Instructional Courses for Resonator and Resophonic Guitars

NOTE: These courses are for the Dobro® (by Gibson) and also for all squareneck resonator and resophonic guitars.
Dobro® is a registered trademark of Gibson Guitar Corporation

These books are for SQUARE NECK (lap) - Resophonic Guitar

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You Can Teach Yourself Dobro Book

YOU CAN TEACH YOURSELF DOBRO® by Janet Davis - A Mel Bay Publication
Dobro® is a registered trademark of Gibson Guitar Corporation
An easy to understand course written in tablature, in lesson format for the beginning through intermediate levels. Each lesson builds on the previous lesson. Starts with the basics. Covers barring techniques, licks, picking patterns, chords, natural and artificial harmonics, scales, waltzes, fiddle tunes an much more Songs include Salty Dog, Wabash Cannonball, Cripple Creek, John Hardy, Blackberry Blossom, Footprints in the Snow, Great Speckled Bird, Dark Hollow, John Henry, Train 45, Grandfather's Clock, Hamilton Co. Brkdwn, Reuben, Salt River, She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain, Lonesome Road Blues, Fisher's Hornpipe, Bill Cheatam, Flop Eared Mule, Devil's Dream, Red Haired Boy, Amazing Grace and many more.

NEW DVD
C-95227set BOOK, CD and DVD: $24.95

DVD-95227 DVD Price: $14.95

D-95227bd Book/DVD Price: $19.95

B-95227b Book: $10.95

B-95227bcd Book/CD: $17.95

Dobro® Primer Book and CD
Designed for the beginner, contains all the basics up to playing several
bluegrass standards. All music is written in both tab and notation

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B-BA-DP - Dobro® Primer BOOK and CD ONLY
SPECIAL: $14.95

Rob Ickes Acutab Transcriptions 1
Nine-time IBMA "best Reso player" winner has more than 50 solos transribed in this volume of tunes from his group, Blue Highway.

B-A-RI Rob Ickes Acutab Transcriptions 1
List 25.00 Our Price $19.95

Reso Christmas Songbook
You asked for it, you got it -- 28 Christmas songs arranged for resophonic guitar.

B-21508 Reso Christmas Songbook Special $7.95

Best of Bluegrass Book/CD
Ten must-know songs arranged note-for-note for fiddle, mandolin, banjo, guitar, Reso, and bass. CD contains original recordings by Jimmy Martin with Ricky Skaggs, Mac Wiseman, Merle Travis, Jim & Jesse, and others. In tab, notation, and chords.

B-690636bcd Best of Bluegrass Book/CD
List $24.95 Our Price $21.45

Reso Case Chord Book
All types of chords are fully explained and diagrammed.
Included are sections on chord recipes and theory, full and partial chord forms, progressions and vamps, and comping techniques.
By Stacy Phillips, 40 pp.

B-AM67158 Reso Case Chord Book: $6.95

Reso CLASSICS PLUS - 2ND EDITION Steve Toth
This popular book is now in its second edition with a CD of all the tunes, inclduing "Blackberry Blossom," "Sally Goodin," "Fireball Mail," and more.

B-187 Reso Classics Plus Book/CD List $19.95 Our Price $16.95

Backup Reso - Exploring the Fretboard by Doug Cox
Book and CD

Reso players -- what do you do when you're not soloing?

B-345 Backup Reso - Exploring the Fretboard Book/CD List $19.95
Our Price $17.95

Rob Ickes - Big Time - Reso TAB Book

Rob's new AcuTab book contains the tabs for all of his solos on Big Time, his celebrated solo release on Rounder records. The CD features his Blue Highway bandmates on a mix of traditional and original material, all showcasing Rob's unique and highly creative reso guitar work.

B-A-RIBT Rob Ickes - Big Time - TAB Book List 25.00 Our price $19.95

CD-ROU0538 - Big Time CD SPECIAL $13.95

Reso Resonator Guitar Instruction Book

Good beginning book -- great teaching aid.

B-DBR Reso Resonator Guitar Instruction Book $5.95

Fretboard Roadmaps - Reso
Learn to play a variety of Reso/lap-steel guitar styles using moveable scale patterns, common licks
and techniques with this outstanding book/CD pack. The CD includes 46 demonstration tracks, and
the book features easy-to-follow diagrams and instructions for beginning, intermediate and advanced
players. In no time, you'll be playing Reso like a pro!

