Teach yourself how to play rock Guitar with these easy lessons. Progressive Rock Fingerpicking Guitar covers the important techniques required to learn to play rock Guitar including hammer-ons pull-offs slides bends release bends vibrato staccato picking damping raking muting arpeggiation and alternating thumb style.This book includes 71 exercises chord progressions licks and easy solos in rock Guitar styles.Progressive Rock Fingerpicking Guitar includes photos diagrams chord charts and easy-to-read music with basic chord symbols for accompaniment. This set comes with a CD containing Guitar audiodemonstrating all examples. Basic knowledge of how to read music and playing Guitar is required to teach yourself using this book.

The ragtime and early jazz music pioneers during the first decades of the last century didn???t know that the sounds they created would echo in the music that people loved for years to come. They started an American music traditionthat is alive to this day. I was born and raised in Sweden and I have always enjoyed the music from that era but being a Guitarist I never thought that playing back-up in a jazz band was for me. I???d rather do something with thesesongs so that they would fit my approach playing fingerstyle Guitar.Many of the early jazz songs and of course classical ragtime often is played as Piano music with a steady left hand playing bass notes and chords togetherwith the right hand playing a syncopated melody on top. This style of playing is very similar to the alternating bass style on the Guitar. So these tunes easily lend themselves to a fingerstyle arrangement.With classicalragtime I approach arranging by transcribing the original Piano sheet-music. The important thing is to find keys that suit the Guitar and then decide what notes not to play since it is not technically possible to play all thenotes in a Piano score on the Guitar. I like to play in keys that will give me the opportunity to use open strings in the bass while the melody moves up and down the neck. This is especially important since my aim is to make myarrangements not too difficult to play so that the player can concentrate on the music instead of being too concerned with the technical aspects of his/her playing. The most important challenge though is to make the tune soundlike Guitar music not Piano music played on the Guitar.

Four lessons: Strumming Chords Fingerstyle Basics Travis Picking and Capo Basics and uses the riffs of sixteen songs including Brown Eyed Girl Dust In The Wind Free Fallin' and Maggie May.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.

Time to get excited about playing blues Guitar! This book and CD pack provide time-tested lessons covering rhythms leads slide fingerstyle shuffles boogies and so much more.This is not a method book you go straight to the meat and potatoes of Blues playing with tried and true phrases that you've heard on countless songs by the biggest blues legends.The CD contains 78 tracks so you can hear every sample.

Happy Traum's long association with the iconic Bob Dylan makes him the perfect instructor to teach these seven fingerstyle arrangements of Dylan favourites. The detailed in-depth lessons are designed for both early intermediate and more experienced players who will gain important guitar technique along with first hand historical insights.

To Arranging For Fingerstyle Guitar-In A Nuts and Bolts Approach To Arranging For Fingerstyle Guitar Rolly Brown teaches an organised approach to exploring and combining rhythm melody and harmony to create fingerstyle Guitararrangements.This instructional DVD includes numerous tips tools and techniques a look at approaching different musical styles and just enough theoretical knowledge to get you started at arranging your own versions ofwhatever sort of music you want to create on the Guitar. Numerous examples are shown and discussed.The topics covered include:Arpeggiated rolling rhythmArranging for constant alternatebassChord choice and substitutionThe essential tones conceptArranging with a walking bass lineBossa Nova rhythmRagtimeFingerstyle bluesOriginalcompositions

Authentic Country Blues Guitar Techniques and Repertoire 2-DVD Set-Playing and singing country blues guitar is no easy task. It's just you and the box summoning up the requisite Guitar parts singing the melody and maintaining a solid groove. No drummer. No bass player - just you and your Guitar.Independence repertoire technique timing and endurance comprise the essential skill set for authentic fingerstyle country blues Guitar.Playing and singing the material in this 2-DVD set hones these skills like nobody's business. Paul Rishell diligently guides you through 16 handpicked tunes to cover a wide variety of the feels rhythms and techniques that are characteristic to country blues Guitar.You'll learn allof the parts rhythms and requisite techniques for songs such as Down the Dirt Road Blues by Charley Patton Shake 'Em on Down by Tommy McClennan Low Down Rounder by Peg Leg Howell Sweet Jivin' Mama by Blind Blake One Dime Blues by Blind Lemon Jefferson and many more. Get a solid grip on this Delta Piedmont and Texas blues Guitar repertoire and you'll be able to handle anything (including your own compositions) with authenticity stellar technique and maximum groove. Head out to the porch now with Dirt Road Blues.

