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Jazz Classics For Fingerstyle Guitar - Volume 1

Pat Donohue is recognised worldwide as a virtuoso fingerstyle jazz guitarist, with a genre-blending fusion of techniques which makes him the perfect teacher for these jazz classics. The overall theme of these lessons is to show the roots of classic Jazz; leading on to how to arrange a jazz composition and then how to improvise around the arrangement using various techniques. In the first lesson, with the help of three great Jazz compositions, Pat describes the arrangements in detail and then guides you towards improvising over them. An exhaustive lesson, the DVD holds archival footage of the featured songs, including Duke Ellington performing Stormy Weather in 1943. A 24 page booklet of the music accompanies these 81 detailed and practical minutes of Jazz classics which will aid and improve your playing.

Jazz Classics For Fingerstyle Guitar - Volume 2

Pat Donohue is recognised worldwide as a virtuoso fingerstyle jazz guitarist, with a genre-blending fusion of techniques. The overall theme of these lessons is to show the roots of classic Jazz; leading on to how to arrange a jazz composition and then how to improvise around the arrangement using various techniques. In this second lesson, Donohue builds on the skills developed in Volume one and introduces three more classic arrangements. An exhaustive lesson, the DVD holds archival footage of the featured songs, including Fats Waller performing ?Ain?t Misbehavin? in 1941. A 24 page booklet of the music accompanies these 78 detailed and practical minutes of Jazz classics which will aid and improve your playing.

Fred Sokolow: Beginners Fingerpicking Blues Classics

In this instructional DVD, Fred teaches you how to fingerpick eight all-time blues classics. Most of them come from the old school of blues performers like Memphis Minnie, Big Bill Broonzy, Mance Lipscomb and Bessie Smith, but there are also a few songs from urban R&B artists like Louis Jordan and Charles Brown. Every tune is a standard that has been covered by countless artists; you?ll find out where Led Zeppelin got When the Levee Breaks, and what Come Back Baby sounded like before Ray Charles jazzed it up. You'll also appreciate the variety of sounds encompassed by the term "blues."Fred shows you how to accompany yourself singing the songs, and how to fingerpick an instrumental version of each one. His easy-going instructional style, his tips on playing the arrangements, and his slowed-down, split-screen performances of each tune make learning easy. All the arrangements are written out in tab and music as well... both the backup and solos.Songs include: Come Back Baby, When the Levee Breaks, Saint James Infirmary Blues, In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Oh Daddy, Let the Good Times Roll and Black Night.A detailed tab/music instructional booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD.

Fred Sokolow: Flatpicking Country Classics

In this seventy-five minute DVD, Fred teaches nine standards every country picker or singer should know...from start to finish! You?ll learn an intro for each song, a backup pattern and bass runs to play while singing, an instrumental solo, and an ending. Fred keeps the arrangements fairly simple but includes a few up-the-neck chord positions and hot licks. You?ll learn solos and runs in five different keys. Each song is played at regular speed and then slowed down on a split-screen that gives you a close-up look at the picking hand and the chording hand. All the arrangements are clearly written out in tab and music in the accompanying booklet, along with lyrics.

Marching Through Georgio : Arrangements of Heirloom Classics for the Advancing Guitarist

Pat Kirtley: Pickin' Like Chet - Chet Atkins' Vintage Classics (Volume Two)

Chet Atkins was a master in many aspects of the Guitar. One of his greatest skills was his uncanny talent of discovering songs which would "work" as fingerstyle arrangements, and then using his musical genius to forge them into enduring masterpieces. National Fingerstyle Guitar champion Pat Kirtley has assembled a collection of favourites from Chet's "Golden Era" -- some of the best of Chet Atkins' vintage classic tunes -- and teaches you the secrets of how it's done, and how to get the feel of the originals in this double DVD.Pat chose these tunes, his own favourites from Chet's vast collection, carefully dissecting them and then putting them back together, step by step, so the guitarist can not only learn to play them, but also gets a sense of the feel and history of each unique selection. Pat teaches you note by note and phrase by phrase six of Chet's greatest arrangements. Using split-screen you can study both the left and right hands in detail. A printed tab/music booklet is included as well as a PDF file of the booklet on each DVD.Every tune here is a winner, a true Chet Atkins classic, and each one is guaranteed to be a standout solo Guitar performance piece. These challenging arrangements will provide hours of pleasurable fingerstyle fun as you learn to "pick it like Chet!"Tunes taught include: Rose Ann, Down Home, Somebody's Knockin', Trambone, Drive In, Alice Blue Gown. Bonus tracks: Chet Atkins performing The Poor People Of Paris, Side By Side, Makin' Believe, Villa, Say Si Si

