Beppe Gambetta: New Directions In Flatpicking - Gambetta, Beppe (Author)

Take your flatpick playing on a world tour with this wonderful guide to the music of virtuoso performer Beppe Gambetta. His step-by-step guides to bluegrass classics and traditional European dance tunes will add new spice and colour to your playing, as well as helping you build speed, accuracy and articulation. Working in standard, DADGAD and other tunings, Gambetta demonstrates such timeless favourites as Old Joe Clark and Salt Creek , as well as a Mediterranean dance, a mazurka and an exhilarating Gypsy tune. Along the way, you'll learn how to use triplets, moveable chords, double-stops, floating arpeggios and other essential flatpick techniques. Combined with the tonal flavours of the American and European tradition, these lessons will transform your playing and take your repertoire into whole new worlds of discovery!