Waste Not Thy Time-Rolly Brown has been practicing the Guitar for 50 years and in that time he’s developed a large armamentarium of tools to aid and motivate himself and his students. In this two hour DVD starting with his rule of “half work half play” he shares many of these ideas interspersed with teachings to help you better enjoy and understand music and the guitar from a simple “nuts and bolts” point of view. Whatever style of music you play you want ways of practicing rhythm harmony and melody the 3 building blocks of music. Whether you flatpick or fingerpick play bluegrass jazz or folk music; whether you’re trying to learn your first F chord or looking for a method ofpracticing arpeggios to inform your jazz solos this video offers tools and advice to improve your playing. The topics covered include: On Creativity and Structuring Your Time Scales and Modes How To Rapidly Master New Chords Arpeggios: Bridging the Gap Between Chords and Melody Right Hand Technique Using a Metronome Practicing with Rhythm Tracks Sample Practice Routines Rolly Brown has been practicing the Guitar for 50 years and in that time he’s developed a large armamentarium of tools to aid and motivate himself and his students. In this two hour DVD starting with his ruleof “half work half play” he shares many of these ideas interspersed with teachings to help you better enjoy and understand music and the guitar from a simple “nuts and bolts” point of view. Whatever style of music you play youwant ways of practicing rhythm harmony and melody the 3 building blocks of music. Whether you flatpick or fingerpick play bluegrass jazz or folk music; whether you’re trying to learn your first F chord or looking fora method of practicing arpeggios to inform your jazz solos this video offers tools and advice to improve your playing. The topics covered include: On Creativity and Structuring Your Time Scales andModes How To Rapidly Master New Chords Arpeggios: Bridging the Gap Between Chords and Melody Right Hand Technique Using a Metronome Practicing with Rhythm Tracks Sample PracticeRoutines

Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop-Blind Willie Johnson recorded thirty songs from 1927-1930 and of those thirty he used a slide on only twelve. There has been much debate surrounding how he played and what he played with but regardless of how or what those twelve songs stand assome of the best slide guitar ever recorded.In The Guitar Of Blind Willie Johnson Tom Feldmann breaks down the complexities of eight of Johnsons classics. You will see how Johnson created his as you feel bass lines by utilizing alternating monotonic and brushing bass techniques. Ofcourse the defining element of Johnsons songs was his unearthly slide playing which Tom shows in detail teaching you Johnsons strike and slides pull-offs and vibrato.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. Blind Willie Johnson recorded thirty songs from 1927-1930 and of those thirty he used a slide on only twelve. There has been much debate surrounding how he played and what he played with but regardless of 'how' or 'what' those twelve songs stand as some of the best slide guitar ever recorded. In The Guitar Of Blind Willie Johnson Tom Feldmann breaks down the complexities of eight of Johnson's classics. You will see how Johnson created his 'as you feel' bass lines by utilizing alternating monotonic and 'brushing' bass techniques. Of course the defining element of Johnson's songs was his unearthly slide playing which Tom shows indetail teaching you Johnson's strike and slides pull-offs and vibrato. 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: Bye And Bye I'm Goin' To See The King You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond Dark Was The Night Cold Was The Ground God Don't Never Change Lord I Just Cant Keep From Crying Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning I Know His Blood Can Make Me Whole and Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed

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Taught by Cory Seznec-Some time ago Cory began delving fairly deeply into the rich repertoire that is African-American Spirituals. Listening to the jubilee singers of yore and some of the terrific recordings by Alan Lomax of vocal groups spurred him to find old hymnals and songbooks in order to arrange tunes for the guitar. Give Me Jesus is a soulful number that ended up being somewhat inspired by the playing of John Fahey with down tempo strumming followed by more classic alternate bass picking. Roll De Ol' Chariot Along has a rollicking syncopated feel that never really stays in one place bouncing up and down the neck à la Revered Gary Davis. Lift Every Voice and Sing aka the Black National Anthem has a beautiful harmonically rich feel and the 6/8 tempo allows the guitarist a fair amount of room in which to maneuver. Also included is a spirited version of This Train Is Bound For Glory originally inspired by Big Bill Broonzy’s walking bass line an arrangement of A Closer Walk With Thee that taps into the feel of a New Orleans brass band funeral procession and a heavily swung and syncopated take on Rev. Thomas A. Dorsey’s heart-wrenching piece Precious Lord Take My Hand. Titles include: Give Me Jesus Precious Lord Take My Hand Lift Every Voice And Sing Roll De Ol’ Chariot Along A Closer Walk With Thee This Train Is Bound For Glory

How do you keep that thumb-bass independent so it doesn't get derailed when your fingers pick the melody? Fred Sokolow makes it easy for beginners or intermediate guitarists by breaking it all down and taking each song step bystep. First you learn the melody then add the bass then add the syncopation that makes it all swing. Songs include Nine Pound Hammer I Am A Pilgrim Windy And Warm Whispering and Mack The Knife.

