Eltjo Haselhoff How to play Fingerstyle Guitar. Fingerstyle is a wonderful guitar technique, because it allows you to play full-fledged music, with a melody, chords and a bassline, all by yourself! Moreover, with fingerstyle you can play any kind of music, from classical music to hardrock and everything in between. In this highly acclaimed instruction DVD, Dutch fingerstyle maestro Eltjo Haselhoff presents a structured step-by-step approach to give you a flying start in the exciting world of fingerstyle guitar. Unlike many other instruction DVDs, this course als pays a lot of attention to teaching the right approach for efficient...

Acoustic Rock Guitar Signature Licks DVD download. Internationally acknowledged guitarist and instructor Doug Boduch offers a step-by-step breakdown of eight acoustic rock classics featuring some of rock’s greatest guitar moments. Learn the tricks, riffs, techniques and styles that make these eight songs some of the most instantly recognizable and best-loved anthems ever recorded, with painstaking explanations and detailed discussions to help you get them mastered. Includes such legendary classics as:   Before You Accuse Me (Take a Look at Yourself) by Eric Clapton Crazy On You by Heart Drive by Incubus Dust In The Wind by Kansas Iris by...

Paul Baloche Acoustic Guitar DVD download free. Since 1995, Paul Baloche’s instructional videos have empowered thousands of guitarists to play the more challenging music styles of today. This all new 2-1/2 hour DVD is jam-packed with up close and personal instruction on acoustic guitar essentials including: the open chord concept, finger picking techniques, right and left hand damping, using your capo to play in all keys, walkdowns in all keys, alternate voicings for common chords, modern chord progressions, improving your timing and feel, progressive barre chord voicings, effective strumming patterns and techniques, and more. Mastering the concepts and techniques...

The Music of Bessie Smith by Fred Sokolow DVD. In the 1920s and 30s, Bessie Smith was the empress of the blues. Her passionate singing and performing style and her songwriting influenced all the blues and jazz singers that followed. Many of the songs she popularized, both blues and tin pan alley tunes, have become standards in blues, jazz, rock and pop music. Songs in this collection have been recorded by artists as diverse as Eric Clapton, Leadbelly, Billie Holiday, Chet Atkins, Bing Crosby, David Lee Roth, Big Bill Broonzy, B. B. King and Sam Cooke. They’re great tunes...

Ben Bolt Anyone Can Play Classic Guitar download. In this DVD, you will learn from one of America’s foremost classic guitar teachers. Ben Bolt demonstrates his principles for judging distance, point of reference, right- and left-hand positions, and the correct sitting posture. An easy-to-understand and technically correct introduction to classic guitar performance. Ben Bolt was playing lead guitar in rock bands at the age of 12 and performed professionally at 16 in Miami. After high school, Ben left his band to study classical guitar in Spain. At the age of 19, he studied with Andres Segovia in Madrid. Andres...

Joe Dalton’s Acoustic Blues Handbook. Every guitar player experiences a major turning point early on in their education. After the requisite, and often times, frustrating period of getting comfortable holding the instrument, learning a few chords and single note lines, players suddenly find themselves making real music. And it’s at that exact moment in time that we fall head over heels in love with the guitar. More often than not, that magical moment is triggered by another, more advanced player passing on a few tricks, licks and fingerpicks that are ridiculously easy to learn yet sound like a million...

Artie Traum Easy Guitar Chords and Progressions download. By moving one finger to a different fret, a familiar chord takes on a whole new quality! Move a chord shape to a different position on the neck and you have a rich, advanced-sounding progression! Welcome to Artie Traum’s lesson in how to use chords to enhance basic folk, country, blues and rock songs. Artie has designed the perfect lesson for anyone who’s looking for ways to make guitar accompaniments come alive. He focuses on the basic chord shapes you probably use all the time (D, G, E and C) and...

John Hammond Learn To Play Blues Guitar & Harmonica. Legendary blues musician John Hammond distills forty years of experience in this remarkable exploration of his guitar, harmonica and vocal techniques. He sings, plays and breaks down a variety of songs and instrumentals, sharing his blues wisdom with aspiring players and enthusiasts. Includes music and tab. Hammond’s passion and commitment to his music have inspired blues lovers throughout the world for more than forty years. Now guitarists (and harmonica players) can learn, up close, how John plays the songs, licks, grooves and soulful solos that make up his dynamic blues...

Martin Simpson Making Connections in Open Tunings DVD download. Martin explores relationships between traditional open (major and minor) tunings and more modern open tunings in this fun, accessible master class. In this lesson, Martin looks at various tunings he uses as part of his signature sound and compares them in relation to each other and to standard tuning. He demonstrates commonly used chord forms that work in standard and open tunings. Martin’s take on Open Tunings and how they work is an absolute must for any guitar player! Martin also touches on some of his unique right and left...

Sal Salvador Jazz Chording and Comping download. Throughout this informative and jam-packed tape, Sal teaches you jazz chord forms and substitutions, flat 5 substitutions, playing behind a soloist as well as a vocalist in a duet setting, II-V-I progressions, altering chords as they lead to a minor chord, I-VI-II-V progressions in major and minor, the ‘Charleston’ beat, comping, soloing over major and minor I-IV-II-V progressions and much more. Many of the examples are illustrated with Sal’s band, including some terrific jazz vocals. Sal Salvador was a capable soloist and accompanist whose single-string style, shaped by his early interest in...