Explore Alternate Tunings: Guitar Solo: Instrumental Album

This method is aimed at those looking to explore all the facets and techniques of beautiful folk Guitar or simply acoustic Guitar in general. This book provides advice on techniques like fingerpicking and flatpicking as well as arpeggio and chord accompaniment. The use of the capo an essential part of folk Guitar is covered in a separate chapter along with alternate tunings. Finally techniques like slide hammer-ons pull-offs are covered along with basic percussive techniques. All this is illustrated with a number of acoustic tunes in the style of great artists like Bob Dylan Tracy Chapman Cat Stevens Simon and Garfunkel and The Beatles.  The accompanying CDallows these techniques to be played along to professional backing tracks while the DVD shows the number of accompaniments presented in the method. This method is aimed at those looking to explore all the facets and techniques of beautiful folk Guitar or simply acoustic Guitar in general. This book provides advice on techniques like fingerpicking and flatpicking as well as arpeggio and chord accompaniment. The use of the capo an essential part of folk Guitar is covered in a separate chapter along with alternate tunings. Finally techniques like slide hammer-ons pull-offs are covered along with basic percussive techniques. All this is illustrated with a number of acoustic tunes in the style of great artists like Bob Dylan Tracy Chapman Cat Stevens Simon and Garfunkel and TheBeatles.  The accompanying CD allows these techniques to be played along to professional backing tracks while the DVD shows the number of accompaniments presented in the method.

To Alternate Tunings-Discover the secrets of four alternative tunings with Kirtley's accessible arrangements and make your first steps into this exciting and contemporary approach to the Guitar. By straying from the standard EADGBE tuning system aworld of new harmonic possibilities open up some of which are explored through Kirtley's exciting solo pieces. You will learn:How to tune your guitar in four new waysHow to find the tunings without an electronictunerThe pros and cons of alternate tuningsFull on-screen instruction for each song including split-screen detailHarmonic 'chime' techniquesRight-hand fingerstyle techniques

Explore the Many Sonic Possibilities of the Guitar From Gear to Techniques and Beyond!-This overview of the nearly endless sonic possibilities of the modern guitar shows you how to create a huge variety of analog and digital sounds using a myriad of techniques pedals plugins amps accessories and more. The accompanying 83 audio tracks available for download or streaming online feature demonstrations of each notated sound effect along with specially-composed etudes that put them in a musical context. Topics covered include: reverb & delay looping wah wah distortion compressions studio effects slide guitar sweep & economy picking alternate tunings & capos tapping harmonics bends and much more!

For Fingerstyle Guitar-The variety of Christmas songs and Carols provides a fertile ground for fingerstyle guitarists. At the same time the familiarity of these tunes requires the guitarist to explore creative approaches in order to bring newtextures and meanings to these timeless melodies. Employing various tunings unusual chord voicings counterpoint lines alternating bass arpeggio techniques and lost more El McMeen explains his arrangements of Christmasfavourites that range from Jingle Bells a tender version of Away In A Manger to an evocative and breathtaking arrangement of We Three Kings. Three different tunings are explored: standard DADGAD andCGDGAD and the lesson includes a 40 page tab/music booklet of the pieces within.

Number 7 in a Series-Number 7 in a Series. Join some of today's greatest guitar players and explore the new world outside of standard tuning! This unique CD/songbook lets you hear and play 12 songs in 10 different tunings: David Wilcox - Eye of the Hurricane · David Crosby with CPR - That House · Sonny Chillingworth - Moe 'Uhane (Dream Slack Key) · John Cephas and Phil Wiggins - John Henry · Ani DiFranco - Cradle and All · Alex de Grassi - The Water Garden · Dougie MacLean - Caledonia · Ledward Kaapana - Whee Ha Swing · Trian - The Death of Queen Jane · Peter Finger - 101 South · Mary Chapin Carpenter - The Moon and St. Christopher · Paul Brady - Arthur McBride. Features the original artists'recordings accurate transcriptions in notes and tab bios and photos detailed performance notes with tips from the artists and more!

Buzzard Banjo - Clawhammer Style. Provides the intermediate clawhammer (5-string) banjo player with a fresh repertoire of 21 traditional and 5 original tunes as played by the author with the Boiled Buzzards Old Time String Band. The book briefly addresses clawhammer basics with a few pages of exercises and scales before presenting the tunes. The banjo tunings in this book are: double C tuning (gCGCD), modified double C tuning (eCGCD), G tuning (GDGBD), A tuning (aEAC#E), D tuning (aDADE), and Double-D tuning drop 5th (f#DADE). Written in banjo tablature only with suggested backup chords. Voted one of the top 10 clawhammer banjo players by "Banjo Newsletter" readers, Levenson advises the reader that the tablature in this book is to be used only as a guide and to "play the tune as you hear it, not slavishly as written". This approach allows the reader to play within his/her style and level of ability. Includes access to online audio.