Expanding Your Technique-Howard Levy teaches how to play chromatically on a diatonic instrument! Harpists will learn how to accurately use bends overblows and overdraws to play a complete chromatic scale and be able to play blues classical jazz pop or Latin tunes on their basic ten-hole harmonica. Accompanying booklet includes music and diagrams. 90 minutes. Transform your diatonic harmonica playing and discover the world of chromatic harmony without having to buy or learn a new instrument as Howard Levy gives you the secrets of his remarkable technique. Levy has developed a method for diatonic (Blues) Harmonica-playing that encompasses every note in every key opening up the possibilities of the instrument into the worlds of Jazz Latin and Classical music. Learn how to use bends overdraws and overblows accurately to play a full chromatic scale. After explaining and demonstrating the principle modes Levy guides you through his own exquisite arrangements of jazz standards Autumn Leaves Sweet Georgia Brown and Rhythm Changes . You'll learn music theory exercises and invaluable techniques to help improve your playing. Howard gives advanced harpists exciting new skills and players of all levels will gain insights into the broader potential of the Harmonica.

Explorations In Minor Swing and Rockabilly Styles-Cindy Cashdollar builds your knowledge of the Dobro step-by-step teaching alternate tunings bar and picking techniques and terrific arrangements for blues minor keys and western swing tunes. A major highlight of this DVD is that each piece is slowed down with Cindy and the band providing rhythmic backup so you can practice your lead playing. Her in-depth study of minor chord shapes and licks will enable you to play Django Reinhardt's great Minor Swing and just about any tune that requires imrovisation in minor keys. She also demonstrates 'Panhandle Rag Rockabilly Blues and Faded Love'. This clear and insightful lesson will expand your range of ideas and teach youimportant music theory that will make you a more versatile all-around player.

Hans Theessink shows you his dynamic guitar techniques in this German-language DVD. Hans Theessink shows you his dynamic guitar techniques in this German-language DVD.

Here’s a great way to build up your repertoire of tunes while improving your bluegrass fiddling technique. Veteran fiddler Kenny Kosek has recorded this lesson with the intermediate player in mind and his DVD is chock-full of fantastic fiddle features including tips of bowing fingering playing licks and other tricks! Kenny is a top player and an experienced instructor. On this DVD he teaches eleven important tunes and their variations with plenty of patience and humour breaking each one down in detail. First learn the melody then get instruction on how to add ornaments and create improvised solos in a variety of styles. A music booklet with all the music from the DVD isalso enclosed. Here’s a great way to build up your repertoire of tunes while improving your bluegrass fiddling technique. Veteran fiddler Kenny Kosek has recorded this lesson with the intermediate player in mind and his DVD is chock-full of fantastic fiddle features including tips of bowing fingering playing licks and other tricks! Kenny is a top player and an experienced instructor. On this DVD he teaches eleven important tunes and their variations with plenty of patience and humour breaking each one down in detail. First learn the melody then get instruction on how to add ornaments and create improvised solos in a variety of styles. A music booklet with all the musicfrom the DVD is also enclosed.

For the past half-century the electric Guitar has been woven into the fabric of American roots music and its power and allure still make it our most popular musical instrument. The instruction on this rich compilation covers a wide range of musical applications for the electric Guitar taught by some of the top Guitar players in their respective genres. After a beginner's introduction to basic blues by Adam Traum you'll get instruction in a variety of electric Guitar techniques covering bottleneck slide (Roy Rogers) Western swing (Ray Benson) Chicago blues (Hubert Sumlin) country fingerpicking (Steve Wariner) classic rock and rockabilly (Jim Weider) modern rock(Jorma Kaukonen) and country Telecaster (Ray Flacke). These lessons derived from Homespun's DVD library will provide you with new licks tunes and musical ideas and will greatly expand your technical understanding of the instrument.

DVD One-Marcy teaches the parts of the instrument how to hold it and tune it up and nine popular songs! This excellent introduction to music covers finger coordination ear training and basic theory. Attractive on-screen graphics illustrate fingering for the five basic chords taught here. 55-MIN. - INCLUDES BOOK + PROGRESS CHART - LEVEL 1 (ages 5-10) Vol. 2 (641668) and a two-DVD set (641670) are also available. Marcy teaches the parts of the instrument how to hold it and tune it up and nine popular songs! This excellent introduction to music covers finger coordination ear training and basic theory. Attractive on-screen graphics illustrate fingering for the five basic chords taught here.

