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Instructional books/DVD's other for Chet, Jerry, Merle, Scotty Anderson, etc.?
Are there any good resources for learning Merle Travis/Chet Atkins/Jerry Reed stuff? I know Chet put out a Mel Bay book. Any other recommendations?
Thanks again for all the input, advice, pointers that people have provided in the past for other stuff. |
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Any input is appreciated.
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I have the "Mel Bay Presents the Merle Travis Guitar Style" book by Tommy Flint. According to the introduction, Tommy Flint knew Merle Travis personally and Merle Travis apparently had some input on the original version of this book.
I haven't gone through this book yet so I can only describe it to you. It is 173 pages long. It has some introductory material with some pointers and exercises at the beginning. The remainder of the book consists mostly of Travis-style songs. For every song there are chord diagrams at the beginning, and then the song is given both in regular notation and tablature. It comes with a CD so you can hear how the songs should sound. Like I said, I haven't gone through this book so I can't really comment, except that there are a lot of full song arrangements in this book. Some of them look fairly easy, but most look to me to be intermediate to advanced level. I bought this book becasue I went through another book by Tommy Flint on fingerstyle guitar and I really liked it. I haven't got around to this one yet. |
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Stefan Grossman (www.guitarvideos.com) has lessons in that sort of style taught by Chet Atkins, Buster B Jones, Marcel Dadi, Pat Kirtley.
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I'm also looking for bluegrass stuff so Tony Rice, Norman Blake, Bryan Sutton, Bill Monroe etc. and was wondering how/what instructionals are good? I always find teaching/music lessons in general where you need to find a good balance of Musicianship but also teaching ability. There can be great players, but they really can't teach.
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Other recommendations?
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Any other book recommendations?
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I think that these days there are just so many resources around. I am one who learns much faster, and gets a much better grasp, if I can get it shown to me. For some reason, it's better if I see it, than if I try to read it. I can read, I sight read bass all the time, but just do better sitting down with someone and watching, then trying. So i would suggest an interactive dvd. Tommy Emmanuel has some really good ones. many pro players do. you should shop around online, take a look around.
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