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Vern has played and taught guitar professionally for over ten years. His course presents beginning guitar students with a practical, easy-to-learn approach. No previous knowledge of music is necessary. By following this method, you can enjoy a lifetime of guitar playing, no matter what style of music you choose. Includes free instructional booklet.
This course is designed to follow our Volume 1 video and continue the easy, step-by-step approach. Once again, music reading is not necessary to learn the material in this course. You will learn both E and A form bar chords with their major, minor, and minor-seventh fingerings. You will also be taught new strumming patterns along with realistic chord changes commonly used by guitar players. Includes free instructional booklet.
Paul has taught for the past 15 years on not only guitar but also banjo, resonator, guitar, hammered dulcimer, lap dulcimer, and autoharp. The lessons he presents are his own easy-to-learn method which doesn't require the student to read music. Basic accompaniment patterns will be learned. The student will then progress to the alternating bass styles while learning fingerstyle classics. Includes free instructional booklet
No music-reading ability is required to learn this method. It is designed for guitar players who want to learn rock guitar technique and who already understand basic open chord strumming. You will learn barre chords, power chords, and lead guitar scales to use along with the rock accompaniment tracks included in the video. Includes free instructional booklet.
This method is designed for guitar players who already have a basic understanding of open chords, power chords, and the minor and pentatonic scales. You will learn fingertapping, scale and speed picking, chromatic passing tones, creative rhythms, and the ionian and dorian modes to use along with the rock accompaniment tracks included in the video. Includes free instructional booklet.
Vern Juran has extensive background in teaching and performing blues music. This course is a fun, easy way for a beginning guitarist to learn how to play the blues. You will learn country-blues strumming, basic 12-bar blues rhythm patterns, basic lead scales, lead techniques, how to combine lead scales with rhythm chords, and slide guitar basics.
Vern has played and taught guitar professionally for more than 10 years. This course is designed to present beginning guitar students with a practical, easy-to-learn approach to guitar playing. If you follow this method, you will enjoy a lifetime of playing in any group worship situation. Includes free instructional booklet
Veteran fingerstyle soloist Tommy Flint now presents, in video format, the contents of his best-selling book. This fine presentation covers everything from blues to Travis picking to ragtime. Includes fee instructional booklet.
Vern Juran has extensive background in teaching and performing blues music. This video teaches blues-guitar fundamentals to the beginner. No previous musical experience or note-reading ability is required to be successful with this course. Includes free instructional booklet.
No previous knowledge of music or guitar is necessary to succeed with this video course. You will learn note-reading skills and basic music theory as applied to the guitar. You will also learn four complete songs and a number of musical examples that can be played along with the accompaniment tracks included in the video. Includes free instructional booklet.
A wonderfully complete teaching video designed to accompany Mel Bay's famous Modern Guitar Method Grade 1. This video covers basic notes on the guitar, single note playing, thirds, triads, chords, chord progressions, and it contains a wealth of solos and duets. An ideal beginner's video.
This video is designed to accompany William Bay's popular Children's Guitar Method Volume 1. The video begins with fundamentals--such as holding the guitar, right- and left-hand positioning, tuning, etc. The video then goes into simplified forms of popular guitar chords and moves into basic not reading. A thorough, easy-to-understand beginning children's video approach to guitar.
This video accompanies the popular You Can Teach Yourself Guitar book. The student will learn to strum chords and accompany songs in the keys of G, E minor, C, A minor, D, and E. In addition, the student will learn to play blues and will venture into fingerstyle accompaniment.
This video is designed for the intermediate guitarist who wants to study jazz guitar improvisation. This course uses a logical, beginning approach that includes jazz explanations, common chord substitutions, major jazz scales, and modes and their applications. No music-reading ability is required; however, knowledge of chord diagrams and tablature is needed. Includes free instructional booklet.
Flamenco Guitar Virtuoso Juan Serrano divides this unique video into two parts. In the first part, he teaches and demonstrates the basic elements of flamenco music. In the second part, Juan plays four outstanding concert solos in their entirety. A masterful video by one of the world's greatest guitarists.
