Greg Koch Guitar Gristle. A feast for the fingers served up by the master of guitar histrionics! The inimitable Greg Koch discusses and demonstrates his twisted but tasty take on the guitar in gory detail. Greg Koch’s virtuosity, sense of humor, and articulate nature have led to a successful career as a band leader, studio musician, author, clinician, and recording artist with Steve Vai’s Favored Nations label. A multiple award-winning string manipulator, he divides his time between international clinic tours, writing, recording and performing in Greg Koch and the Tone Controls (featured on this DVD). The menu includes full-band...

Dave Hunter Play Acoustic PDF. The Complete Guide to Mastering Acoustic Guitar Styles. Play Acoustic tells the people how to play “the instrument of the people.” This detailed and beautifully illustrated book explores the history of the acoustic guitar, from the jazz age to the folk revolutions of the early 1960s and late 1990s to the current rebirth of bluegrass and the singer-songwriter boom of the past decade. It teaches readers the techniques of 11 playing styles, using exercises suitable to novice players and working up to full pieces and advanced techniques. The accompanying CD offers examples of the...

Kenneth ‘Bam’ Alexander Hear and Play Drums 101 DVD download. Kenneth ‘Bam’ Alexander has played for just about everyone in the industry. He’s toured with a countless number of artists in all genres and leads workshops locally in his community. He’s been playing drums for over 20 years… since the tender age of 2 and has certainly been through the “school of hard knocks.” Bam knows both worlds – how to read sheet music and most importantly, how to play by ear. Learn, from start to finish, everything you need to know to play drums like a professional. Learn...

John Miller Jackson Blues Guitar. Jackson, Mississippi attracted a host of blues musicians in the period 1910 -1940. Many players from small towns made their way to Jackson, which as the capital of Mississippi and a much larger city, held forth the promise of more and better work opportunities, and the possibility of making a living playing music rather than driving a mule or chopping cotton. The Jackson Blues scene was an unusually rich one, stylistically, spanning the gap from the sophisticated Pop blues of Bo Carter to the low-down blues of Rube Lacy and a host of players...

Peter Fischer Blues Guitar Rules PDF. An in-depth look at the practical and theoretical concepts of traditional and modern blues guitar, covering all the important technical, rhythm and improvisational ideas. The book is divided into three stages: easy blues, blues & blues rock styles, and jazz blues. Stage 1 describes the development and basis of blues guitar, and is particularly appropriate for beginners. Stage 2 goes off more in the rock direction and gives the reader an insight into the concepts and licks of several influential guitarists including Clapton, Hendrix, Robben Ford, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Gary Moore, and others....

Larry McCabe Famous Blues Bass Lines PDF. Blues music is a sturdy, adaptable music that reflects many shades of emotions and lends itself to numerous stylistic interpretations. This 5 1/2″ by 8″ QWIKGUIDE is designed to help the bassist become more versatile. Each blues bass pattern in this book is played over four bars of C7. By practicing all 50 licks over the same chord progression, students can learn the basic concept of improvisation: how to play a variety of musical phrases over the same chord or chord changes. Each example is written in both notation and tablature exactly...

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...

Shane Theriot’s Rhythm Mojo. Techniques, patterns & fills for blues, soul & funk rhythm guitar. Shane’s played with everyone from the Neville Brothers to Boz Scaggs to Dr. John to Jewel to Little Feat and the list goes on and on. While he’s a phenom lead player, it’s his rhythm chops that keep the phone ringing off the hook. You’d be hard-pressed to find a better rhythm player walking the planet today. How he found the time to prep and record Rhythm Mojo, we don’t know but we’re thanking our lucky stars he did, and you’ll be thanking yours...

Cliff Douse Absolute Beginners Guitar Scales PDF. The latest addition to the best-selling Absolute Beginners series. Teachers the theory behind scales and how they are formed. Shows how to use scales in solos and when playing lead guitar. A comprehensive reference to all the most useful scales. Fully illustrated with diagrams and photos, easy-to-follow format and explanatory text. The accompanying CD demonstrates the scales and solo examples. Includes an ‘owners manual’ approach to the guitar making learning even easier. Especially for beginners it is a perfect book to learn from and understand how scales are formed and how to...

Stefan Grossman Novelty Guitar Instrumentals PDF. An enhanced CD featuring solo and duet guitar arrangements of old jazz, classic rags, blues and original compositions played by some of the finest fingerstyle guitarists. A 70 page tab/music PDF booklet is included on the CD. If you haven’t ever heard this type of music before, it might open up a whole new world to you. A guitarists dream! The audio quality is as good as could be expected, based on when and how the guitar sessions were recorded (it’s still quite good, but varies because the tracks were recorded all over...