Hoagy Carmichael wrote some of the most popular songs of all time and they sound great on guitar. In this DVD Fred plays and teaches six of Hoagy's best including guitar backup and instrumental versions of each tune.

' The strangest most complex and bizarre of all blues artists. ' - John Fahey Skip James is perhaps the most stylistically original of the blues performers from the Mississippi River Delta region with his unusual Dm (Crossnote) tuning haunting falsetto vocals and an intense variable marriage of music and text. James made a number of recordings for Paramount before the Depression carried him into obscurity but those recordings would form the basis of his reputation and secure him as one of the legends of that classic era of blues. In this 2 DVD set Tom Feldmann brings you through Skip's classic 1931 bluesrecordings as well as a few fan favorites from his rediscovery years Crow Jane Worried Blues Look Down the Road and All Night Long. Nearly all of the 1931 guitar recordings were played using Crossnote tuning and DVD One is dedicated to those songs with Feldmann teaching you every aspect of Skip's playing in this tuning. DVD Two continues with two more classics in Crossnote tuning and then turns to Standard tuning for songs in D and E positions and ends with Skip's lone Spanish tuning (Open G) recording Special Rider Blues. Tablature is included as a PDF file on each DVD. In addition the original 1931 recordings of the songs covered are included as well as live footage of Skip James from the 1966 Newport Folk Festival.

Fingerpicking blues guitar is a never ending study full of surprises and discoveries. Each key of the guitar offers new sounds and textures. A blues played in the key of C sounds world's apart from a blues played in the keys of A G D or E. This series focuses on a single key for each lesson. Fingerpicking Blues Guitar is a never ending study full of surprises and discoveries. Each key of the Guitar offers new sounds and textures. A blues played in the key of C sounds world's apart from a blues played in the keys of A G D or E. This series focuses on a single key for each lesson. The key of A can be very down home and tough. It can be rough and tumble. It can be driving and it can be lyrical. This lesson explores playing ideas licks and techniques from a host of legendary bluesmen: Son House Lightnin' Hopkins Blind Boy Fuller Rev. Gary Davis Big Bill Broonzy Mississippi John Hurt Blind Lemon Jefferson. Playing styles fromthe delta of Mississippi to the streets of Durham North Carolina to the juke joints of Dallas Texas. You will learn to play a blues in A minor. First we set up a fingerstyle melody and then we play off this with improvised lead lines. All in all a deep exploration of fingerstyle blues Guitar in the key of A. A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD. Each tune is taught phrase by phrase and played slowly on a split-screen. Titles include: Blues For Son Blues For Lightnin' Blues For the Carolinas Big Bill Blues in A Monday Morning Blues Hop Scotch Blues and Hitting the Road With Jack . 103 minutes • Level 2/3 • Detailed tab/music PDF file on the DVD.

One of the foremost personalities in the world of Jazz Guitar Larry Coryell has played against the best and here presents an insight into his distinctive and fluid approach. From bebop heroes Sonny Rollins and CharlesMingus to fusion superstars Chick Corea and John McLaughlin Coryell's guitar playing has graced the recordings of the hottest stars in Jazz making him a guitarist of huge reputation and respect. In this three-part DVD seriesCoryell analyses his own Jazz perspective providing an empirical method of solo and chord improvisation. Volume one includes: Major scales all over the neck Minor diminished and whole-tonetonalities Chromatics Accents within picking patterns Arpeggios Modes and intervals Building an intellectual understanding between chords and scales Movements between harmony and bass Going beyond chord/scaleusage Single-line improvising through changes Chord substitutions

Rev. Gary Davis had an enormous repertoire that spanned from gospel to blues rags to fok tunes and old minstrel show songs. In this double DVD lesson Ernie Hawkins presents some of Rev. Davis's most requested rags and minstreltunes. These vary from Sally Where'd You Get Your Liquor From to the complex dance rhythms of Buck Dance and Twelve Sticks to Devil's Dream an instrumental played in the Key of F. These arearrangements that will challenge any Guitarists. Ernie Hawkins teaches each tune phrase and carefully shows you the right hand picking as well as the left hand fingerings that were unique to Rev. Davis's approach. Youwill be able to easily follow the instruction with the tab/music booklet. Also featured are split screen segments where each section is played slowly and you can study the movements of each hand. As a bonus we have includedvarious audio performances of Rev. Davis playing each song.

The Guitar playing of Merle Travis has been a great influence on generations of guitarists. In this unique 95 minute lesson Marcel Dadi teaches seven of Merle's greatest instrumentals.

The guitar styles and techniques of Blind Blake Big Bill Broonzy and Rev. Gary Davis combine blues and ragtime techniques into a style that can be best described as raggin' the blues. This exciting and challenging approach tofingerstyle playing combines complex right hand picking with intricate left hand fingerings single string runs and rhythmic licks. In this lesson Stefan Grossman illustrates and explains seven famous ragtime blues instrumentals.A detailed 44-page tab/music PDF booklet is included.

