Instructional Material
All Fred's books have tablature unless otherwise noted. Most have music notation too.
Country Methods
Complete Country Guitar
Tunes, scales & licks for backup & lead. An encyclopedia of country styles, it offers instruction and tunes in the Carter-style, bluegrass, fancy flatpicking a la Doc Watson & Clarence White, Travis style, modern electric country, Western Swing & rockabilly! Lots of songs, lead & backup
- Book & CD$24.95
Travis Picking for Beginners
Merle Travis' alternating thumb/bass picking style is much imitated & has influenced many of the greats, including Chet Atkins. You'll learn how it's done, as Fred teaches you arrangements of Nine Pound Hammer, I Am a Pilgrim, Windy & Warm, Whispering and Mack the Knife.
- DVD & Book$29.95
Fretboard Roadmaps for Bluegrass & Folk Guitar
Learn several ways to solo in any key, up & down the neck & 1st position; many sample tunes & licks, backup too.
- Book & CD$12.95
Fretboard Roadmaps for Dobro Guitar
Learn G, D, A and E tunings, lots of sample tunes & licks that work for bluegrass, blues, country, rock or swing...tab, music & CD.
- Book & CD$12.95
Fretboard Roadmaps for Country Guitar
Learn steel licks, first position soloing in five keys, chord based licks, hot solos based on moveable major, blues and "sliding" scales, acoustic and electric licks, and more. Tab, music, and CD.
- Book & CD$12.95
Beginner's Country Guitar DVD
Using classic tunes like Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, and Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Fred shows you the strums, chords, bass runs, and scales you need to play country backup and solos
- DVD w/Tab Book $29.95
Country Backup Guitar
All the strums & fingerpicking patterns you need to accompany yourself or play in a country band. All styles, electric, acoustic: country rock, honky tonk, bluegrass, rockabilly, etc.
- Book & CD$17.95
Country Transcriptions
Alison Krauss "So Long, So Wrong"
Banjo & guitar transcriptions of the album, plus guitar versions of mandolin & fiddle solos. Tab and music.
- Book$21.95
Western Swing Guitar
25 great tunes by Bob Wills, Spade Cooley, Asleep at the Wheel, Milton Brown, Tex Williams & more...solos by Eldon Shamblin, Junior Barnard, Jimmy Wyble, all the greats! Steel Guitar Rag, San Antonio Rose, Smoke Smoke Smoke, Right or Wrong, Faded Love, etc.
- Book$19.95
Roots of Country Guitar
6 pivotal country tunes and the licks, styles & techniques behind them, with history & bios of country pioneers: Don Rich (Buckaroo), Merle Travis (I Am a Pilgrim), Eldon Shamblin, Joe Maphis, Atkins, etc.
- book & CD$16.95
Legends of Country Guitar
16 transcriptions of picking by Country Musc Hall of Fame legends like Merle Travis (Divorce Me COD), Chet Atkins (Galloping On the Guitar), Lester Flatt (Foggy Mt. Special), Hank Snow (I'm Movin' On), Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Jimmie Rodgers, The Carter Family, Sons of Pioneers...plus history & bios.
- $16.95
The Jimmie Rodgers Collection
26 tunes by the "Father of Country Music" transcribed in full: T for Texas, Muleskinner Blues, Any Old Time, In the Jailhouse Now, etc. Lots of history, bio & photos, analysis of his picking style.
- $19.95
The Carter Family Collection
32 full transcriptions (solos & backup): Wildwood Flower, Wabash Connonball, Can the Circle be Unbroken, Foggy Mt. Top, etc. Great classic tunes & picking that defined country music, plus an analysis of Maybelle's style. Lot's of historym biod, and photos.
- $19.95
The Guitar of Doc Watson
15 favorites like Black Mt. Rag, Windy & Warm, Deep River Blues, Doc's Guitar...flatpicking & fingerpicking.
- $17.95
Country Arrangements
Gospel Guitar Songbook
Fingerpicking & flatpicking versions of 15 classic tunes, including Amazing Grace, Just a Closer Walk With Thee, Leaning on the Everlasting Arm, Precious Memories, Sweet Bye and Bye, Wayfaring Stranger, What a Friend We Have in Jesus, etc. Easy-to-intermediate arrangements.
- Book$9.95
- Optional CD$10.00
Hank Williams Songbook
Easy-to-intermediate fingerpicking and flatpicking arrangements of 26 hits, including Your Cheatin' Heart, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, Jambalaya, Lovesick Blues, Cold Cold Heart, I Can't Help It If I'm Still in Love With You, Honky Tonk Blues and more. Lots of history and bio, too.
- Book$14.95
- Optional CD$10.00
Country Classics
30 great hits arranged for finger and flat picking:Crazy, Making Believe, Faded Love, Tennessee Waltz, Mama Tried, Oh Lonesome Me, I Fall to Pieces, etc. Tab, music, and lyrics.
- Book$14.95
- Optional CD$10.00
Flatpicking Country Classics DVD
Backp & solos to San Antonio Rose, Wild Side of Life, Waltz Across Texas, City of New Orleans, Someone I Used To Know, etc. Normal speed and slowed down with split screen to see both hands clearly.
- DVD/Book$29.95
Fingerpicking the Songs of Johnny Cash
Fairly easy fingerpicking versions of 7 classic tunes, with backup and lead (solo) parts. Great songs, including Big River, I Walk the Line, Give My Love to Rose, Folsom Prison Blues, Ring of Fire, I Guess Things Happen That Way, Ways of a Woman In Love.
- DVD & tab book$29.95