Fingerpicking Guitar Solos In Open Tunings

Progressive Fingerpicking Guitar Solos is a collection of great sounding fingerpicking Guitar solos covering all styles of contemporary fingerpicking Guitar including blues ragtime country boogie classicaland open tunings.All solos are notated using standard music notation and tablature. At the beginning of each solo in this book chord diagrams are given to illustrate exactly how each part of the solo must be fingered withthe left hand.

Fingerpicking Guitar Solos in Open Tunings contains twelve tunes arranged for fingerpicking in 5 different open tunings. The 36-page book contains 3 CDs each providing an hour of note-by-note phrase-by-phraseaudio instruction. The music is presented in the book in both standard notation and tablature. Covers Open G Open Gm Open C EADEAE and DADFAD tunings and presents a wide variety of musical styles from medieval and Celtictunes to Gospel Country and Ragtime songs.

In these three audio lessons Duck Baker Stefan Grossman and John Renbourn teach six Celtic fingerstyle guitar solos. The three compact discs offer three full hours of note-by-note phrase-by-phrase instruction and all of the arrangements appear in the book in notation and tablature. Lesson One by Duck Baker teaches Planxty Irwin in Drop D tuning and Hewlett in standard tuning. Lesson Two by Stefan Grossman introduces Open G minor tuning for Logan Water and Captain Magan. Lesson Three by John Renbourn continues G minor tuning with arrangements of Mist Covered Mountains and The Orphan. This lesson concludes with five bonus tracks featuring performances by Davey Graham andDave Evans.

This book and video will take you from basic concepts in blues guitar through performance level blues solos and techniques. Chapters include: Notation and Tablature Time Values Strumming Blues Techniques The Blues Progression Open String Power Chords Barre Chords Blues Turnarounds Blues Fill-Ins The Blues Scale/Improvising Double Stops and Fingerpicking Blues Solos. This text is supplemented by a stereo compact disc.

Media Type : Book+CD+DVD Level : Beginning-Intermediate Musical Genre : Blues Series : Complete Number of pages : 88 This book and video will take you from basic concepts in blues guitar through performance level blues solos and techniques. Chapters include: Notation and Tablature, Time Values, Strumming, Blues Techniques, The Blues Progression, Open String Power Chords, Barre Chords, Blues Turnarounds, Blues Fill-Ins, The Blues Scale/Improvising, Double Stops and Fingerpicking Blues Solos. This text is supplemented by a stereo compact disc.

Teach yourself how to play Guitar with these easy open tuning fingerstyle Guitar lessons. Progressive Open Tuning Fingerpicking Guitar covers the important techniques required to learn to play fingerstyleGuitar and popular open tunings used in traditional and contemporary Guitar styles including open G open D open E and open C tunings.This book includes 24 fingerstyle Guitar exercises solos and great sounding populareasy songs in various tunings.In full color throughout with photos diagrams and easy-to-read music with chords and tab this book comes with 1 CD containing Guitar audio demonstrating all examples.Knowledge of howto read music and playing Guitar is required to teach yourself to learn to play Guitar from this book.

Four original instrumentals all in standard tuning and in different keys are taught in this lesson. These are multipart compositions that should challenge the intermediate to advanced fingerstyle guitarists. Stefan has brought together blues country and jazz ideas and themes to these solos.Bermuda Triangle Exit has three parts. It begins with a counterpoint section that then leads in to an alternating bass theme and resolves with an RandB fashioned third part. Beyond The Pleasure Dome (also known as Matesa) comes next. This is played in the key of C and brings together several country blues styles to a lyrical instrumental. The Way She Walks isvery much influenced by Stefan's many years living in England. He learnt the first section from Martin Carthy and then added two additional parts to round off the composition. Why A Duck is played in the key of F and was originally recorded as a duet with John Renbourn. Stefan's part stands well as a Guitar solo and opens up the fingerboard to a variety of interesting chord fingerings.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.

Techniques Arrangements and Improvisation-The sensational Kelly Joe Phelps guides you through his country blues and gospel guitar playing style in this fascinating DVD. Phelps plays the instrument Dobro style with a unique bar and alternate-thumb fingerpicking technique which allows for unusually free improvisation. In this video he demonstrates aspects of his musical craft - covering bar technique string muting use of the capo fingerpicking style and how to find scale and chord patterns in open D tuning. His exploration of improvised solos using these ideas will help you create expressive melody lines and evocative harmonies turning your songs into vehicles through which you can express your ideas and emotions.