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A Guitarist's Guide To Better Practicing DVD
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.
Accelerate Your Acoustic Guitar Playing
This DVD offers easy-to-understand exercises and demonstrations that can be applied to all levels and styles. These include: arpeggio exercises; right hand, left hand, and combinations; alternating bass and syncopation; piano style exercises; classical, pop/rock, and jazz/Latin styles; drop D tuning exercises; and more. Clear and detailed instruction is given both onscreen and in the accompanying lesson booklet.
Advanced Bass Grooves (DVD)
See Tony Smith knock the top off bass guitar!In this incredible DVD, he takes viewers step-by-step through an array of his one-of-a-kind techniques. He demonstrates a montuno with his left hand and the clavi with his right hand. The accompanying booklet includes notation and easy-to-follow diagrams that correspond exactly with the DVD.
Al Petteway: Celtic, Blues And Beyond (DVD)
An award-winning guitarist and composer, Al Petteway has a unique solo guitar style that mixes his varied influences, from folk and Celtic music to R and B and Blues. On this DVD, Al performs and teaches a half dozen of his compositions that incorporate his Celtic, blues, and R and B influences. In the special lesson sections, Al walks you through the key aspects and techniques required for each arrangement, and you can select from multiple camera angles: watch the full performance or see a close-up of his right or left hand.
Ari Eisinger: The Guitar Of Lonnie Johnson
In this double DVD, the first devoted in its entirety to the Guitar style of Lonnie Johnson, Ari Eisinger explores Lonnie Johnson's blues style in detail, presenting stylistic hallmarks of Johnson's playing including a discussion of left hand fingerings, use of diminished chords and Lonnie's blues playing in the Key of D.Ari teaches eight guitar breaks from some of Lonnie's best tunes. These include his instrumental masterpiece To Do This You Got To Know How, his jazzy Uncle Ned Don't Use Your Head, his evocative Woke Up With the Blues In My Fingers and I'm So Tired Of Living All Alone, Lonnie's version of the song Skip James recorded as I'm So Glad.A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on each DVD. As well, the original old recordings of all the tunes are included.
Arrangements For Solo Acoustic Guitar 2
Arrangements for Solo Acoustic Guitar 2 - more instrumentals from a national champion.Pete Huttlinger continues his exploration of the guitar arrangements that have won him accolades throughout the acoustic guitar world - and a National Fingerstyle Championship! An engaging and accomplished instructor, Pete brings his spectacular playing with dramatic performance pieces that are as challenging as they are fun to learn.Pete starts out by teaching his Merle Travis-inspired chord/melody arrangement of the great Gershwin tune I Got Rhythm. His exciting version features lightening-fast fingerpicking and a total left hand workout.Things calm down a bit as you learn Pete's somewhat easier 'Chet-style' fingerpicking tune Darcy's Guitar. Then you're off and running again, this time with an in-depth teaching of Pete's most requested tune, the showstopper, The Santa Rita Connection.McGuire's Landing in DADGAD brings us back to a mellow Celtic mood. Tommy In The Morning, written by Pete for fellow fingerpicker Tommy Emmanuel, and the lovely hymn On Eagles' Wings, played in James Taylor's evocative style, round out this terrific DVD lesson.Over the years, Peter Huttlinger has established himself as a top-notch session player, composer, arranger, songwriter and sideman. The Berklee graduate has been a featured artist with the San Diego and Housten 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 Winfield, Kansas. Pete toured, recorded and performed with John Denver from 1994 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.
Art Of Acoustic Blues Guitar: Early Roots
Woody Mann teaches the song forms and techniques of early American folk and blues guitar styles. Acclaimed blues performer and educator, he teaches five blues songs based on the playing of such originators as Charley Patton, Son House, Robert Johnson, Big Joe Williams, Scrapper Blackwell, and Tommy Johnson. Written for the near beginner to intermediate student, each song illustrates the techniques and approaches of these innovators in a clear and easy to understand arrangement of a classic theme in open G, open D, and standard tuning. He also teaches rhythmic fingerpicking, left-hand damping, brushing and percussive right-hand techniques and syncopating a melody. Songs include:Delta Blues For Patton, Jackson Moan, Blue Daze, Shuffle Blues In G, Bullfrog Groan, Technique And Variations.
Beginning Blues Guitar (CD Only)
Perfect for beginning blues and rock/blues guitarists. Included are tips in basic blues theory and left-handed techniques. You will also discover the rhythm styles of Texas Swing, slow and minor blues, and styles of blues greats such as Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy and many others. Call-and-response phrasing, intros, turnarounds, endings and improvisation are also covered.
