If you're trying to improve your lead guitar playing by studying scales that's only half the picture. The best lead guitarists in rock jazz country bluegrass and R and B base much of their improvisation and soloing on chords -even when they're playing single-note solos. In this one and a half hour lesson Fred Sokolow shows you several chord-based approaches to soloing and backup. Covering several musical genres Fred teaches you to: Play arpeggios country licks and fast flatpicking solos in country/bluegrass tunes like Jambalaya and Wreck of the Old 97. Solo and backup R&B songs like People Get Ready and Just My Imagination in the colorful styleJimi Hendrix used on Little Wing. Play Steve Cropper-style licks on Dock of the Bay and Under the Boardwalk. Improvise Django-style solos on swing tunes like Avalon. You'll also learn some music theory and get abetter understanding of the guitar as Fred shows you ways to instantly find chords up and down the fretboard and connect them in chord families. Lots of Fred's solos are written out in the accompanying tab/music booklet and ifyou put the DVD in your computer you can access a PDF file and print it all out in a larger size. Fred's relaxed style of teaching makes it easy for you to add new licks new color and new strategies to your lead guitarplaying.

Using the very best classic Blues tunes and standards Fred Sokolow gives a complete guide to the muddy Mississippi sound of the slide guitar. Discover the licks and techniques of Blues pioneers such as Elmore James Muddy Watersand Son House as you get your hands and ears around the techniques and heritage of bottleneck guitar playing. With Sokolow's step-by-step tutorial you will learn Solos backup lines turnarounds and fills The threetunings of open G open D and standard How to play slide in any key How to improvise with the slide Sokolow's playing is easy to follow with close-up screen shots of both hands. The techniques are then given acontext in the form of some wonderful Blues standards to learn that include The Sky Is Cryin' Further On Up The Road One Way Out and Sittin' On op Of The World .

Get you fingers around five exciting and challenging Jazz solos all lovingly arranged for the fingerstyle guitar. John Renbourn adds his unique spin on a set of compositions by Randy Weston Chico Hamilton and Dollar Brand creating captivating instrumentals that will expand your skills of self-accompaniment and provide five fine Jazz arrangements for your solo repertoire. The disc includes a 48-page PDF booklet.

In this lesson Pat teaches five of his original tunes. Besides being great songs the arrangements offer the guitarist a panorama of techniques and styles. From the syncopated stumbling bass of Blind Blake to the sophisticatedcountry alternating bass of Chet Atkins. From a swing jazz accompaniment to a blues with echoes of the Irish Washerwoman! There's lots of enjoyable and challenging guitar ideas that Pat explains and teaches phrase byphrase followed by the arrangement played slowly on a split screen so that you can carefully study both his left and right hands. A detailed PDF tab/music booklet of the arrangements can be found on the DVD.

This second lesson in Duck Baker's Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar series focuses on Bop to Modern jazz compositions. Duck Baker's understanding of the jazz tradition and improvisation makes this lesson especially challenging informative and exciting. A detailed 24 page tab/music PDF booklet is included.

In these three audio lessons Duck Baker Stefan Grossman and John Renbourn teach six Celtic fingerstyle guitar solos. The three compact discs offer three full hours of note-by-note phrase-by-phrase instruction and all of the arrangements appear in the book in notation and tablature. Lesson One by Duck Baker teaches Planxty Irwin in Drop D tuning and Hewlett in standard tuning. Lesson Two by Stefan Grossman introduces Open G minor tuning for Logan Water and Captain Magan. Lesson Three by John Renbourn continues G minor tuning with arrangements of Mist Covered Mountains and The Orphan. This lesson concludes with five bonus tracks featuring performances by Davey Graham andDave Evans. In these three audio lessons Duck Baker Stefan Grossman and John Renbourn teach six Celtic fingerstyle guitar solos. The three compact discs offer three full hours of note-by-note phrase-by-phrase instruction and all of the arrangements appear in the book in notation and tablature. Lesson One by Duck Baker teaches Planxty Irwin in Drop D tuning and Hewlett in standard tuning. Lesson Two by Stefan Grossman introduces Open G minor tuning for Logan Water and Captain Magan. Lesson Three by John Renbourn continues G minor tuning with arrangements of Mist Covered Mountains and The Orphan. This lesson concludes with five bonus tracks featuring performances by Davey Graham andDave Evans.

The style of Jerry Reed is a unique blend of syncopated rhythms banjo-style rolls and brilliant chord voicings that brings a whole new dimension to fingerstyle guitar. Walking bass-lines chromatic runs double stops andcounterpoint melodies are seamlessly joined by Jerry's unique 'claw' style right-hand technique whcih is essential to getting his sound. In this lesson Buster B. Jones teaches you all the neccesary elements to play like JerryReed. A detailed 44 page tab/music booklet is included. Featuring Reedology The Claw Jiffy Jam Jerry's Breakdown Down Home Papa's Knee and Lord Mr. Ford.

