House Of Blues Acoustic Guitar Course

The Play It All series are Tutorial DVD's presented in association with respected amplification and instrument manufacturers Peavey. This is a complete Beginner programme for learning Rock Metal Funk Blues and Reggae onacoustic guitar. Learn authentic acoustic techniques with master instructor John McCarthy. With a huge resource of tips and tricks easy to follow close-ups and a step-by-step approach this is a fantastic place for novices tostart and progress to higher levels. This pack also contains a CD or Rock House Jam Disc with drum bass and guitar backing tracks web links and access and full band accompaniment for practice.

House of Blues Learn to Play Series-House of Blues and The Rock House Method® join together to bring you this unique and comprehensive beginner acoustic program. Jam-packed with a complete spectrum of techniques and components that will have you playing today.The one-on-one lessons with world renowned instructor and guitarist Kevin McCreery start with the basics of holding and tuning your guitar then guide you step-by-step through chords strum patterns scales song rhythms fingerpicking and more. Play along with the included full bass and drum backing tracks. Also have fun while learning about the history and famous pioneers of acoustic guitar.Each Rock House product includes free lifetimemembership to Rock House's online lesson support system. Enhance your learning experience links with instructors download backing tracks access message boards and much more. You'll connect with a community of musicians aroundthe world learning to play music using The Rock House Method.

Morning Thunder-In The Guitar Artistry Of Chris Proctor the National Fingerstyle Guitar Championship winner talks about his style and influences as well as giving dazzling performances on both 6- and 12- string guitars.Chris Proctor falls squarely into the ?New World? steel-string guitar style. Beginning with pop and rock music Chris was soon drawn to the country blues. After exploring that tradition he studied classical and jazz music the traditional music of the British Isles bluegrass and old-time Appalachian music and finally began to investigate the world of the 12-string guitar.In 1982 Chris won the U.S. National Fingerstyle GuitarChampionship and released his first recording ?Runoff.? That recording and the 8 that followed on the Flying Fish Rounder Windham Hill and Sugarhouse labels over the next 27 years elevated Chris to the top rank in the steel-string world. Chris also wrote articles and books filmed instructional videos of his transcriptions and techniques created the guitar workshop program for Taylor Guitars and designed the Taylor Chris Proctor Signature Model guitar.Beginning in the year 2000 Chris broadened his original focus on new music to include reinterpreting music of his diverse set of original influences. His performances today are a primer on the acoustic guitar music of the ?New World.? They feature original guitar techniques and devices invented and adapted by Chris and they convey a striking array of tones textures and moods.Titles include: Tap Room Hot Spot War Games Ozymandias Beppe Ladybug Stomp Nights in White Satin Bach to Ireland Late Again Interstate Morning Thunder The Last Steam Engine Train Revisiting the Sailor?s Grave Gecko Drive and Medley:A Scarce O? Tatties/The Lyndhurst Jig??? Review: Watching Taylor fingerstylist and original workshop clinician Chris Proctor in his new DVD Morning Thunder is an enlightening exercise. Proctor has

Levels 1-3 Complete-Designed by John McCarthy this Master Edition combines all three levels of this award-winning series in a complete course! Learn all the essential techniques needed to play all genres of music for electric or acoustic guitar. Start with how tohold the guitar for comfortable playing and fast effective learning. Next learn picking and strumming techniques chords rhythm timing and how they are used to play popular songs. Learn melodies scales and the basics of the blues. You will alsolearn lead techniques such as hammer ons pull-offs and bends and how to put them together to play leads and riffs! Level 2 guides you to learn and apply scales such as Natural Minor Pentatonic Major and Blues scales. Learn to play the mostused chords and progressions that will have you playing hundreds of songs quickly. Level 3 gives you all the guitar knowledge to stand toe to toe with the best guitar players in the world! Learn advanced chords scales techniques andcoordination building exercise that will have you tearing up the fretboard. As an added bonus included are audio backing tracks and playing examples you can download that follow each lesson and let you apply them over full band backing tracks.

Cultivate your acoustic Guitar skills with this German edition of the Hal Leonard Acoustic Guitar Method.This book uses real songs to teach the basics of acoustic Guitar playing. Covering many styles - from folk, country and bluegrass to acoustic blues and rock - Gitarrenmethode Für Akustikgitarre includes practical lessons in strumming, fingerpicking, using a capo and open tunings.Written in standard notation and tablature, this volume contains 45 great riffs, including Barely Breathing, Dust in the Wind, Here Comes the Sun, Name and more. / Guitare

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Auteur/Interprète : HAMMJE THOMAS
Instrument : Guitare
Support : Livre CD 25 standards incontournables pour guitare acoustique. Version Easy to Play guitare-chant et Arrangement Unplugged pour chaque titre, pour jouer en même temps la mélodie et l'accompagnement. Chanson , Folk, Blues, Celtique, Country'pour tous les niveaux.

John McCarthy a présenté un système éducatif en quatre volets visant à rendre l'entrée dans le monde de la guitare acoustique aussi intéressante que possible. Citons un livre, un CD, un DVD et un support en ligne. Beaucoup de techniques et d'exercices faciles à comprendre, vous apporter rapidement vers votre destination ! À partir de la base, l'attitude et la manipulation de l'instrument, le premiers arrêt techniques, les échelles, les rythmes, Fingerpickings et beaucoup plus sont inclus. Le DVD prend en charge tous les exercices avec les exemples Visual, qui montrent les deux mains en photographie rapprochée, ainsi que les vues de la guitare dans la perspective du joueur et une table de vidéo avec les accords. Sur le CD, aussi guides de l'enseignant à travers tous les exercices, puis, lorsque vous avez besoin elle aussi montre les détails. Il s'agit aussi de Backingtracks professionnel qui vous pouvez jouer avec de développer un sentiment de l'instrument et la musique et comment c'est jouer avec une bande réelle. À l'appui en ligne... / Guitare

Whether Guy Davis is appearing on Late Night TV programs or nationally syndicated radio shows in front of 25 000 people at Madison Square Garden or an intimate gathering of students at a Music Camp Guy feels the instinctive desire to give each listener his 'all'. His 'all' is the Blues.Guy can tell you stories of his great-grandparents and his grandparents their days as track linemen and of their interactions with the KKK. He can also tell you that as a child raised in middle-class New York suburbs the only cotton he's personally picked is his 'BVDs' up off the floor. He's a musician composer actor director and writer. But most importantly Guy Davis is abluesman. The blues permeates every corner of Davis' creativity.Throughout his career he has dedicated himself to reviving the traditions of acoustic blues and bringing them to as many ears as possible through the material of the great blues masters African American stories and his own original songs stories and performance pieces. In 1993 he performed Off-Broadway as legendary blues player Robert Johnson in Robert Johnson: Trick the Devil. He received rave reviews and became the 1993 winner of the Blues Foundation's ?Keeping the Blues Alive Award?. Looking for more ways to combine his love of blues music and acting Davis created material for himself. He wrote In Bed with the Blues: The Adventures of Fishy Waters -- an engaging and moving one-man show. The Off-Broadway debut in 1994 received critical praise from the New York Times and the Village Voice. Of Davis' live performance one reviewer observed that his style and writing ?sound so deeply drenched in lost black traditions that you feel that they must predate him. But no they don't. He created them.?These days Davis concentrates much of his efforts on writing and performing his Blues music. He has released nine albums for Red House Records all of which have garnered rave reviews and