DVD 1: Easy Arrangements for Intermediate Players for Acoustic Guitar-A musician and popular writer for Acoustic Guitar magazine and other publications Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers breaks down seven iconic Grateful Dead songs at a very user-friendly pace.He teaches the rhythms lead lines licks and chords for authentic-sounding acoustic renditions of: Friend of the Devil • Black Peter • Brokedown Palace • Fire on the Mountain • New Speedway Boogie • Cassidy and Stella Blue.LEVEL 3 • INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB .PDF • 2 HOURS

You need to start Playing the Blues Now!-In any music style there are essentials scales licks chords etc. Blues Guitar Chords teaches you the must-know chords that will get you shufflin' like a pro in no time. You won't get bogged down with tons of details. Rather you'll be armed with many chord shapes that have been used throughout the history of the blues.The included DVD demonstrates each chord and all the song examples are accompanied by a full band so you can hear these chords in the proper context. Covers: boogie patterns dominant seventh chords extended chords other chord types (min7 maj7 altered) alternate/partial chords full song examples and more! DVD running time: 37 min.

Jody Stecher?s guitar arrangements are blues tinged banjo influenced and highly inventive. They are fluid evolving and subject to flights of fancy and improvisation in actual performance. Yet they contain a lot thatis ?fixed? or repeated from performance to performance. The seven arrangements presented in this lesson are crystallisation's of the motifs and patterns typically used by Jody when playing these tunes. Five tunings andfour styles of picking are presented. Jody?s music has the flavor and atmosphere of traditional old time country music country blues and mountain music but the actual details of execution and arrangement are uniquelyhis. This practice of original expression is itself an important element of American traditional music which is fundamental to aspiring guitarists. Titles include: Boat?s Up The River Buddy Won?t You Roll DownThe Line Red Rocking Chair Old Country Stomp Casey Jones Riley And Spencer and Those Two Blue Eyes.

The original blues guitar hero who according to musical folklore sold his soul at a desolate crossroads in return for musical virtuosity Robert Johnson unwittingly inspired a guitar revolution. In the hands of Eric Clapton John Mayall Peter Green and others the songs of the legendary bluesman became the very basis of British blues sound and the roots of modern rock as we know it.In this unique DVD Scott Ainslie presents a lesson devoted to Johnson's work teaching you seven of his greatest songs. Ainslie delivers a concise and accessible demonstration of the techniques Johnson used to create his remarkable guitar parts including tunings slide techniques and thedistinctive characteristic fingerpicking of the country blues. Get to grips with the achingly melancholy Drunken Hearted Man the upbeat shuffle of Walkin' Blues as well as the original arrangement of the now much-loved standard Sweet Home Chicago.The lesson is also accompanied with a selection of jam-along songs a section covering specific techniques and a host of tips for effective practice.

Cet ouvrage recense précisément 100 riffs de guitare. Mais pas n?importe quels riffs... des riffs dans l?esprit des plus grands tubes de la guitare, ces morceaux qui ont traversé les décennies, qui font partie de la culture «guitaristique», qu?il faut absolument connaître et savoir jouer. Chacun des 100 riffs de guitare présentés dans ces pages est agrémenté d'une explication pouvant être technique et/ou théorique, afin de vous aider à les affronter plus aisément. Tous les riffs, sans exception, sont repris sur le CD MP3 joint à la méthode, ce qui vous permettra de lever le voile sur des mises en place parfois difficiles à aborder avec la seule partition. La plupart de ces riffs sont abordables par le plus grand nombre... le principe même d?un riff réussi reposant souvent sur la simplicité et l?efficacité ! Bref, voici un ouvrage 100% plaisir... qui vous permettra d?épater rapidement votre entourage ! A la manière de All right now, I love rock ?n? roll, Cissy Strut, Sweet home Alabama, Walk this way, Money for nothing, More than words, Money, Day Tripper, Stayin' alive, La bamba, You really got me, Rock you like a hurricane, Le freak, Smells like teen spirit, Wonderwall, Highway to hell, La grange, Cold Gin, Paranoïd, Enter sandman, Back in black, Pretty Woman, Pinball Wizard, Should I stay or should I go, Come as you are, Message in a bottle, Californication, Sunday bloody sunday, All along the watchtower, Hell?s Bells, Smoke on the water, All day and all of the night, Seven nation army, House of the rising sun, Satisfaction, Roxanne, Sunshine of your love, Stairway to heaven, Mission impossible, Killing in the name, Start me up, Eye of the tiger, Jailhouse rock, Hey Joe, Beat it, Black dog, Behind blue eyes, Are you gonna go my way, Black night, Get up (I feel like being a) sex machine, Immigrant song, Sweet Jane, London calling, This love, My Sharona, Owner of a lonely heart, Sweet child of mine, Sweet dreams... et tant d'autres encore !

