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Concert guitarist Ben Bolt presents the colorful and beautiful world of classical guitar music. A wide selection of tunes is played on a variety of electric and acoustic guitars. Mr. Bolt gives background and historical information on each composer presented and plays through outstanding guitar arrangements on selections by Beethoven, Mozart, Tschaikowsky, Gounod, Pachelbel, Grieg, Medelssohn, Ravel, Satie, Weiss, and others.
This Jammin' video includes useful licks, bass runs, walk-ups, walk-downs, chords, progressions, solos, and more. Free instructional booklet included.
Includes chord diagrams, Tennessee-style blues, funky-style country blues, ragtime-style blues, flatdirt blues, shuffle blues, Deep Southern-style blues, and the E minor, A, G minor, and C minor pentatonic scales. Free instructional booklet included.
"Get your chops together" jamming with a video band! This video includes a medium shuffle, an up-tempo shuffle, slow blues, straight-8 blues, and Delta-style blues. Free instructional booklet included.
Includes the A pentatonic scales, passing tones, medium shuffle, up-tempo shuffle, slow blues, and Delta-style blues. Free instructional booklet included.
This video includes a medium country tune in G, a country shuffle in A, a waltz in D, a shuffle in C, a ballad in E, and a swing in F, in addition to common bends, scales, and harmonized scales. Free instructional booklet included.
This video contains everything a beginner guitarist wants to know. Roy and Paul carefully take the student through tuning the guitar, forming chords, strumming along to songs, and keeping rhythm. With this video, you can work at your own speed, have lots of fun, and play guitar with country music's legendary master, Roy Clark.
More and more performers are asked for honky-tonk music, and electric guitar is an important part of this great style. Master musician and teacher Joe Carr shows you step by step how to play classic honky-tonk style electric guitar, including chord progression, fills, rhythms, and solos. Part of a 5-video series.
The secrets of Texas blues guitar greats T-Bone Walker, Freddie King, Albert Collins, the Vaughan brothers, and Billy Gibbons are revealed by Texas blues guitarist K. K. Stowe. If you want to play the licks that made Texas blues famous, look no further.
Tejano, Tex-Mex, or conjunto...it goes by many names, but Texas-born Spanish music is one of the fastest growing music styles in the country. Joe Torres' family has played this exciting music for three generations and now he teaches you to play the bajo sexto, the guitar-like rhythmic cornerstone of the music. Guitarists looking for the "bajo sound" can use this video too!
Taught by Stefan Grossman, this video features rare footage of Mississippi John Hurt, Jesse Fuller, Elizabeth Cotten, and Furry Lewis. Tab/music included. Features split-screen teaching for the intermediate to advanced guitarist. Includes free instructional booklet.
Basic concepts of fingerpicking guitar are explained and illustrated. A discussion of playing in different keys is included, with examples in A,C,D,E,F, and G. Features rare footage of Rev. Gary Davis, Mance Lipscomb, Elizabeth Cotten, and Lightnin' Hopkins. For the beginning to intermediate student. Includes free instructional booklet.
A complete survey of country-blues bottleneck styles and techniques featuring rare footage of Son House, Fred McDowell, Mance Lipscomb, and Bukka White. Includes left-hand playing techniques, choice of bottleneck/slide, and playing in open-G (Spanish) and open-D (Vestapol) tunings. For the beginning to intermediate student. Includes free instructional booklet.
In-depth analysis of the Delta blues of Charley Patton, Son House, Skip James, Willie Brown, and Tommy Johnson, the syncopated ragtime-blues of Blind Blake and Rev. Gary Davis, the alternating bass of Mississippi John Hurt, Furry Lewis, and Elizabeth Cotten, and the monotonic blues of Lightnin' Hopkins and Mance Lipscomb. Includes free instructional booklet.
By the end of this video lesson, you will be playing the blues in several keys, strumming, and fingerpicking. You'll know how to play blues turnarounds, boogie-woogie bass lines, several strumming and fingerpicking accompaniment patterns, and blues solos, licks, and accompaniment styles.
In this video lesson, Fred Sokolow starts at the very beginning (tuning up and playing simple chords), and shows you patterns, licks and grooves you can use to play any style of music. By the end of this video session, you will know how to play several fingerpicking patterns/rhythm grooves; chords and licks in five different keys; connecting "bass runs" in all five keys; lots of well-known tunes; and more.
The guitar playing of Merle Travis combined blues, jazz, ragtime, and country music into a unique style that defined "country guitar" and has become the standard for fingerpickers of yesterday and today. In this unique video lesson, Marcel Dadi teaches seven of Merle's greatest instrumentals. Also included are five rare Merle Travis performances from 1951. Includes free instructional booklet.
