Country Blues Guitar Duets DVD

While slowly illustrating classic country blues guitar duets in the styles of Big Bill Broonzy Blind Blake and Lonnie Johnson Woody Mann and Bob Brozman explore the techniques and thinking that go into creating cohesive duetguitar parts that compliment each other. Each part is taught separately. They explain and illustrate how you can arrange a simple song through the use of new chord positions simple picking syncopation ideas and opentunings as well as walking you through the basics of how to select a key use of a capo and listening to the song in new ways. The duo presents effective techniques for improving improvisational skills while jammingwith other musicians. Each guitar part is a solo tune in itself. The ideas and techniques covered in this lesson offer creative approaches to expanding all aspects of your playing. Titles include: Lazy Blues Tampa SlowGrind Mr. Blake Long Gone Blues and TAB Guitar Rag.

The Country Blues guitar duet tradition is rich and varied but it has been relatively unexplored by present day blues players. This is a shame for a couple of reasons there are a lot of great duets that merit being worked out and played for today's audiences preserving the music but there's also just the sheer enjoyment and fun involved in playing this music with a kindred spirit someone who hears and responds to this music as you do yourself.In Legendary Country Blues Duets Frank and John have selected some of the really prime guitar duets in the Country Blues tradition to teach you. The songs they've chosen for the lesson have beenpicked to provide you with a variety of different duet approaches sounds and techniques. In several instances the two guitar parts are played out of different tunings or positions. In the course of the lesson you'll work through and learn Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie's Pile Drivin' Blues Walter Beasley and Sylvester Weaver's Toad Frog Blues Will Batts and Dan Sane's Country Woman Yank Rachell and Dan Smith's Squeaky Work Bench Blues and Frank Stokes and Dan Sane's What's The Matter Blues.For each one of the songs in the lesson John and Frank take turns teaching their parts which are then shown in slowed-down split-screen versions of each duet part followed by the two guitars together. TAB and standard notation of the guitar parts and the song lyrics are included as a PDF file on the DVD as are the original recordings of the songs. You can choose to learn one or the other of the parts or learn both parts and teach one to a friend. There is a richness in shared musical performance that is yours for the taking here. Learn Legendary Country Blues Duets and find out just how rewarding playing Country Blues with another guitarist can be.

Media Type : Book Level : Intermediate Musical Genre : All Styles Number of pages : 200 Volume 2 of the Guitar Class Method focuses on melodic development and solo playing and provides a vast collection of solos, duets and quartets in multiple styles including rock, blues, classical, Gospel, and folk using flatpick and fingerstyle technique. A special quartet section presents the opportunity for intermediate-level players to experience ensemble playing. Presents individual segments on Chord Strumming Melody; Country style accompaniment; Bluegrass Style Solos; Blues and Contemporary Sounds; Fingerstyle Solos and Country Blues Solos; Note Reading and Melodic Development; Guitar Quartets; Note Reading Solos in Various Styles; and Melody-Chord Solo Playing. Written in standard notation and tablature with chords presented in both diagram and photo format. The individual segments can be used concurrently in any order.

Guitar Styles of Merle Watson-During the fifteen years that Merle Watson toured and recorded with his father Doc Watson the duo was one of the most popular and beloved musical teams in folk music history. On these two CDs Merle teaches the traditional fingerpicking flatpicking and slide guitar styles for which he was famous. Doc joins Merle in a dynamic demonstration of twin guitars as they take apart some of their most requested duets and explain in detail how each part is played. CD One - Country Guitar Fingerpicking Solos & Duets: Southbound - Candyman - Will the Circle Be Unbroken - Goin' Down the Road - Make Me a Pallet on the Floor - Nine-Pound Hammer - The Last Thing on My Mind - Worried Blues- Bonaparte's Retreat - Windy and Warm - Blue Railroad Train - Solid Gone - Deep River Blues. CD Two - Slide Guitar and Flatpicking Solos & Duets: Poor Boy Blues - Day Break Blues - Curly Headed Baby - Can't Be Satisfied - Wabash Cannonball - Minglewood Blues - Miss the Mississippi and You - Columbus Stockade - Honky Tonkin' - Will the Circle Be Unbroken - Old Joe Clark - Salt Creek - Florida Blues - Cotton-Eyed Joe - Red-Haired Boy. TWO CDs - INCLUDES TAB - LEVEL 3