Learn and Master Fingerstyle Guitar

Par GILEWITZ RICHARD. Direct from the master of guitar clinics, this 96-page book contains a plethora of topics based on Richard Gilewitz\'s experience of conducting fingerstyle guitar and sound seminars for nearly a decade in a variety of settings worldwide. Sections are built around the most frequently asked questions from players of all ages and skill level, with topics supported by written explanations, exercises, original music tablature and notation pieces, charts, and photographs. Recommended for players and teachers of both 6 and 12-string guitar, this book provides encouragement and new avenues for growth for all students wishing to improve upon their life-long craft. The companion CD and 83-minute DVD provide a guide to discussion on learning slide, how to select a guitar, capos, metronomes, tuners, strings, composition, hand positions, practice methods, touring and recording tips, standard and open tunings, picking patterns, and more. Original compositions offered in tablature and notation include \'Dirt To Dust\' with the new \'Gypsy Minor\' introduction, \'Bilingual Fantasy\', \'Jamaicalina\', \'Pre Dawn Mourning\', \'Echoing Gilewitz\', \'Mrs. Firecracker\'s Place\', and \'The Maison Blanche Exit Song\' . - 96-page book contains topics based on author\'s experience of conducting fingerstyle guitar seminars for nearly a decade - Sections are built around the most frequently asked questions from students - Topics supported by companion CD, DVD, written explanations, exercises, original music tablature and notation pieces, and charts / Niveau : Débutant à Intermédiaire / Acoustic Music - Technic / Tablatures / Guitare Tablatures

A Comprehensive Method for Today's Guitarist!-Mastering the Guitar is an innovative exciting way to learn the guitar. Co-authored by William Bay and Mike Christiansen this extremely comprehensive method applies the array of musical styles and techniques found in today's music. Written in notation and tablature it covers a vast array of guitar solo and accompaniment styles. A special feature of this method is that it teaches both flatpicking and fingerstyle solo and accompaniment techniques. We feel that Mastering the Guitar is the most comprehensive approach to guitar technique repertoire and performance to be found anywhere. Volume 1B: Teaches keys of D A E F D minor and B flat - Contains over 130 solos and duets - Contains over 40 comprehensive scale and picking studies - Includes numerous chord progression studies and chord accompaniment pieces. Includes access to online audio.

William Bay and Mike Christiansen have collaborated to produce an outstanding comprehensive guitar method addressing all styles of both flatpicking and fingerstyle technique. Guitar teachers take note: Mastering the Guitar seriesis the ideal method for the beginning student who has yet formed a stylistic preference or for the intermediate player limited to one particular style who wishes to expand his horizons and improve his technique. An impressivedouble CD set with more than 80 tracks per CD is offered for both books 1A (96620;96620CD) and 1B (96621;96621CD). Each written example in the books is carefully cross-referenced to its corresponding audio sample on the CD bymeans of a disk and track number printed above each piece. The student is encouraged to learn to read standard notation and tablature as both systems are used throughout this 3-volume series. The Technique Studies book providessupplementary more challenging pieces including chord studies in various keys as well as a few pieces in dropped-D tuning. Together these three books comprise a powerful learning tool for Mastering the Guitar in a contemporaryidiom.

Mastering The Guitar Is An Innovative Exciting And Comprehensive Way To Learn The Guitar. Written In Notation And Tablature It Covers Guitar Solo And Accompaniment Styles Ranging From Celtic To Classic To Cajun; FromFlamenco To Fiddle Tunes; From Renaissance To Rock To Reggae; From Baroque To Blues To Bluegrass; And From Latin To Country To Jazz. A Special Feature Of This Method Is That It Teaches Both Flatpicking And Fingerstyle Solo AndAccompaniment Techniques.

Media Type : Book/CD Set Level : Intermediate Musical Genre : All Styles Series : Mastering Guitar Number of pages : 144 Mastering the Guitar is an innovative, comprehensive method for learning the guitar. Level 2 Book C includes a wealth of challenging and creative guitar solos, duets and studies in the keys of A-flat,F-minor, G-minor,D-flat, and B-flat minor. Special concepts presented in this volume include: basic improvisation, rhythmic variation, barre chords, key of A-flat/closed position, passing tone studies, harmonized scales, western swing, fingerstyle performance, chord progression studies, blues, chords, common rock and blues licks, bass string chords, Latin rhythms, and comping. Guitar solo material provided in rock, jazz, bluegrass, Latin, blues, Baroque, Renaissance, and from a wide variety of historical periods and contemporary musical styles. Mastering the Guitar 2C Double CD set is a recording to accompany the volume of the same title. These CDs contain most all of the solo and duet settings found in the book as performed by William Bay, Mike Christiansen, and John McClellan.

