The Happy Traum Guitar Method - Basic Theory That Every Guitarist Should Know

Basic Theory That Every Guitarist Should Know Practical Tools for Everyday Playing DVD One-These two DVDs are the first in a planned series of new products by famed Guitarist/Educator Happy Traum.Aimed at novice players these lessons demistify the Guitar fretboard and provide clear practical ways to expand an understanding of the instrument and enhance a student's overall musical experience.DVD 1 covers chromatic and diatonic scales chord building key signatures and other essential basics.

Instant Fingerpicking Success-The compelling mysteries of guitar fingerpicking are now easier to master than ever before. Renowned guitarist and celebrated tutor Happy Traum provides a comprehensive and straight forward method for learning the right-hand techniques needed to become an accomplished fingerpicking player. By breaking the technique down into building blocks and fundamental patterns you will soon be developing your own personal picking style. Get the most from this absorbing and highly individual approach to the guitar with this superb tutorial from one of the best in the business. Full music and tablature are included. Happy Traum has created the Guitar Building Blocks seriesof lessons to help learning players develop essential guitar technique. Each of these DVDs concentrates on a specific 'building block' allowing you to delve deeply into just those areas that you need to strengthen. The Building Blocks series gives you a solid foundation upon which to base your future guitar studies.

2 - Essentials Of Fingerstyle Blues-The second in Happy Traum's tutorial series for the novice guitarist introduces you to the world of fingerstyle blues guitar. Building upon the basics established in the first DVD (Catalogue No. HL00641834) Traum's lessons will give you the skills to create bass pulses with your thumb whilst picking out the tunes and syncopations on the upper strings. The result is a rich self-accompanying sound full of groove and swing!Traum's Easy Steps method reduces these key techniques into smaller modules that can be digested quickly and easily. Through carefully constructed exercises these techniques become gradually more complex and advanced allowing your playing to growat your own pace.You will learn how to break up your chords as well as the funky 'Lightnin' Hopkins Lick'. There are shuffle and boogie-woogie basslines solo riffs scales and chord progressions all just waiting to be absorbed into your playing to develop your own unique country-blues sound.