Fingerstyle Solo Guitar Beyond Basics - DVD

French-Algerian fingerstyle guitarist Pierre Bensusan is a unique talent. His sound and style confounds classification being both profoundly original and yet familiar and expressive. His fingerprint is on it whether it is hisearlier folk and Celtic-based renderings his free-form improvisational material or in settings solo or ensemble. Undoubtedly he is one of the world???s finest DADGAD players. His music reaches far beyond the idiom of a guitarplayed in a non-standard tuning living by the rationale that music is not made for a specific instrument but about musical ingredients and how you combine them. In this first DVD Pierre teaches 10 compositions exploring thetechniques and skills required to play them whilst also allowing an insightful glimpse into the mind of one of the world???s great guitarists.

The Art of Acoustic Blues Guitar - The Basics. Whether your favourite blues guitarist is Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Blind Blake, John Lee Hooker, Big Bill Broonzy, or Mississippi John Hurt, studying the basic techniques presented in this program is the first step toward being able to capture the essence of their traditional styles. In this book, Woody Mann shows you practical ways to develop fundamental technique and offers you insights into the musical logic of blues guitar. Woody walks you through each song, explaining the chord positions and picking techniques. He teaches blues in the keys of D, G, C, E, and A, presenting a wide selection of classic blues songs and instrumentals from the masters of blues guitar. Included in this program are the basics of the Delta blues of Robert Johnson, the ragtime style of Blind Blake (the man with the piano-playing guitar), and the music of Big Bill Broonzy, Memphis Minnie, Willie Walker, and Willie Moore. Each song illustrates how solo players approach the guitar like a piano, playing melodies and bass lines simultaneously. Developing this independent two-line picking technique enables you to get the feel, syncopation, and subtleties of the music. The songs in themselves are studies in acoustic blues technique and present the authentic elements of the acoustic blues sound and style including blues technique and ways to play off of the chords and improvise within a song. This program is recommended for beginning acoustic blues guitarists as well as electric guitarists and acoustic fingerstyle guitarists of all levels who would like to go beyond pattern picking and develop a more dynamic and syncopated sound. Woody Mann had his first schooling as a teenager in the living room of Rev. Gary Davis, the now legendary gospel and ragtime guitarist. Mann soon went on to perform and record with blues masters Son House and Bukka White as well as contemporary innovators including John Fahey. He has recorded extensively, performed throughout the world, and is widely recognized as one of the world's leading teachers and transcribers of acoustic blues music, having taught countless guitarists through his popular books and videos.

111 Songs! The Complete Resource for Every Guitar Player-A top-notch resource for every guitarist this 111-song collection contains songs in all musical genres and Guitar styles. The Ultimate Guitar Songbook: Second Edition includes everything from pop/rock hits to jazz standards Motown masterpieces to movie classics traditional tunes country favorites Broadway blockbusters and beyond. Features note-for-note transcriptions (Evil Ways Give It Away Photograph) riffs (All Right Now Deuce Iron Man Start Me Up) arrangements for easy Guitar (Change the World Crazy Jump Roxanne) chord melody (The Christmas Song Stella by Starlight Yesterdays) fingerstyle(Come Sail Away Linus & Lucy My Funny Valentine) classical (Lagrima Minuet Pavane) and more.

Covers blues chords forms stylistic licks and patterns blues scales turnarounds pick and fingerstyle techniques solo country blues style guitar and the styles of Lightnin' Hopkins Muddy Waters Lonnie Johnson and Robert Jonson with over 50 music examples licks and solos. Matching video available.

French-Algerian fingerstyle guitarist Pierre Bensusan is a unique talent. His sound and style confounds classification being both profoundly original and yet familiar and expressive. His fingerprint is on it whether it is hisearlier folk and Celtic-based renderings his free-form improvisational material or in settings solo or ensemble. Undoubtedly he is one of the world’s finest DADGAD players. His music reaches far beyond the idiom of a guitarplayed in a non-standard tuning living by the rationale that music is not made for a specific instrument but about musical ingredients and how you combine them. In this second DVD lesson Pierre introduces seven more piecesthat typify his amazing skills and style as he explores the techniques and skills required to play them whilst also allowing an insightful glimpse into the mind of one of the world’s great guitarists.