See and hear unbelievable virtuosity in classic guitar performance as Carlos Barbosa-Lima transforms the guitar into a tri-dimensional entity, giving the illusion of a bass, percussion, and guitar trio. Carlos performs new Brazilian music taken from his three books.
In this video, you will learn from one of America's foremost classic guitar teachers. Ben Bolt demonstrates his principles for judging distance, point of reference, right- and left-hand positions, and the correct sitting posture. An easy-to-understand and technically correct introduction to classic guitar performance.
No music reading ability is needed to learn from this video course. You'll start with easy chords, strumming, and fingerpicking techniques by playing along with songs on the video. In addition, you will learn techniques such as country boogie-woogie guitar and Travis picking. Finally, you will learn how to solo over an accompaniment rhythm track on the video. Companion booklet is included.
This course deals with simple acoustic guitar licks. You'll learn how to hold a guitar pick, how to read guitar tablature, 40 basic guitar licks, and how to apply what you have learned. Includes free instructional booklet.
This is a fun and easy method for learning acoustic rhythm guitar technique. Brad Davis, one of Nashville's most creative and innovative guitarists, shows you how to hold a guitar pick, how to read tablature, and a variety of chords using various rhythm patterns. The audible-visual metronome allows you to learn in perfect tempo. Includes free instructional booklet.
A valuable video for any guitarist who wants to learn how to change strings properly, set string height, adjust truss rods, set intonation on several electric guitar bridges, adjust standard tremolo systems, and adjust locking tremolo systems. This is a complete guide to electric and acoustic guitar adjustment.
An excellent beginner's video featuring Joe Carr teaching simple chords, strums, and songs. An ideal beginner's course for guitarists of any age.
Seven lessons of clear and precise instruction on developing the many exciting ways to harmonize a melody. This course will ultimately lead to your own original harmonic style. Includes free instructional booklet
This video features one of the world's premier jazz guitarists, Barney Kessel, teaching lessons in improvisation. It includes playing what you hear, fills, turnarounds, the building blocks of improvisation, and of course, the blues. Includes free instructional booklet.
The chance of a lifetime to learn with one of Nashville
's hot professional guitar players. This course deals with simple electric guitar technique. First you'll learn how to hold a guitar pick, how to read guitar tablature, and how to play simple chords and licks. Then Brad will show you how to apply what you have learned. The audible-visual metronome allows you to play in perfect tempo. Includes free instructional booklet.
These arrangements by guitar virtuoso Tommy Jones include "Will the Circle Be Unbroken," "Shenandoah," "Theme from Andy Griffith," "Through the Changes," "If," "Dueling Banjos," "The Shadow of Your Smile," "Black Mountain Rag," and "Take Five."
Romane is a well-trained classical musician who has dedicated his career to "classic" gypsy guitar. Inspired by Django, he is at home in a duo or quintet, in a club with jazzmen, or in a sidewalk cafe with gypsy friends. From the sidewalks of Paris to the heart of Nashville, welcome to the "gypsy sound" of Romane.
This video provides guitarists with rhythm accompaniment techniques, patterns, and progressions that enable them to incorporate a variety of styles and moods when playing songs.
This course is designed for the beginning slide guitar player but will also help an intermediate player develop bottleneck technique. You will learn standard and alternate tunings, reading slide tablature, basic left- and right-hand technique, and classic bottleneck blues riffs. A free tablature booklet of examples from the video is included.
Designed to help both the beginning and intermediate guitarist learn the most commonly used chords. Through the use of split-screen viewing, the student learns how the chords are built and how they should sound. You will learn major, minor and 7th chord forms as well as diminished and augmented chord shapes on the first four frets of the fingerboard.
This is the companion video to Ben Bolt's popular book of the same name. In this video, Ben explains, teaches, and plays through 16 all-time favorite classic guitar solos. The solos are played on both steel-string and nylon.
