House of Blues - Beginner Acoustic Guitar: Guitar: DVD

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.

The House of Blues and producers of The Rock House Method join together to bring you this accelerated acoustic guitar course designed to take you from the very first stages of beginner to intermediate player in no time. It's jam-packed with instruction that covers a complete spectrum of techniques and components for acoustic guitar. You will learn the parts of the guitar proper hand position tuning open and full form chords strum patterns major & minor scales song rhythms and the basics of finger picking. You will be playing complete song rhythms with the full band backing tracks.This expanded edition features: redesignedpackagingupdated and revised lessons8 new pages of lessons addedall audio tracks now available as downloadand a PDF digital edition for portable devices when the product gets registered

A Complete Course for Playing Guitar-House of Blues and producers of The Rock House Method join together to bring you this unique and comprehensive guitar course! With this course designed by world-renowned guitarist John McCarthy you will develop a solid foundation for playing acoustic and electric blues guitar by learning beginner through advanced techniques. You start with basic chords scales and proper technique training! You'll then graduate to strumming as you learn rhythm guitar learn lead guitar with bending hammer-ons and pull-offs and learn complete songs and leads. Finally you'll move onto full form chords and scales triplet lead patterns the shuffle feel and swing effect challenging blues riffs turnarounds and much more! John will encourage you to cultivate your own style by emphasizing the techniques and components needed to develop creativity. Everything is included to guide you through the process of mastering the guitar.

The Logic Of Fretboard-The ability to improvise and create variations within a song is the essence of the guitar work of the great traditional acoustic blues guitarists such as Blind Blake Robert Johnson Big Bill Broonzy Rev. Gary Davis and Blind Lemon Jefferson. By exploring the ways that chords melodies and rhythms work Woody Mann presents practical and simple ways to create variations in your playing. Woody teaches a new approach to seeing the fretboard and techniques for 'breaking down' chord blocks into smaller 'pieces' and connecting them throughout the fretboard. As he teaches the repertoire of the masters of acoustic blues he demonstrates how melodies andharmonies can be derived from simple moveable chord shapes. The Logic Of Fretboard is a method for relating the entire fretboard to the basic first position chord shapes that we all learn as beginners and using them to create new chords melodies and variations in your music. Studying the songs and concepts that Woody presents in this program will help students to break out of ruts and begin playing up-the-neck without relying on bar chords or scale patterns. Woody's approach to varying melody and bass lines against each other will also help students to develop a more syncopated and stronger picking technique. This simple and effective method allows students to increase their chord vocabulary by relying on logic instead of memorization.Woody Mann had his first schooling as a teenager in the living room of Rev. Gary Davis the now legendary gospel and ragtime guitarist. Mann soon went on to perform and record with blues masters Son House and Bukka White as well as contemporary innovators including John Fahey. He has recorded extensively performed throughout the world and is widely recognized as one of the world's leading teachers and transcribers of acoustic blues music having taught countless guitarists through his popular books and videos.