With this two-DVD set anyone can make music on the guitar - even if they have never strummed a note before! Happy Traum makes it easy with his unique step-by-step method honed by forty years of teaching experience. He provides the skills needed to play the chords strum and sing literally hundreds of songs in a wide variety of styles. TWO DVDS: 3 HOURS AND 20 MIN. · LEVEL 1 · INCLUDES CHORDS MUSIC + TAB Discover a wide range of picking and strumming techniques. Develop dexterity and learn about chord fingerings rhythms damping picking patterns... A good way to acquire a solid musical foundation on the guitar and the skills to go on to any style you like: classical blues folk jazz or rock.

Classical Guitar of the Maestro-This important tutorial covers the music and technique of Andrés Segovia perhaps the greatest classical guitarist of all time. Eliot Fisk a student and friend of Segovia's provides countless insights into the Maestro's legacy teaching transcriptions of the Bach Prelude in D Minor Canciones Populares and the haunting Estudio Sin Luz. 75 MIN. LEVEL 4 This important and comprehensive instructional DVD takes us to the heart of the music of the great Andres Segovia. Eliot Fisk a protege of Segovia's and a master of classical guitar in his own right has put together a lesson that is filled with invaluable advice on interpretation musicianship guitar technique and insights into the timeless Segovia legacy.

Here's your chance to learn from an award-winning guitarist and develop the bluegrass soloing abilities you've always dreamed of having. David Grier outlines an encyclopedic range of techniques in the flatpicking style that will truly set your solos on fire. He takes in all the elements of a hot bluegrass solo including: Slides Hammer-ons/Pull-offs rosspicking Pick-and-fingers Bends Double-stops Raking Before long you'll be digging into arrangements of well-known bluegrass standards such as Liberty and Bill Cheatham as well as a spectacular version of Nine Pound Hammer . Grier provides additional insights designedto help you realise your own abilities and achieve your guitar-playing goals. Become the best bluegrass soloist you can be with this exciting DVD tutorial.

Peter Madcat Ruth gives you a comprehensive lesson to make your Harmonica playing really groove. In simple easy-to-follow steps Ruth introduces some of the more advanced and unusual breathing patterns and percussive sounds that will bring your rhythm playing to life and add drive and swagger to you solos! Learn his own unique method of spoken syllables and fill your playing with the character and vibe of an authentic Rhythm and Blues jam. Peter Madcat Ruth gives you a comprehensive lesson to make your Harmonica playing really groove. In simple easy-to-follow steps Ruth introduces some of the more advanced and unusual breathing patterns and percussive sounds that will bring your rhythm playing to life and add drive and swagger to you solos! Learn his own unique method of spoken syllables and fill your playing with the character and vibe of an authentic Rhythm and Blues jam.

Get Started the Right Way!-This two-hour starter course takes the mystery out of fiddle playing for any new player. Fiddle champion Jim Wood shows proper posture and body alignment how to hold the fiddle and bow tune up and start fingering notes. Includes a basic scale and beginner play-along versions of: Old Joe Clark - Cripple Creek - and Cotton-Eyed Joe. LEVEL 1 - INCLUDES MUSIC - 120 MIN. This 2 hour starter course takes the mystery out of fiddle playing for any new player. Fiddle champion Jim Wood shows proper posture and body alignment how to hold the fiddle and bow tune up and start fingering notes. Includes a basic scale and beginner playalong versions of Old Joe Clark Cotton-Eyed Joe and Cripple Creek . A music file is included to view or print.

Get the most from those extra strings and discover the true potential of the 12-string guitar with this simple user-friendly guide. Powerful bass runs dynamic rhythms and beautifully harmonised melodies will be at your fingertips with Happy Traum's comprehensive tutorial. Discover alternative chord shapes fingerpicking patterns and arrangement ideas that will bring the sympathetic strings to life with rich resonances and harmonics. Happy Traum gives you an close-up view of the instrument and its celebrated players including Leadbelly and Pete Seeger. Before you know it you'll be playing a range of classic folk blues and rag solos with boogie-woogie basslines hauntingharmonies and even some dropped-D tunings.

Piedmont Style-Some of the most unforgettable popular songs in American musical history were written in the early years of the 20th century. Working through each of these classic songs will increase your Guitar knowledge and will provide hours of fun. Guitar ace Ernie Hawkins has made arrangements of four classic pop songs that are perfect for the alternate-thumb fingerpicking method known as Piedmont Style. Ernie takes each of these songs not-for-note and measure-for-measure and shows the chord shapes bass and melody lines licks and rhythms that bring each one to life. By picking these with the traditional steady bass and syncopated melody technique you'll develop a style thatwill be great for solo performances or jamming with other players. Some of the most unforgettable popular songs in American musical history were written in the early years of the 20th century. Working through each of these classic songs will increase your Guitar knowledge and will provide hours of fun. Guitar ace Ernie Hawkins has made arrangements of four classic pop songs that are perfect for the alternate-thumb fingerpicking method known as Piedmont Style. Ernie takes each of these songs not-for-note and measure-for-measure and shows the chord shapes bass and melody lines licks and rhythms that bring each one to life. By picking these with the traditional steady bass and syncopated melody technique you'll develop a style thatwill be great for solo performances or jamming with other players.

