Teach yourself how to play Guitar with Progressive Blues Guitar Solos which covers the important techniques required to learn to play the blues Guitar including minor scales pentatonic scales blues scales andmajor scales in various patterns and how to harmonize across the entire fretboard. Suitable for all ages and all types of Guitars including electric and acoustic. Includes 49 blues Guitar exercises in a variety ofstyles such as shuffles traditional slow blues and jazz style blues along with RandB and funk grooves written in the styles of blues legends like B.B. King Albert King Freddie King Albert Collins Buddy Guy Otis Rush andStevie Ray Vaughan. In full colour throughout with photos diagrams and easy-to-read blues Guitar music and easy blues Guitar tabs with chords for accompaniment. Comes with downloadable online audio containingGuitar audio demonstrating all examples. Basic knowledge of how to read music and playing Guitar is required to teach yourself how to play Guitar from this book.

Teach yourself how to play Guitar with Progressive Guitar Method: Fingerpicking.Progressive Guitar Method: Fingerpicking covers the fundamental techniques and practical Guitar theoryrequired to learn to play fingerstyle Guitar including alternate thumb arpeggio and constant bass styles.Suitable for all ages and all types of acoustic Guitar.Includes 60 fingerpicking Guitar exercises and populareasy Guitar songs for beginners in rock Guitar pop Guitar folk Guitar country Guitar blues Guitar ragtime Guitar and classical Guitar styles. In full colour throughout with photos diagrams and easy-to-read fingerstyle Guitarmusic for beginners Guitar chords for beginners and easy fingerstyle Guitar tabs for beginners.Comes with 1 DVD and 1 CD containing Guitar videos and audio for all examples.Basic knowledge of how to read music andplaying the Guitar is required to teach to learn to play Guitar from this book. Includes free poster.

The Beginner Basics: Guitar Bible is an indispensable self-teaching learning and reference manual for the beginning guitarist.This set includes a hardcover glossy full-colour 332-page manual as wellas 5 DVDs and 1 DVD-ROM with over 570 audio and 350 video files to download to PC Mac iPod or MP3 player.The Beginner Basics: Guitar Bible features 90 lessons covering lead rhythm and fingerpickingstyles of playing the Guitar.No prior knowledge of music or the Guitar is required to learn using this method and you will be shown how to play in any style including pop rock folk country and blues.This book canbe used for any type of Guitar: Electric Acoustic or Classical and contains all guitarists need to know to be able to play in a band. A free color chart including chords note summary fingerpicking patterns and more is alsoincluded.

This, the third book of a power-packed series, begins with exercises for developing speed and agility. Techniques such as machine gun strums, right-hand muting, slapping, tapping, slap harmonics and tremolo are introduced. You'll go further into Celtic music, blues, modal improvisation and alternate tunings and learn some world music styles, such as reggae, African/Brazilian, norteno and conjunto. This in-depth, thorough method for intermediate to advanced acoustic guitarists includes a look at more than ten alternate tunings and teaches analysis, counterpoint and voice leading. Any player, no matter how advanced, can improve their playing with this book. The CD offers play-along opportunities and demonstrates the examples.

Designed by John McCarthy, this Master Edition combines all three levels of this award-winning series in a complete course!Learn all the essential techniques needed to play all genres of music for electric or acoustic guitar. Start with how to hold the guitar for comfortable playing and fast, effective learning. Next, learn picking and strumming techniques, chords, rhythm, timing, and how they are used to play popular songs. Learn melodies, scales and the basics of the blues. You will also learn lead techniques such as hammer ons, pull-offs and bends, and how to put them together to play leads and riffs! Level 2 guides you to learn and apply scales such as Natural Minor, Pentatonic, Major and Blues scales. Learn to play the most used chords and progressions that will have you playing hundreds of songs quickly.Level 3 gives you all the guitar knowledge to stand toe to toe with the best guitar players in the world! Learn advanced chords, scales, techniques and coordination building exercise that will have you tearing up the fretboard. As an added bonus, included are audio backing tracks and playing examples you can download that follow each lesson and let you apply them over full band backing tracks. / Guitare

