for the Fingerstyle Guitarist-We all grew up with the sounds of Motown. In this double DVD lesson Alberto Lombardi puts his fingerstyle talents to arrange four all time Motown great hits.You Can?t Hurry Love: What a happy uplifting song! The key is to get a good groove! An alternating bass reminiscent of Chet Atkins was perfect for most of the song. Alberto uses a tiny bit of percussion on the guitar to capture the original bass groove. Being an up-tempo tune a few blues licks are added to give an electric guitar feel. Harmonics are introduced in the chorus to replicate the background vocals of the Supremes.How Sweet it is (To Be Loved By You): This arrangement is based primarily on James Taylor?s cover of Marvin Gaye?s original version. Alberto replicates Taylor?s tenderness and subtleties of his voice with embellishments slides and legatos.My Girl: This song has a killer guitar riff! You can?t loose it in the arrangement. Alberto starts only with the riff and bass and then blends the riff with the bass part leaving room for the melodic vocals. As for all Motown vocal parts it?s full of subtleties and the arrangement preserves these.I Heard it Through the Grapevine: Marvin Gaye sang like an angel! Alberto captures this expressiveness both using the same refined lines and also the rough sweetness of his attitude. Very close attention was focused on building a bass line that works very close to the original but appropriate for the ?fingerstyle transformation? of the song. You got to keep it snappy and grooving. Harmonics impersonate the breathy vocals of the female background singers while the bass keeps the groove riff going.

If you have ever been left feeling dazed and confused by the sheer volume and variety of guitar methods to choose from or simply put off by the amount of text to wade through before you even start playing then this book isexactly what you need. Using pictures and diagrams to show you the essentials here is the most simple and direct way to start playing the guitar - immediately! Perfect for the absolute beginner no prior musical knowledge orexperience is required as you progress effortlessly from tuning and finger positions to basic chords and strumming. In fact the Picture Guide To Playing Guitar will have you playing classic songs by the likes of ChuckBerry The Beatles and T. Rex within minutes! There really is no easier way without delay to become a musician - today!

Learning to play Blues Guitar is a highly rewarding experience but getting started can be a challenge! Here at last is a book that helps you choose the right instrument and accessories and then gets you playing -fast!Full colour pictures clear diagrams and genuinely practical advice combine to make Start-Up Blues Guitar do exactly what is says on the cover. You'll start off on the right track andthat makes everything else come more easily.Contents include:Blues ChordsBass Chord Strumming PatternsReading Guitar TablatureFills and TurnaroundsIntros andEndingsSolo TechniqueImprovising RiffsCountry and Jazz BluesBlues RockA selection of timeless Blues songs to playChord reference library

Lick Library-Expand and develop your string picking technique with Danny Gill! One of the most frequently asked questions in the field of guitar education is 'What do I practice?' This excellent DVD series provides lessons and pieces of music exclusively written for practicing essential guitar techniques. By combining the technique lessons with the music and learning the piece from start to finish you will not only improve your ability but also get a sense of achievement and fun from practicing. Danny Gill is a former pupil of Joe Satriani and co-author of the Musicians Institute Rock Guitar series. His songs have appeared on TV shows including 'The Osbournes' and filmsound tracks such as 'Insomnia' and 'Under Siege'.

Chord Encyclopedia-This is the guitar book guitarists have needed for a long time. Kadmon created an encyclopedic compendium that contains thousands of chords diagrams and charts organized in the most logical manner ever employed in a chord book. All chords from basic three note structures to elaborate tonal construction are presented.The sequence from simple to complex is designed to help the player understand the pattern and logic behind chord formations as well as offering the structure and fingering of all standard chords on the guitar and will become the basic reference tool for guitar players no matter what their orientation.