Bert Jansch was one of the most influential and unique guitarists to emerge from the British folk music scene of the sixties.His influence can be traced in the playing of Neil Young Jimmy Page Johnny Marr and countless others. Over the course of nearly fifty years he produced a prodigious body of work as a solo guitarist singer and songwriter as a member of the seminalfolk-baroque band Pentangle as a duo with his equally revered friend John Renbourn and in a variety of other ensemble situations. On The Guitar Of Bert Jansch Taught By Rolly Brown we explore a representative selection from the folk traditional and blues segment of his Guitar arrangements rangingfrom simple early folk Guitar settings like Running From Home to his most iconic sophisticated and original accompaniments(e.g. Reynardine Black Waterside). These are carefully arranged little gems and his virtuosity as a guitarist allowed him to have a very specific and beautifully wrought arrangement while still showing an ability to create a number of subtle variations which occurred in his recordings over the years. Rolly Brown first heard Bert's playing in the mid-60s and has been a fan ever since. Along with basic arrangements Rolly discusses variations introductions and endings where appropriate. Titles include Running From Home Blues Run The Game Strollin' Down The Highway In The Bleak Midwinter and more. Bert Jansch was one of the most influential and unique guitarists to emerge from the British folk music scene of the sixties.His influence can be traced in the playing of Neil Young Jimmy Page Johnny Marr andcountless others. Over the course of nearly fifty years he produced a prodigious body of work as a solo guitarist singer and songwriter as a member of the seminal'folk-baroque' band Pentangle as a duo with his equallyrevered friend John Renbourn and in a variety of other ensemble situations. On The Guitar Of Bert Jansch Taught By Rolly Brown we explore a representative selection from the folk traditional and bluessegment of his Guitar arrangements ranging from simple early folk Guitar settings like 'Running From Home' to his most iconic sophisticated and original accompaniments(e.g. Reynardine Black Waterside). These are carefullyarranged little gems and his virtuosity as a guitarist allowed him to have a very specific and beautifully wrought arrangement while still showing an ability to create a number of subtle variations which occurred in hisrecordings over the years. Rolly Brown first heard Bert's playing in the mid-60s and has been a fan ever since. Along with basic arrangements Rolly discusses variations introductions and endings whereappropriate. Titles include Running From Home Blues Run The Game Strollin' Down The Highway In The Bleak Midwinter and more.

Celtic Music offers the fingerstyle guitarist many beautiful and haunting melodies as well as intriguing dance rhythms and exciting tunes. Duck Baker is one of the leading fingerstyle guitarists arranging melodies from thevast Celtic repertoire. In this DVD Duck explores the possibilities of playing a wide variety of Celtic music on your guitar. The character and feel of the Celtic style is expertly conveyed here and with a selection ofpieces to learn and practice the skills you will soon be adding melodic picking and arpeggios to your own playing. With a 24 page PDF music booklet.

Arranged For Fingerstyle Guitar-Woody Guthrie 's songs gave direction and purpose to a generation of songwriters in the 1950s and 1960s and they continue to move millions of people today. This Land Is Your Land has become an alternate national anthem! In this 101 minute lesson Fred Sokolow teaches you how to play backup and solos to ten of Woody's best known songs. It's a great lesson in fingerpicking as well as an intro to some moving classic tunes from America's legendary poet/songwriter. Fred makes it easy to learn with split-screen slowed down versions of the songs and helpful hints about the licks and picking styles. All the songs are written out in tab and music notation in the PDF file thatcomes with the lesson. All lyrics are also included. Titles include: Pastures of Plenty So Long It's Been Good to Know Yuh Bound For Glory (This Train) Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee) Do Re Mi Philadelphia Lawyer Oklahoma Hills My Daddy (Flies A Ship In The Sky) Hard Travelin' and Pretty Boy Floyd . 101 minutes • Level 2 • Detailed tab/music PDF file on the DVD Woody Guthrie 's songs gave direction and purpose to a generation of songwriters in the 1950s and 1960s and they continue to move millions of people today. This Land Is Your Land has become an alternate national anthem! In this 101 minute lesson Fred Sokolow teaches you how to play backup and solos to ten of Woody's best known songs. It's a great lesson in fingerpicking as well as an intro to some moving classic tunes from America's legendary poet/songwriter. Fred makes it easy to learn with split-screen slowed down versions of the songs and helpful hints about the licks and picking styles. All the songs are written out in tab and musicnotation in the PDF file that comes with the lesson. All lyrics are also included. Titles include: Pastures of Plenty So Long It's Been Good to Know Yuh Bound For Glory (This Train) Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee) Do Re Mi Philadelphia Lawyer Oklahoma Hills My Daddy (Flies A Ship In The Sky) Hard Travelin' and Pretty Boy Floyd . 101 minutes • Level 2 • Detailed tab/music PDF file on the DVD

