Happy Traum: Guitar Building Blocks: Guitar Solo: Instrumental Tutor

Basic Theory That Every Guitarist Should Know Practical Tools for Everyday Playing DVD One-These two DVDs are the first in a planned series of new products by famed Guitarist/Educator Happy Traum.Aimed at novice players these lessons demistify the Guitar fretboard and provide clear practical ways to expand an understanding of the instrument and enhance a student's overall musical experience.DVD 1 covers chromatic and diatonic scales chord building key signatures and other essential basics.

Make your solo guitar sound like an ensemble with this complete guide to bass runs and how to use them! Renowned guitarist and celebrated tutor Happy Traum takes a handful of traditional songs and shows you how to add 'walking' bass parts and bring your chord playing to life. Learn the notes of a scale in several keys and apply them between chords to create a smooth harmonic transition and an effective counter-melody that will enrich your arrangements. Happy teaches a variety of patterns from simple bass moves to more complex chromatic runs. By breaking the technique down into building blocks and fundamental patterns you will soon be developing your own personal solo style andyou'll be amazed at what can be done with even the simplest folk melody! Get the most from this absorbing and highly individual approach to the guitar with this superb tutorial from one of the best in the business. Full music and tablature are included. Happy Traum has created the Guitar Building Blocks series of lessons to help learning players develop essential guitar technique. Each of these DVDs concentrates on a specific 'building block' allowing you to delve deeply into just those areas that you need to strengthen. The Building Blocks series gives you a solid foundation upon which to base your future guitar studies.

Happy Traum hosts a private lesson with one of Nashville's hottest guitar stars as he demonstrates his dazzling riffs beautiful harmonies and award-winning style. Steve's focus upon scales Banjo-like rolls bluesy licks and picking techniques will help you build speed fluidity and an arsenal of exciting ideas of your own.Wariner analyses his unique approach to fingeristyle guitar showing the chord inversions vibrato hammers pulls and multiple variations that recalls the playing of Chet Aitkins. Blues players will adore the groove-orientated showpieces while fans of Wariner's ballads will enjoy his more melodic material.

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.