Learn how to play and sing nine classic Paul Simon tunes from start to finish. You will learn how to play instrumental solos and how to begin and end each song. While studying Fred's arrangements of these Paul Simon hits you willalso learn a lot about finger picking: backup patterns soloing ideas and various chord positions.

For this unique lesson Fernando Perez composed an instrumental piece titled Jazz Manouche which encompasses many gypsy jazz guitar techniques. Besides teaching you how to play this exciting instrumental Fernando will explain how to understand this style of music in order to create your own compositions in this style. You will learn: Different techniques i.e such as playing abanico - a flamenco technique very useful for fingerstyle guitar Playing ornaments on arpeggios Fingerpicking with your index middle and ring fingers Strumming a perfect groove for Jazz Manouche Strum variations Breaking down bass lines chords and melodies in order to know how they work Positionsfor harmonic movements Original ideas for turning your guitar into a Jazz band and taking solos for guitar bass or even drums For this unique lesson Fernando Perez composed an instrumental piece titled Jazz Manouche which encompasses many gypsy jazz guitar techniques. Besides teaching you how to play this exciting instrumental Fernando willexplain how to understand this style of music in order to create your own compositions in this style. You will learn: Different techniques i.e such as playing 'abanico' - a flamenco technique very useful forfingerstyle guitar Playing ornaments on arpeggios Fingerpicking with your index middle and ring fingers Strumming a perfect groove for Jazz Manouche Strum variations Breaking down basslines chords and melodies in order to know how they work Positions for harmonic movements Original ideas for turning your guitar into a Jazz band and taking solos for guitar bass or even drums

The golden age of African fingerpicking guitar was in the 1950s and 1960s. The great players and recording artists of that time included Jean Bosco Mwenda and Losta Abelo from Zaire and George Mukabi from Kenya. Guitaristsfrom other parts of the world have rarely if ever had a chance to learn their songs and playing techniques. On this DVD their arrangements are taught by John Low who has lived worked and studied with African musicians includingthose mentioned above. There are some interesting links with American guitar styles but there are just as many differences including rhythms borrowed from traditional African music and catchy up-beat patterns. Africanfingerstyle guitar is usually accompanied by rhythms played on a bottle. John Low is accompanied on this DVD by Frans Maathuis and Keith Jackman on bottles.

In this lesson Tom Feldmann takes you to where it all began Dockery Plantation dubbed 'The Birthplace of the Blues' and highlights the earliest recording artists that gave Dockery its legendary status Charlie Patton Son House Willie Brown and Tommy Johnson. You will learn a few songs by each artist giving you a taste of the individuals themselves as well as the genre as a whole. The majority of the lesson is done out of standard tuning focusing on E C and A positions. From standard tuning you move to Drop D tuning for Tommy Johnson's Big Road Blues and then to Open G (Spanish tuning) for Willie Brown's Future Blues. Of course no lesson on Delta blues guitarwould be complete without a look at bottleneck slide and this lesson is no exception with Tom closing with two trailblazers of bottleneck slide Son House and Charlie Patton. A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD. In addition the original recordings of all the tunes are included. Titles include: STANDARD TUNING: M&O Blues Stone Pony Blues 34 Blues Morning Prayer Blues A Down The Staff Lonesome Home Blues DROP D TUNING: Big Road Blues SPANISH TUNING: Future Blues Levee Camp Moan It Won't Be Long In this lesson Tom Feldmann takes you to where it all began Dockery Plantation dubbed 'The Birthplace of the Blues' and highlights the earliest recording artists that gave Dockery its legendary status Charlie Patton Son House Willie Brown and Tommy Johnson. You will learn a few songs by each artist giving you a taste of the individuals themselves as well as the genre as a whole. The majority of the lesson is done out of standard tuning focusing on E C and A positions. From standard tuning you move to Drop D tuning for Tommy Johnson's Big Road Blues and then to Open G (Spanish tuning) for Willie Brown's Future Blues. Of course no lesson on Delta blues guitarwould be complete without a look at bottleneck slide and this lesson is no exception with Tom closing with two trailblazers of bottleneck slide Son House and Charlie Patton. A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD. In addition the original recordings of all the tunes are included. Titles include: STANDARD TUNING: M&O Blues Stone Pony Blues 34 Blues Morning Prayer Blues A Down The Staff Lonesome Home Blues DROP D TUNING: Big Road Blues SPANISH TUNING: Future Blues Levee Camp Moan It Won't Be Long

From The Golden Era Of American Pop Music-The music on this recording represents a pinnacle in the range of fingerstyle Guitar music. It contains some of the best tracks recorded by a superb musician at the exact moment of discovering his full powers of expression. The result is a feast for Guitar music lovers whose tastes run to substantial fare. This was Ton Van Bergeyk 's second solo recording. It was originally released in 1976. This enhanced CD release includes tab/music of all the tunes (except Jazz Me Blues) as PDF files. You will need Adobe Acrobat (a free download) to open and print this file from your computer. Song list: 1. Junk Man Rag 2.Mustard Swing3. Zither Melodies 4. From Soup To Nuts 5. Kansas City Stomp 6. Rondo Caprice 7. Ragtime Medley: Bantam Step & Springtime Rag 8. Notoriety Rag 9. Medley: If I Had You & Moonlight Serenade 10. Jazz Me Blues 11. Divertisement 12. Georgia Grind 13. Coconut Dance 14. Florida Rag

Though Buddy Holly's career was short he was a huge influence on the Beatles the Rolling Stones Bob Dylan and most of the rockers and songwriters of the 1960s 70s and beyond. Most of the songs in this collection have been hits many times over and they’re still covered today by rock pop and country bands. Fred makes Buddy's tunes accessible to fingerpicking guitarists in this instructional DVD that includes rockers like That’ll Be the Day It’s So Easy and Maybe Baby and pretty ballads like Raining In My Heart and Everyday . He explains the tricky parts of the arrangements and presents a split-screen slower version of each tune sothat you can back yourself up singing and can play instrumental versions of every song as well. His easy-going instructional style makes it easy to learn! Other Buddy Holly tunes in this set include Peggy Sue Lonesome Tears and It Doesn’t Matter Anymore . All the songs (backup and solos) are written out in tab and music in the accompanying booklet.

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!

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

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

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

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.

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 .

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.