Repertoire and Technique-This DVD covers the fine art of clawhammer banjo. David Holt is considered one of the finest players and teachers of old-time clawhammer banjo. Lesson 1 covers all the fundamentals including right & left hand technique. 60-MIN DVD • INCLUDES TAB •EARLY INTERMEDIATE LEVEL. Lesson Two: 55-MIN DVD • INCLUDES TAB • INTERMEDIATE LEVEL.Beginning with the simplest of exercises internationally renowned Banjo player David Holt presentes the old-time clawhammer style. Holt covers basics such as single and double thumb rolls continous picking and many of the important nuances that characterise the Clawhammer sound. Along with tunings licks and slurs you will also learn a bunch of essential Clawhammer tunes to play.

Kelly Joe explores the fingerpicking technique that has made him one of the most sought-after performers on today's acoustic music scene. He has chosen six of his most popular pieces to demonstrate how he builds fingerpicking arrangements and improvisations to communicate his unique musical vision: Tommy · Sally Ruby · Capman Bootman · River Rat Jimmy · I Am the Light of This World · and Beggar's Oil. 95-MIN. DVD · LEVEL 3 · INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB Kelly Joe Phelps explores the fingerpicking technique that has helped make him one of the most powerful and compelling performers on today's acoustic music scene. He has chosen his most popular pieces to display fingerpicking arrangements.

This lesson is filled with the songs licks sounds and techniques that make Mississippi John Hurt's music so popular. John Sebastian and Happy Traum whose friendship goes back to the sixties had the priviledge of knowing John Hurt and hearing him play first hand. With their enthusiasm and love of his music they take apart eleven of his classic songs bringing fresh insights into the picking styles of this treasured artist.

Bluegrass star Eddie Adcock provides note-for-note arrangements of some of his best-loved pieces revealing the secrets of his lightning-fast guitar techniques. Learn how Adcock combines Travis-style fingerpicking bluegrass runs to build his amazing guitar instrumentals. He shows you how to use right-hand rolls slides pull-offs and hammer-ons alternating thumb/index finger combinations and a host of other exciting techniques to make your blugrass playing really shine.Bluegrass star Eddie Adcock provides note-for-note arrangements of some of his best-loved pieces revealing the secrets of his lightning-fast guitar techniques. Learn how Adcock combines Travis-style fingerpicking bluegrass runs to build his amazing guitar instrumentals. He shows you how to use right-hand rolls slides pull-offs and hammer-ons alternating thumb/index finger combinations and a host of other exciting techniques to make your blugrass playing really shine.

Volume One-Finally a complete method for learning jazz guitar that's clear accessible and crammed with enough information to save you months even years of searching on your own. Mike DeMicco one of America's hottest players has devised an informative insightful series on how to play jazz guitar. Mike DeMicco gives you a complete understanding of what jazz guitar is all about taking you through a wide variety of scales modes arpeggios and chord voicings then teaching you how to practice them so you can move around the fingerboard with ease.

British Guitar guru Adrian Legg guides you through some of his trademark devices that will help you look at the instrument in a new unusual and creative way. His pioneering ideas are designed to help you step away from all the pre-conceived ideas of how a guitar works and what it can do. The techniques in this tutorial will add rich textures and stunning effects to your arrangements. They include: Use of Keith-style banjo tuners Imitating the sound of the pedal steel guitar Using double string bends working with harmonised scales Using half-capos that leave some strings ringing whilst barring others Nine full instrumental piecesare used to show these ideas in context including Silent Night Auld Lang Syne and Brooklyn Blossom . Each piece is explored in depth examining the possibilities for embellishment that will transform each performance into something that is entirely your own.

On these six CDs banjo master Béla Fleck teaches bluegrass Celtic ragtime and fiddle tunes as well as his original new grass solo banjo pieces. He starts with bluegrass basics and then moves intosingle-string techniques moving bass lines counter melodies chromatics and scales in a variety of keys and tunings. Twenty tunes are taught including: East Virginia Blues Snakes Alive Reach Christina's Jig The Plain Brown Jug Kitty's Wedding Flexibility Reverie In the Pines Wildwood Flower White Freight Line Eager and Anxious Frosty Morning Salty Eighth ofJanuary Blackberry Blossom Lowdown Flapperette and more. SIX CDs INCLUDES TAB LEVEL 4Take lessons from the man who revolutionized the five-string banjo! More than twenty great banjo solos. Includes 'East Virginia Blues' 'In The Pines' and 'Snakes Alive.