Top educator, player and performing artist, Jeff McErlain presents 50 blues guitar licks covering a broad range of crucial blues moves you MUST know! McErlain’s handpicked range of phrases, concepts and techniques takes you to the Mississippi Delta and beyond to help guide your development of the tools, techniques and vocabulary you’ll need to unleash soulful lines and take your blues guitar playing to the next level. Jeff draws from influences ranging from British royalty like Clapton, Page and Green to Texas bluesmen like SRV and the Reverend Billy G. Licks inspired by electric blues pioneers such as B.B.,...

It’s great rhythm chops that gets you the gig. It’s great rhythm chops that keeps you on stage at the jam. It’s great rhythm chops that makes or breaks you as a player. Want big love and adoration from your local community of musicians? Stop shedding those blazing licks and supercilious fretboard acrobatics and sink your teeth into these 50 Chord Tricks You MUST Know from Matt Brandt. From John Frusciante, Robben Ford, John Mayer and Eric Johnson to T-Bone Walker, The Beatles, Nile Rogers and Stevie Ray Vaughan; however diverse their styles and music may be, they all...

There is a 2nd volume of free drumless tracks. This set includes such bands (artists) as: Children Of Bodom, Clash, Dave Weckl, Deep Purple, Disturbed, Dream Theater,  Foo Fighters, Green Day and many many more. We have the biggest and the best collection of drumless music on the Internet. All drumless songs in high quality in mp3 and available for download. You can practice along with drumless backing tracks and create your own music. The 2nd volume includes almost 300 tracks in such styles as: rock, jazz, blues, metal, hard rock, punk. If you missed the 1st volume of...

Lessons from Adam Gussow from Beginners to Advanced. A lot of examples on harmonica in the key of Bb, but do not worry those who have a harmonica in a different key. Important principle of what Gussow says, not the notes, which are extracted. Even those who are not fluent in English understand what says Mr. Gussow, because he describes everything very very good, sometimes even drawing diagrams. Lessons in the format flv, once were downloaded from YouTube, approx 150 videos, plus a couple of videos about the band, which plays Adam, is also very interesting, because you can...

Mix up a bit of T Bone Walker with Mike Stern, blend some Robben Ford with Jeff Beck, fuse Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix with Eric Johnson and David Grissom, spice heavily with the likes of Muddy Waters, Allman Brothers, Michael Landau and Roy Buchanan – Voila! Eclectic blues. McErlain has dedicated the better part of his life to exploring and analyzing all styles of the blues and fortunately for we students of the blues, he’s also the consummate instructor. Author of several blues and blues-rock course, McErlain presents yet another fiery collection of tasty blues lines, rhythms, phrasings...

Fingerstyle Funk will completely overhaul your thinking of what can be played with ten fingers and six strings. With your faithful fingerstyle guru at your side, Jamsire Ernoir (aka Ernie Jackson), will teach you how to create insane grooves, layer chords over the groove, and play a melody over the top — and then play it all at the same time. Jamsire delivers more than a few jaw-droppers and knuckle-busters. Take your eyes off the video and you won’t believe it’s all coming from a single guitar. But more than that, Fingerstyle Funk will be a boon to your...

The real voodoo at work here is the relative ease and quickness with which you’ll assimilate the key learnings and techniques that Trovato presents in this study program. You’ll play your way through the entire course right from the start. No tedious theory. No boring exercises. No long drawn out technical lectures. Trovato gets you up and running without delay. In fact, you’ll have something new, fresh and majorly cool to bring to the jam or gig within 15 minutes of digging in. Steve guides you through 19 rhythm patterns and comping approaches; each immensely versatile and each featuring...

For all FastStrings’ fans! There is a 1st volume of free Drumless tracks series. You’ll not find so many high quality drumless tracks on the Internet. It’s a dream for all drummers. You can practice along with drumless backing tracks and create your own music. This set includes almost every style: Rock, Jazz, Latin, Blues, Metal, Funk and so on… You fill it, the drums are completely absent. All drumless songs in high quality and available for download. The 1st volume includes almost 300 tracks. Please do not forget to look through the list of drumless tracks previously published....

We’ve got a most excellent collection of guitar backing tracks, jam tracks, guitar minus tracks, guitar play alongs for you to download in MP3 format. Choose from our most popular selections, such as Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton and many more. The long list of guitar backing tracks will be sure to provide you with your favourite tunes and give you the opportunity to listen as you learn to play. This set includes almost every style: Rock, Jazz, Latin, Blues, Metal, Funk and so on… Specially for FastStrings.com fans. Our entire guitar backing tracks is high quality, almost...

Bass Day ’97 was a historic event organized by the Bass Collective NYC and Bass Player Magazine. Already announced as an annual affair, the inaugural Bass Day brought together world class bassists, equipment manufacturers, bass students, and bass fans from all over the globe for unforgettable, all-day show that included clinics, demonstrations, interviews and all-star jam session. Bass Day Highlights contains perfomances, instructional material, and post- clinic comments from all 6 Bass Day clinicians, as well as a behind-the-scenes look at 10 incredible hours the bass world will never forget. Included are jazz virtuoso John Patitucci on acoustic bass...