B-695356 Fretboard Roadmaps - Reso - Book/CD List $14.95 $12.25

BLUES Reso by Doug Cox
Book and CD
Jamming Techniques for the Square Neck Reso & Resophonic guitar for Blues, Bluegrass, Jazz, Rock & Roll, & Country. Understanding 12 bar blues, roll patterns, harmonic exercises & more! CD plays the music in the book.
B-236 BLUES Reso Book and CD List $19.95 $17.95

BEGINNING Reso By Stacy Phillips
A short course in steel guitar covering everything from tuning and first steps to rhythm, lead, and harmony playing. All basic bar and picking techniques are clearly and fully explained. Included are special sections on harmonizing melodies, the yodel lick, yodel lick, and pull-offs, and bluegrass and the blues.

B-AM67497 BOOK: List $6.00 $4.95

THE DOBRO BOOK By Stacy Phillips from Janet Davis Music, The Banjo Store.

THE Reso BOOK By Stacy Phillips
Geared for every level. Includes all the basic left-hand and right-hand techniques; hammering-ons; harmonics; slant bar; playing chords; etc. More than 30 tunes.
B-OK63289 List $20.00 $15.95

B-95271bcd Mel Bay's Complete Reso Player by Stacy Phillips
A super book for learning how to improvise on the Reso. 245 pages cover scales, melodies, tunings, chords, bluegrass and open string licks, approaches to jazz, hawaiian roots, playing in minor keys. Also includes tunes arranged in the style of various artists (Gene Wooten, Jerry Douglas, Rob Ickes and more.
B-95271bcd COMPLETE Reso PLAYER:
Book/2CDs: $39.95

The Great Reso Sessions by Stacy Phillips
A gathering of resophonic pickers including Mike Auldridge, Curtis Burch, Jerry Douglas, Josh Graves, Rob Ickes, Oswald Kirby, Tut Taylor, Gene Wooten & more...Transcriptions from the CD with the same name. 20 tunes in tablature including Fireball Mail, Just Joshin', Poison Love, Cherokee Shuffle and more.
B-95771 The Great Reso Sessions: Book: List $17.95 $17.59

CD-SH The Great Reso Sessions CD: $13.95

Country Reso Guitar Styles by Ken Eidson and Tom Swatzell
A good beginning - intermediate book containing arrangements for 27 well known songs in tablature and musical notation. Includes Down in the Valley, Tom Dooley, Red River Valley, What A Friend We have in Jesus, Home on the Range, Careless Love, Yellow rose of Texas, Jingle Bells, Grandfathers Clock, Dixie, Silver Threads Among the Gold and more!
B-93350 BOOK only: $10.50

Beginning Reso Solos by Stacy Phillips
An excellent book containing songs arranged for the Beginning Reso Player in tablature. Includes Amazing Grace, When the Saints Go Marching In, Wildwood Flower, Street of Laredo, Frankie and Johnny, Aloha Oe, Old Grey Bonnet, Home Sweet Home, Steel Guitar Woogie, Maui Chimes, Rainbow, Shine On Harvest Moon, St Louis Blues, Alabama Jubilee and more.
B-95352bcd Book/CD: $17.95

THE Reso WORKBOOK by D Hamburger
CD includes 98 full-demo tracks; scales, licks, songs & examples, hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, picking techniques, syncopation's, rolls, double stops, playing in different keys, standard notation & tab.
B-695167bcd - BOOK/CD: List $19.95 $16.95

EASY DOBRO SOLOS By Dan Huckabee form Janet Davis Music, The Banjo Store.

EASY Reso SOLOS By Dan Huckabee
Easy to learn, but sound professional. The songs are played slowly, phrase by phrase, then at regular speed. Includes: Wreck of the Ole 97; Will the Circle be Unbroken; So Lonesome I Could Cry.
B-WR-500A - BOOK/CD: List $16.95 $14.95

EASY Reso SOLOS VOL II By Dan Huckabee
Includes: Roll in my Sweet Baby's Arms, San Antonio Rose, Freight Train, Blue Eyes; Crying in the Rain, Aloha Ole
B-WR-500B - BOOK/CD: List $16.95 $14.95

JOSH GRAVES BEST SOLOS Vol. I By Dan Huckabee
Transcriptions of: Fireball Mail, Fireball, John Henry, Home Sweet Home, and more.
B-WR-500C - BOOK/CD: List $16.95 $14.95