Authentic Guitar Accompaniments for 7 Classic Songs-During a brilliant three-decade career Dan Fogelberg's iconic songs soaring vocals and rich Guitar arrangements gained him millions of avid fans and secured him a place in the pantheon of American popular music.His acoustic-based songs drew from a variety of sources: rock pop bluegrass and the California folk-rock sounds of the '70s and '80s. Pete Huttlinger was smitten at an early age by Dan's recordings and he absorbed and analyzed the Guitar techniques that helped create the unique Fogelberg sound. He describes in note-for-note detail how to play seven classics all taken from the album Souvenirs.

Records by Charlie Byrd Lenny Breau George Van Eps Laurindo Almieda and Joe Pass have set a very high standard for solo fingerstyle jazz guitar and it is from this vantage point that the solo flights of Taylor Crook Nichols Baker and Mann take wing. Each player has developed a distinctly different approach to interpreting and writing jazz for solo guitar by listening intently to numerous other musicians and composers - pianists horn players bassists and singers as well as many guitarists in jazz blues and other styles. What distinguishes them from more traditional jazz guitarists (who more or less function in a linear voice in an ensemble) is their abilityto play (or imply) all aspects of music - rhythm chords bass and melody - without accompaniment. Their performances not only demonstrate their technical brilliance and imagination they are a testament to the enduring power and beauty of jazz guitar in its current evolution as a major instrumental force in American music.Martin Taylor: Shining Stockings My funny Valentine Just Squeeze Me Tommy Crook: Melody Of Birdland All The Things You Are It Had To Be You Wave Jim Nichols: Can't Take That Away From Me East Of The Sun Taste Of Honey Here's That Rainy Day Duck Baker: Back Home in Indiana Forty Ton Parachute Out Of The Past Seven Point One Woody Mann: Mr. Guitar Uptown Tales Gypsy Girl Cat Burglar

Especially designed for children these chord cards include 50 of the most common chords for guitar graded with the seven colours of a karate belt! Kids work through the chords with the help of full-colour photos and handy tipsfor each chord and can monitor their progress with the various belt colours just like karate. The White Belt chords are a piece of cake but the Black Belt ones require a real expert. Watch ‘em give those learning blues thechop!

Dvd 2-This follow-up to one of Homespun's top-selling DVDs teachs seven more Guitar accompaniments to hit songs by the legendary singer-songwriter Jim Croce.Bonus: The distinctive solos of Maury Muelheissen Croce's long-time lead guitarist. Includes: One Less Set Of Footsteps Workin' At The Carwash Blues Alabama Rain Dreamin' Again A Long Time Ago Lover's Cross and It Doesn't Have To Be That Way.

This exhaustive yet compact (5 1/2'x8') QWIKGUIDE chord reference shows chords from simple triads through myriad extensions of the dominant seventh chord all in grid format only. All voicings and variants of chords are shownchromatically from the root tone beginning with C Cm C6 C7 C diminished C augmented etc. Chords are further subdivided into categories including chords with individually fingered strings barre chords and rock power chords.A special segment of the book offers 'Best Bet Jazz Chords' - a selection of the most commonly used jazz forms. The book closes with a group of four 12-bar blues progressions. Note: A full-size version of this item is available as21789 Modern Guitar Method Grade 2 Essential Guitar Chords.

Dave Stryker explains his approach to jazz improvisation with musical examples that he himself uses learned from years of playing with the greats - after learning how to play jazz from listening to players such asGrant Green Wes Montgomery and Pat Martino. Dave Stryker's Jazz Guitar Improvisation Method explains the minor sub approach using minor scales to play over dominant seventh chords and then includesseveral solos over often-played jazz standards using this approach. Also described are the use of the blues and pentatonic scales as well as be-bop ideas the melodic minor scale and whole-tone and diminished scales andpatterns. Hanon-type warm up exercises and Stryker's own fingerings shown in tab are also described. Perfect for intermediate-to-more advanced players Stryker's concise way of explaining his approachwill open up the students to developing their own improvisational ideas. Stryker plays the examples and solos on the audio including tracks with a rhythm only section for student play-along. Includes access to onlineaudio.