Morning Thunder-In The Guitar Artistry Of Chris Proctor the National Fingerstyle Guitar Championship winner talks about his style and influences as well as giving dazzling performances on both 6- and 12- string guitars.Chris Proctor falls squarely into the ?New World? steel-string guitar style. Beginning with pop and rock music Chris was soon drawn to the country blues. After exploring that tradition he studied classical and jazz music the traditional music of the British Isles bluegrass and old-time Appalachian music and finally began to investigate the world of the 12-string guitar.In 1982 Chris won the U.S. National Fingerstyle GuitarChampionship and released his first recording ?Runoff.? That recording and the 8 that followed on the Flying Fish Rounder Windham Hill and Sugarhouse labels over the next 27 years elevated Chris to the top rank in the steel-string world. Chris also wrote articles and books filmed instructional videos of his transcriptions and techniques created the guitar workshop program for Taylor Guitars and designed the Taylor Chris Proctor Signature Model guitar.Beginning in the year 2000 Chris broadened his original focus on new music to include reinterpreting music of his diverse set of original influences. His performances today are a primer on the acoustic guitar music of the ?New World.? They feature original guitar techniques and devices invented and adapted by Chris and they convey a striking array of tones textures and moods.Titles include: Tap Room Hot Spot War Games Ozymandias Beppe Ladybug Stomp Nights in White Satin Bach to Ireland Late Again Interstate Morning Thunder The Last Steam Engine Train Revisiting the Sailor?s Grave Gecko Drive and Medley:A Scarce O? Tatties/The Lyndhurst Jig??? Review: Watching Taylor fingerstylist and original workshop clinician Chris Proctor in his new DVD Morning Thunder is an enlightening exercise. Proctor has

(Formerly titled Basic Bluegrass Runs on Guitar: Volume 1). Tired of just strumming the Guitar? Wish you could add a little variety to your rhythm playing? These runs will do it. Each run is explained note-by-note in Murphy'seasy-to-learn style. She also shows you how these runs fit into simple three-chord bluegrass songs. Most of the runs are taught in the key of G but we also introduce the runs in the key of C. In addition we show you how to makethe F chord and do the 'rocking bass.'These are basic professional-grade runs that all good bluegrass rhythm players use. Yet they are explained so clearly that even beginning Guitar players can use them.This videois a direct follow-up to our Beginning Guitar DVD. If you can make G C and D and play a few songs using these chords you can learn these runs. Also for folks who have been playing a while but don't yet do any runs. A great wayto take your basic strumming rhythm to the next level.

Bluegrass star Eddie Adcock provides note-for-note arrangements of some of his best-loved pieces revealing the secrets of his lightning-fast guitar techniques.Learn how Adcock combines Travis-style fingerpicking bluegrass runs to build his amazing guitar instrumentals. He shows you how to use right-hand rolls slides pull-offs and hammer-ons alternating thumb/index finger combinations and a host of other exciting techniques to make your blugrass playing really shine.

In this addition to Mel Bay's popular 'Getting Into' series Flatpicking Guitar Magazine columnist Joe Carr presents an overview of the exciting flatpicking style in tablature and in music notation. Beginning withbasic chords and strum patterns this book/online audio combination covers Carter style fiddle tunes crosspicking floating improvisation and much more! Special sections address pick direction pentatonic scales dropped D tuning and how to read standard music on the guitar. Included are the 'Top Ten' flatpicking favorites and a section on Irish ornamentation. Access to online audio provided.

Here's your chance to learn from an award-winning guitarist and develop the bluegrass soloing abilities you've always dreamed of having.David Grier outlines an encyclopedic range of techniques in the flatpicking style that will truly set your solos on fire. He takes in all the elements of a hot bluegrass solo including:SlidesHammer-ons/Pull-offsrosspickingPick-and-fingersBendsDouble-stopsRakingBefore long you'll be digging into arrangements of well-known bluegrass standards such as Liberty and Bill Cheatham as well as a spectacular version of Nine Pound Hammer. Grier provides additional insights designedto help you realise your own abilities and achieve your guitar-playing goals.Become the best bluegrass soloist you can be with this exciting DVD tutorial.

Flatpicking Guitar has taken an interesting journey since its inception first with Maybelle Carter then Don Reno Doc Watson and Clarence White. Younger players who began by listening to the original masters have melded thoseinfluences with other styles including blues swing classical and even various world music styles.When first listening to Doc Watson and Clarence White Barry Solomon was particularly attracted to their use of swing andjazz licks and phrasing and their choices of songs straight from the Tin Pan Alley and Great American Songbook.Tunes like Limehouse Blues All of Me and Honeysuckle Rose were exciting challenges toexplore after becoming comfortable with bluegrass and fiddle tunes. Barry always thought that bluegrass and jazz were a wonderful combination and the most gratifying challenge has been to create arrangements that meld both stylesin a tasteful and exciting manner.Titles presented in Volume 2 include: The Way You Look Tonight All of Me Oh Baby and Limehouse Blues. Accompanying audio tuition is included.

