Accelerate your guitar playing: Guitar Solo: Instrumental Tutor

This DVD will help to take your playing to the next level. Scotty Johnson has toured all over the world and recorded many CDs with various rock and blues heavyweights. After receiving a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Miami School of Music Scotty won the grand prize in the D'Addario International Rock Contest. After fulfilling a three record contract with Blues Bureau International. He did a one-year stint in Las Vegas as the musical director of the six million dollar hit stage production Madhattan. Scotty has since relocated to the Boston area where he continues to record tour and teach Guitar at Berklee College of Music. He has appeared inalmost every major Guitar magazine in the US and Japan and has been seen on CNN Access Hollywood Entertainment Tonight and Korean national TV.

This DVD will help to take yor playing to the next level. Professor Tomo Fujita shares his proven method for improving the essential skills required to play with other musicians and to freely express yourself on the Guitar.Professor Fukita has been teaching at Berklee College of Music since 1993 and continues to be one of the most sought after and effective Guitar and ensemble teachers. He has played Guitar with the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning musical Rent and has shared the stage with notables such as Phil Collins Roomful of Blues and Darryl Jones and the Saturday Night Live band to name a few. Additionally Tomo is the winnerof Boston's Best Guitarist Competition and he has won critical acclaim in Guitar Player and Guitar Shop magazines.

Learn how to take command of the fretboard with Matthew Von Doran. This incredible DVD will show you how to strengthen your grasp of scale chord & arpeggio vocabulary on the guitar by going from the big picture to the littlepicture of how it all works together. By exploring the shapes within the shapes on the fretboard you'll see how all of your patterns can be integrated into one macro-visualization. This DVD is filled with straight-forwardpractice concepts that use proven visualization techniques designed to accelerate your growth in all areas of guitar playing... theory technique improvising composing chord construction and more. And in the end you'll becreating music on a broader and deeper level than ever before. Also includes guitar jam tracks. Matthew Von Doran has been active in the Los Ang3eles music scene for over 30 years as a jazz and rock artist sideman session playerand educator. He has worked with numberous mands worldwide reflecting all styles and genres of music.

This DVD offers easy-to-understand exercises and demonstrations that can be applied to all levels and styles. These include: arpeggio exercises; right hand left hand and combinations; alternating bass and syncopation; piano style exercises; classical pop/rock and jazz/Latin styles; drop D tuning exercises; and more. Clear and detailed instruction is given both onscreen and in the accompanying lesson booklet.