Arrangements for Solo Acoustic Guitar 2 - more instrumentals from a national champion.Pete Huttlinger continues his exploration of the guitar arrangements that have won him accolades throughout the acoustic guitar world - and a National Fingerstyle Championship! An engaging and accomplished instructor, Pete brings his spectacular playing with dramatic performance pieces that are as challenging as they are fun to learn.Pete starts out by teaching his Merle Travis-inspired chord/melody arrangement of the great Gershwin tune I Got Rhythm. His exciting version features lightening-fast fingerpicking and a total left hand workout.Things calm down a bit as you learn Pete's somewhat easier 'Chet-style' fingerpicking tune Darcy's Guitar. Then you're off and running again, this time with an in-depth teaching of Pete's most requested tune, the showstopper, The Santa Rita Connection.McGuire's Landing in DADGAD brings us back to a mellow Celtic mood. Tommy In The Morning, written by Pete for fellow fingerpicker Tommy Emmanuel, and the lovely hymn On Eagles' Wings, played in James Taylor's evocative style, round out this terrific DVD lesson.Over the years, Peter Huttlinger has established himself as a top-notch session player, composer, arranger, songwriter and sideman. The Berklee graduate has been a featured artist with the San Diego and Housten symphonies and the Nashville Chamber Orchestra, and has performed on numerous Grammy winning and nominated projects. In 2000 he won first place in the prestigious National Fingerstyle Championship in Winfield, Kansas. Pete toured, recorded and performed with John Denver from 1994 until the singer's death in 1997. He has also written music for HBO, PBS, ESPN, and many other networks. His 2003 release Naked Pop is on Steve Vai's Favored Nations label. / Guitare

The Art of Acoustic Blues Guitar - The Basics. Whether your favourite blues guitarist is Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Blind Blake, John Lee Hooker, Big Bill Broonzy, or Mississippi John Hurt, studying the basic techniques presented in this program is the first step toward being able to capture the essence of their traditional styles. In this book, Woody Mann shows you practical ways to develop fundamental technique and offers you insights into the musical logic of blues guitar. Woody walks you through each song, explaining the chord positions and picking techniques. He teaches blues in the keys of D, G, C, E, and A, presenting a wide selection of classic blues songs and instrumentals from the masters of blues guitar. Included in this program are the basics of the Delta blues of Robert Johnson, the ragtime style of Blind Blake (the man with the piano-playing guitar), and the music of Big Bill Broonzy, Memphis Minnie, Willie Walker, and Willie Moore. Each song illustrates how solo players approach the guitar like a piano, playing melodies and bass lines simultaneously. Developing this independent two-line picking technique enables you to get the feel, syncopation, and subtleties of the music. The songs in themselves are studies in acoustic blues technique and present the authentic elements of the acoustic blues sound and style including blues technique and ways to play off of the chords and improvise within a song. This program is recommended for beginning acoustic blues guitarists as well as electric guitarists and acoustic fingerstyle guitarists of all levels who would like to go beyond pattern picking and develop a more dynamic and syncopated sound. Woody Mann had his first schooling as a teenager in the living room of Rev. Gary Davis, the now legendary gospel and ragtime guitarist. Mann soon went on to perform and record with blues masters Son House and Bukka White as well as contemporary innovators including John Fahey. He has recorded extensively, performed throughout the world, and is widely recognized as one of the world's leading teachers and transcribers of acoustic blues music, having taught countless guitarists through his popular books and videos.

How to Choose Buy and Care for a Guitar-This helpful book from the master teachers at Acoustic Guitar magazine shows you the right way to play chords songs and solos with six essential lessons and an easy-to-follow CD.Topics:Chords 101Intro to Power Chords10 Great 4/4 Rhythm PatternsThe ABCs of FingerpickingTheory Made EasyYour First SoloShopping for the right GuitarCaring for your GuitarAn easy Guide to tuning upChoosing a capo pickup and stringeffective practice techniquesHow to read music and tablatureGlossary of Guitar terms...and moreThe CDfeatures all the music played both slowly and up to tempo.

