Roots & Blues Fingerstyle Guitar Explorations: Guitar Solo: Instrumental Album

In this double DVD set Stefan Grossman teaches a wide array of folk blues arrangements. You will study playing in various tunings i.e. Standard Dropped D DADGAD Open D and Open C tunings.The songs range from popular bluesand rags to old-time mountain ballads.All are taught phrase by phrase and the movements of both the left and right hands are clearly illustrated on the split screens.A detailed tab/music booklet is included as PDF files oneach DVD as well as printed format.As an extra bonus original old recordings from the 1920s and 1930s are included so that you can hear the roots from where these tunes derived.

The Acoustic Guitar Fingerstyle Method introduces you to the most essential fingerstyle approaches for playing American roots music: Travis picking and steady-bass style. In each of the 18 in-depth lessons you'll learn new techniques concepts and chord voicings and ways to practice and get them under your fingers. Then you'll use what you've just learned to play a classic song or solo break from the blues ragtime folk country and ragtime traditions. Whether you are a teacher or on your own let The Acoustic Guitar Method be your guide to the joys and pleasures of playing Guitar. This comprehensive approach with graded lessons and supplementarysongs is the one tool you'll need to get started. On the companion CDs you'll hear clear performances off all the music in the book.

Move beyond basic folk styles and get into the excitement of fingerstyle blues ragtime and swing and learn the tools that will expand your guitar's rhythmic harmonic and melodic possibilities.In this DVD Brozman explains the 32-bar song form along with the chords and rhythms all of which characterise swing gypsy jazz and 1930s Cab Calloway-style tunes. You'll also learn calypso rhythms and other 'hot guitar' sounds. He demonstrates how to use palm-harmonics minor-key jazz/blues sounds and a variety of rhythm exercises that will really get your playing 'swinging'!.

Volume Two-The performances in this DVD series present two generations of artists who have advanced the acoustic guitar’s cause with formidable boldness. We clearly hear their folk blues and country roots even as they develop other distinctly personal harmonic and melodic pathways. Thinking coupled with the 90% perspiration 10% inspiration formula is evident in the performances here no less than in the artful arrangements in the original compositions. There are English guitarist playing original music tinged by American blues and American guitarists picking with English accents. There are guitarists from everywhere bringing music from the keyboard and othersources to the guitar. There is an apparent user-friendly adaptability happening around the instrument: the example of these players encourages the rest of us to tinker with arrangements explore open tunings try varied techniques of picking. The means they demonstrate are flexible. And the ends? Endless. As the redoubtable Claw Jerry Reed once remarked I don’t go to see a man pick. I go to see a man think. Dave Evans Stagefright John Renbourn Rosslyn Stefan Grossman Tightrope John Knowles Coastin' Pat Donohue The Mooch Marcel Dadi Saturday Night Shuffle Duck Baker Blood Of The Lamb Chris Proctor Interstate John Renbourn Little Niles Stefan Grossman Bermuda Triangle Exit El McMeen My Mary Of The Curling Hair Joe Miller Ivory Coast John Knowles Waltz Forever Pat Donohue High Society Duck Baker 'Round Midnight Chris Proctor Morning Thunder El McMeen Angels We Have Heard On High Marcel Dadi Je Te Veux Bonus Instructional Tracks: Stefan Grossman Diddie Wa Diddie and Pat Donohue High Society