Learn the fundamentals of how to strum use a pick tune your guitar and the names of the notes for each string. Then master the styles of rock fingerstyle blues jazz country and more. And then study soloing power riffs pro chord substitutions playing up and down the neck and more! This comprehensive pack includes: 20 complete sessions on ten instructional DVDs five jam-along CDs a 100 page lesson book 150 page downloadable resource book professional instruction and two DVDs of teacher resources. Winner of a Communicator and Telly Award for Education Learn

American Fingerstyle Guitar Favorites-Learn to play twelve classic fingerstyle songs with one of the masters of the style Pat Donohue. With note-for-note transcriptions in both staff notation and Guitar tablature (tab) learn to play these great American folk songs exactly as they were intended.Drawing influences from blues legends like Robert Johnson and folk heroes like Bob Dylan Donohue takes the best of both worlds to produce an idiosyncratic blend of warm acoustic fingerpicking and traditional American travelling songs. With the Hal Leonard Solo Guitar Library you can learn every note and nuance from the cream of Pat Donohue?s backcatalogue with selections from his 2008 album Freewayman going way back to his 1989 album Big Blind Bluesy. Each song from American Fingerstyle Guitar Favorites has been expertly transcribed into both staff notation and tablature making this book perfect for any fan of acoustic-folk music or somebody who wants to learn the essentials of fingerpicking. Whatever your background there is nobody better to learn from than Pat Donohue who has been called ?one of the greatest finger pickers in the world today? by none other than Chet Atkins. As if this wasn?t enough to convince you this edition of the book also comes with free audio access to Donohue himself playing the songs. All you have to do is enter the code provided on the Hal Leonard website to download digital versions of songs like Big Blind Bluesy and Maple Leaf Rag. To see the full list of songs included in this songbook please see below.With an unparalleled level of precise transcription the Hal Leonard Solo Guitar Library offers the best possible way for you to perfectly learn a dozen fingerstyle classics that come from the very hands of one of the greatest.

Brazil has produced some of the most vibrant and exciting guitar music in the instrument's history. In this lesson Rick Udler discusses and demonstrates styles techniques and rhythms of Brazil's great players. This is a uniqueopportunity for guitarists to delve into the beautiful sounds of this musical land. Rick begins by going over chords that are commonly used by Brazilian guitarists. He then teaches the accompaniment to singer/songwriterGilberto Gil's beautiful composition 'A Paz' to illustrate the use of chords with open strings. A step-by-step analysis of Bossa Nova accompaniment in the João Gilberto style follows along with suggestions on how to develop abetter feel for this sophisticated syncopated groove. The solo guitar rendition of the Antonio Carlos Jobim/Newton Mendonça classic 'One Note Samba' will be a welcome addition to many players repertoires with it'srhythmic drive and rich harmony. Samba rhythms are then explored with examples that are sure to enhance one's groove and arsenal of techniques. Rick also gives examples of inner string movement which will prove invaluable to thoselooking for ways to generate more excitement and authenticity in their comping. A sambified version of 'Happy Birthday' demonstrates how to apply these techniques to a familiar tune and make it sound fresh.And to provide an evengreater challenge for all players Rick gives a detailed analysis of his tour de force solo guitar piece 'Amigo Paulo' composed as an homage to his friend guitar legend Paulinho Nogueira (1927-2003). This tune with it's choroinfluences incorporates many of the techniques Rick learned directly from the master and is sure to provide much musical food for thought for players who are looking for innovative new colours and textures to add to their playing.

Ton Van Bergeyk launched his career as a musician during the late 1960s playing blues Harp and Ukulele in a duo setting, but he then switched to the acoustic Guitar and quickly learned and mastered the instrument using fingerstyle techniques. He started to transcribe and arrange classic ragtime compositions for fingerpicking Guitar and was discovered by Stefan Grossman during a tour in Holland. Stefan produced Ton's first solo album, Famous Ragtime Guitar Solos, in 1973. This contained 14 of Ton's arrangements of classic ragtime pieces and became a best seller. In 1975, Ton's second solo album, Guitar Instrumentals To Tickle Your Fingers, was released containing transcriptions and arrangements of novelty rags, early jazz and popular tunes of the 1930s and 1940s. In 1980, Ton's third solo album was released and continued his exploration of arrangements for solo fingerpicking Guitar, this time with a repertoire covering jazz, blues, contemporary pop and country and even Mexican folklore. This album was titled Lulu's Back In Town, Hot Guitar Solos. Ton also participated in several anthology projects, i.e. Novelty Guitar Instrumentals, I Got Rhythm, Masters of Ragtime Guitar, The Entertainer and How To Play Ragtime Guitar. All of Ton's albums are available as CDs as well as direct downloads from Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop, (www.guitarvideos.com) and include tab PDF booklets on the CDs. Ton recorded the audio lesson series Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar to teach phrase by phrase and measure by measure some of his most requested arrangements. This second volume presents Ton Van Bergeyk's renditions of Duke Ellington's Jubilee Stomp and Take It Easy, Thelonious Monk's classic Blue Monk and the George Gershwin standard I Got Rhythm. / Niveau : Facile / Tablatures / Guitare Tablatures

Volume 1-Tony McManus is an adept master of Celtic fingerstyle guitar both in terms of adapting Celtic music to the guitar and in its performance presenting all it intricacies graces and frills yet at the same time maintaining thepace and drive which characterises this style of music. In this first lesson Tony discusses in detail the importance of ornamentations and triplets in Celtic music and importantly how this can be technically achieved. Scalesand fingerings and playing in the DADGAD tuning are discussed and then illustrated with several melodies played in this dropped D tuning. This is a challenging DVD lesson for intermediate fingerstyle guitar students but one thatwill be very rewarding as you learn to play Celtic Music from one of the finest players of this genre. Complete with a 40 page tab/music PDF of all the pieces included in the DVD.

The Techniques And Arrangements-Get an exclusive glimpse into the styles and techniques of guitar master Alex De Grassi as he takes you on an exploration of three of his most popular pieces.De Grassi teaches his compositions in detail discussing voicings tunings melodic variations and the techniques that you need to put the whole thing together. By learning these superb instrumentals you will expand your fingerstyle prowess as well as expanding your vocabulary of chord melodies counter-melodies two-hand tapping percussive slapping double hammer-ons harmonics and much more!