Start playing with Alex Bach and follow in the footsteps of great female guitarists such as Avril Lavigne, Brodi Dalle, Courtney Love, Sheryl Crow, Crissy Hynde and KT Tunstall. Here's everything you need to start playing the guitar. This guitar method covers every topic from first strumming and playing position to playing complete songs. It's your chance to learn how to play and find out if you've got what it takes to become a talented guitarist and singer/songwriter. Acoustic or electric, either type is catered for but the style and the look are your own. This book shows you how! Author Alex Bach gives fast-track access to chords, scales, strumming patterns, and finger-picking style. You even get your own backing band - the DVD has professional backing tracks that let you experience the excitement of perforoming onstage with a group. / Niveau : Facile / Méthode en anglais / Méthode / Guitare Tablatures

Ton Van Bergeyk launched his career as a musician during the late 1960s playing blues Harp and Ukulele in a duo setting, but he then switched to the acoustic Guitar and quickly learned and mastered the instrument using fingerstyle techniques. He started to transcribe and arrange classic ragtime compositions for fingerpicking Guitar and was discovered by Stefan Grossman during a tour in Holland. Stefan produced Ton's first solo album, Famous Ragtime Guitar Solos, in 1973. This contained 14 of Ton's arrangements of classic ragtime pieces and became a best seller. In 1975, Ton's second solo album, Guitar Instrumentals To Tickle Your Fingers, was released containing transcriptions and arrangements of novelty rags, early jazz and popular tunes of the 1930s and 1940s. In 1980, Ton's third solo album was released and continued his exploration of arrangements for solo fingerpicking Guitar, this time with a repertoire covering jazz, blues, contemporary pop and country and even Mexican folklore. This album was titled Lulu's Back In Town, Hot Guitar Solos. Ton also participated in several anthology projects, i.e. Novelty Guitar Instrumentals, I Got Rhythm, Masters of Ragtime Guitar, The Entertainer and How To Play Ragtime Guitar. All of Ton's albums are available as CDs as well as direct downloads from Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop, (www.guitarvideos.com) and include tab PDF booklets on the CDs. Ton recorded the audio lesson series Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar to teach phrase by phrase and measure by measure some of his most requested arrangements. This second volume presents Ton Van Bergeyk's renditions of Duke Ellington's Jubilee Stomp and Take It Easy, Thelonious Monk's classic Blue Monk and the George Gershwin standard I Got Rhythm. / Niveau : Facile / Tablatures / Guitare Tablatures

Hawaiian slack key Guitar (Ki Ho'alu) is one of the world's great acoustic Guitar traditions. This tradition includes virtuoso Guitar pieces but the majority of songs played slack key are classic Hawaiian melodies eitherplayed as instrumentals or as accompaniment to vocals with instrumental breaks between the verses. The term ''slack key'' does not refer to a type of Guitar but rather to any Guitar played in the slack key style that is in alternate tunings with ''slacked'' strings and fingerstyle technique. Acknowledged slack key master Keola Beamer is a member of a family known for its musical artistry for generations. We are fortunate to have him writing inconjunction with veteran Mel Bay author educator and multi-instrumentalist Mark Nelson who simply followed his love of the music to the Islands. Written in standard notation and tablature to accommodate numerous alternatetunings this book is presented in four sections: 1) The most common tuning introduced by fairly easy songs2) Illustrations of how to build your own arrangements3) A presentation of various slackkey tunings4) A selection of duets in the slack key style.Historical and cultural insights are offered throughout in the spirit of aloha producing an informative musically enlightening book with souland humor. The companion audio download available online features tuning tracks and informal introductions of the audio content by the authors plus some beautiful slack key music.