Volume 1-Tony McManus is an adept master of Celtic fingerstyle guitar both in terms of adapting Celtic music to the guitar and in its performance – presenting all it intricacies graces and frills yet at the same time maintaining thepace and drive which characterises this style of music. In this first lesson Tony discusses in detail the importance of ornamentations and triplets in Celtic music and importantly how this can be technically achieved. Scalesand fingerings and playing in the DADGAD tuning are discussed and then illustrated with several melodies played in this dropped D tuning. This is a challenging DVD lesson for intermediate fingerstyle guitar students but one thatwill be very rewarding as you learn to play Celtic Music from one of the finest players of this genre. Complete with a 40 page tab/music PDF of all the pieces included in the DVD.

To Fingerstyle Swing Guitar-Duck Baker is considered to be one of today’s finest fingerstyle guitarists. In this lesson he teaches the basics of how to put that ‘swing’ in to your playing. This is not a lesson for beginners and it is assumed you will alreadyhave some knowledge of this style. Duck shows you how to expand and take your playing to a different level so that you can fingerpick swing tunes. Along the way he explains and explores rhythm chords and changes that you will needto incorporate into your playing. Four familiar tunes from the swing repertoire are taught and the arrangements are fully explained phrase by phrase. This DVD format has each arrangement on split-screen that clearly show whateach hand is performing. This lesson will help you develop your own individual technique for playing fingerstyle swing guitar.

In Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar In DADGAD Sandy Shalk teaches five popular jazz standards in DADGAD tuning. Tunes are included by legendary jazz artists such as Thelonious Monk Miles Davis Billie Holiday Paul Desmond and David Brubeck. Each tune is performed taught phrase by phrase and played slowly in a split screen so you can follow the movement of each hand. Additionally background information is added for each tune as well as a discussion of how the DADGAD tuning is very adaptable for arranging jazz voicings. A tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD featuring each of the five arrangements. In Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar In DADGAD Sandy Shalk teaches five popular jazz standards in DADGAD tuning. Tunes are included by legendary jazz artists such as Thelonious Monk Miles Davis BillieHoliday Paul Desmond and David Brubeck. Each tune is performed taught phrase by phrase and played slowly in a split screen so you can follow the movement of each hand. Additionally background information is added foreach tune as well as a discussion of how the DADGAD tuning is very adaptable for arranging jazz voicings. A tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD featuring each of the five arrangements.

“Buster B. Jones is an acoustic player a fingerpicker a country flavored soloist - and he’s one of the finest players we’ve heard in years... His technique is only a means to an end. His true gifts are his melodic sense innatemusicianship unfailing human and brilliant improvisational powers. He can drive a tune with fluid rhythmic force or stroke it with sensuous loving touch... He’s a monster player with chops galore great ideas and anencyclopedic reservoir of guitaristic influences.” – Guitar Player Magazine Buster B. Jones is a master of hot fingerpicking guitar solos. He has combined his love for the styles and techniques of Chet Atkins JerryReed and Merle Travis to create an original and exciting approach for fingerstyle guitar. In this series of lessons Buster presents and teaches guitar solos that he plays in the woodshed as well as on stage. Eachinstrumental has evolved from its basic form to a complex arrangement featuring melodic variations chromatic rolls rhythmic licks and lyrical runs. These instrumentals will challenge the talents of any intermediate to advancedstudent.

Rolly Brown: Improvisation / An Interactive Approach (DVD) leads you through an organized approach to improvisation on the Guitar. Rolly Brown: Improvisation / An Interactive Approach(DVD) starts with Rolly 's Rule the notion that your guitar should recall aspects of the human voice the lesson takes an interactive approach to exploring several different genres of musicalimprovisation with Rolly playing instructive examples of these styles then playing rhythm while you work through the exercises.

