How to Play Country Lead Guitar: Guitar Solo: Instrumental Album

If you're trying to improve your lead guitar playing by studying scales that's only half the picture. The best lead guitarists in rock jazz country bluegrass and R and B base much of their improvisation and soloing on chords -even when they're playing single-note solos. In this one and a half hour lesson Fred Sokolow shows you several chord-based approaches to soloing and backup. Covering several musical genres Fred teaches you to:Play arpeggios country licks and fast flatpicking solos in country/bluegrass tunes like Jambalaya and Wreck of the Old 97. Solo and backup RandB songs like People Get Ready and Just My Imagination in the colorful styleJimi Hendrix used on Little Wing. Play Steve Cropper-style licks on Dock of the Bay and Under the Boardwalk. Improvise Django-style solos on swing tunes like Avalon. You'll also learn some music theory and get abetter understanding of the guitar as Fred shows you ways to instantly find chords up and down the fretboard and connect them in chord families. Lots of Fred's solos are written out in the accompanying tab/music booklet and ifyou put the DVD in your computer you can access a PDF file and print it all out in a larger size. Fred's relaxed style of teaching makes it easy for you to add new licks new color and new strategies to your lead guitarplaying.

From James Burton to Albert Lee, Brent Mason and beyond, the real sound of country guitar is one of the most sought after among today's players. Whether you're a pro eager to add to you stylistic and technical abilities, or a newcomer who's drawn to that clean, twangy guitar sound, Hot Country has something for everyone. As well as more than 150 licks, solos and backing tracks, all written out and demonstrated on the accompanying CD, Lee Hodgson offers practical advice on playing lead and rhythm guitar and enlarging your chord vocabulary. You don't need a hat, just your guitar and a passion to play some Hot Country! / Méthodes et pédagogie / Guitare / Guitare acoustique / HAL LEONARD

Nuys James Van (Taught). Par NUYS JAMES VAN. Ce cours a pour but d'aider les guitaristes débutants ou intermédiaires à improviser des solos dans les chansons country. Vous apprendrez à créer vos propres plans en utilisant la gamme pentatonique majeur. Puis une approche plus complexe vous permettra les inversions. Vous étudirez egalement les Hmmer-ons, pull-offs et slides. James Van Nuys joue et enseigne depuis plus de 35 ans. Ce DVD vous permet de béneficiez de son incroyable experience de la music country. 1 heures d'enregistrement, en anglais. / Niveau : Débutant à Intermédiaire / Méthode / Guitare Country

The Early Blues Of Lightnin' Hopkins-In this second DVD lesson devoted to the guitar playing of Lightnin??? Hopkins Ernie Hawkins dives into Lightnin's early catalogue from the Aladdin and Gold Star record labels. There was an amazing variety to Lightnin's early work. Listening to his early recordings we hear an artist at his prime. He effortlessly employing widely different rhythms keys and tunings. The deeper we listen to these songs the deeper our insight into what a master of Texas blues Lightnin' Hopkins really was.Lightnin's style itself came along at the perfect time: the advent of the electric guitar. His style strong rhythms punctuated by his flowing but compact lead linescreated a stinging and heart-tearing evocative sound. Lightnin's guitar style and technique worked great for both the acoustic or electrical guitars. The blues of Freddy King Albert Collins the Vaughn brothers Billy Gibbons testify to the power of this style. Lightnin' connects the generations of players starting with Blind Lemon Jefferson for whom he was lead-boy in the early 1920s. Standing tall at the center of the Texas Blues story is Lightnin??? Hopkins.In this double DVD set Ernie Hawkins covers songs in unusual keys such as: drop D(Sugar Mama) in drop D but played in the key of A (Santa Fe Blues) in G (Bad Luck and Trouble) as well as in the usual blues in A Come Back Baby and the country gospel Needed Time in the key of E. As a bonus Ernie teaches his version of Lightnin's Hideway the Freddy King tune coming back home to Lightnin'.Ernie teaches phrase by phrase and then uses the split-screen so you can carefully study what each hand is doing. Detailed tab/music booklets are included as PDF files on both DVDs. 186 minutes ??? Level 2/3 ??? Detailed tab/music PDF files on the DVDs

Soloing Strategies to Free the Lead Guitarist. Par SOKOLOW FRED. Every guitarist seeks to create unique, meaningful solos intheir performances that match those of today's most reveredplayers. It doesn't matter whether you play blues, rock,country, bluegrass, swing, folk, or pop music - these soloingstrategies show you exactly how to break out of the scale-jail to unleash your artistic potential and become a versatile leadguitarist! Celebrated author Fred Sokolow uses popular tunesand exercises to teach you how to play solos based on: open-position and movable chord/scale shapes · standard and artist-inspired licks · listening suggestions · and several more approaches. Each concept is demonstrated with solo guitar and full band audio tracks online for download or streaming - just the tools you need to help you break out ofscale-jail and run toward soloing freedom!/ Etude / Guitare

Six and Twelve String Blues-Paul Geremia is possibly the greatest living performer of the East Coast and Texas fingerpicking and slide styles. He has been called a national treasure. John Hammond says that he'd drive a thousand miles to see Paul play. 'When Paul plays Leadbelly you can close your eyes and swear that it is Leadbelly himself.' Paul has created a style which is very much his own combining his interpretations of the music of Blind Lemon Jefferson Robert Johnson Blind Willie McTell Scrapper Blackwell and Blind Blake. Paul’s superb recordings have made him a critical favorite and place him firmly among the legends who inspired and influenced him over the past four decades. Titlesinclude: Tootie Blues Rising River Blues Cat Man Blues Kill It Kid Rag Statesboro Blues Stocking Feet Blues Leaving Blues Silver City Bound Death Don’t Have No Mercy Meet Me In The Bottom Pony Blues Scrapper’s Scraps Wonderful Affliction My Kind of Place Kicking In The Country Still Thinking About You and Little Silver Airplane.

Teach Yourself Lead Guitar - DVD with Small Booklet-Learn to play lead Guitar riffs licks and solos using all the essential lead Guitar scales and patterns.Includes 56 page book.For beginning lead guitarists.Easy to follow lesson by lessonformat.Suitable for all ages.Suitable for all types of Guitars.Learn the important techniques used in lead Guitar playing.Learn the scales and patterns used by the world's best leadguitarists.Learn how to play in different keys.Learn licks and solos in many styles including rock blues metal and country.Jam along with a professional backing band.

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.