HOMESPUNTaught By Steve Kaufman.
All Levels
4 CDs, includes music + tab (guitar and mandolin/fiddle)
Anyone who loves to play Celtic music and wants to build repertoire and technique will need this new four-CD workout series! Whether you play traditional Celtic instruments (fiddle, whistle, pipes, bouzouki, button accordion) or the more bluegrass-oriented ones (mandolin, guitar, banjo), these session tunes will help you develop your playing skills and will get you ready for the all-important jams with other players.
Steve has chosen fifty great tunes to add to your repertoire. Some may be familiar while others, taken directly from traditional players or piper transcriptions found in the vaults of the Dublin Archives, will be new to most players. Together they will help you form a solid tune list in this vital and ever-popular musical style.
The band plays each tune three times through, once at a moderate tempo and then again up to speed (metronome settings are included) to give you plenty of time to play along. The lead part is heard, isolated on the left stereo channel, for one chorus at each speed to enable you to learn the tune’s melody. The accompanying book is written in standard music notation as well as both guitar tablature (including chord charts) and fiddle/mandolin tablature.
The jigs, double jigs, hornpipes, reels and polkas included are: Banish Misfortune,
Behind The Haystack, Castle Kelly, Chief O’Neill’s Favorite, The Cliffs Of Moher,
Concertina, The Connaughtman’s Rambles, Cook In The Kitchen, Cup Of Tea, Drowsy
Maggie, The Earl’s Chair, Father Kelly’s, The Fermoy Lasses, Fisher’s, Flowers
Of Edinburgh, Fred Finn’s, Geese In The Bog, Gillan’s Apples, Gravel Walk, Haste
To The Wedding, Irish Washerwoman, Jackie Coleman’s, Johnnie Mickey’s, Maid Behind
The Bar, The Mason’s Apron, Merrily Kiss The Quaker’s Wife, Miss McLeod’s, Miss
Monaghan’s, The Morning Star, Mug Of Brown Ale, Nine Points Of Roguery, Out Of
The Ocean, Over The Moor To Maggie, Paddy On The Railroad, Pat Clancy’s, Patsy
Geary’s, The Pigeon On The Gate, Pinch Of Snuff, The Pipe On The Hob, The Rakes
Of Kildare, Silver Spear, The Silver Tip, Smash The Windows, The Soldier’s Joy,
The Star Of Munster, Temperance, Tobin’s Favorite, The Walls Of Liscarroll, Wind
That Shakes The Barley, The Wise Maid.
Steve Kaufman is the only three-time winner of the National Flatpicking Championships,
held each year in Winfield, Kansas. His music covers a broad range of styles
including bluegrass favorites, popular swing standards, Irish and Appalachian
fiddle tunes, folk and country classics and novelty tunes. Since 1976 Steve has
been performing in a wide variety of settings, from elementary schools and colleges
to major bluegrass festivals and concerts. Steve is not only a sensational flatpicker but is also a dedicated instructor who maintains an extensive teaching and workshop practice. His many instructional videos and CDs are among Homespun's most popular lessons, and his annual “Steve Kaufman Acoustic Kamp” series have become a staple of the workshop circuit. Steve's ability to create tasteful and inventive arrangements in flatpick style has earned him a place as one of America's top guitarists.