In this instructional DVD renowned Celtic and folk guitarist Tony McManus takes the student through his various approaches to the 'other' music in his repertoire for example how the ornamentation techniques he derived from listening to Irish fiddlers can be applied to an ancient Jewish hymn. Some of these arrangements involve non-standard tunings such as Dropped D or DADGAD. An introduction to the ideas behind these tunings is included. Not Necessarily Celtic features tutorials for the pieces Gnossienne #1 Shalom Aleichem Wonderful World Goodbye Pork Pie Hat N’Kosi Sikelele Africa and Goldberg Variations Aria . A PDF TAB/music booklet of all the arrangements isalso included on the DVD. In this instructional DVD renowned Celtic and folk guitarist Tony McManus takes the student through his various approaches to the 'other' music in his repertoire; for example how the ornamentation techniques he derivedfrom listening to Irish fiddlers can be applied to an ancient Jewish hymn. Some of these arrangements involve non-standard tunings such as Dropped D or DADGAD. An introduction to the ideas behind these tunings isincluded. Not Necessarily Celtic features tutorials for the pieces Gnossienne #1 Shalom Aleichem Wonderful World Goodbye Pork Pie Hat N’Kosi Sikelele Africa and Goldberg VariationsAria . A PDF TAB/music booklet of all the arrangements is also included on the DVD.

Duck Baker’s GUITAR AEROBICS presents a variety of amazing and challenging exercises and arrangements. Both your right and left hands as well as each finger will receive a complete work-out. The traditionalfolksong The Wreck Of The Old ‘97 and Duck’s original composition Holding Pattern are used to illustrate various right hand picking ideas. This is followed by left hand techniques and ideas to increase the independenceof motion of your fingers as well as exercises featuring trills thumb-fretting hammer-ons and pull-offs. The Rakes Of Waterloo is presented featuring left hand fingerings and techniques necessary for the ornamentationof Celtic melodies. Grace notes slides and complex embellishments are demonstrated. GUITAR AEROBICS concludes with right hand slapping techniques and the tune The Dirtman Cometh.

British traditional folk music is rooted in a vocal tradition of hundreds of years as well as a strong dance culture. It is not bound by any time or bar structure. The guitarist must find ways to explore reinforce accent andembellish these melodies. Martin Carthy has successfully done this with the C G C D G A tuning. He plays with a heavy percussive attack and has a unique sense of phrasing and a strong emotional and atmospheric feel for his music.In this DVD lesson Martin explains in detail his playing techniques and style for seven of his most popular arrangements. Featured titles include: Old Tom of Oxford The Heroes of St. Valery The Siege Of Delhi LaCardeuse McVeagh The Harry Lime Theme and Seven Yellow Gypsies .

Dave Van Ronk's DVD lesson spans a wide variety of exciting and powerful music. The blues of Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell the 'old fashioned' picking of Rev. Gary Davis the ragtime bounce of Blind Blake the sophisticatedblues of Brownie McGhee the country blues of Jim Jackson a children's ring song and a Van Ronk original all receive the unique Dave Van Ronk treatment. Each arrangement is discussed and explained in detail. This is acomplete lesson for the intermediate guitarist that clearly illustrates how traditional music can be placed in a fingerstyle setting. Titles include: Green Green Rocky Road Kansas City Blues Sportin' Life Blues Sunday Street Spike Driver's Moan That Will Never Happen No More Midnight Hour Blues Cocaine Blues and Down South Blues .

Discover the very roots of modern Rock n' Roll with over an hour of Rockabilly guitar magic. The combination of electric Blues country Blues Travis fingerpicking and Boogie Woogie rhythms remains as potent as ever. In this DVDFred Sokolow introduces the licks and techniques that have made the recordings of Carl Perkins Eddie Cochrane and Chuck Berry so distinctive. By the end of this lesson you will know how to play... Boogie Woogie backuplicks Turnarounds Blues/Rock licks in the classic Blues key of E Moveable Blues/Rock scales Fingerpicking patterns and a host of riffs from the best Rockabilly stars including Buddy Holly andScotty Moore.