Designed for the beginning guitarist who already understands and uses the chords in the first three frets. The student will learn many standard chord changes used in thousands of folk, country, blues and rock songs in all of the popular guitar keys. This will be of great help in ear training, strumming techniques, and in the development of faster chord changing. It will also help song writers to write better songs.
This new three-part series was designed for guitarists who want a more complete understanding of country-style guitar. Recommended for intermediate-level players. In this video, Joe covers the fundamentals of country guitar including major, minor and 7th chord forms, major scales, and flatpicking techniques.
Get ready for your next country gig with these essential licks including pentatonic and blues scales, and 6th and 9th chords. Covers I-V-I-I intros in single notes, in thirds and in sixths; turnarounds and melody-based solos; fills and short licks; endings; pentatonic and blues scales; major and minor 6th and 9th chords.
On the last video in this series, you will learn pedal steel licks, swing chords, the echo trick, country rock lead styles, and how to put it all together.
This course is designed for the guitarist who already understands and uses chords in the first three frets, and wishes to move into the intermediate level of hard rock and power blues guitar styles. The student will learn major, minor, power and suspended bar chord shapes as played up and down the entire fingerboard. Common rhythm styles for playing these chords are also taught, and play-along tracks are included to assist in learning. Upon completion of this course the student will be able to play hundreds of guitar chords in all of the popular rock and blues keys.
This video accompanies the popular You Can Teach Yourself Guitar by Ear book. The student will learn: tuning, chords, finding the meter of a song, finding chords in any key, hearing and playing chord changes, barre chords, chord embellishment, common chord progressions, extended chords, transposing use of the capo, strum patterns, pick/strum accompaniment, fingerpicking, and much more.
Ben Bolt teaches and plays through many of the outstanding studies, solos, and etudes found in Mel Bay's extremely successful book entitled You Can Teach Yourself Classic Guitar. This is a straightforward, easy-to-understand, no-nonsense approach to learning the classic guitar.
Aimed at beginners and intermediate players, this video teaches everything you need to get started playing country guitar. Includes how to tune the guitar, all basic major, and minor and seventh guitar chords, and guitar accompaniment strums from current country hits.
Mike Christiansen presents a very comprehensive look into acoustic blues guitar. Included are progressions, power chords, barre chords, turnarounds, fill-ins, blues scales, double stops, bass lines, blues techniques, and a wealth of great blues songs and solos. In addition, fingerpicking blues is presented.
A very thorough course containing solos and techniques for the beginning through the advanced flatpicking guitarist. If you're into country or bluegrass music, or if you just want to develop outstanding flatpicking technique, this is the video for you.
A companion video to Steve Kaufman's popular Flatpicking the Gospels book. Steve explains and plays through a number of the gospel songs and solos. There is a beginner's version and a intermediate/advanced version on every song presented.
No guitarist should be without this video. Flatpicking guitar great, Steve Kaufman, plays both slow and fast versions of 16 all-time great flatpicking solos. Steve's performance on the up-tempo versions of the challenging solos is absolutely outstanding!
Slide or bottleneck-style guitar is popular in blues and rock music, and K. K. Stowe demonstrates the techniques, special tunings, and trademark licks that define this dramatic style. Your guitar will sing the blues like it never has before!
K. K. Stowe is one of the best blues guitarists in Texas and is famous throughout the Southwest for his great blues guitar style. In this video, K. K. Stowe teaches 60 great hard-core licks. Using sample songs, K. K. and his band, the Texas Bluenotes, demonstrate how and when to use these fantastic blues licks.
This video is designed to give the intermediate to advanced student a wide assortment of technical challenges and an arsenal of hot licks that can be used, expanded, and explored when playing blues themes. New approaches to arranging and improvising are featured in five popular blues that range from country blues and ragtime to folk and barrelhouse stomp.
Six great arrangements that will offer you endless hours of fingerpicking challenges and delights. Included are challenging, difficult, and advanced fingerstyle solos that stretch from a New Orleans standard to a Sonny Rollins jazz classic to a Booker T. & The M.G.s rock hit.
