Advanced Fingerpicking Bk/3Cds-Advanced Fingerpicking Guitar Techniques. Contains solos that will challenge intermediate and advanced fingerstyle guitarists. These arrangements show the broad musical textures fingerstyle techniques and styles available tofingerstyle guitarists. Right hand rhythmic patterns counterpoint lines single-string runs and alternating bass techniques are used throughout the arrangements. Many of the tunes are Stefan's original compositions however thearrangements of music by Big Bill Broonzy Reverend Gary Davis and other fingerstyle guitar gurus are showcased. All of these arrangements are presented in standard notation and tab. A thorough explanation on how to read tab isincluded in this text. An essay by Dale Miller in Stefan Grossman's colossal role in world of fingerstyle guitar is included in this text. This book comes with three CD's which contain performances of these arrangements.Fingerstyle guitarists will enjoy playing and listening to these challenging but workable arrangements.

In music the term 'bluegrass' describes the hot string-band style pioneered by Kentuckian Bill Monroe which blends old-time country music with blues rhythms and jazz-influenced improvisation. This book contains 101 authenticbluegrass guitar licks in the favorite bluegrass keys of C G D and A minor. The licks are broken down into phrases of two four and eight bars. In addition several endings and crosspicking licks are included. Each lick isplayed to a chord progression that is standard in bluegrass country and folk music. All 101 examples are recorded on the companion CD with guitar accompaniment at a moderate tempo. Whether you are a fan of old-time countrymusic traditional bluegrass or newgrass you are sure to find lots of great ideas in this new collection of bluegrass licks. So grab your instrument put on the CD pull up a chair and let's start pickin'.

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 tofingerstyle 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.A detailed 44-page tab/music PDF booklet is included.

By means of very extensive lessons this coursebook will most certainly satisfy your blues craving â?? and this without ever damping your pleasure of playing.The lessons you are taught here revolve around 25 fingerstyle acoustic blues pieces performed in the style of illustrious acoustic blues Guitar players such as Robert Johnson Big Bill Bronzy Lonnie Johnson Blind Blake Mississippi John Hurt Skip James Lightninâ?? Hopkins and many more.Each and every musical piece comprised within this coursebook covers two whole pages meaning that youâ??re not dealing with mere blues chord progressions but with regular blues compositions. Aside from the pleasure ofplaying they provide they afford you the opportunity to master the whole box of tricks that make up the peculiarity of this musical style. See? Itâ??s all about learning by playing.The approach to be followed for the interpretation of these 25 musical pieces is illustrated in detail within the two preliminary chapters of this coursebook: plucking and fretting techniques and rhythms specific to acoustic blues are accurately and meticulously explained to you. In addition to this the DVD shows you all 25 musical pieces at their full length and at two different tempi: first for demonstration purposes recorded at actual playing speed then at a slower speed in order to give you the opportunity to practice and overcome the upcoming difficulties.

The Logic Of Fretboard-The ability to improvise and create variations within a song is the essence of the guitar work of the great traditional acoustic blues guitarists such as Blind Blake Robert Johnson Big Bill Broonzy Rev. Gary Davis and Blind Lemon Jefferson. By exploring the ways that chords melodies and rhythms work Woody Mann presents practical and simple ways to create variations in your playing. Woody teaches a new approach to seeing the fretboard and techniques for 'breaking down' chord blocks into smaller 'pieces' and connecting them throughout the fretboard. As he teaches the repertoire of the masters of acoustic blues he demonstrates how melodies andharmonies can be derived from simple moveable chord shapes. The Logic Of Fretboard is a method for relating the entire fretboard to the basic first position chord shapes that we all learn as beginners and using them to create new chords melodies and variations in your music. Studying the songs and concepts that Woody presents in this program will help students to break out of ruts and begin playing up-the-neck without relying on bar chords or scale patterns. Woody's approach to varying melody and bass lines against each other will also help students to develop a more syncopated and stronger picking technique. This simple and effective method allows students to increase their chord vocabulary by relying on logic instead of memorization.Woody Mann had his first schooling as a teenager in the living room of Rev. Gary Davis the now legendary gospel and ragtime guitarist. Mann soon went on to perform and record with blues masters Son House and Bukka White as well as contemporary innovators including John Fahey. He has recorded extensively performed throughout the world and is widely recognized as one of the world's leading teachers and transcribers of acoustic blues music having taught countless guitarists through his popular books and videos.

Virtuoso multi-instrumentalist Dennis Caplinger gives you a flying start with the Bluegrass guitar. Learn to play using the very best of the Bluegrass standards so you can apply your knowledge straight away. Once you've got the basics you can play along with the amazing Bluegrass band featuring John Moore Kenny Blackwell and Bill Bryson. Includes deomnstartions and minus-one backing tracks to get you playing with confidence straight away.

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A wonderful collection of Dixieland tunes for fingerstyle Guitar. Titles include: Indiana Bill Bailey 12th Street Rag When the Saints Go Marching In That's a Plenty Way Down Yonder in New Orleans Royal Garden Blues and Tiger Rag. Perfect for the intermediate guitarist looking for some great Dixieland melodies to add to their repertoire. This book comes with an online audio recording of Nashville's Tommy Flint playing each of thesolos.

25 bluegrass standards in easy arrangements with tab. Includes: Alabama Jubilee • Arkansas Traveler • Bill Cheatham • Blackberry Blossom • The Fox • Great Speckled Bird • I Am a Pilgrim • New River Train • Red Rocking Chair • Red Wing • Sally Goodin • Soldier's Joy • Turkey in the Straw • and more.

This matching songbook to the first album of this double-album masterpiece. Includes 17 classic hits: Back in the U.S.S.R. · Blackbird · The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill · Dear Prudence · Happiness Is a Warm Gun · I'm So Tired · Martha My Dear · Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da · Rocky Raccoon · While My Guitar Gently Weeps · Why Don't We Do It in the Road · Wild Honey Pie · more.