All the Steve albums, books, DVDs and lesson links offered here are still available.
Play guitar and mandolin Steve James-style!
Get the last DVD hard copies of Roots and Blues Fingerstyle Guitar for $25 plus shipping
and Learn To Play Blues Mandolin on sale for $4o plus shipping. Order button below.
Books:
Roots and Blues Fingerstyle Guitar Explorations 2019
Roots and Blues Fingerstyle Guitar
Fingerstyle Blues Songbook
Roots and Blues Mandolin
DVDs:
Roots and Blues Guitar
Learn To Play Blues Mandolin DVD Vol. 1
Learn To Play Blues Mandolin DVD Vol. 2
Book with download $20
Roots and Blues Fingerstyle Guitar Book (String Letter 1-890490-14-8)
This book details twenty-five songs in accessible, authentic arrangements, with standard notation, tablature and chord diagrams, plus backgrounds and photos on the artists and songs. The included downloads have all the music, played slowly and up to tempo. Includes Milwaukee Blues, Amos Johnson Rag, Stack Lee’s Blues, The Guitar Rag.
Fingerstyle Blues Songbook
(String Letter press) book with CD $15
Steve’s 2005 book. Learn to play country blues, ragtime blues, boogie blues, slow blues, and gospel with fingerstyle technique. The songs are: Betty and Dupree, Shortnin’ Bread, “A” Blues for Ya, Raggin’ the Blues, Walkin’ the Basses, Slow as Lightnin’, Poor Boy, Delta Thing, Dusted, Lonesome Weary Blues, Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor, Oh, Mary Don’t You Weep, Skin Game Blues, Drop D Blues, and Bye Bye Baby Blues
Roots and Blues Mandolin (String Letter) book with download $20
The basic runs, chords, picking and fretting techniques that will give your mandolin playing a bluesy sound are detailed here with text, tab notation and photos.. Then they’re applied to 13 blues classics including “Corrina”, “Trouble In Mind” and “Careless Love”.
Roots and Blues Guitar DVD ON SALE
(Homespun) $25
Homespun DVD close out
Current inventory includes six copies of Blues/Roots Guitar and four sets of Learn to Play Blues Mandolin 1 and 2.
Homespun has discontinued the manufacture of DVDs and will be offering material in digital format only. These copies are the last to be seen on this site.
Roots/Blues Guitar is a comprehensive 80 minute session that includes demonstrations of five complete song arrangements from the SJ repertoire plus tips on chord building, fingerstyle technique and slide guitar. Starting with the basics of thumb-and-finger picking and blues harmony, Steve demonstrates several song motifs in various keys and tunings. Included are some of his unique melodic chord vamps and slide guitar riffs. Accompanied by tab, this program is aimed at the beginning to intermediate player.
Learn To Play Blues Mandolin is a rollicking trip through standard and classic song arrangements plus tips on technique and chord theory from basics on up. Featured on the song performances are guitar accompaniment by John Sebastian (part 1) and Del Rey (part 2).
You can get a digital copy at Homespun here
Learn To Play Blues Mandolin DVD ON SALE
(Homespun) $40 two DVD set
Two 60 Minute DVDs include chord diagrams, music and tab. Learn To Play Blues Mandolin is a rollicking trip through standard and classic song arrangements plus tips on technique and chord theory from basics on up.
Featured on the song performances are guitar accompaniment by John Sebastian (part 1) and Del Rey (part 2). With John Sebastian, guitar and 6-string banjo. Steve James shows early-intermediate players how to play a number of great blues and jug band tunes and the techniques to go along with them. A must for those who want to use the mandolin for rhythmic accompaniment or as a hard-driving lead instrument for the blues.
Homespun has discontinued the manufacture of DVDs and will be offering material in digital format only. These copies are the last to be seen on this site. Get a digital copy at Homespun..