Happy Traum: Easy Steps To Acoustic Blues Guitar: Guitar Solo: Instrumental

2 - Essentials Of Fingerstyle Blues-The second in Happy Traum's tutorial series for the novice guitarist introduces you to the world of fingerstyle blues guitar. Building upon the basics established in the first DVD (Catalogue No. HL00641834) Traum's lessons will give you the skills to create bass pulses with your thumb whilst picking out the tunes and syncopations on the upper strings. The result is a rich self-accompanying sound full of groove and swing!Traum's Easy Steps method reduces these key techniques into smaller modules that can be digested quickly and easily. Through carefully constructed exercises these techniques become gradually more complex and advanced allowing your playing to growat your own pace.You will learn how to break up your chords as well as the funky 'Lightnin' Hopkins Lick'. There are shuffle and boogie-woogie basslines solo riffs scales and chord progressions all just waiting to be absorbed into your playing to develop your own unique country-blues sound.

DVD Three: Graduating into Classic Repertoire-EASY STEPS TO GUITAR FINGERPICKING DVD Three: Graduating into Classic RepertoireBack in standard tuning you're introduced to the songs and styles of Merle Travis Doc Watson John Hurt and other masters of traditional fingerpicking. You'll learn to move freely around the fingerboard and will be playing licks slides hammer-ons and bass runs while maintaining the steady thumb rhythm that gives this style its ear-catching appeal. By the time you've completed this course you'll be picking: I Am a Pilgrim • Deep River Blues • Louis Collins • Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out • Step It Up and Go. 60 MIN. • LEVEL 3 • INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB

Dvd 2-In response to numerous requests Happy Traum has taken his ?Easy Steps? course to the next level adding songs and techniques that will bring your playing firmly into intermediate territory. You'll learn how to play in the versatile and useful ?dropped D? tuning with its rich booming bass notes and easy chord shapes. Five classic songs are taught each one rich with possibilities for creating exciting arrangements: The Colorado Trail ? My Home's Across the Smoky Mountains ? Fishin' Blues ? The Blues Ain't Nothin' ? John Henry. 60 MIN. ? LEVEL 3 ? INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB