Instructional Videos VHS & DVD Soon to be released by Wisdom of the Wood Publishing

All of the following titles will be published by Wisdom of the Wood

1. Introduction to the Bouzouki
by Mickey Cochran
Beginner/Intermediate
2 Hours in Length
This video will focus on the many styles and approaches to the Bouzouki...covers many possibilities and techniques for many styles of music including: Celtic, American Fiddle Tunes, Standards, Jazz...within mediums and applications such as: open tunings, crosspicking, tremolo techniques, harmonizing double-stops, chording...and others.

2. Introduction to the Acoustic/Electric Bass
by Tradd Tidwell
Beginner Level
1 Hour 30 Minutes
The focus will be on the Acoustic/Electric Guitar-Style Bass. This video teaches the stark beginner the very basics of playing Acoustic Bass...many settings are covered within many different styles including: Country, Bluegrass, Rock and Jazz.

3. Blues and Slide Technique for Roundneck Dobro
Is now officially released...as of 11/17/03
by Tradd Tidwell
Intermediate/Advanced Level
2 Hours in Length
This video is oriented to the accomplished guitarist who has an interest in taking up the Roundneck Dobro and wants to learn the many possible techniques for both fingerstyle and flatpicking styles. Some of the styles include Blues and Ragtime.

4. Introduction to the Mountain Dulcimer
by Mickey Cochran
Beginner/Intermediate
2 Hours in Length
This video lays down the basic foundation for playing dulcimer...illustrates the common tunings and common approaches...covers other areas of study such as fingerstyle and crosspicking. From setting up your dobro to offering examples of accessories such as dulcimer straps, tuners and capos.

5. Crosspicking Mandolin Overview
by Mickey Cochran
Intermediate/Advanced
2 Hours in Length
This video carries forward the "Mandolin Crosspicking Technique" book published by Mel Bay. This video gives a complete overview of the immense variations possible with crosspicking. A lifetime study in itself, crosspicking will add a powerful dimension to your mandolin playing...so many textures and harmonic support can be applied within most any musical setting.

6. Crosspicking Guitar Overview
by Mickey Cochran
Intermediate/Advanced
2 Hours in Length
This video carries forward the "Guitar Crosspicking Technique" book published by Mel Bay. This video gives a complete overview of the immense variations possible with crosspicking. A lifetime study in itself, crosspicking will add a powerful dimension to your mandolin playing...so many textures and harmonic support can be applied within most any musical setting.

7. Keith Style D-Tuners for 5-String Banjo
by Mickey Cochran
Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced
2 Hours in Length
How to Install, Adjust, and Apply the classic Scruggs D-Tuners designed by Bill Keith. Everything related to D-Tuners is covered in detail. The classic songs, that made the D-Tuners famous are detailed in historic account.

8. The Art of Ragtime Guitar
by Richard Saslow
Intermediate/Advanced
Approximately 95 Pages
A book/CD guide to one of the most challenging of today's, and yesterday's, fingerpicking guitar styles, featuring the sounds and syncopations of ragtime...the roots of jazz.

9. Percussive Guitar Technique (A New Voice)
by Dan Lambert
Intermediate/Advanced
2 Hours in Length
This video offers a completely new angle on acoustic guitar technique...one that has been largely ignored by most all guitarists: How to take advantage of your guitar's percussive voice? Dan presents his percussive guitar technique in a way that will have you adding a new dimension, and voicing, to your current guitar skills. This approach will turn the heads of even the most difficult of audiences. If you're a guitarist, and you've reached a plateau, this video will have you rising to new heights...highly recommended. (Mickey)

10. Tut Taylor The Flat Pickin' Dobro® Man
Is now officially released...as of 09/25/03
by Tut Taylor and Pat J. Ahrens
73 Pages
Official First Printing September 25, 2003
This book should be titled: "A History of Nashville String Music with Tut Taylor as Your Tour Guide". Take a journey with Tut as he shares with you his many close relationships he's developed in the many years of his being "in the center of it all". You have to see the images of so many legendary acoustic artists in settings that truly captivates their place in time. This is a book that will carry you through the Nashville Acoustic Scene as if you were yourself there as it was taking fold...highly recommended. (Mickey)

11. Mandolin Technique Builders
Coming Soon!
by Mickey Cochran
Video: 2 Hours in Length
This video will attempt to illustrate and demonstrate the importance of exercises and studies and how they contribute to playing facility. This will not be a video on scales...this will be a video on how to develop your playing technique through many studies and exercises so that you, as a complete mandolinist, will be better able to play within most any setting. Increase your speed, your accuracy, your timing, and your overall mandolin technique with this video!

12. Fingerpicking Mandolin
Coming Soon!
by Mickey Cochran
Video: 2 Hours in Length
This is a non-traditional approach to the mandolin. This video is intended to offer the mandolinist a new medium and approach to the mandolin...opening up new possibilities for songwriting, recording and general jam sessions. This video does not profess that fingerstyle is the only medium and approach to mandolin...more as an added voicing through an unexplored medium on mandolin. If you're looking for a new way to create textures for back-up, or maybe you're looking to explore the mandolin as an effective solo instrument (without accompaniment), then this video will offer that window to new mando worlds.