Memphis has long been a landing place for musicians from the surrounding rural areas in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi, and in the 1920s and 1930s, it was a wide open town with plenty of opportunities for musicians to perform their music and make a living. As a result of Memphis’ hub status, it developed a strong blues scene in the 1920s and 1930s, with a host of outstanding singers and players. Many of these musicians had successful careers as recording artists, but a surprisingly large number of similarly gifted musicians went unrecorded or only got the opportunity to record...

Wolf Marshall Original Gary Moore PDF. This Unique 1988 songbook contains the music of Gary Moore & his incredible songs! 70 great pages with Cool Photos. This songbook also examines & explains Moore’s style. Also provides step-by-step guide to his riff technique!! Includes transcriptions of his most celebrated solos. These rare songbooks provide you with the actual notes, arrangments and lyrics that will allow you to play these songs. IMHO one of the best tab books about Gary Moore Songs include: Don’t take me for a loser Always gonna love you End of the world Don’t let me be...

The Ultimate Beginner Series has helped thousands of aspiring musicians take their first steps towards experiencing the fun of playing music. Now, for the first time, you can complete steps 1 and 2 with one DVD. Bass Basics will teach you how to tune up quickly and accurately, how to change strings, essential right- and left-hand techniques, picking and fretting techniques, how to play with a drummer in various styles, how to create blues bass lines, beginning slap & pop funk techniques, and much more. Dale makes the material very easy to understand, and is clear in his explanations...

Kenny Sultan Guitar Blues DVD download. Kenny Sultan is one of the most highly respected blues guitarists, and blues guitar educators, in the country. Kenny’s great solo blues arrangements serve as a virtual encyclopedia of vital blues licks and patterns. On this DVD, Kenny performs and teaches six of his most popular compositions. In the special lesson sections, he walks you through the key aspects and techniques required for each arrangement, and you can select from multiple camera angles: watch the performance or see a close-up of his right or left hand. Acoustic fingerstyle blues students have once again...

Blues Guitar Arrangements in DADGAD Tuning. Create fingerstyle blues instrumentals, from Delta swamp to Piedmont bounce, and transform your guitar arrangements with new ideas and thrilling sounds! Al Petteway, one of our most musically inventive guitarists, teaches you six original tunes, each highlighting a different rhythmic and melodic feel and utilizing the unique qualities that DADGAD tuning offers. It’s Only the Blues employs a steady “dead thumb” bass with lots of slinky licks – a very swampy sound based on a Hendrix idea. Octave Jam imitates a 12-string as played by Leadbelly, using parallel octaves, plucking and snapping the...

David Garibaldi Future Sounds PDF. Future Sounds is a presentation of ideas for the drum set that is applicable to, and inspired by, contemporary music. The main objective of this work is to help the aspiring drummer in the lengthy process of becoming an individual with a unique, original drum-set vocabulary. One reason good players become great is that at some point in their development they began to focus on what they wanted to express musically instead of continuing to copy their favorite players. Ideally, through lots of playing, practicing, thinking things through, listening, exchanging ideas with others and...

Franco Morone Basic Fingerstyle PDF. This fantastic book includes a CD which has exercises and songs that will help you learn and also listen to his amazing style. Franco Morone is considered to be one of the most important guitarists on the international scene. According to the US magazine “Acoustic Guitar”, he has one of the most identifiable sounds of anyone playing fingerstyle guitar today and the Japanese “The Acoustic Guitar” magazine includes Franco amongst the thirty major world class guitarists. His releases, over the years have attracted numerous fans to the acoustic guitar and many more have started...

Arnie Berle Beginning Fingerstyle Blues Guitar PDF. Takes you from the fundamentals of fingerpicking to five authentic blues tunes. With graded exercises, illustrated tips, plus standard notation and tablature. This is a great book because it breaks down the process of learning acoustic (fingerstyle) blues step-by-step, and shows you how to play the blues in the old Mississippi-blues and other related styles. It starts off with beginner techniques such as learning how to play an alternating bass, combining the thumb with the fingers, playing chords with this thumb/finger picking pattern, maintaining a steady rhythm, playing different beats, and moves...

51 Modern Legato Licks You Must Learn download. In this course, Tom will walk you through 51 intense modern legato licks that will take you from fleet fingered amateur to fretboard wizard. It’s not an easy journey, but it will be the most rewarding one you take this year! The term “modern legato” is hardly a new term, in fact, players like Brett Garsed have been turning heads with this fresh, metronomic approach to legato for the best part of 30 years. There is no question though, that Tom Quayle is an absolute master of the technique, not just...

David Barrett – Building Harmonica Technique DVD download. Volume 1, 2, 3, 4. From the most prolific author of blues harmonica books and CD’s comes the most comprehensive DVD series ever to be released for the blues harmonica player. Much of the material in this DVD series has never been covered in any book, CD, or video instructional. These DVDs bridge the gap between what can be studied from home and what can only be learned in private lessons. With large charts, diagrams, and many playing examples… nothing is left to the imagination. David Barrett is the world’s most...