IVAN ROSENBERG: Bluegrass Dobro with Ivan Rosenberg DVD

Ivan Rosenberg

Bluegrass Dobro with Ivan Rosenberg DVD

© 2005 Ivan Rosenberg - Windswept/Cox Productions (306196050394)

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Learn how to play bluegrass Dobro (resonator guitar) with this beginning/intermediate instructional DVD by acclaimed resonator guitarist Ivan Rosenberg.

tracks

1 Roll Demonstration
2 Pick-up Notes
3 Rolls Over Chords
4 Em Chord
5 Roll Over D Chord
6 Adding Hammer-on
7 Left Hand Damping
8 Adding the Bar
9 To the 5th Fret in G
10 Visual Pattern for G
11 The IV Chord (C)
12 The V Chord (D)
13 Exercise on All Strings
14 Pick Blocking
15 Putting It All Together
16 My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains
17 Adding Melody Notes
18 Adding More Rolls
19 Spice up the Solo Demo
20 Sunny Side of the Mountain
21 Filling Spaces with Runs
22 Lick over V Chord
23 Hearing the Highest Note
24 Sunny Side up to Speed
25 Goodbye
26 Credits

notes

In this lesson, Ivan demonstrates how to identify and remember commonly used first-position areas of the fretboard, which makes it easy to find a bluegrass melody. He then explains how to incorporate rolls, slides, hammer-ons/pull-offs, and other essential Dobro techniques to create a coherent and interesting bluegrass solo.

Topics covered include:
Right hand roll demonstrations
Pick-up notes for solos
Left hand damping
Visual Patterns for learning the Dobro neck
Finding melody notes
Pick blocking
Building a bluegrass solo from scratch
Spicing up your solo
Filling spaces with Dobro runs and rolls
and much more!

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Dobro player Ivan Rosenberg has released 4 CDs of mostly-original instrumentals and an instructional DVD. Bluegrass Unlimited magazine wrote, "It is only a matter of time until Ivan Rosenberg becomes universally recognized as one of the more prolific masters of the resonator guitar," and Banjo Newsletter editor Donald Nitchie wrote that Ivan's latest CD Clawhammer and Dobro was one of the best instrumental recordings of the year.

Lately Ivan has been playing with alt. bluegrass band The Breakmen, the old time/world music quartet Mighty Squirrel, and one of the most respected singers/songwriters in bluegrass, Chris Jones. Ivan has also performed and/or recorded with Billy Cardine and Mary Lucey of The Biscuit Burners, Chris Stuart & Backcountry, Chad Manning, Hit & Run, Jake Schepps, Julie Elkins & David Thompson, Ben Winship, and Mike Grigoni.

Ivan's workshop experience includes The Sore Fingers Week bluegrass camp in the UK (2004), the British Columbia Bluegrass Workshop (2003-2007), the California Bluegrass Association music camp in California (2004, 2005), and Camp He Ho Ha in Edmonton, Alberta. This year's workshops include The Puget Sound Guitar Workshop and the BCBW. Ivan currently gives dobro and clawhammer banjo lessons 3 or 4 days per month at The 5th String in Berkeley, CA.

Ivan’s original music has appeared in several film and television scores including Jerry Bruckheimer/Warner Brothers Films' Kangaroo Jack, HBO's Making Deadwood: The Show Behind the Show, Comedy Central's The Daily Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and High Plains Films' acclaimed documentary Libby, Montana.

TV/Film Score Highlights and Select Discography

Television
* Comedy Central TV series "The Daily Show"
* The Oprah Winfrey Show: "Oprah's Favorite Sandwich in America"
* HBO series/DVD: "Deadwood: The Complete First Season - Making Deadwood Featurette"
* CMT/Kinky Friedman series: "Go Kinky"
* HBO Series: "Cathouse"
* CMT series: "The Ultimate Coyote Ugly Search"
* CMT Insider Special Edition: "Larry the Cable Guy"
* The Biography Channel show: "The Writers: Tolstoy"
* CMT series: "Muzik Mafia"
* MTV: "Your Movie Show: Dukes of Hazzard"
* Animal Planet show: "White House Pets"
* History Channel show: "Investigating History"
* MTV: "Room Raiders"
* VH1 show: "Child Star Babylon"
* Discovery Channel show/DVD: "Extreme Engineering: Cooper River Bridge"
* VH1 series: "Driven: Tim McGraw"