In this celebratory feel-good DVD Buster B. Jones demonstrates the versatility of the guitar with a host of inspirational songs arranged in a range of styles. From a classical-style arrangement of God Rest Ye MerryGentlemen to a spirited Country-picking version of Jingle Bell Rock and the quiet serene ballad Do You Hear What I Hear you will be treated to a compendium of techniques that help capture the special essence ofeach song. These spiritual and gospel favourites are guaranteed to bring new elements to your own playing style introducing changes and and ideas that will be both challenging and useful whatever your style.

In this unique lesson Bob Brozman and Woody Mann describe and teach in detail duet arrangements in the styles of the great Delta blues guitarists: Charley Patton Robert Johnson Willie Brown Tommy Johnson and Son House. Techniques and ideas for creating a cohesive guitar part that compliments rather than competes or conflicts are discussed. Each part is taught separately and presented in tablature and music notation. Woody and Bob alsopresent effective techniques for improving improvisation skills while jamming with other musicians. The tunes presented in this lesson can be used as repertoire pieces for either solo or duet situations. All in all avery unique lesson giving you twice the amount of ideas and challenges from two of today’s blues guitar masters. Titles include: Banty Rooster Moon Goin’ Down Bye Bye Blues Robert Johnson’s Blues and Big Road Blues.

This DVD lesson has been designed to help beginner and intermediate students of fingerpicking country blues guitar improve their playing skills and increase their repertoires using an alternating bass technique. Stefan Grossmanillustrates and explains in detail ten fingerstyle arrangements in the keys of C D E A G and F. These popular blues and ragtime songs come from the playing of the Mississippi John Hurt Rev Gary Davis Mance Lipscomb andElizabeth Cotten. Each tune is discussed and taught phrase by phrase and played slowly on a split screen so that you can clearly see what each hand is doing. A detailed 44 page tab/music PDF booklet is included with this lesson.

In this second DVD lesson devoted to the styles techniques and music of Merle Travis Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed Buster B. Jones explores five instrumental arrangements that have become trademarks for these legends.

Fred Sokolow takes you from tuning up and your first chords to rockin' the Blues in one 70-minute tutorial! Sokolow teaches the Blues in several keys including Boogie Woogie basslines Blues turnarounds and simple fingerpickingpatterns. You will discove the elements of Blues soloing and lick-building in the styles of Lightnin' Hopkins Big Bill Broonzy and Mississippi John Hurt. The lesson is complete with some classic Blues standards for you to developyour new techniques and knowledge including Key To The Highway and Hesitation Blues .

Strumming chords to back up singing is fun but there's more to the Ukulele than that! If you've seen Jake Shimabukuro or some other contemporary Uke wizards playing amazing instrumentals you know the little 4-string jumping flea is capable of anything. If you'd like to learn how to play solos (with other people or by yourself) this lesson will show you several approaches to doing just that. You'll learn two moveable blues boxes chord based licks Steve Cropper licks first position and moveable major scales...and how and when to use them. These soloing ideas work for songs of just about any genre: rock pop blues country R&B you-name-it! Fred takes you through all thesetechniques using diverse musical examples like Jamaica Farewell Corrine Corrina Feeling Alright St. James Infirmary Amazing Grace Careless Love Chilly Winds Louie Louie and more. His easy-going instructional style makes it all clear and understandable and all the scales licks and many of the songs are written out in tab and music in the accompanying PDF file/book. Get together with other players and prepare to shred! 80 minutes - Level 3 - Detailed tab/music PDF file on the DVD. DVD is region 0 playable worldwide. Strumming chords to back up singing is fun but there's more to the Ukulele than that! If you've seen Jake Shimabukuro or some other contemporary Uke wizards playing amazing instrumentals you know the little 4-string jumpingflea is capable of anything. If you'd like to learn how to play solos (with other people or by yourself) this lesson will show you several approaches to doing just that. You'll learn two moveable blues boxes chord based licks 'Steve Cropper licks ' first position and moveable major scales...and how and when to use them. These soloing ideas work for songs of just about any genre: rock pop blues country R&B you-name-it! Fred takes youthrough all these techniques using diverse musical examples like Jamaica Farewell Corrine Corrina Feeling Alright St. James Infirmary Amazing Grace Careless Love Chilly Winds Louie Louie and more. His easy-goinginstructional style makes it all clear and understandable and all the scales licks and many of the songs are written out in tab and music in the accompanying PDF file/book. Get together with other players and prepare toshred! 80 minutes - Level 3 - Detailed tab/music PDF file on the DVD. DVD is region 0 playable worldwide.