Originally written for harp, these compositions lend themselves perfectly to the fingerstyle guitarist. In this lesson, Duck Baker teaches a wide variety of O'Carolan pieces from the simple folklike air "Blind Mary" to the stately "Hewlett."
The study of fiddle tunes and rags offers the fingerstyle guitarist an array of styles and techniques. In this lesson, Stefan Grossman presents five hot instrumentals that combine alternating bass techniques, counterpoint lines, single string runs, complex chord fingerings and rhythmic licks. These mult-sectioned arrangements illustrate how American fiddle tunes and ragtime compositions can be adapted, arranged and transcribed for fingerstyle guitar. Includes free instructional booklet.
The guitar styles and techniques of Blind Blake, Big Bill Broonzy and Rev. Gary Davis combine blues and ragtime techniques into a style that can best be described as raggin' the blues. This exciting and challenging approach to fingerstyle playing combines complex right hand picking with intricate left hand fingerings, single string runs and rhythmic licks. In this lesson, Stefan Grossman illustrates and explains seven famous ragtime blues instrumentals. Includes free instructional booklet.
Contemporary acoustic fingerstyle blues encompasses a wide variety of styles, techniques and sounds. In this lesson, Stefan Grossman teaches four multi-sectioned blues instrumentals that are based on traditional techniques, blues piano ideas, single string melodic guitar licks and horn styled solos. The music varies from a piano styled boogie to slow country blues reminiscent of the playing of Blind Blake and Jelly Roll Morton to a New Orleans blues in the style and feel of Ray Charles and Snooks Eaglin. Includes free instructional booklet.
Elizabeth Cotten (1893-1987) inspired every fledgling fingerpicker of the 'folk boom' era with her classic "Freight Train." But the notion that his North Carolina-born legend was a one-tune wonder is dispelled by her charming demonstration of several styles in this informal performance/interview taped when Cotten was 85 years old. Ragtime, blues, three guitar tunings and preblues banjo tunes are offered by Cotten, a still formidable player at the time of this taping. Recollections of her life and music are prompted by interviewer Mike Seeger, who played a major role in recording Cotten's repertoire. Includes free booklet of biographical material.
Jefferson Airplane guitarist, Jorma Kaukonen, and bassist Jack Casady perform a few old blues as a setbreaking contrast to the Airplane's acid-and revolution epiphanies. This novelty act of the psychedelic circuit evolved into Hot Tuna, and Jesse Block's concert documentary, 25 Years and Runnin', celebrates the simple sustaining powers of blues, bars, and Tuna. The documentary's subtitle, Live at Sweetwater, is the crux of this video, 'live ' performances of ragtime blues standards and Tuna originals that exemplify the free spirit that's kept Hot Tuna runnin' all these years. Includes free booklet.
Part Two in this fine blues-guitar video series features rare footage of Big Bill Broonzy, Rev. Gary Davis, Mississippi John Hurt, Furry Lewis, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Mance Lipscomb. Tab/music included. For the intermediate to advanced guitarist. Includes free instructional booklet.
The third and concluding volume in this excellent bluesguitar video series features rare footage of Son House, Rev. Gary Davis and Big Bill Broonzy. Tab/music included. Features split screen teaching by Stefan Grossman. For the intermediate to advanced guitarist. Includes free instructional booklet.
This video lesson has been designed to help beginner and intermediate students of fingerpicking blues guitar improve their playing skills and increase their repertoires using an alternating bass technique. Stefan Grossman illustrates and explains in detail ten fingerstyle arrangements in the keys of C, D, E, A, G and F. Includes free instructional booklet.
Traditional British folk music is rooted in a vocal tradition of hundreds of years as well as a strong dance culture. It is not bound by any time or bar structure. The guitarist must find ways to explore, reinforce, accent, and embellish these melodies. Martin Carthy has successfully done this with the C-G-C-D-G-A tuning.
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