"A Dobro Player's Guide to Jamming"

by

Carl Yaffey and Mark Panfil

© 2010 BY MEL BAY PUBLICATIONS, INC. PACIFIC, MO 63069

Available from your favorite music store.

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Anatomy of a Jam Session

Chords and Keys for Jamming

Bluegrass Rhythm

What Can I Bring to the Jam?

Jamming Etiquette

Laying Back

Non-Chordal Vamping

Chordal Vamping

Melodic Fills

Taking a Solo

Practicing the Scales

Dressing Up the Melody

Participating in a Jam Session

Jamming Etiquette

About the CD

Appendix 1 - Playing and Practicing Chords

Appendix 2 - Some Typical Guitar Chords

Appendix 3 - Resources

Appendix 4 - Some Rules for Jamming

Appendix 5 - CD Tunes:

Hot Corn, Cold Corn

Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms

Nine Pound Hammer

John Henry

Two Little Boys

Columbus Stockade Blues

Down the Road

Little Maggie

John Hardy