Begin your dream of becoming a great blues rhythm guitarist now with Steve Trovato’s Beginning Blues Rhythm Guitar. This book and DVD kit focuses on blues rhythm guitar techniques and features both standard music notation and TAB. On the DVD, Steve Trovato guides you through every lesson and music example. Whether you are a beginning guitarist or an advanced player just getting into the blues, this book and DVD will get you playing authentic blues rhythm guitar right away. Learn over 50 blues rhythm patterns, including the medium shuffle, uptown blues, slow blues, blues-rock, mambo, and more. On the...

The string skipping technique that Danny Gill teaches are challenging enough to complement or supplement any existing skills. As advertised, there is an appropriate exercise for all levels. Also, Danny Gill goes over the rhythmic background, the chord progression and fingering – some of them not basic either! These exercises are also functional so any performer may build their own nifty creation around them. Besides building string skipping skills these very musical passages can be used for much more. These are not plain and simple finger exercises, like many other videos on picking technique have, these are actual very...

Guitar Play-Along Volume 13 The Doors DVD download. Your Instructor: Doug Boduch. The Guitar Play-Along DVD Series lets you hear and see how to play songs like never before. Just watch, listen and learn! Each song starts with a lesson from a professional guitar teacher. Then, the teacher performs the complete song along with professionally recorded backing tracks. You can choose to turn the guitar off if you want to play along or leave the guitar in the mix to hear how it should sound. You can also choose from three viewing options: fret hand with tab, wide view...

Featuring Dennis Chambers, Gary Grainger, and Jim Beard reunited with the electrifying John Scofield. John’s multi-faceted style is covered in depth as he discusses intervallic ideas, string-skipping, chordal concepts, playing ideas across the fingerboard, and developing your own personal sound. Songs include: Loud Jazz, Make Me, Pick Hits, Wabash. The DVD shows Scofield playing with a band and then him giving a lesson. The way he explains harmony, how he applies it to the guitar and how he practices it is what makes this an incredible lesson. The way he practices affects what he plays and the way his...

Getting Started on Electric Guitar offers a complete course for the beginning electric guitarist. Step-by-step lessons incorporating clear, easy-to-follow 3-D graphics and unique play-along tracks teach the viewer the essential chords, scales and techniques used by electric guitar players in every popular style, including rock, blues and country. This DVD is separated into two major sections. The First Step covers (part 1): tuning methods string names essential chords and scales used by all players-musical reference section (notes, rhythms, chords and scales) practice tips fretting-hand technique-picking-hand technique backing tracks for play-along an animated fretboard plus much more. Play Electric! covers...

Learn fast metal guitar licks in the style of Alexi Laiho renowned shredder and Children of Bodom frontman. Also includes a guitar jam track. Laiho an extremely underrated and very talented guitarist/lead singer. He is the frontman for the Finnish metal band Children of Bodom. Alexi “Wildchild” Laiho composes most of the band’s lyrics and music, and obviously, does a great job of it too. Alexi is a great axeman and his guitar solos are challenging and just awesome to listen to. He could easily be the next Zakk Wylde. Each DVD in the Quick Licks series includes an...

Thousands of blues tunes draw on the core foundation of grooves and rhythm patterns spawned during the electric blues renaissance of the 50s and 60s. Unlike other genres of music from that time, there’s nothing nostalgic about these grooves — these same grooves and rhythm patterns have been used by every generation of blues player since right up to modern times. “Authentic” is the best way to describe them and Jeff McErlain’s 30 Authentic Blues Grooves You MUST Know is the best way to learn them. For inspiration, Jeff dug deep into the music of Muddy Waters, Elmore James,...

Cornell Dupree has sat in and recorded with Harry Belafonte, Joe Cocker, Lou Rawls, Lena Horne, and Mariah Carey. He has notched credits on over 2,500 albums and is considered one of the best session men in the business. Dupree truly shows a mastery in Cornell Dupree: Mastering R&B Guitar, and it will rub off on anyone who sits down with the intent of learning. The notes should come with ease, and the techniques will seem like old hat as Dupree expounds upon the secrets of double stops, Honky Tonk, pick and finger stylings, and how to lock in...

Dire Straits is a one of the most unique and talented bands of the modern era. Mark Knopfler is one of the better guitarists of our time, and has had a huge impact on others. Dire Straits were a British rock band that formed in Deptford, London, in 1977 by Mark Knopfler, his younger brother David Knopfler, John Illsley and Pick Withers. Dire Straits’ sound drew from a variety of musical influences, including jazz, folk, and blues, and came closest to beat music within the context of rock and roll. If you like music you will enjoy this. This...

Lynyrd Skynyrd stands as one of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll bands of all time, with strong songs fuled by creative and incendiary guitar work. The triple-guitar onslaught of Allen Collins’ Gibson Firebird, Gary Rossington’s Les Paul, and Ed King’s Fender Stratt (later played by Steve Gaines) created a unique sound. The Learn to play eight classic hits by the great blues rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd, all taught to you in note-by-note detail by Greg Koch. Greg is an Excellent teacher. His lessons are both challenging and enjoyable. Probably best for a player with more experience. All in all, terrific,...