Peter Madcat Ruth Anyone Can Play Harmonica. Here’s a lesson for people of any age who want to play the harmonica. This pocket-size instrument has been a favorite for generations, and there’s no easier way to get started than this basic lesson. All you need is a 10-hole harmonica in the key of C and you’ll be playing in no time. Peter Madcat Ruth starts by showing you how to simply inhale and exhale to make sounds on the harmonica, and then turns this into a basic “train rhythm” exercise. By narrowing your lips to get single notes, you’ll...

Steve Kaufman Power Flatpicking Guitar. A masterful flatpicking technique book offering bluegrass licks, scales, basic chords, and solos in various positions up the neck in the keys of G-C-D-A-E-,B-flat and F. The companion CD features selections from throughout the book, played both slowly and at normal speed. Steve’s solo guitar is recorded on both channels with no rhythm accompaniment. This book of basic technical studies presents only a few flatpicking repertoire pieces illustrating each concept and key. Features: Fisher’s Hornpipe; Lonesome Road Blues; and The Bluegrass Boogie. Novice players will find the recording a great asset in learning this...

This DVD well-suited, the material is simple, fundamental. It’s oriented not around sheet music, but demonstration & explanation. The presenter is personable, communicates well, and introduces some fun & interesting blues piano in a way that sends us dashing constantly back to the keyboard to try things out. This is an excellent introduction to blues piano. This is a great DVD piano course, as long as you have basic music theory and basic keyboard knowledge. Mr. Cohen, having played for the sixties psychedelic band Country Joe and the Fish, imparts his deep musical knowledge in this video. If you...

Flatpicking Guitar Magazine Volume 6, Number 4 PDF + Mp3 CD. May – June 2002. Flatpicking Guitar Magazine is a bi-monthly publication dedicated to helping guitar players, from beginner to expert, increase their proficiency flatpicking the acoustic guitar. Each issue contains comprehensive instruction on flatpicking techniques as pioneered by great guitarists such as Doc Watson, Clarence White, Norman Blake, Tony Rice, and Dan Crary. Instruction, sheet music and articles cover all musical genres including bluegrass, old-time, folk, Western swing, gypsy jazz, new acoustic music, and acoustic rock. You’ll also find interviews with top performers, including tablature of their favorite...

David Santos 50 Bass Grooves You Must Know. Your groove witch doctor, David Santos guides your rite of passage expertly with 50 Bass Grooves You MUST Know. Electric bassist, touring and session musician, songwriter and producer, Santos has fired up the groove with some of the world’s most prominent superstars including Crosby Stills & Nash, Stephen Stills, John Fogerty, Billy Joel, Elton John, Phoebe Snow, The Neville Brothers, James Taylor and Jimmy Buffett. David has prepared an extraordinarily engaging learning experience for students of bass guitar. No tedious theory or boring exercises to struggle through here – you will...

Tim Quinn Fluid Soloing Book 3 Chord-Lead Soloing for Guitar PDF. It is a complete method for developing fluid double-stop chord melody. This style of playing can be heard most notably in the playing of Jimi Hendrix (in songs such as The Wind Cries Mary , Little Wing , and Castles Made of Sand ), as well in the music of the guitarists he influenced, including Steve Vai, Eric Johnson, and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Chord-lead style playing bridges the gap between straight lead and strictly rhythm, because it is simultaneously chordal (implying a specific major or minor chord) and...

David Hamburger’s New School Fingerstyle Blues. The new, funky and soulful school of fingerstyle blues guitar. Pull up a desk at the New School of Fingerstyle Blues and let David Hamburger show you the right-hand grooves and left-hand moves that will take your solo fingerstyle chops to the next level and expand your repertoire at the same time. You’ll discover the new world of fingerstyle blues and how to update traditional twelve-bar country blues and ragtime picking and keep everything funky, bluesy and soulful. New School Fingerstyle Blues introduces you to fresh new grooves, licks and chord voicings, many...

Kirk Fletcher Improvising The Blues Boxset. Master three distinctive styles of the blues and add over 100 stylish licks to your playing catalogue all within Kirk Fletcher’s Improvising the Blues: Box Set. Step up your emotive improvisation chops from 0 – 100 as Kirk Fletcher shows you the key secrets to unlocking the bluesy pathways around the fretboard. Spanning across three distinctive volumes, you’ll have no shortage of blues licks on tap. It all starts with Volume 1: Shuffle, where Kirk shows you how to both modernise and pay homage to the classic sound of the blues. Volume 2...

Music Theory for Songwriters Harmony with Julian Velard. Music theory is fundamental to making and playing music but it can be kind of dry. Music Theory for Songwriters is taught in a user-friendly and songwriting-focused way, demonstrating techniques on both keyboard and guitar, allowing songwriters to learn music theory while they learn song craft. In this installment, musician Julian Velard digs into more intermediate-level music theory topics. Starting with minor scales, he shows examples of classic songs in minor keys, and then explores the modes of the diatonic scale (e.g., the mixolydian mode). Next, Julian dives into chords with...

Bob Brozman Hot Guitar Techniques 1 From Folk to Jazz. Move beyond basic folk styles and get into the excitement of fingerstyle blues, ragtime and swing! With his dynamic picking techniques and deep understanding of traditional guitar styles, Bob Brozman provides you with the tools to explore your guitar’s rhythmic, harmonic and melodic possibilities. Bob shows you how to play exciting songs like Salty Dog Blues, Jazz’m Blues and Sister Kate. Learning these pieces will increase your knowledge of chord voicings and inversions up and down the fingerboard. As you reach automatically for the position you need, you’ll learn...