The world-wide successful Flamenco guitar method is finally available in English. Flamenco guitar method by Gerhard Graf-Martinez. Volume 1 + 2 (plus CD-Audio). A complete Flamenco guitar course for teaching and private study – standard notation and tablature. Complete explanation and exposition of all techniques of the Flamenco guitar like rasgueados, pulgar ayudado, picado, arpegio, tremolo, alzapua. Special chapter about the Bulerias. All styles, compositions and studies are recorded on CD in original tempo and slow version. Gerhard Graf-Martinez is a passionate Flamenco guitarist and teacher. This two-volume method contains both his extensive inside-knowledge – acquired from his intense...

The Principles of Correct Practice for Guitar is not a method book in the traditional sense. You will not find scales, chord charts or licks of any kind. But you will find a book filled with insight and exercises to help you overcome common pitfall of hand position and muscle tension. Issues that lead too incorrect practice, and are detrimental to your progress as a guitarist. The material in the book is broken down into 3 categories: Understandings, Tools, and Exercises. Understanding helps identify a problem area, often one you might not have thought about. Tools are the solutions...

Fred Sokolow Beginner’s Country Guitar. Country music is more popular than ever and all you need to put over a good country song is your voice and a guitar. This 65 minute DVD gives you the tools you need to play old-fashioned country, honky-tonk and country rock. Playing classics shows you the basics of country guitar. Fred Sokolow’s teaching is clear and easy to understand and he has lots of helpful hints for beginners. Begins with two chord songs and goes from there. Good for learning to sing country too!   You’ll learn how to play: Accompaniment strums for...

Emily Remler Advanced Jazz And Latin Improvisation download. This hour-long video with Emily Remler covers some of jazz guitar’s most important topics, such as true Bossa nova style, samba rhythms, unique chord positions, alternating bass lines, syncopated guitar parts, passing chords, jazz minor scales, arpeggio licks, learning to put various scales over certain chords, eighth-note improvisation, II-V progressions and V-I resolutions. There are more musical examples in this DVD, with plenty of licks and a clear explanation given for playing over ‘Type 1’ and ‘Type 2’ dominants; play Melodic minor from 5th for Type 1 (non-resolving) and play Melodic...

John Doyle Irish Rhythm Guitar Accompanying Celtic Tunes DVD. Videolessons of ex-guitarist celtic band “Solas”, he shares some secrets accompany Irish tunes on an acoustic guitar in drop-d (6-string I – 0.72 mm). The lessons describe a number of melodies and explains how to be different to play them. John Doyle’s style includes strumming patterns, moving bass lines, palm damping, backbeats, accents and syncopations that drive a tune forward. This exciting lesson shows both simple arrangements and complex rhythms, chord shapes and progressions to enable you to get a traditional band to really rock! Using dropped-D tuning, John teaches...

John Jorgenson Intro To Gypsy Jazz Guitar Volume 1 download. In this first of three volumes of Flatpicking Guitar Magazine’s new Gypsy Jazz Guitar instructional series, “Intro to Gypsy Jazz Guitar,” Jorgenson provides the foundational information and practice material necessary for you to gain an understanding of the Gypsy jazz guitar style. The first half of this volume addresses the important element of Gypsy jazz rhythm. The second half of this first volume addresses soloing. Each volume of this three-part series includes a 2-hour instructional DVD, an audio CD with practice audio tracks, and a full format book which...

Up Close is a 2 hour personal lesson with Tommy. He explains in detail, his amazing harmonic technique. Shows you step-by-step how to play fingerstyles. There are rare insights into some of his more complicated arrangements and featured throughout the video and Up Close detailed and “slowed down” demonstrations and performances of many of Tommy’s songs. Tommy Emmanuel, if you hadn’t heard, is a spectacular acoustic guitarist. In this video he explains in split screens and fast and slow speeds his technique for playing several of his songs. This DVD succeeds on two levels: the playing is pure Emmanuel –...

John Miller Legendary Country Blues Guitar Duets. The Country Blues guitar duet tradition is rich and varied, but it has been relatively unexplored by present day blues players. This is a shame for a couple of reasons – there are a lot of great duets that merit being worked out and played for today’s audiences, preserving the music, but there’s also just the sheer enjoyment and fun involved in playing this music with a kindred spirit, someone who hears and responds to this music as you do yourself. In several instances, the two guitar parts are played out of...

Sid Jacobs Jazz Guitar Improvisation. Guitar ace Sid Jacobs provides a step-by-step tutorial to help you develop the knowledge and skills you need to improvise Jazz guitar, in this DVD from the prestigious Musicians Institute. Jacobs carefully guides you through several different aspects of Jazz soloing, giving you the chance to understand and master the harmonic demands of this complex playing style. Some of the great jazz artists with whom Sid has performed include Harold Land, Eddie Harris, Buddy Montgomery, Joe Diorio, Brad Mehldau, Larry Goldings and Javon Jackson. The instruction is quite advanced but if your playing is...

Max Milligan Acoustic Fingerstyle Contemporary download. The Acoustic Fingerstyle series of instructional programs will teach you all the skills needed to master the acoustic style. This 3rd lesson, geared toward the intermediate player, will show how to successfully put together an arrangement of a well-known piece. Classic traditional tunes are used to demonstrate the different styles and executions used by great guitarists like Tommy Emmanuel, Merle Travis, and Chet Atkins. This program will help you become a red hot picker. Lessons include: Standard Tuning Alternate Picking Exercise House of the Rising Sun I & II And More! See also:...