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 moreand 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 thesophisticated Pop blues of Bo Carter to the low-down blues of Rube Lacy and a host of players working between those two extremes. Included on this DVD are transcriptions and teaching of recorded performances from TommyJohnson one of the fountainheads of the Mississippi blues Itta Bena natives Rube Lacy and Ishmon Bracey with their distinctive vocal head tones and intense playing the great Geeshie Wiley a woman who played and sang asstrongly as any man Walter Vinson guitarist and lead singer for the Mississippi Sheiks and Bo Carter a player with a rich chordal vocabulary and Jazzy sound. The songs presented offer a wide range of left and right handapproaches and ways of keeping time and will expand your your ability to play blues moving far afield from the simple alternating bass. A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD and contains all ofthe songs' lyrics as well as transcriptions of the Guitar parts. Also included are the original source recordings from which the transcriptions taught in the lesson were taken. Titles include: Tommy Johnson: LonesomeHome Blues Walter Vinson: Overtime Blues Geeshie Wiley: Eagles On A Half Rube Lacy: Ham Hound Crave Ishmon Bracey: Four Day Blues Bo Carter: Honey

Who hasn't been influenced by Mississippi Fred McDowell ? Imitated by just about everyone that has picked up a slide his impact has spread the world over. With so many trying to figure out exactly how he played we are so fortunate to have a lesson like this one where we get to learn from the man himself. The footage of Fred McDowell seen in this lesson is a treasure because it's as if it was filmed with us the students of McDowell's style in mind. With clear shots of his left and right hands it's like your own private lesson with the master himself. DISC ONE is devoted to footage of Fred McDowell performing many of his classic tunes inOpen E tuning. After each performance Tom Feldmann breaks down Fred's techniques and then goes to the split screen playing the song slowly as you play along. DISC TWO is devoted to the recordings of McDowell in Open A tuning. Tom performs this time around as none of the available footage has McDowell performing in Open A. A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on each DVD. In addition the original recordings of all the tunes in lesson two are included. On Disc Two there is 51 minute interview with Tom Feldmann where he talks about his influences as well as performing a wide variety of tunes. Titles Include: OPEN E TUNING: When I Lay My Burden Down Keep Your Lamp TrimmedAnd Burning John Henry Break 'Em On Down Louise Mojo Hand I Heard Somebody Call OPEN A TUNING: Write Me A Few Lines Been Drinking Out of A Hollow Log Fred's Worried Life Blues The Train I Ride Kokomo Blues

To Arranging For Fingerstyle Guitar-In A Nuts & Bolts Approach To Arranging For Fingerstyle Guitar Rolly Brown teaches an organised approach to exploring and combining rhythm melody and harmony to create fingerstyle Guitar arrangements. This instructional DVD includes numerous tips tools and techniques a look at approaching different musical styles and just enough theoretical knowledge to get you started at arranging your own versions of whatever sort of music you want to create on the Guitar. Numerous examples are shown and discussed. The topics covered include: Arpeggiated rolling rhythm Arranging for constant alternate bass Chord choice and substitution The essential tones concept Arranging with a walkingbass line Bossa Nova rhythm Ragtime Fingerstyle blues Original compositions In A Nuts & Bolts Approach To Arranging For Fingerstyle Guitar Rolly Brown teaches an organised approach to exploring and combining rhythm melody and harmony to create fingerstyle Guitararrangements. This instructional DVD includes numerous tips tools and techniques a look at approaching different musical styles and just enough theoretical knowledge to get you started at arranging your own versions ofwhatever sort of music you want to create on the Guitar. Numerous examples are shown and discussed. The topics covered include: Arpeggiated rolling rhythm Arranging for constant alternatebass Chord choice and substitution The essential tones concept Arranging with a walking bass line Bossa Nova rhythm Ragtime Fingerstyle blues Originalcompositions

Crosspicking is an exciting flatpicking technique that is an essential part of every bluegrass guitarist's arsenal. Utilising repeated patterns on three-string groups crosspicking captures the bounce of a fiddler's double shuffleand the drive of three-finger banjo Scruggs-style rolls. Learn the art of this exciting pick technique with Eric Thompson in this DVD tutorial that features split-screen close-ups so you'll never miss a note!