Steve Kaufman Complete Flatpicking Guitar. This comprehensive study of contemporary flatpicking guitar technique presents numerous solos for the beginning through advanced flatpicking guitarist along with tips on creating your own flatpicking arrangements. The book addresses the tablature system, tuning, right and left-hand technique, use of the capo and the microphone, transposing using the Nashville numbering system, bluegrass back-up, arranging flatpicking solos and instrumentals. If you’re into country or bluegrass music, or if you just want to develop outstanding flatpicking technique, this book is for you. Written in standard notation and tablature. The stereo play-along CD features Steve Kaufman’s rousing...

Pete’s cherry-picked collection covers a lot of ground from uptempo country and bluegrass moves to a series of country/blues endings, from walking bass lines to banjo style rolls, a few ways to play over the 6, 2, 5 1 progression, some cool jazz chordage, a yard full of blazing chicken pickin’ moves, a few delicious slow blues moves, call and answer licks, harmonized descending bass lines, Bossa Nova rhythmic patterns and an array of “awesome double stops” that Pete says are “worth the price of admission alone”. Pete also shows us those tasty, jaw-dropping, ‘how does he do that’...

Ray Hitchins Reggae Guitar download. Ray Hitchins, former head of the guitar department at the Jamaica School of Music teaches how to play reggae guitar in this instructional video. Learn reggae rhythm riffs & fills, the check and… Ray Hitchins, former head of the guitar department at the Jamaica School of Music teaches how to play reggae guitar in this instructional video. Learn reggae rhythm riffs & fills, the check and checker rhythm patterns, tenuto, staccato, dummy strokes, broken chords, double stops, fingerpicking, and more. Learn to play authentic reggae guitar. Here’s a complete guide to this unique style...

Chris Proctor Techniques for Contemporary 12-String Guitar. This DVD lesson provides new insights into the sonic possibilities and boundless opportunities for innovation on the 12-string guitar. Chris Proctor tackles a wide range of ideas and techniques, taking this richly toned instrument into new and undiscovered territory. This course is jam-packed with invaluable information, including important tips on tuning, stringing and setting up the 12-string for maximum output and intonation. You’ll learn the open G and C tunings pioneered and widely used by Leo Kottke and other leading 12-string stylists, and the way Chris tunes down a step to get...

Led Zeppelin Acoustic Sessions Book & DVD. The Guitar Sessions series features songbooks centered around detailed instructional video lessons that teach how to play rock ‘n’ roll’s greatest songs, shown step-by-step by knowledgeable guitar-slinging hosts who then perform the music in its entirety. With Led Zeppelin: Acoustic Sessions, you’ll learn riff by riff how to play all of Jimmy Page’s guitar parts in Led Zeppelin’s most classic acoustic songs, including Jimmy’s famous alternate tunings and even some of the must-know mandolin and electric guitar parts. In addition to the DVD lessons, this book also includes detailed written lessons and...

Reinier Voet’s 50 Gypsy Jazz Licks You MUST Know is so much more than a hand-picked collection of versatile and essential gypsy jazz lines and phrases — its also a an homage to the man who innovated a timeless vocabulary that guitar players will still be quoting a thousand years from today. All of the licks are presented over a rhythm track so that you can hear and practice them in a musical context. Each performance is then followed by a detailed breakdown of the line along with the techniques being employed to perform it. Everything is tabbed and...

In Jazz Manouche Technique & Improvisation Vol 4, Denis continues to demonstrate Phrases & Exercises for the student. He then moves on to concepts such as Rhythm Concepts, Phrasing Concepts and Tempo Concepts. In the section on “Dynamics, Articulation and Subtle Nuance”, Denis gives an in-depth study of some of the subtler aspects of Jazz Manouche guitar. Denis’ understanding of these critical nuances allows him to guide the student into perfecting his or her technique. Denis provides a wealth of chord knowledge and construction before ending the DVD with an in-depth review in context. Denis has a B.Mus. from...

Fred Sokolow Travis Picking for Beginners. 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? Fred makes it easy for beginners or intermediate guitarists by breaking it all down and taking each song step by step. First...

Joe Pass The Blue Side Of Jazz download free. This follow-up to Joe’s best-selling Solo Jazz Guitar explores the blues elements of jazz guitar. Joe covers bebop blues, new chord substitutions, pedal tones, jazz/blues improvisation…and much more. As usual, Joe brings wit and style to his invaluable guitar lessons, taking you straight to the heart of the “blue” side of jazz guitar. Anyone with a modicum of appreciation of musical complexity on any instrument, would not fail to be impressed with mr Pass, his mastery of the guitar and his intuitive feel for melodic tangent are inescapable unquantifiable technical...

Tony Rice Master class Up Close and Personal with a Guitar Great. 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. He explores classics such as I Don’t Want Your Mandolins Mister (“Tone Poems”), Church Street Blues (“Blake & Rice”), and More Pretty Girls Than One (“Skaggs & Rice”)....