Happy Traum: Easy Steps To Acoustic Blues Guitar: Guitar Solo: Instrumental

2 - Essentials Of Fingerstyle Blues-The second in Happy Traum's tutorial series for the novice guitarist introduces you to the world of fingerstyle blues guitar. Building upon the basics established in the first DVD (Catalogue No. HL00641834) Traum's lessons will give you the skills to create bass pulses with your thumb whilst picking out the tunes and syncopations on the upper strings. The result is a rich self-accompanying sound full of groove and swing!Traum's Easy Steps method reduces these key techniques into smaller modules that can be digested quickly and easily. Through carefully constructed exercises these techniques become gradually more complex and advanced allowing your playing to growat your own pace.You will learn how to break up your chords as well as the funky 'Lightnin' Hopkins Lick'. There are shuffle and boogie-woogie basslines solo riffs scales and chord progressions all just waiting to be absorbed into your playing to develop your own unique country-blues sound.

DVD Three: Graduating into Classic Repertoire-EASY STEPS TO GUITAR FINGERPICKING DVD Three: Graduating into Classic RepertoireBack in standard tuning you're introduced to the songs and styles of Merle Travis Doc Watson John Hurt and other masters of traditional fingerpicking. You'll learn to move freely around the fingerboard and will be playing licks slides hammer-ons and bass runs while maintaining the steady thumb rhythm that gives this style its ear-catching appeal. By the time you've completed this course you'll be picking: I Am a Pilgrim • Deep River Blues • Louis Collins • Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out • Step It Up and Go. 60 MIN. • LEVEL 3 • INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB

The ability to jam is a vital element of blues playing and this DVD lesson is designed and presented by Happy and Artie Traum to teach you exactly how it's done.The blues is unique as it offers a highly stable but dynamic structure for improvisation without the need for advanced harmonic theory. Artie and Happy's unique and inimitable delivery will get you playing straight away and the lesson is packed with detailed instruction practical advice good songs and all the techniques you'll need to trade riffs use chord inversions and much more. You'll have plenty of opportunity to jam with guys themselves as they provide a full rhythmic back up to all the songs theyteach including six classic blues standards in the keys of E and A.

Play along with Happy and Artie as they continue their excursion into blues jamming and improvisation and receive some important tips fascinating insights and sage advice on blues techniques.A whole bunch of songs are taught covering a wide variety of keys and tunings each one offering different possibilities for licks solos and bass patterns. The songs become launch-pads for your own jamming explorations carefully guided by Happy and Artie that will boost your confidence and transform your blues vocabulary.