JOSH GRAVES BEST SOLOS Vol. II By Dan Huckabee
Songs in tab & explained section by section on tape. Includes: Dog Flint Hill Special; Shuckin' the Corn' Salty; Lonesome Road Blues; Cannonball Blues; and more.
B-WR-500D - BOOK/CD: List $16.95 $14.95

JOSH GRAVES BEST SOLOS Vol. III By Dan Huckabee
Includes: Skokiaan, Maiden's Prayer, Long Road to Aspen, Starlight Waltz, Wildwood Flower, Roll in my Sweet Baby's Arms.
B-WR-500E - BOOK/CD: List $16.95 $14.95

BACKUP & FILLS FOR DOBRO: With Dan Huckabee
Taught by a National Reso Champion Four CD Set - No tab
B-WR-500F 4-CD Set: List $44.95 Your Price: $34.95

LEARN TO PLAY BLUEGRASS Reso GUITAR By Ken Eidson & Tom Swatzell
A thorough and easy to follow instructional book for the Reso. Mel Bay Publication.
B-93968bcd - BOOK/CD: List $22.95 $17.45

GOSPEL DOBRO by Eidson and Swatzell from Janet Davis Music, The Banjo Store.

GOSPEL Reso by Eidson & Swatzell
Loaded with (58) popular gospel tunes arranged for Reso in tab. Mel Bay Publication.
B-95257bcd - BOOK/CD: List $19.95 $18.95

THE ART OF HAWAIIAN STEEL GUITAR By Stacy Phillips from Janet Davis Music, The Banjo Store.

THE ART OF HAWAIIAN STEEL GUITAR By Stacy Phillips
50 Great Solos--with detailed analyses and historical background. A Mel Bay Publication
B-94383bcd - BOOK/CD: List $24.95 $21.95

JOSH STYLE Reso By Josh Graves with Bob Diffee
AUDIO TAPES On six-l hr. cassettes with tabs and drawings. Josh shows you from the ground floor how to play his recorded material just the way he plays it. Tape 1: Starter tape. Tunes at beginning level: Maggie's Blues; Birmingham Jail; Ballad of Jed Clampett. Tape 2: Basic tunes. New techniques. Maiden's Prayer, Home Sweet Home; Salty Dog Blues; ESmiles Velina and Fire Ball Mail. Tape 3: Intermediate Tunes: I'll Be All Tonight; Shiloh March, Martha White Song, Jennifer Waltz; Flat Lonesome. Tape 4: Essential Bluegrass tunes: Flint Hill Special; Footprints in the Snow; Starlight Waltz; Foggy Mountain Rock; Earl's Breakdown. Banjo break to practice back-up with. Tape 5: Fancy Bluegrass tunes: Foggy Mountain Chimes; Fireball; Buck's Stumble; Shuckin' the Corn. Chiming and other fancy tricks. Tape 6: Advanced tunes. Advanced techniques. Colorado Turnaround; Long Road to Aspen; Citico; When Papa Played the Reso; Randy Lynn Rag.
B-RR-6T - 6 TAPES/BOOKLET: "NOT AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME"

BLUEGRASS Reso STYLES By Jimmy Heffernan
AUDIO TAPES on 6-1hr. cassettes with tabs and photos. Plenty of licks, rolls and simple exercises that lead you to super-charged techniques. Hard to imagine how much material is covered here. Tape 1: Basic Styles: Versions of Boil 'Em Cabbage Down; Frankie and Johnny; Maiden's Prayer and Bury Me Beneath the Willow. Beginning techniques (rolls; hammer-ons, and pull-offs). 22 beginning licks scales and speed exercises. Tape 2: Modern styles. Farewell Blues; When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again; Boil 'Em Cabbage. 22 hot, modern licks. Tape 3: 34 licks. Long Road to Aspen; The Spanish Two-Step; Ruben; Footprints in the Snow; Rosewood Casket; Jazzin'; Little Maggie; Shuckin' the Corn. Tape 4: Hot & mellow. The Camptown Races, It's Over, Indian Summer; Muddy Waters; Will There be any Stars in my Crown; Doin' My Time. Tape 5: 9 new super-charged licks. Stoney Point; One-Way Track; Panhandle Rag; Dixie Hoedown; Kentucky Waltz; Tape 6: Fiddle Tunes. Tasty Arrangements. Fire on the Mountain; Turkey in the Straw; Red Wing; John Hardy; Back-Up and Push; and a hot ending lick.
B-RR-JH - 6 TAPES/BOOKLET: "NOT AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME"

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