Fingerpicking Standards PDF. 17 Songs Arranged for Solo Guitar in Standard Notation & Tablature. This is a good resource for guitarists that have at least 1 to 2 years playing experience – preferably with fingerstyle technique. The arrangements are fairly simple and not too difficult to play. They’re generally played in first position with the odd excursion further up the fretboard. The arrangements in this book are carefully written for intermediate-level guitarists. Each solo combines melody and harmony in one superb fingerpicking arrangement. The book includes an easy introduction to basic fingerstyle guitar, and 17 fantastic songs. The songs...

Guitarist and Fender expert Jim Weider details the innovative and groundbreaking instrumental techniques of Roy Buchanan, James Burton, Steve Cropper, Robbie Robertson, Cornell Dupree, Freddy King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Jimi Hendrix, and provides a close-up look at some of the famous guitars and amps that made rock ‘n’ roll history! Jim amassed a mind-boggling collection of original instruments for this session. Each is linked to a specific player and style for a complete understanding of the way they were used to achieve their trademark sounds. Learn amazing licks and solos, and get a close-up look at some of...

Total Scales Techniques and Applications download. This complete course starts with a bonus beginner section to insure that any guitarist at any level can use this video. It quickly progresses to intermediate then advanced levels of playing. First begin with universal shapes found in every key of music to expertly play scales and leads on the entire fretboard. Don’t worry about memorizing these positions! Memory will come naturally when Mark John Sternal demonstrates how to use these scales musically. Tasty licks, tricks and techniques like hammer ons, pull offs, picking patterns, vibrato, string bending, two hand tapping. Plus techniques...

Play Guitar With Elvis PDF. A new Book and CD collection of six classic Presley tunes, with newly recorded professional backing tracks so you can play along! The CD contains two specially recorded backing tracks of each song. The first is a full demo with guitar, showing you how it should sound, and a backing for vocals. The second is a backing track without guitar for you to play along with on your guitar. Both versions are without vocals and have instrumental cues so you can sing along too, with or without guitar. Songs include: A Fool Such As...

Brent Robitaille Slide Guitar Collection PDF. 25 Great Tunes For Slide Guitar. There are many books that show you how to play slide with lots of `riffs` and scales but often what is required is to just play simple melodies you recognize. Playing these tunes will help you develop correct intonation and important techniques like muting. There are 7 main slide techniques that you will master and put into practice as presented in the `how to play slide` pages. The included slide exercises also help to reinforce the 7 main principles of slide playing that you will apply to...

Toby Walker Fingerpicking Hank Williams. Learn fingerpicking guitar instrumental versions of some of the most popular country songs ever written: Your Cheatin Heart, Move It On Over, My Bucket s Got a Hole In It, Hey Good Lookin ! and Honky Tonkin . The solo guitar arrangements of these timeless classics are fun to play and will build your fingerpicking skills, expand your fretboard knowledge and show you some really cool licks! You can choose how complicated you want your arrangements to get. Hank Williams tunes are simple enough for easy strumming and perfect for more advanced alternate-thumb Travis-style...

Joachim Vogel Masters of Rhythm Guitar PDF. This book and CD set presents rhythm concepts and techniques for rock, blues, soul, funk, reggae, jazz and country guitar. It includes more than 200 grooves in the styles of Scott Moore, Keith Richards, Jimi Hendrix, Steve Stevens, James Hetfield, Prince, Bob Marley and other famous guitarists. The aim of this book is to expand the player’s repertoire of authentic rhythm grooves in a number of popular styles. Using examples of playing styles of various influential guitarists, the author illustrates their characteristic sounds, playing techniques and harmonic approaches. This, combined with background...

Max Milligan Acoustic Fingerstyle Contemporary download. The Acoustic Fingerstyle series of instructional programs will teach you all the skills needed to master the acoustic style. This 3rd lesson, geared toward the intermediate player, will show how to successfully put together an arrangement of a well-known piece. Classic traditional tunes are used to demonstrate the different styles and executions used by great guitarists like Tommy Emmanuel, Merle Travis, and Chet Atkins. This program will help you become a red hot picker. Lessons include: Standard Tuning Alternate Picking Exercise House of the Rising Sun I & II And More! See also:...

Up Close is a 2 hour personal lesson with Tommy. He explains in detail, his amazing harmonic technique. Shows you step-by-step how to play fingerstyles. There are rare insights into some of his more complicated arrangements and featured throughout the video and Up Close detailed and “slowed down” demonstrations and performances of many of Tommy’s songs. Tommy Emmanuel, if you hadn’t heard, is a spectacular acoustic guitarist. In this video he explains in split screens and fast and slow speeds his technique for playing several of his songs. This DVD succeeds on two levels: the playing is pure Emmanuel –...

Pete Wernick Make Up Your Own Banjo Solos Volume 2 download. An accomplished banjo player should be able to step out and take a solo in a wide variety of keys, even without the use of a capo. Many learning pickers are challenged by this concept, but master teacher Pete Wernick breaks it down in a way that makes it easy. You ll learn how to create solos in the keys of D, C, F, and up the neck in G. Pete explores nine bluegrass standards, showing first how to find each song s melody notes, then how to...