First Jams: Flatpicking Guitar

The First Jam series was created to give children and beginners of all ages a book of simple, common tunes to learn. These are standard “Jam” tunes in the Bluegrass/Old Time music styles. All the books in this series are written in the same keys; they can all be played together without any problems. So get your friends or family who play guitar, mandolin, banjo, ukulele, dulcimer or Dobro together, grab these books and start jamming.Improvisation Another idea behind writing the First Jam series was to provide a number of tunes that were easy to learn, but that are also a great to begin working on improvising. Each books offer the melody for that particular instrument aswell as back-up chords for another instrument to accompany you. Each song is represented in Tab, notation and chord symbols. The accompanying CD has two tracks for each song. The first playing the song with the melody line, the second track offers just the backup so you can play the melody over it or even improvise. Tunes include: Cripple Creek, Old Joe Clark, Will the Circle Be Unbroken and many more.

CONTENTS

• Aura Lee
• Blackberry Blossom
• Careless Love
• Cindy
• Cripple Creek
• Cumberland Gap
• Hand Me Down My Walking Cane
• Irish Washerwoman
• Lil' Liza Jane
• Man of Constant Sorrow
• Oh, Sinner Man
• Old Dan Tucker
• Old Joe Clark
• Planxty Irwin
• Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms
• Shady Groove
• Sourwood Mountain
• The Wabash Cannonball
• Wildwood Flower
• Will The Circle Be Unbroken