Film:
* Warner Brothers/Jerry Bruckheimer Film/DVD: "Kangaroo Jack"
* Universal Studios Sci Fi DVD: "Serenity"
* High Plains Films Documentary (narrated by Christopher Reeve): "American Values/American Wilderness"
* High Plains Films Documentary original music: "Caught in the Headlights"
* High Plains Films 2004 Documentary/2005 DVD: "Libby, Montana"

CDs:

* Ivan Rosenberg and Billy Cardine: "The Donkeys"
* Mighty Squirrel
* Ivan Rosenberg & Mike Conroy: "The Old Spinning Wheel"
* Ivan Rosenberg: "Clawhammer and Dobro"
* The Breakmen (dobro/producer): "The Breakmen"
* Julie Elkins and David Thompson: "My Feet Won't Miss this Ground"
* Lorenzo Gangi: "Fistful of Lonesome"
* Jake Shepps: "Expedition"
* Ivan Rosenberg CD: “Ashes and Coals”
* Slow Drag CD: "Slow Fidelity"
* IBMA World of Bluegrass Showcase Artist Compilation CD
* Chris Stuart & Backcountry CD: “Mojave River”
* Chad Manning CD: “Old Gnarly Oak”
* Chris Stuart & Backcountry CD: “Saints and Strangers"
* Iron Lasso CD: “Live in Parkfield”
* Ivan Rosenberg CD: “Back to the Pasture”
* Ivan Rosenberg CD (OOP): “The Lost Coast” (2001)

Instructional:

* Learn Roots Music DVD: "Bluegrass Dobro with Ivan Rosenberg"
* Monthly resonator guitar column for Mel Bay's Guitar Sessions

Highlights:

* New Voices in Slide Guitar tour with Steve Dawson, Rachelle Van Zanten, and Doug Cox (2007)
* Pickathon, OR (2007)
* San Francisco Bluegrass and Old Time Festival (2007)
* Beanblossom "Uncle Pen Days" Bluegrass Festival, IN (2006)
* Blueberry Bluegrass Festival, Edmonton AB (2006)
* Wintergrass (Reso-Mania) (2006)
* Grand Targhee Bluegrass Festival (2005)
* RockyGrass, Lyons, CO (2005)
* British Columbia Bluegrass Workshop (2003-2007)
* Vancouver Island Music Festival (2005)
* California Bluegrass Association Music Camp and Father's Day Festival (2004, 2005)
* IBMA official showcase, Louisville, KY (2004)
* Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival, NJ (2004)
* Sore Fingers Week Bluegrass School in England (2004)
* Darrington Bluegrass Festival, WA (2004)
* Sisters Folk Festival, OR (2004)
* Blythe Bluegrass Festival, CA (2004)
* Tri-State Festival, Kendalville, IN (2004)
* Bluegrass on the River Festival, AZ (2004)
* 2nd Place at Telluride Band Contest with Nine Pound Hammer (2000); 4th Place with The Crazy Water String Band (1996)

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  • Bluegrass Dobro w/Ivan Rosenberg
    author: rob rogers

    I'm really getting a lot out of this DVD. Ivan takes you step by step on how to spice up melody notes with rolls, hammer-ons, pull-offs and when to use them and on which chords. His ideas on how to find the melody notes and which ones will be most likely to add the frills too is valuable information. He covers left hand damping and a really neat approach to a visual pattern for learning dobro notes. I'm getting to the part of spicing up a solo and feel that I've already gotten more than my money's worth. We are all at different levels and I think this has something for everyone. This is the type of lesson that you will learn something new every time you view it. I've got a shelf full of DVD lessons and this is the best of the lot.

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