World-renowned for his flawless picking technique Jimmy Bruno presents The Art of Picking. This book and online video provide a collection of his ideas and breaks them down into exercises and etudesthat aim to take any guitarist's picking technique to the next level.The 45-minute online video accompaniment will help you to break old habits and become more efficient in utilizing your right-hand techniques. This book ispresented in standard notation and Tab.

Beginning Fingerstyle Guitar. With Beginning Fingerstyle Guitar, author John Miller has written a book designed to provide newcomers to this style, whether first-time guitarists or guitarists who have previously only played with a pick, the techniques needed to develop a solid foundation for playing fingerstyle. The book uses songs for teaching, presenting multiple ways of playing a song, starting simply, and building gradually in terms of technical difficulty. And the exercises are designed to build skills in a wide range of fingerstyle skills: strumming, thumb-lead playing, pattern picking, and melody arrangements with the thumb playing alternating bass. What specific features does the book offer for the beginning fingerstyle guitarist' ? Over fifty exercises, for playing through the songs, all notated in both standard notation and tablature. ? Links to sound samples for all of the exercises, with each exercise played at a slow tempo, for starting out, and a target tempo, with all of the exercises counted in, so that you can play along with them. ? Chord diagrams are provided for each song with the fingerings indicated that you would need to play the exercises. ? Playing tips precede each exercise, offering guidance on how to play the exercises with the greatest ease and efficiency in both the picking and the fretting hands. ? A special section on playing Blues at the end of the book.Additional guidance is offered on understanding tablature, practicing, developing your tone, scale structure and transposition and use of a capo. So, in Beginning Fingerstyle Guitar, you will find a full service instruction manual?one that has been designed to enable you to progress comfortably at your own rate of learning, while steadily building skills and moving forward in terms of your own confidence and willingness to accept new challenges.

Classic Rags and Cakewalks Book/3-Cd Set-Fiddle Tunes Classic Rags and Cakewalks covers well-known tunes in each style taught by the professional fingerpicking guitarist?Leo Wijinkamp Jr. ?Included with the 28-page book arethree companion CDs featuring 3 full hours of note-by-note phrase-by-phrase instruction. Lesson 1 covers Open G tuning for the songs Buffalo Gals Red Wing and Flop Eared Mule lesson 2 looks at standard tuningwith At A Georgia Camp Meeting and Drop D tuning with Fig Leaf Rag while lesson 3 is guaranteed to give the guitarist some performance-worthy pieces with Ravel???s Pavane For The Sleeping Beauty andDebussy???s Golliwog???s Cakewalk.

Stock your musical toolbox with Cool Open String Licks! Whether you're just learning how to play guitar or you're a more seasoned player who wants to expand your vocabulary of open-position licks this book is for you! You'll find 76 licks in rock blues country R&B funk jazz and bluegrass styles. Each lick is partnered with detailed instructions on how it should be played as well as a demonstration track on the enclosed CD. There's no better way to build your arsenal of licks and lay the foundation for your soloing chops - today!

Re-issued Dutch edition.The Absolute Beginners course has been designed to tell you everything you need to know from the very first time you pick up your instrument. With this superb book you get a comprehensive guitarcourse featuring step-by-step pictures which take you from first day exercises to playing along with backing tracks.

This book/CD package is an insider's guide to the guitar style of Johnny Winter. You'll learn blues licks riffs turnarounds and solos from the master himself plus slide technique alternate tunings and much more. The CD features performances by Johnny Winter on regular slide and National Steel guitar with Paul Nelson on rhythm guitar and Dave Rubin on bass. Detailed performance notes are provided for each example.

The Hal Leonard Bluegrass Guitar Method is your complete guide to learning bluegrass guitar. This book uses popular bluegrass songs to teach you the basics of rhythm and lead playing in the styles of Doc Watson Tony Rice Maybelle Carter Lester Flatt and many others.Lessons include Carter strumming alternating bass waltz strums using the capo hammer-ons pull-offs slides crosspicking and much more. The accompanying online audio includes 43 tracks for demonstration and play-along.

This is a very popular guitar method. Its success lies in the fact that is extremely easy to understand and very flexible. It moves at a slow steady pace and enables you to play chord accompaniments in 7 primary guitar keys! Inaddition you will learn to strum blues chords and you will also begin to play fingerstyle backgrounds. This book is supplemented by a play along CD.

Four Lessons: Country Rhythm Guitar Country Lead Guitar Chicken Pickin' and Pedal Steel Licks.A first of its kind the At A Glance series pairs an instructional DVD lesson taught by a professional guitarist with a supplemental book for a comprehensive learning experience.Each pack features several lessons pertaining to one topic and the DVD lessons feature on-screen music from a vast array of classic songs.

Spanish Version of Step One: Play Guitar. En este libro aprenderas ritmos y canciones de los estilos: norteno banda cumbia bolero balada rock mariachi ranchera y muchos otros estilos mas.