MEL BAY
Taught by Dix Bruce
DVD plus music & tabs book.
Aimed at beginners and intermediate players, this video teaches everything you need to get started playing country guitar. Includes how to tune the guitar, all basic major, minor, and seventh guitar chords, guitar accompaniment strums from current country hits, all songs and examples from the book, basic flatpick technique, how to use a capo, and many easy play-along country songs.
Contents:
Holding the Guitar and Pick
Tuning
Tuning to the Video
Reading Chord Diagrams; G chord
D and A7 chords
New Chord Exercises
My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains
Handsome Molly; A and E7 chords
I Ride an Old Paint; C and G7 chords
Red River Valley; E and B7 chords
Shady Grove; Key of Em
Shady Grove; Key of Am
Home on the Range; F, B flat, and C7 chords
Going Down This Road Feeling Bad
The Cuckoo; Dm chord
I Get Blue and Strum Patterns
Bass Strum Technique
Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms
Bury Me Beneath the Willow and Connecting Runs
Some Drink
Life's Railway to Heaven & Finger Moves
The Capo
Nine Pound Hammer; Lester Flatt Run
More Runs & Picking Exercises
Nine Pound Hammer; Extended Runs
Hammer Ons & Pull Offs
Sweet Sunny South
I Love You Still Nashville Number System
Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
Children Go Where I Send Thee
Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho
Fingerpicking
Don't this Road Look Rough and Rocky
Fair and Tender Ladies
In the Pines / Double Arpeggio Fingerpicking Pattern
House of the Rising Sun
Nobody Sleeps at My Place
Carter Style Leads / Wildwood Flower Slow
Wildwood Flower Fast
Devil's Dream / Lead Flatpicking
Darling You're a Fool
Conclusion
Dix Bruce, a musician, composer, and writer from the San
Francisco Bay Area, was born and raised in the Midwest. His interest in American
folk music, jazz, and original composition are blended into a unique vocal and
instrumental sound. His compositions are fresh and his energetic, exuberant stage
personality, along with his driving rhythm and lead work, set the tone for a
warm and exciting performance.
He began playing guitar at age twelve. After college, he relocated to the Bay Area where his interest in hybrid acoustic string music led him to David Grisman's prototype quintet in the mid-1970's. Bruce eventually teamed up with the mandolinist and edited the magazine Mandolin World News from 1978 until 1984.
In 1978 Bruce formed the band Back Up and Push to explore the emerging possibilities of swing and jazz on acoustic stringed instruments. The band toured the west coast throughout the 1980s and accompanied Bruce on his release Tuxedo Blues, which features many of his original instrumental and vocal compositions.
Dix Bruce has done studio work on guitar, mandolin, and banjo and has recorded two albums with mandolin legend Frank Wakefield, six big band CDs with the Royal society Jazz Orchestra, and his own collection of American folk songs entitled My Folk Heart on which he plays guitar, mandolin, and autoharp as well as sings. In 1991 he contributed two original compositions to the soundtrack of Harrod Blank's acclaimed documentary Wild Wheels. he has released two CDs of traditional American songs with and originals with guitarist Jim Nunally.
Dix arranged, composed, played mandolin, and recorded music for the CD-ROM computer game "The Sims" for the Maxis Corporation. His music is featured on a virtual radio station within the game.
Mr. Bruce currently has over twenty publications in print with Mel Bay. He has also written for Acoustic Guitar Magazine, FRETS, Bluegrass Unlimited, and The Fretted Instrument Guild of America.