Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar According to Tony McManus. Tony McManus is an adept master of Celtic fingerstyle guitar, both in terms of adapting Celtic music to the guitar and in its performance – presenting all it intricacies, graces, and frills yet at the same time maintaining the pace and drive which characterises this style of music. Volume 1. In this first lesson, Tony discusses in detail the importance of ornamentations and triplets in Celtic music, and importantly, how this can be technically achieved. Scales and fingerings and playing in the DADGAD tuning are discussed and then illustrated with several melodies...

Jazz Manouche In the style of Stochelo Rosenberg download. In 1989, The Rosenberg Trio released “Seresta”, a ground breaking album which served notice to the world that a new master of the jazz manouche guitar style had arrived. By mixing the music of Django Reinhardt with bebop, traditional gypsy waltzes, Latin jazz and many other influences, Stochelo and his band mates created a uniquely personal style of jazz manouche. Over the years, Stochelo has refined his technique to a highly efficient level. His speed is breath-taking to behold. Notes explode from his guitar. His ability to articulate notes cleanly...

James Alan Shelton Clinch Mountain Guitar download free. Ralph Stanley’s current and former guitarists in a program of Clinch Mtn. Boys classics, with a particular emphasis on crosspicking and how to apply it to tunes, song accompaniments, turnarounds and more. The boys play “Banks of the Ohio,” “Cannonball Blues,” “Tom’s Creek,” “Road to Coeburn” and more – all the music is transcribed to note/tab in the accompanying book. In this one-hour instructional DVD James Alan Shelton and George Shuffler demonstrate and teach the guitar techniques that helped change the role of the guitar in bluegrass music. The music of...

Al Petteway Celtic Instrumentals For Fingerstyle Guitar #2 Alternate Tunings. Al Petteway continues his excellent lesson with five beautiful and evocative guitar instrumentals in the Celtic style. This time, he covers songs and effects that can be attained through a variety of tunings, including standard, dropped-D, open G and low C. Al shows you how to create your own arrangements by finding the melody within the chord structure, then fleshing it out with pipe-like drone notes, chord substitutions, moving bass lines, the rhythmic “Scottish Snap” and other Celtic-sounding elements. Embellishment techniques right hand rolls, hammers, pull-offs, etc help you...

The Guitar Of Brian Setzer DVD download free. Learn the hot licks of the rockabilly and retro-swing icon from the man himself! Here’s your chance to get a one-on-one lesson with Brian Setzer of Stray Cats! Brian shows you a whole range of rockabilly, blues, jazz, and country licks and tricks including wild string-bending techniques, slap-echo effects, jazz and swing guitar styles and some really hot solos that he breaks right down for you. Brian makes learning fun, so you’ll really enjoy this session! This is well-suited for the intermediate skill-level guitarist.     Language: English Year: 2006 Country:...

This set includes all 4 volumes: Minor Swing, Limehouse Blues, Gypsy Bossa, I can’t give you anything but Love. Gypsy Jazz Duets came together under an unusual and somewhat improvised set of circumstances. Yet, in the true spirit of “gypsy jazz,” those improvisations gave birth to an extraordinary learning experience for any jazz guitarist, particularly for those with a passion for gypsy jazz guitar. Radar screen started beeping loudly when it picked up that two of our favorite jazz players, Andreas Oberg and Frank Vignola would be within a hundred miles of our studios within just a few weeks....

Edgar Cruz Arranging for Solo Guitar The Queen Titles download free. This award-winning DVD showcases Edgar Cruz’s notorious solo guitar arrangement of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody. Also includes solo fingerstyle renditions of We Are The Champions, Killer Queen and Crazy Little Thing Called Love which are performed and then taught in great detail. Edgar demonstrates the process he uses to distill the essence of these rock classics with all of their familiar harmonies and orchestrations onto a single guitar. He covers all the techniques necessary to execute the difficult passages, and simplified variations are presented to make the arrangements accessible...

John Miller Country Blues Musicianship. In this 2-DVD lesson, master musician and teacher John Miller provides you with a thorough background in the musical language of the Blues, providing you with the tools that, with work and practice, will enable you to be a more complete musician – one who is able to: Recognize the form and know the progression after playing through it once or twice; Join in at jam sessions; Provide chordal accompaniment and “play time”, and Know where to play fills without clashing with the vocal. On Disc 1, John starts out explaining the I, IV...

Learn to Play Eric Clapton Acoustic Songs DVD download. In 1992, Eric Clapton performed a live concert in front of a small audience in the UK for the MTV Unplugged series. Featuring reworkings of many of Clapton’s most popular tracks and a collection of standard Blues songs, it was eventually released as the ‘Eric Clapton: Unplugged’ album which reached number one across the world and earned Clapton six Grammy awards. Featuring four songs from that concert and Clapton’s huge hit ‘Change The World’, Danny Gill teaches you how to play these songs and breaks down Eric’s incredible acoustic Blues...

Bob Brozman Learn To Play Bottleneck Blues Guitar Volume 1. This DVD, along with volumes 2 & 3, are hands down the best available if you want to play authentic pre-war style blues slide guitar. Bob Brozman is an extraordinary player with an encyclopedic knowledge of the music. Bob’s incredible chops are vividly documented not only on this DVD but in the 26 recordings he has released since his first in 1981. Beyond the music, Bob is acknowledged as the world’s foremost authority on National guitars. His 1993 book, The History and Artistry of National Resonator Instruments, is the...