Explorations for Fingerstyle Guitar

L'occasion idéale de se familiariser avec le monde vibrant et réconfortant de musique celtique sur le fingerstyle Guitar, avec primé interprète Pat Kirtley. Kirtley six traditionnelle enseigne d'airs de l'Irlande et l'Ecosse dans le DADGAD open tuning. Les arrangements sont conçues pour les guitaristes qui déjà possèdent une capacité de jeu assez confiante, mais qui sont à la recherche d'explorer de nouveaux mondes de tonalité et patrimoine musical. Vous apprendrez la structure et la forme du Celtic tunes le comprendre et de rythmes de danse de jeu, comme la gigue et bobine comment afin d'identifier les différents types de régler au sein du genre comment jouer au Celtic authentique ornements de techniques de violon et de vent comment embellir une mélodie de l'importance de l'accordage de DADGAD / Guitare

Dans cette deuxième leçon pour le Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar, Tony McManus explore tous les rythmes de la danse de la musique écossaise, avec sa pipe-marches, des strathspeys, des turluttes simples et doubles, des jiogs de glissement et des bobines. McManus a été particulièrement réussi dans la traduction de la musique complexe de la cornemuse highland à la guitare, et pour maintenir l'intégrité de la musique, il introduit des ajustements apportés inhabituelles trois : CGCGCD, CGDGCD et DAAEAE. L'idée et jouer à des jeux est présenté, ainsi que davantage d'exploration des techniques de l'ornementation. Complet avec un livret de tab/musique 32 pages de tous les éléments inclus dans le DVD. / Guitare

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

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

Intermediate Fingerstyle Guitar is the perfect continuation of Beginning Fingerstyle Guitar. This book is great for fingerstyle guitarists who already know the basics and are ready to proceed to the next level. Along with alternate tunings topics include fingerpicking patterns bass lines modes barre chords diatonic harmony special techniques and an exploration of different music styles. These range from Country Blues Celtic to contemporary new age styles. There is also a essential section on arranging with a clever step-by-step approach. Intermediate Fingerstyle Guitar comes complete with an accompanying CD to help with the learning process.

To Fingerstyle Swing Guitar-Duck Baker is considered to be one of today???s finest fingerstyle guitarists. In this lesson he teaches the basics of how to put that ???swing??? in to your playing. This is not a lesson for beginners and it is assumed you will alreadyhave some knowledge of this style. Duck shows you how to expand and take your playing to a different level so that you can fingerpick swing tunes. Along the way he explains and explores rhythm chords and changes that you will needto incorporate into your playing. Four familiar tunes from the swing repertoire are taught and the arrangements are fully explained phrase by phrase. This DVD format has each arrangement on split-screen that clearly show whateach hand is performing. This lesson will help you develop your own individual technique for playing fingerstyle swing guitar.

Complete Instruction in Fingerstyle Technique Tone Phrasing and Arranging-Hone your technique and deepen your understanding of contemporary fingerstyle guitar with this full method taught by one of the masters of the genre. From fundamentals like properly positioning the fretting and picking hands todeveloping a solid alternating thumb technique Alex de Grassi carefully guides beginning and intermediate players into the world of steel-string guitar. He then explores more advanced topics like cross-string playing alteringthe texture and weight of notes and chords slapping and tapping and developing ?depth of field? in your playing-techniques he has used in composing and arranging guitar music for over 30 years. This book includesstandard notation and tablature as well as links to online audio tracks.

The body of sacred music takes many forms and except for the area of Gospel music has not been routinely explored by fingerstyle guitarists. Yet there are techniques available to the fingerstyle player that can be used tocreate evocative and beautiful arrangements of religious music. In this DVD lesson El McMeen demonstrates the use of various techniques including harp style arpeggios and alternating bass lines as well as the open string tuningof CGDGAD to make the power and beauty of this music accessible and exciting to the fingerstyle player. Includes a 24 page tab/music PDF booklet containing all the music and examples found within the lesson. Thoroughlypractical interesting and a wonderful learning tool El McMeen’s arrangements and playing bring a unique sensitivity to this music that encourages and inspires guitar students.

Take your acoustic playing outside of the box with extended techniques for classical and fingerstyle guitar.This innovative book/download pack features an in-depth exploration into a variety of tapping slapping and percussion methods. Includes loads of exercises helpful tips and compositional studies plus access to audio downloads with 99 demo tracks.Teaches: tapping basics single line tapping intervallic & polyphonic tapping slapping basics slapping lines percussion basics rudiments additional techniques compositional studies standard notation and tablature and much more!

French-Algerian fingerstyle guitarist Pierre Bensusan is a unique talent. His sound and style confounds classification being both profoundly original and yet familiar and expressive. His fingerprint is on it whether it is hisearlier folk and Celtic-based renderings his free-form improvisational material or in settings solo or ensemble. Undoubtedly he is one of the world’s finest DADGAD players. His music reaches far beyond the idiom of a guitarplayed in a non-standard tuning living by the rationale that music is not made for a specific instrument but about musical ingredients and how you combine them. In this second DVD lesson Pierre introduces seven more piecesthat typify his amazing skills and style as he explores the techniques and skills required to play them whilst also allowing an insightful glimpse into the mind of one of the world’s great guitarists.

Celtic Music offers the fingerstyle guitarist many beautiful and haunting melodies as well as intriguing dance rhythms and exciting tunes. Duck Baker is one of the leading fingerstyle guitarists arranging melodies from thevast Celtic repertoire. In this DVD Duck explores the possibilities of playing a wide variety of Celtic music on your guitar. The character and feel of the Celtic style is expertly conveyed here and with a selection ofpieces to learn and practice the skills you will soon be adding melodic picking and arpeggios to your own playing. With a 24 page PDF music booklet.