Offers a superb selection of in-depth lessons for players of all levels taught and recorded (slowly and up to tempo) by Flatpicking Master Oliver Waitze. Learn and improve the fundamentals of bluegrass flatpicking guitar! Effective right-hand and left-hand exercises, different backup styles, driving and syncopated rhythm, bass runs, crosspicking, melody and rhythm, gourmet bluegrass endings and licks, variations of your playing, and examples for improvisation. Contains many exercises designed to help you find your way in and out of every possible twist and turn of the left and right hands. Written in standard notation and TAB. Free audio downloads are available for use with this title. In English and German

Music Notation Key
Guitar Techniques

Chapter 1 - Exercises
Right-Hand Technique
Different Finger Combinations
Finger Exercises
Chromatic Scale Fingerings
String Skipping Basics
String Crossing
Right Hand Exercises
Three Note Chord Scales
Diatonic Triads
Hammer-Ons - Pull-Offs - Slides

Chapter 2 - Rhythm
Beginning a Tune
Standard Bluegrass Strums
Backup Styles
Rhythm Examples
G - C - D Backup
Rhythm Example in C
Driving Rhythm
Syncopated Rhythm
Using a Metronome

Chapter 3 - Bluegrass Runs
Bluegrass Bass Runs
Lester Flatt G-Run
Lester Flatt G-Run in other Keys
Advanced G-Runs
D-Runs
Drop D-Tuning

Chapter 4 - Crosspicking
Crosspicking Warm Ups
- Inverting A Chords
- Inverting D Chords
- Inverting F Chords
Advanced Crosspicking - Clarence White
Tony Rice Style
Advanced Crosspicking - Tony Rice

Chapter 5 - Endings & Licks
Endings
Tony Rice Endings
Gourmet Licks

Chapter 6 - Melody & Rhythm
Will the circle be unbroken
- Melody & Rhythm
- Solo Version
Shenandoah
Angeline the Baker
St. Anne's Reel
Down in the Valley to Pray

Chapter 7 - Variations of your playing
Variations
Ideas for Improvisation
Scales in different positions
Examples for Improvisation