Ari Eisinger The Guitar of Blind Boy Fuller. Blind Boy Fuller recorded his unique brand of country blues from 1935 through 1940. His playing is chock-full of both wit and soulfulness. His guitar arrangements are strikingly original and make perfect use of the unique sound of the National steel guitar which he used on most of his recordings. He is best known for his classic Truckin’ My Blues Away which has been performed and recorded by generations of blues and rock guitarists. This DVD gives a fully-detailed presentation of Blind Boy Fuller’s intricate guitar work on six of his...

Jump Start Acoustic starts you off with a series of video guitar lessons showing you how to tune up, hold the guitar and position your hands. Next up, you’ll start learning the most common chords used in popular music – only 12 of them and they’re all easy! Strumming patterns come next followed by a series of lessons showing you how to change chords easily and quickly while playing progressions and songs. You’ll then pull it all together by working through a couple of classic songs. That’s it! Now grab a songbook or download lyrics and chord sheets of...

George Benson The Art of Jazz Guitar DVD download free. Eight-time Grammy-winner George Benson covers chord substitutions, turnarounds, the Wes Montgomery style, and more. He demonstrates his signature scat-style singing on the groundbreaking This Masquerade and soloing over the famous On Broadway vamp. Also included are several virtuoso solo jazz and blues guitar performances by Benson himself – further proof, if it were needed, of his total mastery of jazz guitar. What George talks about, and shows, is how to find sounds. There are no licks to copy, no scales to run, but it’s excellent in showing how a...

John Renbourn Medieval & Renaissance Music For Fingerstyle Guitar. For some time now, I have periodically made transcriptions of early pieces mainly for my own enjoyment. My interest in early music runs parallel to my interest in Western folk music. It was, and still is, intriguing to consider the characteristics that are common to both. I discovered that even whole pieces, thought to exist in manuscript only, occasionally cropped up remarkably intact in current folk playing, and instruments long assumed silent were found to be still sounding in remote areas of Europe. I began by taking a medieval dance...

Keith Wyatt Beyond Basics Acoustic Slide Guitar DVD download. Keith Wyatt, one of the country’s foremost blues and rock educators, takes you through all aspects of acoustic slide playing including choosing the right slide, open tunings, use of a capo, fingerboard patterns, vibrato, special intonations, and muting techniques. Keith also shows you how to mix slide with standard guitar technique for fills and self accompaniment. From preparation to actual performing, instructor Keith Wyatt covers the fundamentals of playing acoustic slide guitar in this entry in Beyond Basics series. Words cannot explain how awesome this guy is in playing the...

Craig Chaquico Electric Acoustic Guitar download free. This is a monumental video by one of today’s most beloved guitarists. Craig Chaquico (ex-Jefferson Starship guitarist) takes this opportunity to share the secrets of his sublime acoustic guitar technique. In this 92-minute video, Craig covers electric guitar styles on acoustic, such as hammer-ons, pull-offs and right-hand tapping as well as pentatonic ‘box’ patterns, bending, extracting melodies from chords, three-note chord patterns, thumb-style ‘slapping’, sympathetic string vibrations, using octaves and doubles stops and playing whole tunes on a single string.This video is for the intermediate player who is determined to develop great...

The Fingerpicking Blues Of Mississippi John Hurt DVD. No traditional musician is better loved than Mississippi John Hurt. He has influenced innumerable musicians through the years and, four decades after his death, his songs and instrumentals continue to be played throughout the world by novice guitarists and professionals alike. This lesson is filled with the songs, licks, sounds and techniques that make Mississippi John Hurt’s music so popular. John Sebastian and Happy Traum, whose friendship goes back to the sixties, had the privilege of knowing John Hurt and hearing him play first hand. With their enthusiasm and love of...

Oscar Herrero Flamenco Guitar Step by Step Basic Technique Volume 3. In this volume, after performing the sevillana ‘El rastrillo’ with percussion accompaniment, Óscar Herrero develops some ways to obtain a good left hand technique with exercises including extensions, ligato, chord changes, using the little finger… As for the right hand, exercises for the ring finger are examined, as well as arpeggios (pressuring a bass chord with the thumb, while several different high chords are pressured using two or three fingers alternately). It ends with an interview with the famous guitar builders Hermanos Conde, in which they talk of...

Ravi’s Learn Guitar in 21 Days. World renowned guitar educator Ravi has taught thousands of people to play their favorite songs on guitar with his breakthrough 21-day course. The “trick” behind this course is really no trick at all; over the 21 days you’ll learn how to hold and tune the guitar, how to play eight simple chords, how to strum, and how to keep a beat. You will need to set 20 minutes a day aside for your practice sessions. No more and no less. And you are asked to do this for 21 days straight. Yes, you...

Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar According to Tony McManus. Tony McManus is an adept master of Celtic fingerstyle guitar, both in terms of adapting Celtic music to the guitar and in its performance – presenting all it intricacies, graces, and frills yet at the same time maintaining the pace and drive which characterises this style of music. Volume 1. In this first lesson, Tony discusses in detail the importance of ornamentations and triplets in Celtic music, and importantly, how this can be technically achieved. Scales and fingerings and playing in the DADGAD tuning are discussed and then illustrated with several melodies...