John Renbourn Medieval & Renaissance Music For Fingerstyle Guitar. For some time now, I have periodically made transcriptions of early pieces mainly for my own enjoyment. My interest in early music runs parallel to my interest in Western folk music. It was, and still is, intriguing to consider the characteristics that are common to both. I discovered that even whole pieces, thought to exist in manuscript only, occasionally cropped up remarkably intact in current folk playing, and instruments long assumed silent were found to be still sounding in remote areas of Europe. I began by taking a medieval dance...

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...

Dom Flemons Before the Blues. Early American fingerstyle guitar. “This DVD is an instructional tool for people who are interesting in finding different ways to approach American vernacular guitar. I have found in my studies of early country blues guitar that many of the styles of fingerpicking and strumming used by the early songsters incorporated parts of the banjo techniques used in old-time music. As the guitar became popular in the black communities of the South, there was a time when the two instruments freely interchanged ideas. I spent long hours practicing and learning the styles from various players...

Dix Bruce – Basic Country Flatpicking Guitar. Dix Bruce carefully teaches lead and backup guitar to nine great and classic country, bluegrass, and folk standards, ballads and hot breakdowns played by musicians the world over. Dix demonstrates the basic “bass note/strum” technique and shows how melodies can be easily integrated into known chord patterns. You’ll first learn leads on the country classics Worried Man Blues; Lonesome Valley; Storms are on the Ocean; and Handsome Molly in a variety of different keys. You’ll also learn the all-time guitar hit Wildwood Flower and how to transpose it from the key of...

With a Jazz-Rock sound that is highly unique and widely appreciated, Steely Dan are one of the few bands to enjoy great commercial success with a brand of music that is anything but. Their style attracts listeners of all genres and is heralded by musicians of all backgrounds. One of the biggest indicators of their success has been their staying power as evidenced by the grammy they won almost thirty years since their debut. SongXpress is the fastest and easiest way to learn your favorite songs on guitar. It’s like having a good friend teach you in the comfort...

John Carlini graduated from the Berklee School of Music, was the Musical Director for the “Ice Capades”, the guitarist for the road company of “Grease” and has played Bluegrass with his friends Tex Logan, Bill Keith, David Grisman & Tony Rice for many years. Travel through musical time with John Carlini and learn about such diverse topics as “Time and the Metronome”, “the Mighty Tritone”, “the John Coltrane/Bill Monroe connection”, “Bach and the Acoustic Guitar”, and other exciting concepts all designed to help improve your own technique and musicianship! John’s teaching technique is “one of a kind”. There is...

Learn essential Classical Guitar techniques with Danny Gill. This superb Classical Guitar tutorial is designed for the beginner to intermediate player looking to develop their finger style Guitar techniques from basic ideas to more challenging pieces. Not only will you develop your finger independence through a variety of practical exercises, you will also learn such classical favourites as Greensleeves and Bach’s Bouree In E Minor. A must for anyone interested in solo Guitar!     Language: English Year: 2008 Country: UK Running time: 1 hour Quality: DVD5 Video: MPEG2 PAL 4:3 (720×576) VBR Audio: English (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)...

If you are interested in learning, Electric, Acoustic, Jazz, Rock, Blues, Punk, Metal, you are in the right place. We provide video guitar lessons so you can learn songs from all your favorite bands. We teach, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Eric Clapton, Green Day, The Beatles, Aerosmith, The Rolling Stones, Jack Johnson, Metallica, Nirvana, King of Leon and much much MORE! Here you can download for free all 45 lessons. Anyway Ben Lowrey will teach you guitar. All lessons include original PDF with tabs and chords. You could see preview of lesson below:     Archive of files includes...