Fast Forward Finger - Picking

This encyclopedia of licks is jam-packed with lead lines bends arpeggios flat-picking tips speed licks unique runs and great playing advice! It is the ultimate way to improve your technique and gain inspiration - fast. Guitarist Artie Traum delivers a powerful lesson that teaches more than a hundred riffs for blues bluegrass country and folk styles which players at all levels will be able to master.Here are just a few of the things you'll learn from this exciting package: Move with speed up and down the fingerboard; Improvise blues licks; Uncover secrets of country and bluegrass soloing; Hear exactly how riffs work in tunes; Learn to play in all majorand minor keys; Understand how to use these riffs to become a great playerCD instruction makes it easy! Find the section you want with the press of a finger; You can skip the parts you've already learned or play a particular segment over and over until you've mastered it; No rewinding or fast-forwarding to find your spot; Follow along track-by-track with the book; Listen with the best possible audio fidelity.

2-DVD Set- Award-winning instrumentalist Rob Ickes has created a comprehensove course to help you master all aspects of the resonator guitar from bar tachnique to fingerpicking rolls. He covers ererything you'll need to hold your own in a bluegrass band from a fine-tuning the strings to achieving good tone timing and volume control. You'll learn correct hand positions for fast and clean playing powerful forward and reverse right hand rolls basic music theory and all aspects of good bar techniques. With Jim Hurst on vocal and guitar you'll gain an understanding of how to play back-up rhythm and fills behind a vocalist create effective solos build chords andscales and much more. Rob teaches or demonstrates several great tunes including Will the circle be unbroken Dixie Hoedown Ol' Dangerfield Sailin' To Hawaii Monrobro Reuben How great Thou Art and Flat Lonesome. Whether you want to play bluegrass or explore country blues Hawaiian or other styles these DVDs will get you on the right track-fast.