MEL
BAY
Taught by Janet Davis
DVD & Tablature Book
The classic resonator guitar sound is currently popping up in all types of music
ranging from country to bluegrass to blues to rock. Resonator Guitar is a fun
instrument to play. Janet Davis has taught people of all ages to play resonator
guitar and in her own words, "They all have a good time pickin' and grinnin'." This
is a very easy method to follow and it will teach you basics of resonator performance
including both chording and single note playing using the slide bar. Also, you
will play bluegrass, old-time country, blues, Hawaiian, fiddle tunes, folk songs
and more. This method covers an extremely wide and diverse array of topics. If
you want to play Dobro, this book will show you how! In tablature only.
Contents: Holding the Resophonic Guitar; The Right Hand; Picking; the Steel Bar; Chording & Single Notes; Slant Chords; Tablature; Natural and Artificial Harmonics; Chord Locations; Finding the Melody; Roll Patterns; Licks and Picking Patterns; Playing a Song; The Hammer; The Pull-Off; Closed Chord Licks; Using Roll Patterns; Understanding Rhythm; 1st and 2nd Endings; Up the Neck; Glissando/Key of C; More on Slant Chords; Play by Ear; Finding Melody on One String; Vibrato; Open String Licks; Chord Progressions; Foggy Mountain Lick; Combining Licks; Interchanging Licks; More on Natural Harmonics; Interchanging D Licks; Seventh Chords; Blues Licks; Syncopation & Blues; Blues Notes & Harmonics; Using a Capo; Roll Patterns; Rolls & Licks; The Choke; Improvising; Combining Bar Techniques; Review of Basics; Licks Using Scales; Melodic Style; Single String Style; F Chord/Melodic Style; The Modal Sound; Minor Chords; D Minor; A Minor Blues; Waltz Time; Tremolo; Waltz Blues; Slant Chords; Adding the Blues; Slow Songs; More on Artificial Harmonics; Transposing; Chord Charts;
Songs include: Goodnight Ladies, Salty Dog, Wabash Cannonball, Cripple Creek, John Hardy, Blackberry Blossom, Home in Dixie, Footprints In the Snow, Great Speckled Bird, Dark Hollow, John Henry, Train #45, Sunnyvale Breakdown, Grandfather's Clock, Hamilton County Breakdown, Reuben, Salt River, She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain, Lonesome Road Blues, Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms, Sally Goodin', Fisher's Hornpipe, Bill Cheatham, Flop Eared Mule, Devil's Dream, Red Haired Boy, Old Joe Clark, Greensleeves, Battle of Jericho, House of Rising Sun, Silent Night, In the Pines, Sailing to Hawaii, When You and I Were Young-Maggie, Silver Threads Among the Gold, Aloha Oe, Will There Be Any Stars?
Janet Rice Davis was
born and raised in Houston, Texas, where music has always been an integral part
of her family life. Although Janet's formal musical training was primarily in
the classical field, she was fascinated with the stringed instruments, particularly
those involved with folk and bluegrass music. In college she played the guitar
and sang as a folk and blues musician in many of the Austin clubs, learning from
such greats as Lightning Hopkins, Janis Joplin, and other well-known musicians,
who played the same clubs. Today, Janet is primarily known as a bluegrass and
five-string banjo specialist