Rhythm and Solos-Get your blues grooves movin' with this great DVD! Al Ek teaches six different rhythm parts each with its own solo and shows how each solo can work over different rhythm grooves and keys.Designed for the beginning blues guitarist everything on this DVD is played up to speed then broken down note by note.Includes jam tracks for each style covered: Shuffle Rock Mojo Groove Slow Blues Boogaloo Groove and Backwards Shuffle.

The Beginner Guitarist has been born out of 20 years of teaching experience. Although specifically designed as a teacher’s aid it can also be used for independent study.Topics like posture tuning andphrasing are not prescribed being left to the judgement of the teacher. With the exception of right and left-hand fingering advice this approach is used throughout the series. The entire series has the goal of being a measuredand progressive tutor. Ideas are usually introduced one at a time to avoid overloading the student.Book Four builds on the ideas and techniques explored in the first three books. It begins with anextensive look at the key of A major initially in second position but moving through other positions and finishing with an exercise in thirds and a duet.The remainder focuses on triplets and compound time beginning withtriplet exercises in 2/4 before moving on to 6/8. The book then features swing rhythms before finishing with a Habanera Renaissance pieces and a modern piece in multiple time signatures.About the author: NigelTuffs is an instrumental teacher with more than 20 years of experience in all areas of guitar teaching. Originally a member of several rock bands he completed an honours degree at the Colchester Institute specialising incomposition and performance and has since worked extensively as a chamber musician in guitar ensembles as an accompanist and also as an educator.

Guitar Apprentice teaches you real hit songs in a rhythm game format by breaking them down into easy portions on multiple levels showing you exactly what and when to play. By watching the scrolling fret boards and playing as they drop in to place you'll never be lost or overwhelmed. On the first level you play only a chord or two. By the time you reach the highest level you're playing the entire song like the original recorded version. Grab any real guitar pop in a DVD and you're ready to rock even if it's the first time you've picked up a guitar! Every Guitar Apprentice DVD includes: 15 levels of play per song â?¢ easy colour-coded finger diagrams â?¢moving guitar necks show what's coming â?¢ strings light up to show you what and when to play â?¢ instruction on the fundamentals of playing guitar.

This handy video takes the Guitar student through all the basic Guitar chords starting with the easy to play forms and moving into the standard and more difficult fingerings. Every chord is shown in a Guitar chord progressionand a play along segment is provided on the DVD for every chord and progression.Added features of this DVD are the presentation of Rock Power Chords in the keys of C G D A E and F and Blues Guitar Chord Progressions inthe keys of C G D A E and F.

Don't Ever Let Nobody Drag Your Spirit Down-Eric Bibb was raised in the folk tradition the son of the folk singer Leon Bibb. Bibb?s uncle was the world-famous jazz pianist and composer John Lewis part of the Modern Jazz Quartet. Bibb was raised in a music-filled household as family friends in the 1950s and 1960s included Pete Seeger Odetta Bob Dylan and the late Paul Robeson who was named Eric?s godfather. Bibb got his first steel guitar at age seven and he got some advice from Dylan that he never forgot to ?keep it simple forget all that fancy stuff.? When he was 16 his father asked him to play guitar in the house band for his TV talent show Someone New.In 1970 Eric left New York City forParis where he met with guitarist Mickey Baker. There he began to focus on blues guitar and after moving to Stockholm he became enamored with prewar blues. A breakout performance at the 1996 London Blues Festival catapulted Eric to a higher level of visibility. Since then he has toured the world performing at concert halls and major festivals. He has toured with Robert Cray Keb Mo Corey Harris and even opened shows for Ray Charles.Eric earned a Grammy nomination for his collaboration (with Taj Mahal and others) on the children?s record SHAKIN? A TAILFEATHER. His album PAINTING SIGNS was recognized by New Age Voice as a Finalist for Best Folk Album of 2001. He joined Maria Muldaur and Rory Block to record the gospelflavored SISTERS & BROTHERS and then released FRIENDS a collection of duets with Taj Mahal Odetta and others. He has been nominated for many W.C. Handy Awards in a variety of categories. Eric?s rich and sensitive vocals and lyrics provide a perfect balance to his fine fingerpicking technique. Purveying a beautifully realized and deftly accomplished soulful folk-blues Eric has no problem blending various genres effortlessly melding a traditional rootsy American style with a subtle contemporary sensibility.