Celtic Instrumentals For Fingerstyle Guitar: DVD 2
Fingerstyle master Al Petteway shows you how to use a variety of tunings - standard, dropped D, open G and low C - to create beautiful arrangements of traditional Irish and Scottish instruments. You'll learn how to find a tune's melody, then flesh it out with embellishments such as bagpipe-like drone notes, moving bass lines, chord substitutions and the 'Scottish Snap.' Rhythm patterns, damping effects, harmonics, right hand rolls and other techniques help you turn ordinary tunes into elegant guitar pieces.Al provides exercises for developing right and left hand speed dexterity, along with complete arrangements for five instruments.
Chris Smither: Six Outstanding Fingerpicking Arrangements
Chris Smither's foot-tapping high-groove guitar style and blues-inflected songs have kept him in the top ranks of singer/songwriters for four decades. On this DVD lesson he shows you how he uses his alternating thumb and two-finger picking, along with a variety of left hand techniques, to create the rhythmic drive and distinctive harmonies that distinguish his unique arrangements. No Love Today (The Fruit And Vegetable Song), a rich evocation of old New Orleans street life, is one of Chris' most requested songs; Drive You Home Again, a moody minor-key blues, is the title song of one of his best-selling CDs; Bob Dylan's titanic Visions Of Johanna gets a new treatment; the humorous Get A Better One features infectious single note riffs against a steady bass groove; Leave The Light On is joyous, straight-ahead fingerpicking in open D; Lightnin' Hopkins' 'spooky' Blues In The Bottle is played and taught on both 12-string and 6-string guitars. Chris' wry humour and deep understanding of traditional styles help to make this an outstanding guitar lesson for all fingerpicking enthusiasts.
Doug Smith: Contemporary Instrumental Guitar DVD
If you're a fan of solo guitar, you need this DVD. Doug's various influences come together to produce some of the most striking and beautiful guitar arrangements ever heard. With a background in classical guitar and composition, and a rock band honored by Musician magazine as the finest in the country, Doug Smith brings diverse influences to his contemporary instrumentals. On this DVD, Smith performs and teaches six of his most popular compositions. In the special lesson sections, he walks you through the key aspects and techniques required for each arrangement, and you can select from multiple camera angles: watch the performance or see a close-up of his right or left hand.
Duck Baker: Guitar Aerobics (DVD)
Duck Baker's GUITAR AEROBICS, presents a variety of amazing and challenging exercises and arrangements. Both your right and left hands, as well as each finger, will receive a complete work-out. The traditional folksong The Wreck Of The Old '97 and Duck's original composition, Holding Pattern are used to illustrate various right hand picking ideas. This is followed by left hand techniques and ideas to increase the independence of motion of your fingers as well as exercises featuring trills, thumb-fretting, hammer-ons and pull-offs. The Rakes Of Waterloo is presented featuring left hand fingerings and techniques necessary for the ornamentation of Celtic melodies. Grace notes, slides and complex embellishments are demonstrated. GUITAR AEROBICS concludes with right hand slapping techniques and the tune The Dirtman Cometh.
Duck Baker: Introduction To Gospel Fingerstyle Guitar
Gospel Music is such a familiar part of our cultural and musical landscape that it offers the fingerstyle guitarist a vast repertoire of melodic and lyrical compositions. In this lesson, Duck Baker explores and explains how this music can be arranged for fingerstyle guitar. Duck teaches arrangements of six well-known Gospel songs which he plays in standard and dropped-D tunings. A practical, informative and very useful lesson to expanding your fingerstyle technique to incorporate playing Gospel music in the styles of Mississippi John Hurt or Elizabeth Cotton. Duck gives a historical background on each tune as well as phrase by phrase and step by step explanations of the arrangements. The DVD comes with a 24 page tab/music booklet, and Each tune is illustrated in a split screen section making it easy to see what the right and left hands are playing.
Fingerpicking Blues Guitar Solos
This DVD lesson is for the intermediate and advanced fingerstyle guitar player. It is for the student who feels comfortable with an alternating bass technique and wants to expand and explore ideas in blues and ragtime using more advanced right and left hand techniques. The four instrumentals featured in this lesosn are all extended compositions offering a variety of musical ideas. Piano sounding blues in the key of A are presented in 'Mississippi Blues' and 'Blues For The Mann'. A Blind Blake approach in the key of C is used for the 'Glory Of Love'. 'Struttin' Rag' in the key of E Brings together thress distinct sections. It opens with a blues piano sounding motif and then steps into a more country atmosphere. It finishes with a series of bass licks reminiscent of Merle Travis's 'Walkin' The Strings'.
