Jack Tuttle’s Bluegrass Guitar Primer

Jack Tuttle’s Bluegrass Guitar Primer is a lesson program for guitar containing over 80 transcriptions, with songs arranged for graduated learning. With large, easy-to-read tablature and music, rhythm guitar examples, scales and arpeggios, chord diagrams, tag endings, a commonly used bass-run page, and pick exercises. Free online mp3s available.

There are accurate transcriptions of recorded solos by guitar greats, arrangements for teaching purposes, common fiddle tunes, and bluegrass breaks to singing pieces. Some pieces also included a rhythm page for gaining ideas on how to play chords and runs in the proper bluegrass style. This book includes both standard music notation and tablature.

Cripple Creek (1)

Cripple Creek (2)

Old Joe Clark

The Girl I Left Behind Me

Bury Me Beneath The Willow

Bury Me Beneath The Willow (rhythm)

Soldier’s Joy

Soldier’s Joy (rhythm)

Katy Daley

Katy Daley (rhythm)

Will The Circle Be Unbroken?

Jaybird

Arkansas Traveler

Mountain Dew

Mississippi Sawyer

Wildwood Flower

Over The Waterfall

Liberty

Sittin’ On Top Of The World

Sittin’ On Top Of The World (rhythm)

Swallowtail Jig

June Apple

I’ll Fly Away

Red-Haired Boy

Turkey In The Straw

Forked Deer

Whiskey Before Breakfast

Whiskey Before Breakfast (rhythm)

Cherokee Shuffle

Cherokee Shuffle (rhythm)

Foggy Mountain Top

St. Anne’s Reel

Bill Cheatum

Bill Cheatum (rhythm)

Billy In The Lowground

Molly and Tenbrooks

Dark Hollow

Dark Hollow (rhythm)

Salt Creek

Salt Creek (rhythm)

Short Life Of Trouble

Short Life Of Trouble (rhythm)

Blackberry Blossom

Angeline The Baker

Red Wing

Lonesome Road Blues

Fire On The Mountain

Worried Man Blues

Ragtime Annie

Long Journey Home

Big Mon

Nobody’s Love Is Like Mine

Cattle In The Cane

Pretty Polly

I Wonder Where You Are Tonight

Clinch Mountain Backstep

Foggy Mountain Special

I’ll Never Shed Another Tear

I’ll Never Shed Another Tear (rhythm)

It Takes One To Know One

It Takes One To Know One (rhythm)

North Carolina Breakdown

Little Maggie

Cold Frosty Morning

Cumberland Gap

Paddy On The Turnpike

Man Of Constant Sorrow

Kentucky Mandolin

Salty Dog

Toy Heart

Carter’s Blues

In The Pines

In The Pines (rhythm)

East Virginia Blues

Gold Rush

Head Over Heels In Love With You

Ain’t Gonna Work Tomorrow

Highway Of Regret

Travelin’ This Lonesome Road

Beaumont Rag

Rebecca

Blue Ridge Cabin Home

Blue Ridge Cabin Home rhythm

Think Of What You’ve Done