Jim Kelly's Guitar Workshop

The interactive song lessons on this extremely comprehensive DVD disc represent a cross-section of modern guitar styles and song forms. The split-screen footage multiple camera angles and incredible close-ups let you watch Jim Kelly's hands to learn his secrets tips and tricks as he presents each tune as a full performance followed by a special teaching section. He plays in the style of guitar greats like Jeff Beck Wes Montgomery Stevie Ray Vaughan Joe Pass Pat Metheny and more. With over 90 minutes of guitar performance and instruction an accompanying booklet with standard notation and TAB and lessons in English Japanese and Spanish Jim Kelly's Guitar Workshop DVD letseveryone have fun and improve their playing at their own pace. 90+ minutes.

The compositions of Turlough O'Carolan born in 1670 have a special place in the story of Irish music as does the figure of Carolan himself a blind itinerant harper living at a time of significant change in Irish history.Carolan seems to embody the image of the old bards in whom resided the last vestiges of the ancient music and the lost art of extempore poetry. His music is often seen as a link between traditional Irish melodies and baroque musicbut more importantly it includes some of the most striking melodies ever composed in any tradition. Originally written for harp these compositions lend themselves perfectly for the fingerstyle guitarist. In this lesson Duck Baker teaches a wide variety of Carolan pieces from the simple folk-like air Blind Mary to the stately Hewlett. The mysterious Planxty Kelly and the deeply melodic The Fairy Queen are presented as well as Carolan's Concerto a complex folk-baroque arrangement of the bard's most celebrated composition.

Featuring Sam Mitchell Duck Baker and Jo Ann Kelly.'I spent 20 years living in Europe traveling between homes in London and Rome. I made many friends and did countless concerts. These recordings were done between 1977 and 1978. They present my playing with Sam Mitchell Duck Baker and Jo Ann Kelly. The Country Blues were popular in Britain as well as throughout Europe Australia and the USA. It was a very special time.' - Stefan Grossman.