Rockabilly is the roots of rock. It combines electric blues, country blues, Merle Travis-style fingerpicking, and more. This video covers boogie woogie back-up licks, turnarounds, blues/rock licks in the classic key of E, movable blues/rock scales, fingerpicking patterns, and more.
St. Louis jazz guitarist Dave Black shows you how he plays 75 hot jazz-fusion and bebop licks. Hot sample solos are taught. Close-up and slowed-down versions make learning easy. Free tablature booklet included.
Django stylist, Kelly Lancaster, shows you how to play jazz swing guitar in the gypsy style of Oscar Aleman, Django Reinhardt and others. Learn how to get your left hand to move as fast as your right- hand tremolo. Learn loads of sizzling licks. Hot sample solos are taught. Close-up and slowed-down versions make learning easy. Free tablature booklet included.
Herb shows you leads to five standards as well as his famous comping style. Fast and slow versions and close-ups make learning a snap. Includes "After You're Gone," "When My Dreamboat Comes Home," "Polka Dots and Moonbeams," "Lady Be Good," "Time after Time," "Body and Soul," "Joeography," and "Herb's E Flat Blues."
With close-ups and slowed versions, Herb shows you his swing-oriented jazz leads to five jazz standards. Great stuff! Learn to jam to "I Love You," "Georgia on My Mind," "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," "Sweet Georgia Brown," "Blues for Terry," and "Texas Blues." Herb tells you loads about backing a singer, comping, how to get the right feel, getting the chords right, and more!
Brad Davis, the Nashville Wonder Boy and lead guitarist with Marty Stuart, teaches you 60 flashy country guitar licks. Many are original. This is the ultimate course on learning chicken pickin' and pedal steel licks. This one's all meat and no fat. There are probably more licks here than on any other video! Split-screen close-ups plus fast and slow versions make learning easy. Free instructional booklet included.
Terry shows you how to play all over the neck and takes you through chord neighborhoods, using shapes, boxes, grooves and riffs, octaves, and chord substitutions. Terry's many tips on how to be a successful jazz guitarist will help you develop intuitive feeling while playing.
Designed for the guitarist with a little playing experience, Steve's course starts with an easy blues and leads into jazzy syncopations, alternate tunings, alternating bass, and slide techniques. Have fun learning "Buck Dancer's Choice," "Casey Jones," and other pieces in the style of Rev. Gary Davis, Barbeque Bob, and Tampa Red. Free booklet of transcribed solos included.
This video teaches you to hold and tune your guitar and shows chords for the keys of D, A, G, and C. In addition, basic strums and accompaniment flatpicking styles are taught in 4/4 and 3/4 time. Finally, you will learn bass runs, beginning melody flatpicking, and a series of songs.
Taught by Brad Davis, lead guitarist for Marty Stuart & The Sweet Hearts of the Rodeo. This course deals with simple acoustic guitar licks. You'll learn how to hold a guitar pick, how to read Z-TAPE'S "GRID TABLATURE" (the easiest to read tab ever!), 40 basic guitar licks, and how to apply what you have learned. Includes free instructional book
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.
This fine instructional video features jazz great Barney Kessel teaching chord formations and sequence playing in six thoughtfully prepared lessons. Ideal for the intermediate to advanced guitarist who requires thorough concepts and ideas with which to work. Includes free instructional booklet.
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.
A step-by step, systematic program taught by Douglas Reach for learning the classic guitar. Volume I features proper playing position, tuning, rudiments of music, right-hand technique, basic arpeggio technique, and a companion booklet with duets.
Volume II features left-hand technique focusing on first position, arpeggio technique, eighth notes and rests, key signatures, dynamics, single-line melody playing, solo music in two parts, and a companion booklet featuring new duets.
Volume III expands on left-hand technique in first position, new keys and time signatures, single-line melody playing, solo music in two parts, and arpeggios. A companion booklet featuring duets is also contained.
Volume IV completes the study of first position, expands on musical rudiments, chords, solo pieces and related techniques, including an Aguado study. Care and use of fingernails and re-stringing of the classical guitar are also discusses. Includes free instructional booklet.
Ten great country solos are played both at normal tempo with an accompaniment section and at slow tempo with the guitar part isolated. Styles covered include hot Nashville style, chicken pickin', double-stop style, banjo style, steel-guitar style, bluegrass guitar licks, blues ideas, rockabilly, country rock, and melody-style playing. Includes free instructional booklet.
Through this video, Paul shares with you what has made him one of the most respected guitarists in the "Fingerstyle" world. From the beginnings of "Thumbstyle" in the early 1900's, to the more complex "Fingerstyle" of today, Paul covers the fascinating history of this style as it developed over the years. He then performs many of his won arrangements and ends with a lesson that includes 32 of the most famous "Fingerstyle" licks.
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.
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