Par FERGUSON JIM. In Comping Standards For Jazz Guitar renowned Guitar guru and author Jim Ferguson helps you to take your playing to the next level. Using common jazz chord progressions, this book takes you through three primary comping approaches: straight-four, moving bass lines and combo variants. In the process, you'll learn numerous chord voicings, ways to organize them and a wide variety of dynamic rhythmic figures used in jazz. Other highlights include the use of guides and pivots, chord substitution, mastering rootless chords, playing with a pianist, inverting partial harmonic structures, Latin comping, chord scales, handling modal tunes and mixing voicings. The highly detailed music examples cover most of the common jazz keys and the material comes to life on the accompanying 17-track CD. The pieces featured in Comping Standards For Jazz Guitar are in both standard notation and tablature./ Recueil / Guitare

Dutch Edition of the first book from Russ Shipton's best selling Complete Guitar Player method.Based on popular songs by Oasis The Beatles Eric Clapton and other top names it assumes no previous knowledge ofthe Guitar or music. The method starts with simplified notation moving on to standard music notation later with clear diagrams helpful demonstration photographs and colour used to make learning easy.This is the way foranyone to learn Guitar easily quickly enjoyably!

Randy Vincent's 200-page complete guide to three-note jazz guitar voicings and related topics. For everyone from intermediate newcomers to jazz guitar up to very advanced players, the book develops a unique 'dynamic' concept of harmony where three independently moving lines team up to create beautiful harmonies that are valuable for comping, chord melodies and chordal jazz improvisations. Topics include: three-note 'shell' voicings and special derived comp voicings; complete triad review including all close and open inversions on all strings; triad applications such as 'slash' chords, upper structures, hexatonic triad-pairs and special 'hybrid' voicings; quartal and secundal voicings perfect for modal comping and soloing;and much, much more. Hundreds of examples in both music notation and guitar grids are included. / Methods & Tutors / Recueil / Guitare

The Life And Music Of The Legendary Jazz Guitarist-In guitar history no single figure stands as tall as jazzman Charlie Christian. He helped not only introduce the electric guitar to the world but also popularized single string solos moving the instrument from background rhythm to the forefront of popular music. And like so many important jazz players he made enormous contributions in the span of an all-too-short life. Born in 1916 in Texas Christian moved to Oklahoma City at an early age where he became immersed in the jazz culture of the Sooner State. Influenced by family jazz musicians in and out of Oklahoma and area western swing players Christian emerged with his own unique style of playing. By 1939 hejoined the Benny Goodman Sextet. During the next few years he received national acclaim. At clubs like Minton’s in New York he even helped craft the early stages of Bebop. And yet by 1942 he succumbed to tuberculosis and passed into history. This DVD covers all aspects of Charlie’s life and music featuring interviews with family friends fellow Oklahoma jazz musicians and music luminaries like Claude ‘Fiddler’ Williams Jerry Jerome and Les Paul. Also included are a large array of musical performances by such guitarists as Herb Ellis Eldon Shamblin Zeke Campbell and others.

