Berklee Instant Keyboard: Play Right Now! (Berklee Methods). This cool new keyboard method will have students of all ages jammin’ right away! It features simple lessons to get you playing instantly, tips on playing and locking in with a bass player and rhythm section, and strategies to help you understand the keyboard and develop your own keyboard parts. Jam with the band in a variety of musical styles including rock, blues, country and funk on the accompanying CD. Features include: Simple lessons to get you playing instantly Play-along CD so you can listen and jam Chords you’ll use in...

This study program is straightforward and very effective. Work through each of the three courses sequentially: Fingerstyle Blues Guitar I, Fingerstyle Blues Guitar II and then Acoustic Slide Guitar. Take on one chapter at a time for at least an hour a day. You’ll quickly learn to master the tunings, fingerpicking styles and techniques of fingerstyle blues and acoustic slide guitar. Along the way, you’ll add a set’s worth of solo fingerstyle tunes to perk up your repertoire. But here’s the trick – give your regular play list a break and keep the five audio CDs cranked and playing...

Jam with Carlos Santana PDF. Carlos Santana’s instantly recognizable guitar style brought the rhythms of Afro-Cuban music to generations of people who might otherwise never have heard them. His soulful playing has inspired guitarists the world over for the last three decades, and continues to do so today. The combination of musical notation and guitar tabulature in this book together with backing tracks on the CD gives you the opportunity to learn eight of Carlos’ tracks note-for-note and them jam with a professional session band. The track listing reflects some of Santana’s most popular recordings, providing something for guitarists...

Quick Licks Rumba Blues Style Albert King DVD download. Learn blues licks for guitar in the style of Albert King one of the original three kings of blues guitar and inspiration to Clapton, Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Gary Moore. Also includes a guitar jam track. Lessons by Steve Trovato. Each Quick Licks DVD includes an arsenal of licks in the style of your chosen artist to add to your repertoire plus backing tracks to practice your new licks and techniques. Steve is an excellent teacher, and he makes learning each lick simple. This is basically a country blues...

The Acoustic Fingerstyle series of instructional programs will teach you all the skills needed to master the acoustic style. This first lesson, geared towards those beginning their study of this guitar style, will show how to take a handful of basic chords and turn them into the fingerpicking patterns of FOLK and AMERICANA. Common chord patterns are brought to life with chord extensions and the use of open string voicings. An ideal starter lesson if you are wishing to immerse yourself in the music of players like Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez throughout to James Taylor and John...

David Overthrow 30-Day Bass Workout download DVD. This enjoyable and challenging exercise routine will prepare you for the rigors of contemporary bass playing and sharpen your technique. The strategy focuses on warm-ups and stretching, exercises for strength, agility and stamina, and specific techniques such as hammer-ons and pull-offs. Jam-packed with tried-and-true “bassrobic” exercises, this book will build your technique, no matter what style of music you play. Don’t let another day go by without making this a perfect new addition to your bass library. This is a good workout and exercise for bass players of all levels. It doesn’t...

Richard Van Bergen’s 50 Down Home Blues Licks You MUST Know is an impeccable collection of authentic, timeless licks respectfully inspired from the bonafide masters of the blues. It’s also a veritable music history course in swamp pop, boogie-woogie, rhythm & blues and early Chicago blues. Richard guides you through the fretboard dialects of blues artists who pioneered the evolution of pre-war country blues in swampy Louisiana to the electric blues explosion that followed in the smoky blues clubs of Chicago, Houston and Detroit. You’ll recognize many of the artists that Richard pays homage to in this collection; Albert...

Written & presented by Mel Reeves this programme demonstrates the various techniques required to play fingerstyle blues suc h as monotonic & alternating bass slides hammer-ons pull-offs shuffles & fills. There are also five instrumentals to lear n each based on a different style of blues including ragtime West Coast & bottleneck. Each piece is played at performance speed & then broken down into individual sections providing clear yet detailed explanations of exactly what is happening. This is a great instructional dvd on blues playing on the acoustic guitar. It takes a look at techniques and style points that...

Guitar Method Easy Pop Rhythms PDF. The book is easy to follow and filled with the chords and the fingerings for the chords. It has great songs that you can pull up and play along with on the internet. Strum along with your favorite hits from the Beatles, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Nirvana and More! The songs are presented in order of difficulty, beginning with simple two- and three-chord songs and ending with songs that contain four and five chords. The accompanying CD features every song recorded by a full band, so you can hear how each song sounds...

Unlock the secrets of blues guitar! Ace session guitarist Mat Gurman teaches budding bluesmasters 50 terrific phrases, demonstrating licks for dominant and minor blues progressions, turnarounds, intro licks, ending licks, stop time licks and many more. He also shows players the classic techniques used in blues guitar, such as: bends, pull-offs, hammer-ons, slides, slurs, vibrato, muted string raking and more! Each lick is played in context, then demonstrated slowly with full explanations of every technique used. At the outset it should be said that these DVD’s are not for beginners, sorry but that’s just the facts. This isn’t to...