50 Tunes Volume 1 for Guitar is one book in a 5-book series. The 50 Tunes series is a collection of Bluegrass, Old Time and Celtic tunes for ensembles, families and individuals. This book contains the same 50 tunes as those found in the other 4 books of the series, but carefully designed for the guitar. The melodies in this book range from simple to advanced. Many tunes contain a harmony part to match the melody. 50 Tunes Volume 1 for Guitar is designed for ""flatpicking"" on the acoustic guitar. Flatpicking is a style of guitar playing, prevalent in Celtic and Bluegrass music which features fast soloing with a single, flat pick. Companion CDs included. Book written in tablature only. Tunes recorded by full band, not all instruments featured in every song.
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Mark Geslison Mark Geslison, the author and coordinator of this series, is a multi-instrumentalist who plays the mandolin, guitar, bass, percussion, banjo and dulcimer. He has performed traditional music for most of his life and has been an instrumental champion several times since the mid-1980 s including: Western Regional Guitar Champion 1988, 1989; Western Regional Mandolin Champion 1988, 1989, 1992; Utah State Mandolin Champion 1988, 1989, 1992, 1994 and 2002; and Utah State Banjo Champion 2001 (4-string). Mark has been the director of the Folk Music Ensemble program at Brigham Young University since 1992. The Folk Music Ensemble program includes performing groups that focus on Bluegrass, Appalachian, Early American and Celtic music styles. His students perform approximately one hundred times per year in all parts of the world including South Pacific, Asia, Europe, and North and South America. Mark is also the founder and director of the Institute of American Music (IAM). IAM is a non-profit, private school of music designed to teach traditional music in an ensemble setting to young people and families. This series originated within IAM where Mark noticed a need for ensemble arrangements.
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It's called tablature
11 Sep 2006
By Everett C. Bennett
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This is an excellent book for begining to intermediate guitar players looking for old time and traditional tunes. It's not exactly bluegrass, although a lot of bluegrass players do these tunes. It has tunes "every parking lot picker should know", the book has a nice format with large, easy to read printing, a beginner's arrangement and one for slightly more advanced players, all the tunes are at a moderate speed on the 3 cd set, and a lot of extras for the beginner. True, it doesn't have sheet music (and, yes, I can read music quite well, thank you very much!) but so what. Most people who play this type of music simply prefer tab. All in all, a nice, well done book, good tunes, and a lot of fun. Advanced players probably wouldn't get a lot from this book, but then again it never hurts to work on your basics. Only reason I didn't give it five stars is that it doesn't include some more advanced tunes and some of the tab isn't quite how I hear/play the tune.
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Uncle Doug- flatpicker
8 Oct 2011
By Douglas C. Haines
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I was pleased to find Geslison's work in a solid Mel Bay book. I was introduced to it playing with family who had some earlier copies of his tunes. We have fiddle, guitar, banjo and bass now and have really enjoyed working off the 'same sheet of music' with the consistency between instruments that allows us to learn and play the same tune in roughly the same way. He really has included some of the most played tunes while including some new ones to work on together. I don't always agree with the embellishments but can work with all the musicians together from the solid basic tunes as he presents them. This is a must have set if you play old time and bluegrass etc with others, especially other instruments. They don't provide lyrics for tunes that have them, but we can easily retrieve them on line.
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7 July 2010
By Tim
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I got this book as a father's day present. I have been doing bluegrass music for some time now and have just begun learning to flatpick lead parts. I had been looking at this book on a few different sites, but found that it was cheaper here. I was concerned that it didn't have the training cds with it, so I called Amazon and they told me that it did come with the 3 companion cds. It shipped quickly and came packaged very well. Excellent product that, so far, has been very helpful in giving me that extra learning edge.
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