The long-awaited book from Joe Bennett author of numerous best-selling Guitar tutors! The Complete Junior Guitarist is the perfect starter course for young boys and girls.Expert advice on all the keyareas:Advice about what sort of Guitar to buyHolding the Guitar properlyTuning upBasic chords and strumming patternsMastering all of the basicsThis fully-illustrated book also features a widerange of songs all specially composed to be easy to play so that great-sounding results come faster!Start them right with the book that delivers fast-track learning from day one.

Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop-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 (theleft 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. Ourthird 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 jokinglyrefer 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 giantsof 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 aredoing. A detailed 60 page tab/music PDF 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 ElizabethCotten John Jackson Pink Anderson and Doc Watson.

Compact Reference Library. An invaluable manual for every guitarist - amateur or professional. Filled with practical instructions explaining how to keep the guitar in top condition, how to carry out repairs and what to look for when buying a new guitar. Suitable for electric or acoustic guitar.

Hal Leonard Pop Melody Supplements are the unique books that supplement any guitar method books 1, 2 or 3. The play-along CD features guitar on the left channel and the full rhythm section on the right. Each book is filled with great pop songs that students are eager to play!Cross-referenced with Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 1 pages for easy student and teacher use. Includes 15 songs of the season: Away in a Manger - Caroling, Caroling - The Chipmunk Song - Do You Hear What I Hear - Good King Wenceslas - Grandma Got Run over by a Reindeer - Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane) - A Holly Jolly Christmas - Jingle Bells - Jolly Old St. Nicholas - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - O Come, O Come Immanuel - Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town - Silver Bells - You're All I Want for Christmas. / Guitare

John Duarte was passionate about introducing English musicians to the cultural wealth of their own indigenous folk songs. Using the great collection of folk songs that were ‘run to earth’ in the early 1900’s by Cecil Sharpe and Ralph Vaughan Williams among many others Duarte has made a selection of what he considered beautiful characterful tunes set them for the Guitar student and collected them in Sixteen English Folk Songs.Duarte originally earned a degree in chemistry and worked as an industrial chemist for year before abandoning that life to devote himself to music. His life as a Guitarist composer teacher and writer was long and fulfilling. He composed 150 works mainly for Guitar ranging widely over many styles including various national idioms.

The Most Essential Chords for All Guitar Styles-The Ultimate-Guitar Chord Decoder is aimed at guitarists who are mystified by chords. It displays only the most essential chords in the most practical and useful fingerings along with an easy-to-understand primer on chord construction. Starting with open-position power chords all the way up to advanced altered and extended jazz voicings you'll have all the chords you'll ever need to use in your lifetime regardless of what style of music you play. Featured topics include: reading tablature deciphering chord symbols reading chord diagrams choosing chord fingerings open-position essential chords movable chords triads inversions seventhchords and more.

As editor of Fingerstyle Guitar Magazine I have had the good fortune to meet some of the finest guitar players in the world. Today the scope of the players out there keeps growing and the level of musicianship keeps gettinghigher. It is an honor to present Vol. 1 of what promises to be a long series of DVDs presenting some of the finest fingerstyle players the world has to offer.' - Bill Piburn

The music selected for this book seems to lift you gently back to by-gone days to an era more leisurely paced than our own. This collection for solo classic guitar focuses first and foremost on early Christmas music and isenhanced by appropriate cover art biblical text and poetry dating from this exciting period. The selections are festive to listen to while providing arrangements ranging from the traditional 'easier to learn' lute solos to moreadvanced settings with today's harmonies. Each piece is cloaked in the special beauty and warmth that is characteristic of the guitar. A 'mix and match' approach in the arrangements provides an added dimension for your enjoyment.For example What Child is This/Greensleeves begins with an olden lute version followed by interludes that segue into other sections. Seven of the eight pieces in the book are recorded on the accompanying CD for your listeningpleasure and to guide you in interpreting the pieces. Written in standard notation only.

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 thismusic 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 yourfingerstyle 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 explanationsof the arrangements. The DVD comes with a 24 page tab/music PDF booklet and each tune is illustrated in a split screen section making it easy to see what the right and left hands are playing.