Par BULLOCK ROBIN. Celtic acoustic guitar and cittern wizard Robin Bullock takes the vibrating string to astonishing places with four of his own compositions, artful arrangements of another five traditional Celtic tunes, and tunes by Norman Blake and Dougie MacLean. From high-octane performances on Spider - Maho Snaps - Matelot Jig - and Old Brown Case to the extraordinarily moving and trancelike tune Between Earth and Sky(original title piece of his CD), the slow Irish air For Ireland I'd Not Tell Her Name - and Tiger Baby's Lullaby - Robin displays the fingerpicking and flatpicking styles that, combined with his composing and multi-instrumental skills, have earned his reputation with such renown Celtic and world-music groups as Helicon, Billboard's 'world music' TOP 10 artist John Whelan's new Celtic band, and Riverdance guest artists Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble. An extraordinary composer, Robin also varies tunings using standard tuning on only two pieces - he fingerpicks seven of the tunes, and uses flatpick technique on Old Brown Case and the three cittern (Irish bazouki) pieces: his original The Iraqi Road to Dublin and Irish traditional tunes Maho Snaps and The Dawn/Miss Monahan. Completing the 11 pieces on this video are: Dougie MacLean's Farewell to Craigie Duh, Turlough O'Carolan's Sir Charles Coote - Captain Higgins - and Rigler's March - Rex's Ramble - another one of his own. Find out why everyone who hears Robin Bullock is entranced by his masterful musical versatility, his humorous approach to life, and the music that runs through his head. / Acoustic Music - Concert/Documentary / Accessoire / Guitare

The wild pulses danceable rhythms and playful lyrics of the Calypso will spice up your guitar arrangements and inspire your playing in a new tropical direction!Brozman shows you how to use fingerpicking and strumming patterns moving bass lines percussive strokes and other techniques to capture the distinctive syncopations of the Caribbean style. Working in a variety of keys he analyses a variety of rhythms including the calypso tango samba waltz mazurka and Latin jazz.Learn a host of songs for the price of one as hundreds of calypso tunes are based upon the components revealed here!

Whether Guy Davis is appearing on Late Night TV programs or nationally syndicated radio shows in front of 25 000 people at Madison Square Garden or an intimate gathering of students at a Music Camp Guy feels the instinctive desire to give each listener his 'all'. His 'all' is the Blues.Guy can tell you stories of his great-grandparents and his grandparents their days as track linemen and of their interactions with the KKK. He can also tell you that as a child raised in middle-class New York suburbs the only cotton he's personally picked is his 'BVDs' up off the floor. He's a musician composer actor director and writer. But most importantly Guy Davis is abluesman. The blues permeates every corner of Davis' creativity.Throughout his career he has dedicated himself to reviving the traditions of acoustic blues and bringing them to as many ears as possible through the material of the great blues masters African American stories and his own original songs stories and performance pieces. In 1993 he performed Off-Broadway as legendary blues player Robert Johnson in Robert Johnson: Trick the Devil. He received rave reviews and became the 1993 winner of the Blues Foundation's ?Keeping the Blues Alive Award?. Looking for more ways to combine his love of blues music and acting Davis created material for himself. He wrote In Bed with the Blues: The Adventures of Fishy Waters -- an engaging and moving one-man show. The Off-Broadway debut in 1994 received critical praise from the New York Times and the Village Voice. Of Davis' live performance one reviewer observed that his style and writing ?sound so deeply drenched in lost black traditions that you feel that they must predate him. But no they don't. He created them.?These days Davis concentrates much of his efforts on writing and performing his Blues music. He has released nine albums for Red House Records all of which have garnered rave reviews and

Description String Skipping & Wide Interval Soloing: 212 Melodic Studies and Patterns for Guitar is a much-needed guitarist’s guide to mastering wide interval soloing. This collection of repeating, continuous motion studies shows the guitarist how to develop melodic patterns that are characterized by large intervallic jumps in pitch, from one note to the next, in constant succession. This book presents four unique approaches to developing wide interval soloing, all of which utilize string skipping: 1) double pentatonic scales, which are three-note-per-string pentatonic scale patterns; 2) octave sliding, which uses sliding octave shapes in a variety of ways; 3) stacked fifths, which are wide interval shapes derived from pentatonic scales; and 4) wide interval arpeggios derived from the diatonic major scale. The sound that results from these techniques is exciting and unpredictable because it is such a departure from conventional melodic flow, which tends to be scalar, moving stepwise from one note in a scale to the next. By contrast, wide interval soloing is angular and skewed with big skips and sudden directional changes, creating a complex and fascinating sound. All of the studies in this book are designed as melodic etudes that can be applied directly to soloing in rock, jazz, fusion, and blues music. This book is ideal for serious guitarists in any style who want to break out of typical soloing patterns and create a more explosive, radical sound! CD included.