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Woody Mann’s Fingerstyle Blues Guitar illustrates how traditional country blues guitar techniques and styles can be extended and explored to create new textures and feelings. Woody demonstrates blues in the keys of A, D, and E and shows how variations and improvisational ideas can be developed. The playing ideas of Blind Boy Fuller, Big Bill […]

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 be best 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 […]

This DVD lesson has been designed to help beginner and intermediate students of fingerpicking country 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. These popular blues and […]

In this second DVD lessons dedicated to Nashville Picking, Marcel Dadi presents more guitar arrangements by Merle Travis, Jerry Reed and Chet Atkins. These three titans of the guitar have defined and established country fingerstyle guitar. Their influence on the music and players of Nashville and beyond over the last fifty years is without bounds. […]

In this unique series of DVD lessons, Marcel Dadi presents the guitar arrangements of Merle Travis, Jerry Reed and Chet Atkins. These three titans of the guitar have defined and established country finger style guitar. Their influence on the music and players of Nashville and beyond over the last fifty years is without bounds. Each […]

Anyone can learn to play spoons, bones, washboard, hambone - even the paper bag! No music lessons, note reading or expensive instruments are necessary!
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‘There will never be another one like him’ (Dennis Chambers). To musicians and jazz funs of the last 50 years, Buddy Rich remains at the top of the list. Says Phil Collins, ‘He was a one-off. As a drummer there was no-one like him’. On October 3, 1998 at the Manhattan Center in NYC, Phil […]

This programme looks at the basic techniques required to develop fingerstyle skills. There are five major instrumental studies to work through including country, classical and blues.
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Written and presented by Mel Reeves, this programme demonstrates the various techniques required to play fingerstyle blues, such as monotonic and alternating bass, slides, hammer-ons, pull-offs, shuffles and fills.
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Filled with rock solid information from beginning to end, this intermediate-level DVD helps keyboard players build a stronger foundation covering essential concepts such as: the circle of fifths, inversions, passing tones and triads, scales and chords, chord progressions, improvising melodies, soloing and more!Includes a jam session with a live band playing in rock, blues and […]