Steve Kaufman's

This collection of fiddle tunes originally appeared in "Kaufman's Collection of American Fiddle Tunes for Flatpicking Guitar. Steve Kaufman says he can't emphasize enough the importance of developing a large repertoire of tunes. Fiddle tunes give us melodies that eventually allow us to begin to improvise. Sometimes without even knowing it. The more tunes you know, the more melodies and intersecting melody lines you know. This allows you to eventually cut and paste portions of the melody line into another song. In the beginning you will probably unknowingly replace an ending run. These are the last two measures of the section of a tune. Many of them in the same key areinterchangeable, unless they are specific to the melody of the song. After a while you will cut out measures in the middle of the song and then you will be able to take the snips of melodies and play them in another song in a different key thus beginning to improvise. All of this is possible because you built up your repertoire of tunes. Includes access to online audio.

CONTENTS

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• Accents Within Phrases
• An Attitude Of Confidence
• Arpeggios
• Balad
• Be Tasteful
• Bossa Nova
• Building A Solo
• Chromatic Passing Chords
• Chromatic Pickups
• Chromatic Side-slipping
• Classical (Theme And Variations)
• Combo Voicings
• Common Tones
• Crazy Lyrics
• Extra Chords
• Harmonizing With Chord Tones
• Harmony
• Jazz Waltz
• Laying Back
• Left-hand Rhythms
• Licks, Riffs, And Runs
• Melodic Embellishment
• Melody
• Playing For Dancers
• Playing Outside
• Quartal Chord Voiings
• Rhythm And Style
• Rhythmic Displacement
• Rock
• Salsa/Afro-cuban
• Scale Accents
• Slow And Bluesy
• Solo Voicings
• Soloing Melodically
• Spread Chords
• Sus Chord
• Swing
• The "Other" Blues Scale
• The Bass Line
• The Blues Scale
• The Dorian Scale
• The I-vi-ii-v Progression
• The Major Scale
• The Mixolydian Scale
• The Scale/Chord Approach
• The Swing Thing
• Thirds And Sixths
• Troubleshooting
• Up-tempo Jazz And Bebop
• When Adding Extensions Doesn't Work
• Working With Singers
• Working Without A Bassist
• Your First Guitar Rag