Fingerstyle Guitar Tunings: DADGAD and Beyond

Progressive Techniques and Concepts for the Modern Guitarist-Fingerstyle Guitar Tunings by Danny Heines contains progressive techniques and concepts that will help guitarists to cultivate new composing and improvising skills and improve their fingerstyle ability. Inside this book you'll discover a universal method for navigating the fretboard in all tunings as well as: Audio demonstration tracks Standard notation and tablature Theory essentials DADGAD and other tunings Fingerstyle techniques Picking patterns Tapping and slapping techniques Scales modes and chords Tuning tips String and capotips Nail care and much more! The price of this book includes access to audio tracks online for download or streaming using the unique code provided. Fingerstyle Guitar Tunings includes Playback + a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch set loop points change keys and pan left or right - available exclusively from Hal Leonard.

This collection of traditional music from Ireland and Scotland arranged for solo guitar is the result of a passionate study of the tradition by some of the finest musicians playing in this genre. Compiled by Stefan Grossman thisbook includes arrangements by Pierre Bensusan El McMeen Martin Simpson Pat Kirtley Duck Baker Tom Long & Steve Baughman. Looking back less than a century you would find this music performed on fiddle pipes button accordion flutes and whistles in solo and ensemble settings but never guitar even in its basic role of providing rhythm. The challenge for those who attempt to translate Celtic traditional music for fingerstyle guitar is to preserve theunique qualities which are the essence of the style. The popularity of alternate tunings in this music tends to come from two different directions. One is in the desire for production of tonalities of droninginstruments á la the bagpipes and tunings such as DADGAD and EADEAE make this effect relatively easy. On the other hand there are guitar tunings which lend themselves easily to the melodic steps and fullness found in thediatonic Celtic harp such as DGDGBD (open G tuning) and the CGDGAD.

In this double DVD set Stefan Grossman teaches a wide array of folk blues arrangements. You will study playing in various tunings i.e. Standard Dropped D DADGAD Open D and Open C tunings.The songs range from popular bluesand rags to old-time mountain ballads.All are taught phrase by phrase and the movements of both the left and right hands are clearly illustrated on the split screens.A detailed tab/music booklet is included as PDF files oneach DVD as well as printed format.As an extra bonus original old recordings from the 1920s and 1930s are included so that you can hear the roots from where these tunes derived.

In this third part of his excellent analysis acclaimed British guitarist Martin Simpson teaches more advanced techniques and theories on how to bring out the widest possible harmonic range on the guitar. His fingerstyle playing combined with his unique guitar frailing and clawhammer style strumming will inspire guitarists of all levels. The tutorial features more complex arrangements in Gsus4 and DADGAD tunings of: Donal Ogg My Genorous Lover Betsy The Serving Maid The Coo Coo Bird and a showstopping arrangement of Miss McCloud's reel. This intermediate level tutorial DVD also includes the music and tablature for thefeatured songs. A treat for all acousitc players seeking the most sumptuous and resonant sounds for their solo arrangements.