Pete Huttlinger: Arrangements For Solo Acoustic Guitar 2: Guitar: Instrumental

Peter Huttlinger's amazing guitar technique was developed over the years through good practice and exercise regimens. As a guitar teacher with more than sixteen years experience he knows that the most important thing players need is guidance in their practicing routine. This is a lesson that will benefit all guitarists regardless of the level you are starting from. Pete's invaluable advice and insider's tips will help you improve your timing strengthen your hands and play with precision speed power and rhythmic sophistication. By following this method you'll learn how to isolate the problem phrases in a piece of music use a metronome to build solid rhythm increase your picking speed (flatpick or finger style) train your 'muscle theory' and lean how to manage your practice times for sure results. Pete provides numerous scales and exercises to help you gain fingerboard knowledge limber your fingers and develop right-and left-hand coordination. Finally you'll put it all to practical use by learning to conquer a dazzling instrumental The Monaghan Jig. Pete takes the piece apart phrase showing you how to get spectacular results using his practice methods. Over the years Peter Huttlinger has established himself as a topnotch session player composer arranger songwriter and sideman. The Berklee graduate has been a featured artist with the San Diego and Houston symphonies and the Nashville Chamber Orchestra and has performed on numerous Grammy winning and nominated projects. In 2000 he won first place in the prestigious National Fingerstyle Championship in Winkfield Kansas. Pete toured recorded and performed with John Denver from 1984 until the singer's death in 1997. He has also written music for HBO PBs ESPN and many other networks. His 2003 release Naked Pop is on Steve Vai's Favored Nations label.

Authentic Guitar Accompaniments for 7 Classic Songs-During a brilliant three-decade career Dan Fogelberg's iconic songs soaring vocals and rich Guitar arrangements gained him millions of avid fans and secured him a place in the pantheon of American popular music.His acoustic-based songs drew from a variety of sources: rock pop bluegrass and the California folk-rock sounds of the '70s and '80s. Pete Huttlinger was smitten at an early age by Dan's recordings and he absorbed and analyzed the Guitar techniques that helped create the unique Fogelberg sound. He describes in note-for-note detail how to play seven classics all taken from the album Souvenirs.

John Denver is remebered as one of the most beloved figures in the history of American popular music. The deceptively simple accompaniments he devised for many of his hit songs gave each aone a memorable sound that continues to ring in our ears to this day. Arrangements of eight of the singer's classic songs are taught by Pete Huttlinger.