A Nuts and Bolts Approach to Melody

In A Nuts and Bolts Approach To Arranging For Fingerstyle Guitar Rolly Brown teaches an organised approach to exploring and combining rhythm, melody and harmony to create fingerstyle Guitar arrangements.This instructional DVD includes numerous tips, tools and techniques, a look at approaching different musical styles and just enough theoretical knowledge to get you started at arranging your own versions of whatever sort of music you want to create on the Guitar. Numerous examples are shown and discussed.The topics covered include:Arpeggiated rolling rhythmArranging for constant alternate bassChord choice and substitutionThe essential tones conceptArranging with a walking bass lineBossa Nova rhythmRagtimeFingerstyle bluesOriginal compositions / Guitare

Waste Not Thy Time-Rolly Brown has been practicing the Guitar for 50 years and in that time he?s developed a large armamentarium of tools to aid and motivate himself and his students.In this two hour DVD starting with his ruleof ?half work half play? he shares many of these ideas interspersed with teachings to help you better enjoy and understand music and the guitar from a simple ?nuts and bolts? point of view. Whatever style of music you play youwant ways of practicing rhythm harmony and melody the 3 building blocks of music.Whether you flatpick or fingerpick play bluegrass jazz or folk music; whether you?re trying to learn your first F chord or looking fora method of practicing arpeggios to inform your jazz solos this video offers tools and advice to improve your playing.The topics covered include:On Creativity and Structuring Your TimeScales andModesHow To Rapidly Master New ChordsArpeggios: Bridging the Gap Between Chords and MelodyRight Hand TechniqueUsing a MetronomePracticing with Rhythm TracksSample PracticeRoutines

Rolly Brown has been practicing the Guitar for 50 years, and, in that time, he's developed a large armamentarium of tools to aid and motivate himself and his students.In this two hour DVD, starting with his rule of 'half work, half play?, he shares many of these ideas, interspersed with teachings to help you better enjoy and understand music and the guitar from a simple 'nuts and bolts? point of view. Whatever style of music you play, you want ways of practicing rhythm, harmony, and melody, the 3 building blocks of music.Whether you flatpick or fingerpick, play bluegrass, jazz, or folk music - whether you're trying to learn your first F chord, or looking for a method of practicing arpeggios to inform your jazz solos, this video offers tools and advice to improve your playing.The topics covered include:On Creativity and Structuring Your TimeScales and ModesHow To Rapidly Master New ChordsArpeggios: Bridging the Gap Between Chords and MelodyRight Hand TechniqueUsing a MetronomePracticing with Rhythm TracksSample Practice Routines / Guitare