Fred Sokolow: Learn To Play Bottleneck Guitar Book: Guitar: Instrumental Tutor

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 R

Essential Guitar Patterns-Fred Sokolow's best-selling guitar method and series has helped hundreds of thousands of guitar players. For the first time this system is presented for the absolute beginner. While teaching the basic skills needed to play countless songs Sokolow presents practical music theory that will enhance your playing. The visual fretboard patterns used in all of the Roadmaps books make it easier to understand the guitar and think like a musician. With chord grids tablature music notation and a recording you'll immediately learn how to: play over 20 familiar tunes; strum and fingerpick songs with many different rhythms; play melodies in five different keys; playdozens of chords; use the ???blues box??? to play solos and to jam with other players; play power chords and barre chords up and down the neck; read tablature and music notation; and more! The accompanying recording includes the songs scales and exercises that are presented in tablature and music notation throughout the book. The success of the Fretboard Roadmaps series is due to its practical visual patterns which help the guitarist learn to play quickly!

There'll never be another band like the Grateful Dead but the Dead's music lives on. Now you can start to play and sing nine classic Grateful Dead tunes from start to finish with Fred Sokolow's 92-minute instructional DVD. Foreach song Fred shows you how to fingerpick backup while singing how to play an instrumental solo and how to begin and end the tune. Along the way you'll learn a lot about fingerpicking backup patterns soloing ideas and chordpositions.

Open tunings are as old as the guitar itself and they’ve been used to play blues folk country rock and old-timey music. Who’s known for using open tunings? Artists as diverse as Robert Johnson Bob Dylan MaybelleCarter Bo Diddley Blind Willie McTell Keith Richards Doc Watson Muddy Waters Joni Mitchell Ry Cooder Neil Young Fred McDowell Jimmy Page Son House John Renbourn Leo Kottke Ani DiFranco Alex de Grassi and PierreBensusan! In this 92 minute lesson Fred shows you how contrary to what many beginners might think open tunings make it easier to play guitar. You’ll learn songs from all the above musical genres in open D open G andDADGAD tuning. In addition to learning songs you get some tips on how to improvise and play chords in G and D tuning. It’s a great way to expand your range on the guitar and get a whole different sound! Tunes include:Buckets of Rain Statesboro Blues Mean Old World Little Sadie K.C.Jones Stackerlee The Way I Am and I Didn’t See It Coming. Also included are bonus audio tracks featuring recordings from the 1920s to 1940s of some ofthese tunes so that you can hear how these songs can be played and sung.

In this seventy-five minute DVD Fred teaches nine standards every country picker or singer should know...from start to finish! You???ll learn an intro for each song a backup pattern and bass runs to play while singing aninstrumental solo and an ending. Fred keeps the arrangements fairly simple but includes a few up-the-neck chord positions and hot licks. You???ll learn solos and runs in five different keys. Each song is played atregular speed and then slowed down on a split-screen that gives you a close-up look at the picking hand and the chording hand. All the arrangements are clearly written out in tab and music in the included PDF along with lyrics.

The blues has always been spiced with suggestive metaphors. This collection of bawdy blues songs celebrate the off-color blues repertoire: Bessie Smith is wild about her kitchen man's turnip tops but Bo Carter's pencil won'twrite no more! There's lots of variety with songs from the 1930s 40s and 50s; some are simple three-chord blues tunes and others have beautiful ragtime chord changes. Fred shows you how to play accompaniment and solosfor all the songs. The evocative titles include Ain't Got Nobody to Grind My Coffee (Clara Smith) She's Your Cook But She Burns My Bread Sometimes and My Pencil Won't Write No More (Bo Carter) Kitchen Man (Bessie Smith) Big TenInch (Bull Moose Jackson) You Can't Tell the Difference After Dark (Alberta Hunter) and the holiday perennial Let's Make Christmas Merry Baby (Amos Milburn). You'll learn to accompany yourself singing the songs and howto play a fingerstyle instrumental version of each one. Fred's easy-going instructional style his tips on playing the arrangements and his slowed-down split-screen performances of each tune make learning easy. All thearrangements are written out in tab and music as well...both the backup and solos. 76 minutes - Level 2 - Detailed tab/music PDF file on the DVD.  DVD is region 0 playable worldwide.

Learn how to play and sing nine classic Paul Simon tunes from start to finish. You will learn how to play instrumental solos and how to begin and end each song. While studying Fred's arrangements of these Paul Simon hits you willalso learn a lot about finger picking: backup patterns soloing ideas and various chord positions.