Considering that he was the most popular male blues recording artist of the 1920’s we know surprisingly little about Blind Lemon Jefferson. He had recorded over 100 sides for the Paramount label from 1926 to 1929 when he died inmysterious circumstances in Chicago. He inspired a generation of Bluesmen but had few imitators due to the complexity of his guitar playing and distinctive high clear voice. In this fantastic lesson DVD modern day virtuosoAri Eisingfer explains the secrets of Lemon’s playing technique and style. He teaches five of Blind Lemon’s most popular and intriguing arrangements phrase by phrase and note by note.

In this second volume of Fingerstyle Guitar From The Ground Up Buster B. Jones continues to show you all the tricks of his trade so that you’ll be able to fingerpick in the style of Merle Travis and Chet Atkins. Buster’sclear and down to earth explanations will have you fingerpicking in no time. You’ll find phrase by phrase instruction for all the exercises and songs. Split-screen techniques are featured so that you can clearly see what each handis playing. You’ll learn: More right hand patterns Right hand rolls More chord movements Fretboard logic How to play Blowin’ In The Wind Jingle Bells I’ll Fly Away and Nine Pound Hammer (with embellishments) Also includes a forty-eight page PDF booklet with the music and TAB.

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Prolific writer and performer Adrian Ingram gives you the very best start in the complex art of the Jazz Guitar. Ingram demystifies the challenges of learning the Jazz vocabulary and unlocks the secrets of chord substitution. Youwill discover the basic building blocks of Jazz theory extended and altered chords harmonic pluralities forms and songs and all those indispensable progressions that make up the familiar tunes you love.

Beginning to build a repertoire of songs that you can play comfortably is the first important step in getting started in the Country Blues. But once you've got that repertoire-building process started it can be enormously helpful to become acquainted with the Blues in a more general less song-specific way learning the various stylistic pathways that enable experienced blues players who have never met or played together before to sit down and make music together. When you see that happen it seems like magic but it's really just a matter of their knowing and understanding the language of the blues. In this 2-DVD lesson master musician and teacher John Millerprovides you with a thorough background in the musical language of the Blues providing you with the tools that with work and practice will enable you to be a more complete musician - one who is able to: recognize the form and know the progression after playing through it once or twice join in at jam sessions provide chordal accompaniment and 'play time' know where to play fills without clashing with the vocal

French-Algerian fingerstyle guitarist Pierre Bensusan is a unique talent. His sound and style confounds classification being both profoundly original and yet familiar and expressive. His fingerprint is on it whether it is hisearlier folk and Celtic-based renderings his free-form improvisational material or in settings solo or ensemble. Undoubtedly he is one of the world’s finest DADGAD players. His music reaches far beyond the idiom of a guitarplayed in a non-standard tuning living by the rationale that music is not made for a specific instrument but about musical ingredients and how you combine them. In this second DVD lesson Pierre introduces seven more piecesthat typify his amazing skills and style as he explores the techniques and skills required to play them whilst also allowing an insightful glimpse into the mind of one of the world’s great guitarists.

Irish music offers the fingerstyle guitarist an exciting repertoire of haunting melodies and pulsating dance tunes. Irish Guitar Encores presents El McMeen's unique approach to arranging Celtic melodies in CGDGADtuning. In this DVD lesson McMeen fully explains this open tuning and shows you how to use harp-like arpeggios counterpoint bass-lines melodic picking and alternating bass techniques. Contains a selection of six classicrepertoire pieces and with a 24 page music/tab PDF booklet. Thoroughly practical interesting and a wonderful learning tool El McMeen's arrangements and playing bring a unique sensitivity to this music thatencourages and inspires guitar students.

Brazil has produced some of the most vibrant and exciting guitar music in the instrument's history. In this lesson Rick Udler discusses and demonstrates styles techniques and rhythms of Brazil's great players. This is a uniqueopportunity for guitarists to delve into the beautiful sounds of this musical land. Rick begins by going over chords that are commonly used by Brazilian guitarists. He then teaches the accompaniment to singer/songwriterGilberto Gil's beautiful composition 'A Paz' to illustrate the use of chords with open strings. A step-by-step analysis of Bossa Nova accompaniment in the João Gilberto style follows along with suggestions on how to develop abetter feel for this sophisticated syncopated groove. The solo guitar rendition of the Antonio Carlos Jobim/Newton Mendonça classic 'One Note Samba' will be a welcome addition to many players repertoires with it'srhythmic drive and rich harmony. Samba rhythms are then explored with examples that are sure to enhance one's groove and arsenal of techniques. Rick also gives examples of inner string movement which will prove invaluable to thoselooking for ways to generate more excitement and authenticity in their comping. A sambified version of 'Happy Birthday' demonstrates how to apply these techniques to a familiar tune and make it sound fresh.And to provide an evengreater challenge for all players Rick gives a detailed analysis of his tour de force solo guitar piece 'Amigo Paulo' composed as an homage to his friend guitar legend Paulinho Nogueira (1927-2003). This tune with it's choroinfluences incorporates many of the techniques Rick learned directly from the master and is sure to provide much musical food for thought for players who are looking for innovative new colours and textures to add to their playing.

Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop-Mississippi John Hurt is certainly renowned for his blues songs whether tales of murder like Stack OLee and Frankie or the tongue-in-cheek Candy Man Blues yet it is his gospel songs that may more accurately reflect the heart of the man himself;gentle yet powerful simple yet substantial.In this lesson Tom Feldmann takes you step by step through Mississippi John Hurts most celebrated and inspiring gospel songs in the keys of G C D and E. Whether beginner or intermediate you will learn to pick in the distinctive Hurt style andbuild a large repertoire of classic gospel country blues. A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD. In addition the original old recordings of all the tunes are included. Mississippi John Hurt is certainly renowned for his blues songs whether tales of murder like Stack O'Lee and Frankie or the tongue-in-cheek Candy Man Blues yet it is his gospel songs that may more accurately reflect the heart of the man himself; gentle yet powerful simple yet substantial. In this lesson Tom Feldmann takes you step by step through Mississippi John Hurt's most celebrated and inspiring gospel songs in the keys of G C D and E. Whether beginner or intermediate you will learn to pick in the distinctive 'Hurt' style and build a large repertoire of classic gospel country blues. A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file onthe DVD. In addition the original old recordings of all the tunes are included. Titles include: Do Lord Remember Me Here I Am Oh Lord Send Me Blind Man Sit In The Way And Cried Since I’ve Laid My Burden Down Weeping and Wailing Blessed Be The Name Praying On The Old Camp Ground Nearer My God To Thee Beulah Land and Oh Mary Don’t You Weep

This series of lessons explores various fingerstyle blues guitar styles and techniques. It delves in to the alternating and monotonic bass techniques; blues slides hammer-ons and pull-offs and blues slurred notes. The aim of thislesson is to give you a freedom to improvise playing a blues and the playing techniques of Mississippi John Hurt Rev. Gary Davis and Blind Blake are discussed with each tune being taught phrase by phrase and played slowly on asplit-screen. Bonus audio tracks are included featuring rare recordings of the songs and styles presented on the DVD. A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD which includes lyrics to the songs aswell as tab/music transcriptions of the guitar playing.

In this lesson Fernando Perez presents several tunes from West Africa. Directly learnt from African Jalis (Griots) these are traditional as well as original compositions specially arranged for guitar. In this lesson Fernando Perez presents several tunes from West Africa. Directly learnt from African Jalis (Griots) these are traditional as well as original compositions specially arranged for Guitar. Imitating the sound of West African instruments such as Kora Ngoni or Balafon Perez demonstrates unique techniques on the Guitar in order to perform the grooves and melodies in a faithful way. All the tunes can be played on nylon or acoustic steel string Guitars. In this lesson you will learn: Understanding the sound and techniques of African instruments in order to apply them to the guitar. Different techniques imitating Korascale runs Balafon breaks etc. Several grooves from Mali Senegal Gambia. How to properly keep these grooves counting tapping and feeling. Kora picking style with thumb and index. Main scales used in West African music. How West African music connects with Blues styles. Combining West African styles with your own Blues licks. Explanations on how to further develop this music style. A West African repertoire full of variety. Each tune is taught phrase by phrase and played slowly on a split-screen. Titles include: The Mandinka Song Massina Madou Fatoudiob Sanu Mali Blues and Kulanjan . 107 minutes Level 3 Detailed tab/music PDF booklet on the DVD

Charlie Patton considered the “Father of the Delta Blues ” is generally recognized as the most influential blues artist active in the first decades of the twentieth century. No single individual can be credited with “inventing” the Delta blues style but Patton was one of the first mainstream stars of the Delta blues genre. Old fashioned and modern at the same time Patton's music bridged the musical traditions of the 19th century while simultaneously creating a framework of his own that would inspire just about every other blues musician from that point on. In this double DVD lesson Tom Feldmann gives you a note-for-note detailed lookat 18 of Patton's most celebrated tunes. Making this the definitive Charlie Patton lesson. DVD One is dedicated to songs in standard tuning covering C E A and F positions. You'll learn Patton's relaxed right hand strum top tapping technique and of course his signature licks as you work through songs like Down The Dirt Road Blues and Pony Blues . DVD Two focuses in Patton's bottleneck slide and non slide numbers in Spanish (Open G) and Vestapol (Open D) turnings. Songs like Banty Rooster Blues When Your Way Get's Dark and Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues will become heavy hitters in your blues arsenal. A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on both DVD's. In addition the original recordings of all the tunes are included.

Bo Carter was a great guitar player. He played with absolute facility in a variety of tunings and keys and his harmonic sense was unique in the Country Blues world. Bo's recording career in the pre-World War II period washugely substantial and significant for a Country bluesmen. His repertoire centered on (but was not comprised exclusively of) 'party' songs such as Let Me Roll Your Lemon or Pussy Cat Blues . Despite the'saucy' nature of some of his lyrics Bo Carter's playing and performance revealed him as one of the great masters of Country Blues and a player of unusual versatility subtlety and imagination. As with other players of hisgeneration the origins of Bo's music are shrouded in mystery and myth. Bo's right hand approach was unique picking with all fingers and moving fluidly between alternation thumping and runs with his thumb. John Millerpresents a detailed and practical examination of a fascinating and highly individual talent. A 48-page tablature booklet is included.