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This method features 50 simple accompaniments for all Guitar players especially the beginners who will find material that they will be able to enjoy without delay! These accompaniments that can be played either on an acoustic or an electric Guitar cover many different styles (folk pop rock blues bossa nova...) and playing techniques (arpeggios in finger picking arpeggios with a pluck strumming hammer-on...). Inspired by the greatest Guitar players these 50 accompaniments will help you refine your sense of rhythm and feel comfortable with your instrument. The video DVD allows you to hear and see these 50 accompaniments giving you the opportunity to executethe good moves pick the right fingerings and to be rhythmically accurate! The mp3 CD contains as many tracks as there are accompaniments that is 50 play-along tracks featuring two different tempos: the objective tempo (normal) and the practice tempo (slow). On the normal tempo track the Guitar plays over the first cycle and is mute hereafter to let you take the place ! Finally these tracks have a deliberately long duration (3 to 4 minutes each more than 5 hours of music then!) to give you time to practise in the best possible conditions.

The Early Blues Of Lightnin' Hopkins-In this second DVD lesson devoted to the guitar playing of Lightnin??? Hopkins Ernie Hawkins dives into Lightnin's early catalogue from the Aladdin and Gold Star record labels. There was an amazing variety to Lightnin's early work. Listening to his early recordings we hear an artist at his prime. He effortlessly employing widely different rhythms keys and tunings. The deeper we listen to these songs the deeper our insight into what a master of Texas blues Lightnin' Hopkins really was.Lightnin's style itself came along at the perfect time: the advent of the electric guitar. His style strong rhythms punctuated by his flowing but compact lead linescreated a stinging and heart-tearing evocative sound. Lightnin's guitar style and technique worked great for both the acoustic or electrical guitars. The blues of Freddy King Albert Collins the Vaughn brothers Billy Gibbons testify to the power of this style. Lightnin' connects the generations of players starting with Blind Lemon Jefferson for whom he was lead-boy in the early 1920s. Standing tall at the center of the Texas Blues story is Lightnin??? Hopkins.In this double DVD set Ernie Hawkins covers songs in unusual keys such as: drop D(Sugar Mama) in drop D but played in the key of A (Santa Fe Blues) in G (Bad Luck and Trouble) as well as in the usual blues in A Come Back Baby and the country gospel Needed Time in the key of E. As a bonus Ernie teaches his version of Lightnin's Hideway the Freddy King tune coming back home to Lightnin'.Ernie teaches phrase by phrase and then uses the split-screen so you can carefully study what each hand is doing. Detailed tab/music booklets are included as PDF files on both DVDs. 186 minutes ??? Level 2/3 ??? Detailed tab/music PDF files on the DVDs

This deluxe edition of the world-famous method by Will Schmid and Greg Koch includes online access to 48 online audio tracks and 30 minutes of video lessons! The Hal Leonard Guitar Method is designed for anyone just learning to play acoustic or electric guitar. It is based on years of teaching guitar students of all ages, and it also reflects some of the best guitar teaching ideas from around the world. Book 1 includes: tuning - playing position - musical symbols - notes in first position - C, G, G7, D, G7, A7 and Em chords - rhythms through eighth notes - strumming and picking - 100 great songs, riffs and examples. / Guitare

The Hal Leonard Guitar Method is designed for anyone just learning to play acoustic or electric guitar. It is based on years of teaching guitar students of all ages, and it also reflects some of the best guitar teaching ideas from around the world. This deluxe beginner edition for Book 1 includes the book, online access to 48 audio tracks and 85 minutes of video lessons, plus an enclosed CD with audio tracks and a DVD with video lessons to go along with every lesson in the book. Bonus - also includes a full-color guitar chord poster! / Guitare

Complete Mandolin Edition. Learn 29 great swing standards in the style of Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli, and the Quintette of the Hot Club of France. 110-page book plus play-along audio. Download and jam along with a great Gypsy Swing band, learn mandolin chords, comping, melodies, then let the band back you up as you solo. We will jam all night long! Learn moveable closed-position swing/jazz chords and the swing mandolin rhythm comp. Printed music includes standard notation, mandolin tablature, chords, lyrics. Almost 200 minutes of play-along audio plus bonus downloadable music and exercises. Read along as you play along. Each recorded song is presented at slow and regular speed. First, you will hear the melody played at a slow speed with just guitar backup, then it is repeated at regular speed with the band. The backup band is a classic Hot Club-style rhythm section with two acoustic rhythm guitars and string bass. (The ensemble also includes rhythm mandolin.) Finally, the band plays several choruses, and you play all the leads. Songs may be repeated, at slow or regular speed, as many times as you wish to perfect phrases, melodies, and solos in a band context. Potential for improvement is unlimited. Beginners in the style can practice basic skills while more advanced players can hone their improvisation chops, each at their own individual learning pace. Aimed at intermediate to advanced mandolinists. Also available for guitar.

Guitar Play-Along DVD Volume 17-The Guitar Play Along DVD series lets you hear and see how to play songs like never before. Just watch listen and learn! Each song starts with a lesson from a professional guitar teacher. Then the teacher performs the completesong along with professionally recorded backing tracks. You can choose to turn the guitar off if you want to play along or leave the guitar in the mix to hear how it should sound. You can also choose from multiple viewingoptions; fret hand with tab wide view with tab pick and fret hand close-up and others. Each DVD includes great songs that all guitarists will want to know!Vol. 17 features: Across the Universe ? Big Yellow Taxi? California Dreamin' ? Crazy on You ? Pink Houses ? Suite: Judy Blue Eyes ? Wanted Dead or Alive ? Yesterday. 2 hours 11 minutes.

Beginning Acoustic Guitar features Michael Thompson one of rock's most talented session players and Berklee College of Music graduate. Michael has performed with many popular musicians including Michael Jackson Michael Bolton Great White Dokken Reba McEntire Peter Cetera Ringo Starr and The All Starr Band Cher Celine Dion Hall and Oates Earth Wind and Fire and Bette Midler to name just a few. Michael also has his own album out under the Geffen label. Michael presents 30 minutes of solid acoustic guitar basics that are used by every popular musician today. Michael introduces the guitar by starting with the instrument and its parts followed by tuning. He shows youfundamental chords chord progressions and arpeggiated chords. Michael also demonstrtaes minor pentatonic scales strumming patterns finger picking and much more. This DVD covers all the basic fundamentals every guitarist needs to get started.