Blind Boy Fuller recorded his unique brand of country blues from 1935 to 1940. His playing is chock-full of both wit and soulfulness. His guitar arrangements are strikingly original and make perfect use of the sound of theNational Steel guitar which he used on the majority of his recordings. He is best known for his classic tune Truckin’ My Blues Away a standard that has been recorded and performed by generations of blues and rockguitarists. This DVD gives a fully-detailed presentation of Blind Boy Fuller’s intricate guitar work on six of his best and best-known recordings.

Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop- Many southern blues musicians performed and recorded gospel songs; spirituals or church songs as they were called. Some like Blind Willie Johnson and Edward W. Clayborn strictly adhered to a religious message earning them the handle 'guitar evangelists' while others like Fred McDowell and Charlie Patton blurred the socially imposed lines and mingled gospel with the blues. In this anthology of Bottleneck Gospel Guitar Tom Feldmann highlights the fervent and aggressive slide playing of Fred McDowell Robert Wilkins Muddy Waters Bukka White Blind Willie Johnson Edward W. Clayborn and Charlie Patton. Each player offers a distinct style and Tom breaks down theirtechniques allowing you to imitate the masters as well as build a repertoire of classic bottleneck gospel 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. Titles include: OPEN D TUNING: FRED McDOWELL Jesus Is On The Mainline • ROBERT WILKINS Wished I Was In Heaven • MUDDY WATERS Why Don't You Live So God Can Use You • BUKKA WHITE I Am In The Heavenly Way • BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON It's Nobody's Fault But Mine • BLIND WILLIE McTELL I Got To Cross That River of Jordan OPEN G TUNING: EDWARD W. CLAYBORN Gospel Train Is Coming and There'll Be Glory • CHARLIE PATTON Lord I'm Discouraged and I'm Going Home

The quintessential tutorial to get you started in the complex but satisfying world of Jazz guitar. Fred Sokolow gives you all the basics you will need including chords scales licks and theory to get started playing Jazzstraight away. In this 75 minute lesson you will learn: Chord construction and chord types Scalewise progressions and how to use them The Circle-of-fifths how to recognise and use it Comping chords and singlenote solos Improvising with scale and chord-based licks How to recognise and solo over the II-V-I progression.

As the Country Blues began to be recorded in the mid-1920s it soon became apparent that the music was being played and appreciated not only by African-American musicians and audiences but by white musicians and audiences as well. Many of these white musicians played with and learned from black musicians for even in the Jim Crow Era there was always a good deal of musical interaction and exchange. So it is that the term 'Hillbilly Blues' can be used to describe the music made by white musicians of that era in the Country Blues style. Included on this DVD are songs from Clarence Greene known mostly as a fiddler but an ace guitarist Dick Justice who in his one dayin the recording studio waxed ten masterful performances Frank Hutchison who excelled at lap slide harmonica on a rack and conventional blues picking Sam McGee a banjo and guitar master who went on to star on the Grand Ole Opry Hobart Smith a musical powerhouse Maybelle Carter a rocksteady and beautifully lyrical player who may have been the most influential of the bunch and Emry Arthur a soulful singer and player who recorded one of the earliest versions of Man Of Constant Sorrow. The songs selected for inclusion on the DVD have been chosen to introduce you to a variety of different keys and playing positions as well as a host of different right hand techniques. A PDF included on the DVD offers not only detailed transcriptions of the songs but the songs' lyrics too. All of the original performances by the musicians are included on the DVD as bonus tracks both as references and for your listening enjoyment.

Jody Stecher has long been America’s least generic flatpicker. From the teenage hotshot who won the 1966 World’s Champion Flatpicking Cup at Union Grove North Carolina to the mature and reflective artist who was twice Grammynominated in the 1990s Jody has always played his own style. Here he presents the technical nuts and bolts for you to make your own personal style. This lesson is both a roadmap of Jody’s development as a flatpickingguitarist of mostly American vernacular music and a guide to how any flatpicker can expand their expressive technique. Think of it as “Flatpicking According to Jody”. It’s a graded course starting with basics in whichthe technical relationship between fingerpicking and flatpicking is made clear. The first few pieces are great songs with memorable melodies but minimal fingering so that right hand fundamentals can be mastered. Witheach new tune more techniques are introduced and more of the fingerboard is used both horizontally and vertically. The second half of the lesson is purely instrumental music and the tunes are more complex. Titlesinclude: Carter’s Blues It’s Hard To Love I Got A Bulldog Leake County Blues Arkansas Traveler The Dawn and The Ship in Full Sail.