Guitar Building Blocks Instant Fingerpicking Success. The fingerpicking style is one of the most popular and engaging ways of playing the guitar. It’s especially good for song accompaniment, and has been favored by folk, blues and country pickers, especially singer-songwriters such as James Taylor, Paul Simon, Shawn Colvin and Nanci Griffith. This lesson de-mystifies the right-hand technique by breaking it down into patterns that can be learned quickly and easily. Once these are mastered, a world of wonderful sounds will be available on the guitar, and you’ll be able to apply them to some all-time favorite folk and traditional...

Sal Salvador Jazz Chording and Comping download. Throughout this informative and jam-packed tape, Sal teaches you jazz chord forms and substitutions, flat 5 substitutions, playing behind a soloist as well as a vocalist in a duet setting, II-V-I progressions, altering chords as they lead to a minor chord, I-VI-II-V progressions in major and minor, the ‘Charleston’ beat, comping, soloing over major and minor I-IV-II-V progressions and much more. Many of the examples are illustrated with Sal’s band, including some terrific jazz vocals. Sal Salvador was a capable soloist and accompanist whose single-string style, shaped by his early interest in...

Fred Sokolow The Music of Buddy Holly. Though Buddy Holly’s career was short, he was a huge influence on the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and most of the rockers and songwriters of the 1960s, 1970s and beyond. Most of the songs in this collection have been hits many times over and they’re still covered today by rock, pop and country bands. Fred makes Buddy’s tunes accessible to fingerpicking guitarists in this instructional DVD that includes rockers like That’ll Be the Day, It’s So Easy and Maybe Baby, and pretty ballads like Raining In My Heart and Everyday....

At a Glance – Acoustic Guitar DVD download. A first of its kind, the At a Glance series pairs an instructional DVD lesson taught by a professional guitarist with a supplemental book for a comprehensive learning experience. Each book/DVD features several lessons pertaining to one topic, and the DVD lessons feature on-screen music. The lessons are loaded with valuable tips and information. Acoustic Guitar – At a Glance features four lessons, including: Strumming Chords, Fingerstyle Basics, Travis Picking, and Capo Basics. Riff Example Songs include: Brown Eyed Girl – Van Morrison Dust In The Wind – Kansas Free Fallin’...

Acoustic Rock Guitar Signature Licks DVD download. Internationally acknowledged guitarist and instructor Doug Boduch offers a step-by-step breakdown of eight acoustic rock classics featuring some of rock’s greatest guitar moments. Learn the tricks, riffs, techniques and styles that make these eight songs some of the most instantly recognizable and best-loved anthems ever recorded, with painstaking explanations and detailed discussions to help you get them mastered. Includes such legendary classics as:   Before You Accuse Me (Take a Look at Yourself) by Eric Clapton Crazy On You by Heart Drive by Incubus Dust In The Wind by Kansas Iris by...

The authenticity and soulfulness of blues, jazz, folk and especially gypsy music is what triggers duende in the hearts of minds of their audiences. As a student of guitar, you’ve likely already been exposed to blues, jazz and folk music, all of which have influenced all forms of popular music from rock to pop and everything in between. Thanks to Raughi Ebert and Leo Henrichs, the guitar duo known as Tierra Negra, you are now just a click away from a timeless and creative resource for guitar players; Magic Gypsy Chords and Rhythms. While rooted in the history, music...

Ben Bolt Anyone Can Play Classic Guitar download. In this DVD, you will learn from one of America’s foremost classic guitar teachers. Ben Bolt demonstrates his principles for judging distance, point of reference, right- and left-hand positions, and the correct sitting posture. An easy-to-understand and technically correct introduction to classic guitar performance. Ben Bolt was playing lead guitar in rock bands at the age of 12 and performed professionally at 16 in Miami. After high school, Ben left his band to study classical guitar in Spain. At the age of 19, he studied with Andres Segovia in Madrid. Andres...

The legendary Josh White (1914-1969) is widely considered to be one of the most influential blues and folk artists of all time. His singing and guitar playing electrified a generation of fans with his dazzling technique and passionate renditions of blues, folk songs and ballads. We’re delighted to present this DVD on the songs and guitar of Josh White by his son, Josh White, Jr., an accomplished actor, singer, performer and teacher. He knows his father’s repertoire intimately and can replicate it with great accuracy. On this lesson he skillfully communicates Josh White’s unique guitar style in a way...

Ari Eisinger The Guitar of Lonnie Johnson download. Lonnie Johnson pioneered the single-string solo guitar styles that we are accustomed to hearing today in rock, blues and jazz music. He played with blues and jazz greats including Texas Alexander, Duke Ellingon, Louie Armstrong and Bessie Smith, and used the guitar as a solo instrument in jazz bands years before Charlie Christian. His recorded blues and jazz solos, including his famous duets with the early jazz guitarist Eddie Lang, are exemplary both for their incredibly beautiful guitar tone and for their sheer, jaw-dropping virtuosity. His To Do This You Got...

Learn & Master Guitar with Steve Krenz PDF DVD download. Winner of the 2008 Acoustic Guitar Magazine Players’ Choice Award, two Telly Awards and an AEGIS Award for Excellence in Education, Learn & Master Guitar is widely recognized as the best home instruction course for learning guitar available anywhere. It consists of 20 professionally produced DVDs, 5 Jam-Along CDs, a 100+ page lesson book, and a free online student support site. It is the only instructional package you’ll ever need on your journey toward mastery of the guitar. All you provide is the practice! Let’s face it, really learning...