Par TROXEL JEFF. Guitarist, composer, songwriter, and Mel Bay author?Jeff Troxel has been successful in the flatpicking contest world as well as being a sought-after college and summer camp instructor. In this book, he shares a lifetime of knowledge about one specific role of the bluegrass guitarist? that of accompaniment or ?backup?.Beginning in Chapter One, Troxel lays the foundation for what is to come in rendering alternating bass lines, chord progressions, ornamentation, intros, endings, bass runs, chord-melodies, pedal tones, and other essential concepts that contribute to effective rhythm guitar playing.Five appendices address: Basic Music Theory, Capos and Transposition, Tuning, Guitars, Picks and Strings, and Lead Sheets for the dozen bluegrass tunes featured in the book.All music appears in standard notation and tablature with 69 audio tracks. By the time you finish reading and playing the examples in this book, you?ll be ready to jam or perform with the best!Includes access to online audio. / Date parution : 2022-06-08/ Etude / Guitare

Blues And Country Fingerpicking-This terrific compilation features lessons at a variety of levels from beginner to advanced by some of Homespun’s most celebrated pickers. Each segment covers a complete song or instrumental that will expand your repertoire improve your technique and enhance your musical knowledge. These lessons cover the steady bass and syncopated melody of the Piedmont blues players (Roy Book Binder and John Jackson); the muffled bass and swingy chords of Travis-style pickers (Thom Bresh and Doc Watson); the strumming and pounding of Delta blues stylists (Rory Block); and the banjo-like rolls and single-string approach of more bluegrass oriented fingerpickers (Eddie Adcock).

In this new multi-volume series author Joe Carr introduces beginning to intermediate guitarists to classic bluegrass ballads and waltzes. The object of the series is to ground players in good technique and to impart the essentialskills required for continued self-guided development. The tunes are presented in both 'Carter-style' and flatpicking arrangements. Perfect for beginning lead guitarists.

Fast Jam With Murphy And Casey-Learn Bluegrass By Ear: Fast Jam With Murphy And Casey is a fantastic tuition DVD Taught by Murphy Henry and Casey Henry for all instruments.This exciting DVD willreally put you through your paces and improve you playing by ear and improvising technique. The question is can you keep up?

The Bluegrass Picker's Tune Book is a must for all bluegrass pickers! Included are the melody line and chords to over two hundred favorite gospel and bluegrass songs. Detailed information about the origin and performers isgiven for each song as well as the history and development of the bluegrass genre. The lyrics are large and easy to read during a performance.

Avez vous déjà révé de jouer avec un groupe mondialement connu ? Si oui, ce DVD et 2CD d'accompagnement, le dernier de la série des 'Hit the Right Lick' est pour vous ! L'illustre guitariste Richard A. Collins, avec son groupe, vous donne une chance d'apprendre quelques standards de Blues authentiques (écoutez les extraits ci dessous) et de les jouer avec eux. Vous commencerez par apprendre leurs spécificités : accord de la guitare, lead runs, ... qui donneront à votre style et votre son un Blues unique . Une fois cela maitrisé, six playbacks complets vous attendent pour vous permettre de jouer avec le groupe, et concrétiser ainsi vos nouveaux talents. De plus, deux CD d'accompagnement contiennent une série de morceaux chacun avec la version complète, et la version playback. Bluegrass country est une méthode d'apprentissage par l'exemple, et un outil vraiment idéal et pratique pour perfectionner son jeu, avec un groupe de première classe ! / Guitare

Duet Singing-Dailey and Vincent are the hottest band in bluegrass. They swept all the major awards at this year's IBMA Convention and are barnstorming the country with their exquisite vocal harmonies and amazing instrumental prowess.This unique DVD captures their ideas on duet singing as they take apart eight of their show-stopping songs including By The Mark Music of the Mountains and More Than a Name on the Wall.

Franco-algérien fingerstyle guitariste Pierre Bensusan est un talent unique. Son sound et le style confond classification, être profondément originale et encore familier et expressif. Son empreinte est sur elle que ce soit son folk antérieure et axée sur le Celtic rendus, son matériau improvisation de forme libre, ou dans les paramètres, en solo ou ensemble. Sans aucun doute, il est un des meilleurs joueurs de DADGAD du monde. Sa musique atteint bien au-delà de l'idiome d'une guitare jouée dans un réglage atypique, vivant par la raison d'être que la musique n'est pas faite pour un instrument spécifique, mais sur les ingrédients musicaux et comment vous les combinez. Dans cette deuxième leçon de DVD, Pierre présente sept pièces plus qui caractérise son incroyable talent et style comme il explore les techniques et les compétences nécessaires pour jouer, tout en permettant aussi un aperçu perspicace dans l'esprit de l'un des guitaristes de grands du monde. / Guitare

Crosspicking est une technique de flatpicking passionnant qui est une partie essentielle de l'arsenal du guitariste de chaque bluegrass. Utilisant des patrons répétées sur les groupes de trois cordes, crosspicking capte le rebond de double remaniement d'un violoneux et le lecteur de trois doigts banjo Scruggs-style rouleaux. Apprenez l'art de cette technique de choix passionnants avec Eric Thompson dans ce didacticiel de DVD qui met en vedette split-screen plans rapprochés afin que vous ne manquerez jamais une note ! / Guitare