solos (That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know) features 20 great bluegrass tunes in standard notation and guitar tab and al so contains six 1 hour CD's for play-along with the rhythm track.
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Bluegrass Guitar Solos That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know Vol. 2
Bluegrass Guitar Solos That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know Vol. 2
Steve Kaufman's series of favorite bluegrass tunes has been a perennial best-seller. He teaches the basic melody for the beginning guitarists, then he gets the intermediate players started on a series of great licks and runs.
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Bluegrass Guitar Solos That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know Vol. 3
Bluegrass Guitar Solos That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know Vol. 3
Steve Kaufman's third set of popular lessons for Parking Lot Pickers teaches how to work out guitar breaks to well-known bluegrass songs. You can turn off Steve's lead guitar on your stereo and play along with the rhythm tracks.
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Bluegrass Guitar Solos That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know Vol. 4
Bluegrass Guitar Solos That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know Vol. 4
This set of six one-hour CDs plus a 136-page book teaches beginning, intermediate and advanced versions of 20 great traditional instrumentals. Steve includes rhythm tracks for a fantastic practice session. Includes music and tablature.
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20 Swing Tunes That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know
20 Swing Tunes That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know
This series of CDs 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 finally, a full-blown solo that will challenge any aspiring swing guitarist. Backup tracks make for productive and exciting practice sessions.
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20 Gospel Songs That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know
20 Gospel Songs That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know
This detailed course in beginning, intermediate and advanced flatpicking techniques teaches a dazzling set of gospel standards that are great for playing at bluegrass jam sessions or family gatherings.
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Flatpicker's Guide to Jamming
Flatpicker's Guide to Jamming
Joining a jam session can be intimidating. Presented here is everything a beginning or intermediate mandolin player needs to know to participate in a jam session. There are sections that describe how jam sessions work, and jam session etiquette. The book also describes the typical chords and keys for jamming, and describes right hand usage. A section is included on the role each instrument plays in bluegrass rhythm. A play-along CD is included with 9 typical bluegrass jam tunes.
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Easy Guitar Solos
Easy Guitar Solos
If you enjoy the 'Carter Family Style' you'll love this lesson! It's basically the old style of strumming the chords while you weave in the melody notes. It's fun, easy & you'll really learn how melody relates to chords!
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Bluegrass Guitar Classics
Bluegrass Guitar Classics
Includes standard notation and tab for 22 Carter-style solos from bluegrass classics such as: Back Up and Push · The Big Rock Candy Mountain · Cotton Eyed Joe · Down Yonder · Jesse James · John Henry · Little Sadie · Man of Constant Sorrow · Uncle Joe · The Wabash Cannon Ball · Wildwood Flower · and more.
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Classic Arrangements of Vintage Songs for Flatpicking Guitar
Classic Arrangements of Vintage Songs for Flatpicking Guitar
This book and 2-CD set was intended for the mature picker who desires great arrangements to the classic songs we hear, sing, and play. Included are great sounding solid songs which are fun to play, but not with those impossible blinding runs. This unique book is also perfect for the beginner who is ready to branch into the intermediate world of guitar.
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Parking Lot Pickers Songbook Guitar Edition
Parking Lot Pickers Songbook Guitar Edition
A collection of over 225 great Bluegrass, Old Time, Country and Gospel standards. Melodies are presented with standard notation and tablature along with lyrics and chords. Learn to play songs written and recorded by the giants of traditional American music.
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Famous Gospel Favorites for Flatpicking Guitar
Famous Gospel Favorites for Flatpicking Guitar
this 5 1/2'x8' book offers 16 gospel melodies in standard notation and tablature with complete lyrics and suggested guitar chords. Each melody is preceded by diagrams of the chords needed to accompany the tune.
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Guitar Tabsongs: Bluegrass
Guitar Tabsongs: Bluegrass
Here are 27 favorite bluegrass tunes for all bluegrass-loving guitar players. Each tune includes the melody in notation with lyrics and chord symbols plus a fingerstyle accompaniment in notation and tablature.
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101 Three-Chord Songs for Guitar, Banjo
101 Three-Chord Songs for Guitar, Banjo
You need only minimal playing skills and three chords--G, C, and D7--to accompany all the great songs in this innovative book. If you are just getting started, or if you are a 'casual' player on a chording instrument, this is the perfect book for you.
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