For The Fingerstyle Guitar Book/3-Cd Set-This book is a collection of six pieces written with the fingerpicking guitarist in mind. Each piece is arranged in both standard notation and tablature. An extensive 3-CD set of instructional and performance-based recordingsaccompanies the manuscript

This book is a collection of seven pieces written with the fingerpicking guitarist in mind. Each piece makes use of an open tuning either DGDGBD or DGDGBbD and is presented in both standard notation and tablature. Includes anextensive 3-CD set of instructional and performance-based recordings

Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar - An Introduction shows that even at an introductory level there's much more to Celtic music than the slow airs and O'Carolan Harp tunes that are so frequently arranged for Guitar.With a bit of work the student can quickly be engaged in the core music of this repertoire.In this instructional DVD Tony McManus takes students on a gentle but detailed exploration of the ornamentation - rolls grace notes triplets etc. - needed to really get inside this music.Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar - An Introduction includes tutorials on the pieces Paddy's Ramble Through The Park I'm Asleep Don't AwakenMe Si Bheag Si Mhor The Lark's March Tullochgorum Breton Wedding March and The Butterfly.

Craig Wagnerâ??s unique approach to fingerstyle guitar includes equal amounts of jazz funk blues rock pop bluegrass and country flavourings. He turns the guitar into a whole musical combo with adventurous techniquesincorporating two-handed tapping polyrhythms walking bass banjo rolls exotic chords and moving inner voices. His forte is composition and arranging. In this video lesson he presents eye-popping reworkings of the jazzstandards Caravan and Cherokee Herbie Hancockâ??s Chameleon and Stevie Wonderâ??s Superstition. This is a very challenging DVD lesson designed for the advanced fingerstyle guitarist. Advanced techniques taughtinclude: 2 Hand Tapping Walking Bass Polyrhythms Latin Rhythms Arpeggios Chord Theory and Banjo Styles

Fingerpicking Guitar in the Dropped D Tuning. I became aware of the Dropped D tuning in 1960. It literally exploded my playing. Just by lowering the sixth string down a tone ' from E to D, my guitar sounded so much fuller. The tuning seemed to open up the fingerboard whether playing in the Keys of D, G or A. An alternating bass sounded huge and dynamic. Over the last 60 years I, as well as guitar playing friends, have explored playing in Dropped D. From folk and gospel to blues and early jazz to Celtic melodies and O'Carolan compositions to original instrumental compositions. This collection covers a lot of musical terrain. There's plenty of musical notes, styles, techniques in these pages. Travel slowly and try to absorb the arrangements one by one. The constant throughout is the Dropped D tuning. Includes access to online audio,

In this instructional DVD Fred teaches you how to fingerpick eight all-time blues classics. Most of them come from the old school of blues performers like Memphis Minnie Big Bill Broonzy Mance Lipscomb and Bessie Smith but there are also a few songs from urban RandB artists like Louis Jordan and Charles Brown. Every tune is a standard that has been covered by countless artists; you???ll find out where Led Zeppelin got When the Levee Breaks and what Come Back Baby sounded like before Ray Charles jazzed it up. You'll also appreciate the variety of sounds encompassed by the term 'blues.'Fred shows you how to accompany yourself singing the songs and how tofingerpick an instrumental version of each one. His easy-going instructional style his tips on playing the arrangements and his slowed-down split-screen performances of each tune make learning easy. All the arrangements are written out in tab and music as well... both the backup and solos.Songs include: Come Back Baby When the Levee Breaks Saint James Infirmary Blues In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down A Good Man Is Hard to Find Oh Daddy Let the Good Times Roll and Black Night.A detailed tab/music instructional booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD.

French-Algerian fingerstyle guitarist Pierre Bensusan is a unique talent. His sound and style confounds classification being both profoundly original and yet familiar and expressive. His fingerprint is on it whether it is hisearlier folk and Celtic-based renderings his free-form improvisational material or in settings solo or ensemble. Undoubtedly he is one of the world???s finest DADGAD players. His music reaches far beyond the idiom of a guitarplayed in a non-standard tuning living by the rationale that music is not made for a specific instrument but about musical ingredients and how you combine them. In this first DVD Pierre teaches 10 compositions exploring thetechniques and skills required to play them whilst also allowing an insightful glimpse into the mind of one of the world???s great guitarists.