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NEW for Summer 2010!

If you’re only going to buy one DVD on solo arrangements from Jimmy, this is it. A true “must have” if you don’t have any friends.

“SOLO DOBRO” breaks down the art of arranging and composing music unaccompanied on the Dobro. Key techniques are explained and revealed so you’ll be able to master the lonely art of playing by yourself.

Jimmy also teaches songs that he used to calm his wife down and impress relatives.

“Somewhere Over the Rainbow”, “What a Wonderful World”, “Goodtime Charlie’s Got the Blues”, “Cannonball Blues”, “Irish Spring”, “Where I’ll Take My Rest”, “Lakeview”, Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies” are all played and tabbed out in brilliant eye popping Technicolor!

This is a wonderful DVD that will bring a new and extremely fulfilling style to your playing.

This is where I recommend you start if you are just getting into the Dobro or feel you skipped a few things in your first couple years of playing. I cover all of the technique you need to learn to start impressing girls with the Dobro. And ladies, nothing says “class” like telling your man to skip the diamonds and get you “Scratch”.

Not only do you see what to do but I spend just as much time showing you the wrong way so you see why you have work so hard to get it right. I cover, pulloff’s, hammering on, slides, chords, right hand position, pick angle, left hand economy, tuning, string gauges, practice tips, rakes, and more. I tried to make this a resources on everything you need to learn to “do it right”.The tunes are NOT watered down versions . They are arranged the way I would play them on stage. To me it takes just as long to learn the slick versions as it does to learn the simplified one’s you’ll have to relearn later. I took this idea from the Earl Scruggs banjo book. Ask any banjo player about it. They all learned from it. Maybe that’s why there are so many hot banjo players out there.

Over three hours of instruction on the art of playing backup. Learn the tricks and tips your favorite Dobro players use in the background of Country and Bluegrass. You’ll be able to play along with JIM HURST as Jimmy guides you through songs like “Head Over Heals”, “Another Night”, “Darlin Corey”, Love Letters in the Sand”, “Rollin in My Sweet Baby’s Arms”and more (they escape me now). Jimmy will show you they most used scales and how to manuver around inside of them to fit the chord progression. Learn where to play and where to “lay out” as Jim Hurst plays and sings and Jimmy visually guides you. You’ll also learn where pockets of notes exist to use at will off the common chords you now use. The DVD starts with simple accessable tricks to make any song sound better and progresses from there in a step by step fashion. You won’t be scratching your head wondering what you should learn. Learn Jimmy’s secret subliminal methods that cause you to buy all of his products. Thrill as Jim Hurst endures a session called “What Not To Do”

This new DVD shows you simple techniques that separate the pro’s from the herd. Jimmy breaks down a simple tune (Bury Me Beneath the Willow) and step by step transforms it from simple to polished professional arrangement.

It’s all done very slowly so that you can not only learn the tune but see how each new trick you learn from Jimmy (me) can transform your playing OVERNIGHT !

If you take each new trick and apply it to your own versions
of tunes you already play, you can really change your playing in short order.

Jimmy also shows how to break apart a hot version of “Fireball Mail” and teaches you how to learn complex tunes with rock solid timing and drive.

Lots of tips and tricks are covered for free also, you just have to buy the DVD to access them. Two hours of thrills and chills.

Here it is!! This is the one you’ve been hearing about. It’s 100 one my “go to” licks and “pockets of notes” in and over the common chords and chord changes in Bluegrass. I use many of these lick’s on the “Resocasters” CD and everytime I pick up a Dobro. I spend very little time talking just demonstrating the licks. Each lick is played several times slowly and then at tempo as I explain to you what chords or chord progressions they fit over. There’s even the “chromatic” lick that I always get asked about. It fits over any chord, now, how handy is that?

I only ask that if you buy this, you don’t burn me with my own licks when we jam sometime!