Steve Kaufman’s comprehensive three-DVD course in bluegrass flatpicking takes you from “Picking 101” through advanced techniques that will enable you to hold your own in any band or jam session. On DVD #1, From the Beginning, you’ll learn a variety of essential flatpicking skills: proper pick grip, down-up strokes, rhythmic strumming and song accompaniment. Only a few minutes into the first lesson you’ll be starting to pick easy versions of well-known fiddle tunes. By DVD #2, Building Bluegrass Technique, you’ll have built a “runs vocabulary” and learned to crosspick, move up the neck, play bass runs and construct hot...

Tommy Emmanuel Certified Gems. Multi-angle interactive video instruction accelerates the learning experience with looping, syncing, zooming, keyboard shortcuts and other handy controls. Viewing angles include wide, right-hand, front of left-hand, back of left hand, and a tri-view showing three angles simultaneously. Video angles can be switched easily during playback for optimal viewing of left and right hands at any point in the performances or breakdowns. Any section of a video can also be looped continuously for study and play-along. This interactive video course features two hours of multi-angle video guitar lessons for full performance versions of Mr. Guitar, Classical...

Ultimate Easy Guitar Play-Along John Lennon: Eight Songs Spanning His Solo Career. Easy Guitar Tab, PDF Book & DVD. In the wake of The Beatles’ dissolution, John Lennon launched into a period of self-examination and exploration that produced some of his most personal and emotional work. From the turmoil and revelation of albums John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine to the celebration of marital and domestic bliss on Double Fantasy, John covered decidedly more adult themes in his later output. With this video, you will learn the guitar parts to eight songs from John Lennon’s solo period. To make...

Tom Feldmann The Guitar Of Charlie Patton. In this double DVD lesson, Tom Feldmann gives you a detailed look at 18 of Patton’s most celebrated tunes. Making this the definitive Charlie Patton lesson. DVD One is dedicated to songs in standard tuning, covering C, E, A and F positions. You’ll learn Patton’s relaxed right hand strum, top tapping technique, and of course his signature licks as you work through songs like, Down The Dirt Road Blues and Pony Blues. DVD Two focuses in Patton’s bottleneck slide and non slide numbers in Spanish (Open G) and Vestapol (Open D) turnings....

Hans Theessink Hooked on the Blues DVD download. Soulful songs and powerful techniques from a master bluesman. Blues fans and players worldwide have embraced the haunting, soulful sounds of the Mississippi Delta. Hans Theessink, a masterful player, singer and performer, teaches the powerful Guitar styles that he learned first-hand from traditional players in the American south. Hans’ passion for the blues is clear as he details the tunings, chord shapes, bass runs, fingerpicking style, slide technique and percussive strokes that form the core of every good blues player’s repertoire. He plays, sings and analyzes seven favourite classics and originals:...

Learn To Play The Beatles To A Tee Volume 1 download. If you’ve got to do is watch and listen to learn how to play 16 of the Fab Four’s most sought after compositions on guitar! Not only does video host Rob Taylor capture impeccably accurate guitar-only renditions of each song, but also ensures that every element of each song is included. This enables the viewer to learn all songs in their entirety! This DVD also exclusively features a spectacular and innovative form of presentation that you just simply won’t find anywhere else! A split-screen effect that shows up...

Stefan Grossman Bottleneck Blues Guitar. This 82 minute dvd is a MUST for anyone interested in bottleneck blues guitar. It is a complete survey of country blues bottleneck styles and techniques featuring rare footage of Son House, Fred McDowell, Mance Lipscomb and Bukka White. Left hand playing techniques are discussed as well as choice of bottleneck/slide. Playing in Open G (Spanish) and Open D (Vestapol) tunings are explored. Stefan Grossman has been devoted to blues guitar in every form since the early sixties and has probably delved more deeply into the form than just about anybody on the planet....

Romane La Guitare Jazz Manouche download. Unitonic scales , diminished arpeggios, minor and major triads, improvised bi-tonal phrasing phrasing, chromatic scales “rolls”, voicings on standard harmonic progressions, diatonic substitutions, “manouche pompe” pick “sweeping,” “rolls” etc. In this DVD youll discover very precious technical and aesthetic information directly inherited from the Gypsy Master, Django Reinhardt. Gammes unitoniques et arpèges diminués en escalier, triades majeures et mineures, phrases d’improvisation bitonales, roulé de gamme chromatique, voicings sur les progressions harmoniques standards, substitutions diatoniques et tritoniques, enrichissements d’accords, accompagnement manouche et syncopé, technique du sweeping, roulement de médiator, etc. Vous découvrirez ainsi dans...

Juan Martin La Guitarra Flamenca. Juan Martin explains and demonstrates the essential techniques and rhythmic forms of Flamenco guitar playing in six progressive lessons, designed for all players from beginning to advanced. The lessons show you in detail many varieties of the basic rhythms which form the foundation of flamenco guitar styles. They also give a wealth of traditional and modern flamenco solos, accurately transcribed into music notation and easy-to-follow ‘cifra’ tabulature, all presented in a video series of six lessons. In this way you lear not only how to play but also what to play, as the lessons...

The philosophy behind these warmups is both to avoid injuries and create a flexible and plastic “hand base” from which to operate. Some players mistakenly believe that lots of scale playing somehow magically creates a great technique, whereas this can actually create a locked-up musculature, sports-like injuries and a mechanical style. Effective training is more subtle… stressing on/off periods, playing ideas versus scales, and emphasizing relaxation versus strength as the goal. Ask any player who can shred what they value in their technique more… strength or a relaxed hand and the correct position, and you will learn to value...