50 Tunes for Guitar, Vol. 1: Traditional, Old Time, Bluegrass & Celtic Solos

I was pleased to find Geslison's work in a solid Mel Bay book. I was introduced to it playing with family who had some earlier copies of his tunes. We have fiddle, guitar, banjo and bass now and have really enjoyed working off the 'same sheet of music' with the consistency between instruments that allows us to learn and play the same tune in roughly the same way. He really has included some of the most played tunes while including some new ones to work on together. I don't always agree with the embellishments but can work with all the musicians together from the solid basic tunes as he presents them. This is a must have set if you play old time and bluegrass etc with others, especially other instruments. They don't provide lyrics for tunes that have them, but we can easily retrieve them on line.

This book series has been the best. We have most of them and have used them till they are falling apart. We love that we can get together for jams with people we've never met and as long as everyone has these books we can all play together. But even when they don't these books contain so many traditional bluegrass songs that people know them and can jump right in with us. It has simplified life in this area of life.

I got this book as a father's day present. I have been doing bluegrass music for some time now and have just begun learning to flatpick lead parts. I had been looking at this book on a few different sites, but found that it was cheaper here. I was concerned that it didn't have the training cds with it, so I called Amazon and they told me that it did come with the 3 companion cds. It shipped quickly and came packaged very well. Excellent product that, so far, has been very helpful in giving me that extra learning edge.

Good selection of tunes and easy to read. I was very disappointed the book didn't ship with the CDs. When I tried to download the music per the instructions it wasn't available. However, the CDs were offered for purchase separately.

Great book. The publisher makes them for other instruments besides guitar so you can purchase them for your friends who play other instruments and play together!

I was gifted this book several years ago and love it. I have since purchased the Mandolin version as well. I can read both music and tab, but prefer tab when playing bluegrass. These are fantastic songs that are beautiful to play. I love the CDs and listen to them for pleasure often.

The book has good music. The binding is annoying, so I reccomend getting it spiral bound.

I bought this for my husband and after opening this book, we were stunned to see no actual written music, my husband says that it tell you what finger on what string and what fret. I play the violin and would have enjoying being able to read the music so I can play out of it too. I would have returned this in a heartbeat, but my husband is wanting to play some of these tunes and so is trying to figure it out.