Texas Fingerstyle Blues Guitar

Fingerpicking Blues Guitar is a never ending study full of surprises and discoveries. Each key of the Guitar offers new sounds and textures. A blues played in the key of C sounds world's apart from a blues played in the keys of A G D or E. This series focuses on a single key for each lesson. The key of A can be very down home and tough. It can be rough and tumble. It can be driving and it can be lyrical. This lesson explores playing ideas licks and techniques from a host of legendary bluesmen: Son House Lightnin' Hopkins Blind Boy Fuller Rev. Gary Davis Big Bill Broonzy Mississippi John Hurt Blind Lemon Jefferson. Playing styles fromthe delta of Mississippi to the streets of Durham North Carolina to the juke joints of Dallas Texas. You will learn to play a blues in A minor. First we set up a fingerstyle melody and then we play off this with improvised lead lines. All in all a deep exploration of fingerstyle blues Guitar in the key of A. 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. Titles include: Blues For Son Blues For Lightnin' Blues For the Carolinas Big Bill Blues in A Monday Morning Blues Hop Scotch Blues and Hitting the Road With Jack. 103 minutes • Level 2/3 • Detailed tab/music PDF file on the DVD.

A Step-By-Step Breakdown Of His Guitar Styles and Techniques-Study the virtuosic fingerstyle technique bluesy expression and sophisticated phrasing of country guitar icon Jerry Reed with step-by-step breakdowns by Dave Rubin.Includes online access to full band audio demos at normal and slow speeds for download or streaming. Songs include Amos Moses ? The Bird ? The Claw ? Crude Oil Blues ? East Bound and Down ? Guitar Man ? Navy Blues ? Nervous Breakdown ? Sugarfoot Rag ? Texas Bound and Flyin' ? Tupelo Mississippi Flash and U.S. Male.

Buzzard Banjo - Clawhammer Style. Provides the intermediate clawhammer (5-string) banjo player with a fresh repertoire of 21 traditional and 5 original tunes as played by the author with the Boiled Buzzards Old Time String Band. The book briefly addresses clawhammer basics with a few pages of exercises and scales before presenting the tunes. The banjo tunings in this book are: double C tuning (gCGCD), modified double C tuning (eCGCD), G tuning (GDGBD), A tuning (aEAC#E), D tuning (aDADE), and Double-D tuning drop 5th (f#DADE). Written in banjo tablature only with suggested backup chords. Voted one of the top 10 clawhammer banjo players by "Banjo Newsletter" readers, Levenson advises the reader that the tablature in this book is to be used only as a guide and to "play the tune as you hear it, not slavishly as written". This approach allows the reader to play within his/her style and level of ability. Includes access to online audio.