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Hotlicks For Bluegrass Guitar

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Over 350 authentic bluegrass licks and how to apply them to create your own solos while expanding your knowledge of the fingerboard. Includes a demonstration soundsheet of the licks played by Orrin.

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Author:	Orrin Star
Paperback:	174 pages
Publisher:	Music Sales America
Publication Date:	January 01, 1992
Language:	English
ISBN:	0825602912
Product Length:	11.87 inches
Product Width:	9.03 inches
Product Height:	0.54 inches
Product Weight:	1.43 pounds
Package Length:	11.6 inches
Package Width:	8.9 inches
Package Height:	0.6 inches
Package Weight:	1.4 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 9 reviews

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Published by Music Sales America 176 Pages
by Orrin Star
Author: Orrin Star

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Average Customer Review: 4.0

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10 of 10 found the following review helpful:

Hot Licks for Bluegrass Guitar Feb 25, 2003 By Stevan Rogers
Orrin presents the best of the best here. If you were to incorporate a mere 10% of these licks into your own playing, you'll soon be sounding like a contest champ. Orrin presents not just the "flashy" sounding licks, but he also presents phrases that can be modified slightly to use in many songs. I especially like his "desert island" choices. A real winner, from cover to cover!

4 of 4 found the following review helpful:

good stuff Mar 11, 2006 By coverto
This is by far the "meatiest" of the numerous guitar instruction books I've come across. Tons of licks and material here, and tons of good discussion about putting together bluegrass solos that's quite helpful. The only real downside is that some of the licks in here really aren't all that hot. In fact, i decided to buy the companion CD from the author, to see if I was somehow playing them wrong, and it turned out i wasn't. He even goes so far on the CD to admit that some of the licks aren't that hot - pretty funny. Anyway, I had a bit of a revelation while going through the book - it made me think, "hey, this is all absurd. I can come up with some better licks than this on my own." Since then, I realize that the licks that don't sound so hot still have their value, and it's worthwhile to get a bunch of different licks under your belt if you want to really fluently play bluegrass solos. The point is, this book got me to finally recognize and act on these crucial insights, which no other book did.

2 of 2 found the following review helpful:

Extremely good...if you're somewhat musically literate Jan 03, 2007 By S. Lutes
It's an old publication (1985), no CD, just standard notation and tab examples (that keeps it from being 5 stars or useful to many guitarists who just can't learn to read.... But it's very good as far as it goes, has oodles of 'licks' and standard bluegrass phrases, and the narrative is clear and easy to follow when it's time to discuss technique. I've played guitar since 1958, never bluegrass, but I think it could work well for all levels of players who can comfortably work through standard notation and/or tabs with or without a teacher. If not, you're limited to publications that give you recorded examples--I have several tutorials of that kind (bluegrass and other genres, too, I'm a die-hard collector) and have yet to find one that is better than pedestrian or is very useful to people who are much beyond beginners. This is a good, massive tome for those who can wade through it.

2 of 2 found the following review helpful:

Pure Bluegrass Guitar... Jul 09, 2006 By lsur
I was lucky enough to attend a gig by Mr Starr in Cambridge, UK. I had never heard solo bluegrass guitar before and was impressed, not just by his skilful playing but the effect of that style played solo. It was a very pure sound, quite moving.

I got the book on that basis. It is very much bluegrass, though - solo riffs and variations on the 'g run' - in which case, if you like bluegrass and want to work on flatpicking, this is definitely for you. Mr Starr said at the gig that someone complimented him on the book and said it had made them into a fine mandolin player. Apparently, they had taken one look at the guitar material here and decided that maybe mandolin would be easier...

For my part, I have gone over to classical guitar now but that gig years ago remains memorable.

2 of 2 found the following review helpful:

Hot licks for Bluegrass Guitar Oct 21, 2005 By Dalton Maples
I will be working for a long time to achieve all that is in this book! Great runs and licks! A CD (or two) to cover some of the runs would be awesome but again this book is LOADED.

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