Bluegrass Jamming – The Complete Set – Pete Wernick
Bluegrass Slow Jam for the Total Beginner
Anyone, with any instrument, can get into this bluegrass jam session, even if you’ve never tried it before. All you need to know are four basic chords (G, C, D and A) to be able to play along with the band!
This course will give you the practice and the confidence you’ll need to join a real jam session. Pete Wernick makes it easy, providing encouragement, instruction and important advice on how to hold your own when you jam with others. By playing along with these top bluegrass musicians, you’ll get a feel for the songs, where the chords change, how to enter a group, and even how to take a simple solo when the time is right.
Each song is played at a slow, easy tempo so you won’t have any problem keeping up. All 17 are standards that should be part of every bluegrass picker’s repertoire: Bile Them Cabbage Down, My Home’s Across the Blue Ridge Mountains, John Henry, Pretty Fair Maid, Little Birdie, Shady Grove, Darling Corey, Roll in my Sweet Baby’s Arms/ Saints Go Marching In/Coming Round the Mountain (Medley), You Are My Sunshine, I’ll Fly Away, Nine Pound Hammer, This Land is Your Land, Amazing Grace, Wabash Cannonball, Will the Circle be Unbroken.
Pete Wernick’s best-selling instructional books have sold over a quarter million copies, and his “How to Jam” classes and banjo camps have inspired players worldwide. The all-star cast of musicians he has assembled for the band on this DVD include members of Hot Rize (Pete, Nick Forster), Yonder Mountain String Band (Ben Kaufmann), Leftover Salmon (Drew Emmitt) and Grammy winner Sally Van Meter.
Bluegrass Jamming – A Guide for Newcomers and Closet Pickers
Pete Wernick now has the perfect solution for novice bluegrass players who want to start jamming, or for any picker wanting to build experience and confidence. He has gathered several top musicians to create a “jam session” that players of any level can get in on. Here’s an opportunity to participate in this wonderful activity, and get ready for the “real thing” — so grab your instrument and pick along!
Pete and his exciting all-star jam band teach you the ins and outs of “jam etiquette,” along with the basics of music theory, handy jamming hints, and lots of other invaluable information. You’ll learn to change chords and play solos for 17 bluegrass standards. Regardless of the instrument you play — guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle, Dobro, bass — you’ll soon be playing along with the great songs and instrumentals on this DVD. Best of all, it’ll be fun to make music with Nick, Sally, Eric, Michael, Ben and Pete as they play through the repertoire at an easy-going, slow-to-medium tempo. They even leave a place in every song for you to try your own solo!
The songs you’ll be jamming on are: Old Home Place, Blue Ridge Cabin Home, In the Pines, Footprints in the Snow, Salt Creek, How Mountain Girls Can Love, Soldier’s Joy, New River Train, Sitting on Top of the World, Long Journey Home, Worried Man Blues, Hot Corn Cold Corn, Handsome Molly, Take Me Back to Tulsa, Don’t This Road Look Rough and Rocky, and Blue Moon of Kentucky.
Bluegrass Jamming – Intermediate Level
Here’s a full-to-the-brim course made especially for bluegrass pickers who want to take their jamming ability to the next level. It will help you build your repertoire and will vastly improve your confidence so you can join in and jam in any situation.
In this carefully organized session led by Pete “Dr. Banjo” Wernick, a professional bluegrass band plays a repertoire of seventeen classic songs and instrumentals, providing rhythm backup in key spots so you can try your hand at taking a solo. Each song is played at a slow-to-moderate tempo, so it’s easy to play along with the band.
You’ll learn the ins and outs of jamming: backup basics, playing the melody, using a capo, essential jam etiquette and even what to do if you get in a musical “train wreck.”
The following songs are playing in a variety of keys, to give you the full range of playing experience:
Angeline the Baker, Lonesome Road Blues, Bury Me Beneath the Willow, Man of Constant Sorrow, Rabbit In a Log, Sweet Sunny South, Crying Holy, Uncle Pen, Molly and Tenbrooks, Gold Watch and Chain, Roll On Buddy, Columbus Stockade Blues, Dark Hollow, If I Lose, I Am a Pilgrim, Wreck of the Old 97, Roving Gambler, Just Like You, Paradise, Ramblin’ Boy, A Beautiful Life, Bill Cheatham.
Reviews:
“As on the other two in the series, the format is straight forward and the material is presented informally with a bit of good humor all around. All of the twenty-two songs (twenty of them well known) have at least two full breaks for your solo to be played over the band’s backing; you’ll have no trouble recognizing your entry point as Wernick usually calls you out, just as it should be done at any good jam. During the first part of each song, a small inset window focuses on the guitar player’s left hand to help you follow the chords.
As a teaching tool, this is more of a playing aid than a how-to lesson. Though interspersed with suggestions on jam etiquette, playing the melody, playing backup, signals for stopping a tune, and recovering if the song gets confused, the main function of this video is to provide you with a band and a chance to get familiar with jamming at this tempo. As has been said and as this nearly two-hour video underscores, experience is the best teacher.” — Bluegrass Unlimited
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