Tom Feldmann Delta Blues Guitar from Dockery Plantation. Delta blues is one of the earliest styles of blues music. Created by black musicians who lived and worked on the farms in north Mississippi, these men and women drew on influences from church songs, prison songs, African rhythms, and early American folk traditions to fashion a new form of music. Unbeknownst to them, the music created in this relatively small area that lies between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers would spread the world over and shape musical history. In this lesson Tom Feldmann takes you to where it all began,...

Steve Kaufman Picking Up Speed Drills and Tunes for Flatpick Guitarists DVD. You the tools you need to get over the musical speed bumps – without crashing and burning as you go. It’s all a matter of getting your right- and left-hand mechanics working correctly, and Steve has powerful advice and well-thought-out exercises to help you. Using tunes like “Old Joe Clark,” “Soldier’s Joy” and “Big Mon” as drills, Steve works on your hand and pick coordination and shows how to practice for best results. Tips on left-hand fretting positions (keep a light touch, very little skin on the...

Stefan Grossman Fingerpicking Country Blues Guitar. This DVD lesson has been designed to help beginner and intermediate students of fingerpicking country blues guitar improve their playing skills and increase their repertoires using an alternating bass technique. Stefan Grossman illustrates and explains in detail ten fingerstyle arrangements in the keys of C, D, E, A, G and F. These popular blues and ragtime songs come from the playing of Mississippi John Hurt, Rev. Gary Davis, Mance Lipscomb and Elizabeth Cotten. Each tune is discussed and taught phrase by phrase and played slowly on a split screen so that you can...

With over 100 minutes of instruction, Dale Turner’s Guide to Acoustic Rock Guitar is the ultimate DVD guide for acoustic rock guitar players. This DVD covers basic and intermediate soloing, basic strumming patterns, alternate tunings, arpeggiated patterns, fingerpicking, using a capo, acoustic blues and much more. Learn the acoustic rock guitar secrets of John Mayer, Dave Matthews, Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, and more! This DVD includes a pdf file with tabs. Style Lessons include: Neil Young Dave Matthews James Taylor John Mayer Eric Clapton Lindsey Buckingham Paul McCartney Pete Townshend Doc Watson Bob Dylan More acoustic rock...

Adrian Ingram The Guitar Style of Wes Montgomery. Adrian Ingram’s detailed examination of Wes Montgomery’s unique style is a tour-de-force in the art of jazz guitar. Besides covering the more overt aspects of Montgomery’s style, such as thumb and octave techniques, important yet seldom discussed substitutional devices and soloing conceptions are also examined in detail. Rare film footage of Wes, together with Adrian’s performances of classic Montgomery tunes, like 4 on 6 and West Coast Blues, further illustrate the ideas covered in this important video lesson. Everyone with an interest in jazz guitar will find something of value here....

Learn to play guitar like all your favorite modern country stars! Learning to play your favorite songs on guitar is made easy as Cary Park teaches you the licks and riffs from your favorite country songs such as: Alan Jackson, Brooks & Dunn, Vince Gill, Faith Hill, and many more. Play along with extreme closeups played at normal and slow speeds. Includes scrolling music and guitar tabs. Session and touring guitarist. Riff by Riff, played at both normal and slow speeds. with extreme close-ups, these videos average one hour in length with fully diagrammed reference sheets. This is not...

Jon Gomm Essential Percussive Guitar Riffs. I’m proud and excited to release my first ever guitar instructional video! A huge guitar lesson with me, over 2 hours long, based around 10 riffs which I’ve specially composed to take you deep within my playing style. I use these riffs to break down modern techniques like percussion, tapping, harmonics and upside-down playing, step by step, so that you can understand them, master them, and make music with them. I will teach you not just what to learn, but how to learn it. All the secrets, revealed. 2 hours 25 minutes running...

Bob Brozman Traditional Hawaiian Steel Guitar. Get the real Hawaiian steel guitar sound! This lesson for guitarists, Dobro, lap steel and pedal steel players covers bar techniques, hand positions, scale patterns, Hawaiian tunings, vibrato, harmonic “chimes” and more. Bob stresses the importance of using palm harmonics and explains some incredible secrets for getting sounds up and down the neck. You’ll learn to play four Hawaiian classics Mai Kai No Kauai; Maui Chimes; Moana Chimes; Uhe, Uhene and grasp how this music has profoundly influenced today’s bluegrass, country, Western swing, jazz and Tex-Mex styles. If you are trying to learn...

Steve Kaufman Power Flatpicking Guitar. A masterful flatpicking technique book offering bluegrass licks, scales, basic chords, and solos in various positions up the neck in the keys of G-C-D-A-E-,B-flat and F. The companion CD features selections from throughout the book, played both slowly and at normal speed. Steve’s solo guitar is recorded on both channels with no rhythm accompaniment. This book of basic technical studies presents only a few flatpicking repertoire pieces illustrating each concept and key. Features: Fisher’s Hornpipe; Lonesome Road Blues; and The Bluegrass Boogie. Novice players will find the recording a great asset in learning this...

John Renbourn Folk, Blues And Beyond. In this lesson, John Renbourn presents a wide variety of fingerstyle arrangements from traditional ballads to country blues, from a Booker T. & the MGs rock instrumental to the church hymn Abide With Me. All receive the special touches of John’s unique playing, and are explained in detail with the help of split-screen video techniques that allow the student to clearly see and study what each hand is doing. The title captures the essence of all these players, but it is also a tribute to Davey Graham, as the title is taken from...