Mel Bay Publications
Level : Beginning-Intermediate
Joining a jam session can be intimidating

This book presents everything a beginning or intermediate guitar flatpicker needs to know to participate in a jam session. There are sections that describe how jam sessions work, and jam session etiquette. The book also describes the typical chords and keys for jamming, and describes right hand usage. A section is included on the role each instrument plays in bluegrass rhythm.
A play-along CD is included with 9 typical bluegrass jam tunes. The tunes are played twice: once with the tune played on the left channel and a verbal description on the right channel, and once in stereo.

• Hot Corn, Cold Corn
• Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms
• Nine Pound Hammer
• John Henry
• Two Little Boys
• Columbus Stockade Blues
• Down the Road
• Little Maggie
• John Hardy
  
  
  
  
• Dan Crary The Flatpicker's Guide
• Carl Yaffey A Guitar Flatpicker's: Guide to Jamming
• Steve Kaufman Flatpicking The Rags and Polkas
• Brad Davis Flatpicking the Blues