Roots and Blues Fingerstyle Guitar Explorations

In this double DVD set Stefan Grossman teaches a wide array of folk blues arrangements. You will study playing in various tunings i.e. Standard Dropped D DADGAD Open D and Open C tunings.The songs range from popular bluesand rags to old-time mountain ballads.All are taught phrase by phrase and the movements of both the left and right hands are clearly illustrated on the split screens.A detailed tab/music booklet is included as PDF files oneach DVD as well as printed format.As an extra bonus original old recordings from the 1920s and 1930s are included so that you can hear the roots from where these tunes derived.

John Lee Hooker recorded hundreds of songs throughout his career that spanned from the late 1940's until his death in 2001. Very few blues musicians reached the heights that Hooker achieved among his many awards Hooker wasinducted into the Blues Hall of Fame the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. John Lee Hookers trademark one chord blues style can betraced back to his Mississippi roots where he first learned to play guitar and although often described as a simple technique the rhythm found in his playing is the bedrock by which all things blues fingerstyle rock etc. isbased upon. John Lee Hooker played out of standard tuning E position and Spanish tuning typically Open A and nearly all his recorded works fall into either category. Breaking this collection into two parts Feldmannwalks you through every aspect of Hookers playing style in both Standard and Spanish tuning. You'll even be treated to live video footage of Hooker performing the tunes taught out of Standard tuning on electric and more rare acoustic guitar. Whether your looking to learn Hookers songs licks or playing style you'll find those elements in spades plus most importantly you'll improve your rhythmic technique which will benefit your own playingregardless of genre. Tunes include: 'Maudie' 'Tupelo MS' 'I'll Never Get Out of These Blues Alive' 'Boom Boom' 'Boogie Chillen' 'Hobo Blues' 'I'm A Crawling King Snake' 'Bundle Up and Go'.

Move beyond basic folk styles and get into the excitement of fingerstyle blues ragtime and swing and learn the tools that will expand your guitar's rhythmic harmonic and melodic possibilities.In this DVD Brozman explains the 32-bar song form along with the chords and rhythms all of which characterise swing gypsy jazz and 1930s Cab Calloway-style tunes. You'll also learn calypso rhythms and other 'hot guitar' sounds. He demonstrates how to use palm-harmonics minor-key jazz/blues sounds and a variety of rhythm exercises that will really get your playing 'swinging'!.

Volume Two-The performances in this DVD series present two generations of artists who have advanced the acoustic guitar’s cause with formidable boldness. We clearly hear their folk blues and country roots even as they develop other distinctly personal harmonic and melodic pathways. Thinking coupled with the 90% perspiration 10% inspiration formula is evident in the performances here no less than in the artful arrangements in the original compositions. There are English guitarist playing original music tinged by American blues and American guitarists picking with English accents. There are guitarists from everywhere bringing music from the keyboard and othersources to the guitar. There is an apparent user-friendly adaptability happening around the instrument: the example of these players encourages the rest of us to tinker with arrangements explore open tunings try varied techniques of picking. The means they demonstrate are flexible. And the ends? Endless. As the redoubtable Claw Jerry Reed once remarked I don’t go to see a man pick. I go to see a man think. Dave Evans Stagefright John Renbourn Rosslyn Stefan Grossman Tightrope John Knowles Coastin' Pat Donohue The Mooch Marcel Dadi Saturday Night Shuffle Duck Baker Blood Of The Lamb Chris Proctor Interstate John Renbourn Little Niles Stefan Grossman Bermuda Triangle Exit El McMeen My Mary Of The Curling Hair Joe Miller Ivory Coast John Knowles Waltz Forever Pat Donohue High Society Duck Baker 'Round Midnight Chris Proctor Morning Thunder El McMeen Angels We Have Heard On High Marcel Dadi Je Te Veux Bonus Instructional Tracks: Stefan Grossman Diddie Wa Diddie and Pat Donohue High Society