Guitar Building Blocks: Creating Easy Song Arrangements
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 The beauty of the guitar is not necessarily based on advanced and highly technical playing skills. Interesting and unusual arrangements can be created with very simple ideas, as long as you have some knowledge and an elementary understanding of the guitar.
On this DVD lesson, Happy takes some easy songs and shows you how to transform them into beautiful show pieces using interesting right-hand patterns, altered chords and chord substitutions, ornamentation, harmonized scales and other very basic but useful techniques. You'll be amazed at what you'll be able to do with the simplest folk songs.
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Bob Brozman: Learn To Play Bottleneck Blues Guitar Vol. 3 - Repertoire
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 Brozman digs deeper into the bottleneck blues repertoire with this exploration of major and minor keys in open and standard tunings. He covers traditional styles of Bukka White, Tampa Red, Charlie Patton and other Delta masters. Songs: "Old Dog Blues," "Jitterbug Swing," "Denver Blues," "Cypress Grove," "Telegram Blues," "Pony Blues," more.
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Bob Brozman: Learn To Play Bottleneck Blues Guitar Vol. 2 - Advanced Technique
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 A complete toolbox to dramatically increase your repertoire and enhance your blues arrangements and improvisations. Bob provides both a historical and a technical analysis of the styles and innovations originally created by Robert Johnson, Son House, Charlie Patton and other Delta slide masters. Songs: "Come on in My Kitchen," "Delta Memories" and "Rollin' and Tumblin'." Intermediate.
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Bob Brozman: Learn To Play Bottleneck Blues Guitar Vol. 1 - The Basics
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 This DVD, along with volumes 2 & 3, are hands down the best available if you want to play authentic pre-war style blues slide guitar. Bob Brozman is an extraordinary player with an encyclopedic knowledge of the music. Bob’s incredible chops are vividly documented not only on this DVD but in the 26 recordings he has released since his first in 1981. Beyond the music, Bob is acknowledged as the world’s foremost authority on National guitars. His 1993 book, The History and Artistry of National Resonator Instruments, is the definitive work on the topic. Bob’s passion for pre-war blues and slide guitar comes across clearly throughout this DVD.
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Woody Mann - The Art of Acoustic Blues Guitar: Early Roots
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 Teaches the song forms and techniques of early American folk and blues guitar styles. Acclaimed blues performer and educator, Woody Mann, teaches five blues songs based on the playing of such originators as Charley Patton, Son House, Robert Johnson, Big Joe Williams, Scrapper Blackwell, and Tommy Johnson. Written for the near beginner to intermediate student, each song illustrates the techniques and approaches of these innovators in a clear and easy to understand arrangement of a classic theme in Open G, Open D, and standard tuning.
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Robert Johnson - Signature Licks - Taught By Scott Ainslie
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 The original blues guitar hero who, according to musical folklore, sold his soul at a desolate crossroads in return for musical virtuosity, Robert Johnson unwittingly inspired a guitar revolution. In the hands of Eric Clapton, John Mayall, Peter Green and others, the songs of the legendary bluesman became the very basis of British blues sound, and the roots of modern rock as we know it.
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Fred Sokolow: Travis Picking for Beginners
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 Merle Travis' brilliant fingerpicking style inspired Chet Atkins and generations of country, folk, bluegrass and rock guitarists. Travis picking is a very complete use of the guitar: when you play steady, alternating bass notes with your thumb and pick melodies with your fingers you're playing lead, rhythm and bass all by yourself. But how do you keep that thumb-bass independent so it doesn't get derailed when your fingers pick the melody?
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Tony Rice - Master class - Up Close and Personal with a Guitar Great
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 On this extraordinary DVD, Tony Rice shares more of the songs, instrumentals and picking techniques that have made him an iconic figure on the acoustic guitar scene for nearly four decades.
Starting with Shady Grove, as played with David Grisman and Jerry Garcia on “The Pizza Tapes,” Tony brings back guitar arrangements from various phases in his long career.
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Doc's Watson Guitar - Fingerpicking & Flatpicking
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 This wonderful lesson with a national treasure has been re-edited and formatted for DVD. It's now easier than ever to access the wonderful songs and instrumentals that have made Doc one of the most beloved folk artists of all time.
Doc Watson, a true master of traditional guitar styles, teaches some of the most requested fingerpicking and flatpicking tunes in his vast repertoire.
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