Fingerpicking Guitar Techniques (2 Volume DVD Set)
This two DVD set is for beginner and intermediate guitarists who want to start fingerpicking. Rev. Gary Davis used to tell his students that playing the guitar was easy. He would say that a piano player has only two hands (the left keeps an alternating bass while the right plays a melody) but a guitarist has three hands! Our right hand thumb is one hand and plays the bass figures while our index finger is our second hand and plays the melody. Our third hand is our left hand which fingers chords. The results produce a full and orchestrated fingerstyle sound with a rhythmic bass played against melodic lines. This is the alternating bass technique which we sometimes jokingly refer to as 'bum-chick.' It is the most popular fingerpicking style played and has been used by legendary guitarists. Mississippi John Hurt, Rev. Gary Davis, Merle Travis, Doc Watson, Chet Atkins are but a few of the giants of this style.On these two DVDs we will explore how to master the alternating bass style. Each tune is taught phrase by phrase and then played again slowly on a split-screen so that you can carefully see what both hands are doing. A detailed 60 page tab/music booklet is included. As well, you will see footage of some of the great fingerstyle players such as Rev. Gary Davis, Lightnin' Hopkins, Mance Lipscomb, Merle Travis, Brownie McGhee, Elizabeth Cotten, John Jackson, Pink Anderson and Doc Watson.
Hot Licks: Arlen Roth - Beginning Dobro
Master Guitar teacher and Hot Licks founder Arlen Roth gets you started on this classic and unique instrument. Arlen explains the differences between dobro and 'upright' slide Guitar, and shows you the basics of Open D and High Bass G tuning, slide control, finger-picking, and intonation.Basic skills (hammer-ons and pull-offs, open-string licks, double stops, and vibrato) and advanced techniques (bending behind the slide, tilting the slide, harmonics, and blues harp and Chicago blues sounds) are demonstrated in real time and slow-motion standard pitch, with right- and left-hand close-ups for easy learning.Learn blues, country, and Eastern scales and licks, as well as the classic 'Hawaiian' sound.Includes 40-page booklet in standard notation and tablature.
Hot Licks: Danny Gatton - Strictly Rhythm Guitar
This follow-up to Danny Gatton's Telemaster! covers a huge range of rhythm guitar styles played by one of the world's great guitarists.Danny shows you how to play everything including organ-style comping, rockabilly and country power chords, 'dead-thumb' constant bass.and much more.Danny demonstrates the rhythm part in isolation then in context with Arlen Roth on lead guitar.A true rhythm guitar master class from a guitar genius!WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY WOODY MANNJazz and blues guitarist Woody Mann learned from the legendary Rev. Gary Davis and then played and recorded with Son House, Bukka White and John Fahey. He has performed throughout the world, recorded over a dozen CDs, and is an internationally renowned guitar teacher.ALSO FEATURING CHORD CORNER!Chord Corner is like an audio-visual chord dictionary of the essential chords you'll encounter on the DVD. It lets you hear the sound of each chord and see a photograph of the position and a chord diagram.YOU'LL NEVER MISS A NOTE!_ You see the music and the tablature on screen as it's being played!_ All right- and left-hand techniques are shown in close up and with helpful split-screen effects to make learning easy_ Slow motion segments with standard pitch sound_ Artist biography_ Selected discography_ Suggested listening_ Booklet with music examples included
Hot Licks: Danny Gatton - Telemaster!
Danny Gatton's guitar talents cover a wide range of styles. Whatever the lick, style or technique, this virtuoso player can do it-and show you how to do it!You'll learn just how much a Telecaster can do, including harmonic techniques, volume and tone control for pedal steel effects, jazz chord and mode juxtapositions & substitutions, banjo-style rolls and much more!This is as broad a view of guitar style techniques as you'll ever find in one package!WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JEFF GOLUBJeff Golub began his career as guitarist for rocker Billy Squier. He has recorded numerous solo CDs and is a highly valued session player and sideman, having worked with such artists as Peter Wolf, John Waite, Tina Turner, Vanessa Williams, and Rod Stewart.YOU'LL NEVER MISS A NOTE!_ You see the music and the tablature on screen as it's being played!_ All right- and left-hand techniques are shown in close up and with helpful split-screen effects to make learning easy_ Slow motion segments with standard pitch sound_ Artist biography_ Selected discography_ Suggested listening_ Booklet with music examples included
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