Pat Kirtley: Pickin' Like Chet - Chet Atkins' Vintage Classics (Volume One)

Chet Atkins was a master in many aspects of the Guitar. One of his greatest skills was his uncanny talent of discovering songs which would "work" as fingerstyle arrangements, and then using his musical genius to forge them into enduring masterpieces. National Fingerstyle Guitar champion Pat Kirtley has assembled a collection of favourites from Chet's "Golden Era" -- some of the best of Chet Atkins' vintage classic tunes -- and teaches you the secrets of how it's done, and how to get the feel of the originals in this double DVD.Pat chose these tunes, his own favourites from Chet's vast collection, carefully dissecting them and then putting them back together, step by step, so the guitarist can not only learn to play them, but also gets a sense of the feel and history of each unique selection. Pat teaches you note by note and phrase by phrase six of Chet's greatest arrangements. Using split-screen you can study both the left and right hands in detail. A printed tab/music booklet is included as well as a PDF file of the booklet on each DVD.Every tune here is a winner, a true Chet Atkins classic, and each one is guaranteed to be a standout solo Guitar performance piece. These challenging arrangements will provide hours of pleasurable fingerstyle fun as you learn to "pick it like Chet!"

Eric Thompson: Flatpicking Fiddle Tunes - Reels, Rags And Hoedowns

Here's your chance to discover the very roots of the flatpick guitar style through the old-time fiddle tunes that started it all, taught be Eric Thompson.In this DVD presentation Eric shares his soulful arrangements of seven fliddle standards, guiding you phrase-by-phrase through classics including Texas Gals, Fish In The Millpond, the Scottish/Irish Miller?s Reel and Stony Point, the mountain modal Falls of Richmond and more.Build your repertoire and hone your technique, exploring fingering patterns in six different keys which are all clearly illustrated in split-screen close-ups.

Dix Bruce: Basic Country Flatpicking Guitar

Flatpick guitar is the name given to the style of playing simple melodies on the upper strings whilst strumming an accompaniment on the lower strings, and Dix Bruce's DVD will show you how.Developed by Mother Maybelle Carter, this self-accomopaniment method is the foundation upon which all traditional folk, bluegrass and country techniques have been built. Bruce uses nine great country classics and bluegrass standards to give you the chance to master this special skill. He demonstrates the bass note/strum technique and shows how melodies can easily be integrated into known chord patterns. There are also sections that will help you transpose tunes into almost any other key desired - a very important and useful skill, especially in group-playing situations.

Fred Sokolow: Electric Blues Guitar

If you want to play blues guitar like B.B. King, Eric Clapton or Buddy Guy then this eighty minute DVD will get you on track. Starting at the beginning with first-position key-of-E blues licks, Fred Sokolow shows how to play lead and backup like a modern blues guitarist. Includes a 48 page tab music booklet. You'll learn: Several moveable scale patterns and licks for soloing. Moveable chords and chord based licks for backup. How to play melodies, chord backup and improvised solos on blues classics Stormy Monday, Everyday I Have The Blues, Killing Floor and Baby Please Don't Go. Intros and endings. Enough theory to understand the 12-bar blues structure and be able to play backup and solo in any key. Boogie bass lines, vibrato, note-bending and more

Tom Feldmann: The Guitar Of Blind Willie Johnson

Blind Willie Johnson recorded thirty songs from 1927-1930 and of those thirty he used a slide on only twelve. There has been much debate surrounding how he played and what he played with, but regardless of "how" or "what" those twelve songs stand as some of the best slide guitar ever recorded.In The Guitar Of Blind Willie Johnson Tom Feldmann breaks down the complexities of eight of Johnson's classics. You will see how Johnson created his "as you feel" bass lines by utilizing alternating, monotonic and "brushing" bass techniques. Of course, the defining element of Johnson's songs was his unearthly slide playing which Tom shows in detail teaching you Johnson's strike and slides, pull-offs and vibrato. A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD. In addition the original recordings of all the tunes are included.Titles include: Bye And Bye I'm Goin' To See The King, You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond, Dark Was The Night Cold Was The Ground, God Don't Never Change, Lord I Just Cant Keep From Crying, Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning, I Know His Blood Can Make Me Whole and Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed

Fred Sokolow: The Music Of Bessie Smith

In the 1920s and 30s, Bessie Smith was "empress of the blues." Her passionate singing and performing style and her songwriting influenced all the blues and jazz singers that followed. Many of the songs she popularized, both blues and ?tin pan alley? tunes, have become standards in blues, jazz, rock and pop music. Songs in this collection have been recorded by artists as diverse as Eric Clapton, Leadbelly, Billie Holiday, Chet Atkins, Bing Crosby, David Lee Roth, Big Bill Broonzy, B. B. King and Sam Cooke.They?re great tunes for guitar pickers, and Fred shows you how to back yourself up singing them, and how to fingerpick instrumental versions of six classics. With his explanations of the arrangements, split-screen, slowed-down versions of the songs, and with the tab and music in the accompanying booklet, you?ll learn how to play St. Louis Blues, Nobody Knows You When You?re Down and Out, Backwater Blues, After You?ve Gone, I Ain?t Got Nobody and the sensational Send Me To the Electric Chair. The songs sound terrific on guitar, and with Fred's instruction, the arrangements are easy to follow. A 1920s film of Bessie Smith singing St. Louis Blues is featured at the end of the lesson.A detailed tab/music instructional booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD.

Duck Baker: The Music of Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Sphere Monk was a towering figure in the story of modern jazz. He was also one of the great originals in all of jazz history, with a unique piano style perfectly suited to his visionary approach to composition and improvisation. He is even better remembered as the composer of some of the classics of jazz: 'Round About Midnight and Blue Monk. For years regarded as a far-out eccentric, Monk has now taken his rightful place in the pantheon of jazz greats. Monk's music is a challenge on any instrument, and particularly for fingerstyle guitar. Duck Baker draws on his experience performing and arranging many jazz styles, from ragtime to free jazz, in attempting to capture Monk's bittersweet harmonic feeling on the six strings of the guitar. Duck teaches arrangements of Blue Monk, Lulu's Back in Town, 'Round About Midnight and Light Blue. As a bonus, rare footage of Monk performing the first three tunes is included from a 1966 concert with his great quartet featuring Charlie Rouse. Duck Baker's ability to clearly explain and demonstrate his arrangements in an engaging fashion has been noted by both critics and students of his instructional videos, as have his exceptional talents as a guitarist and arranger. The Music of Thelonious Monk Arranged for Fingerstyle Guitar is a unique DVD lesson that only Duck Baker could have put together.

John Renbourn/Stefan Grossman: The Three Kingdoms

This is the fourth recorded collaboration between acoustic guitarists John Renbourn and Stefan Grossman, recorded in 1987 and produced by Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones. As on its three predecessors, the appeal lies in the contrast between Renbourn's traditional British folk style and Grossman's jazz and folk-blues leanings. Ideally, as on 'Rites of Passage' and 'Keeper of the Vine,' Renbourn concentrates on an intricate, folk-based pattern that Grossman decorates with bluesy embellishments. The two have a previously expressed interest in adapting jazz classics to their two-guitar approach, and they do so here on the standard 'Round About Midnight,' then recall their earlier work on tunes by the late Charles Mingus with the mournful 'Farewell to Mr. Mingus.' Since they play differently, their guitar lines can be identified and appreciated separately even when they are intermingling. ? All Music GuideMany acoustic guitarists probably have some degree of acquaintance with the work of John Renbourn and Stefan Grossman, but for the unfamiliar, here's a short history: In the 1970s Stefan toured regularly, sometimes on double-bills with Renbourn. Fate stepped in when, through a promoter's error, it was advertised that these two legends-in-the-making would be performing guitar duets. Though they hadn't worked as a duo before, the guitarists decided to give it a go, and the seeds were planted for a series of fantastic duet albums. The playing on this album as well as Under The Volcano and their eponymous debut, is a fascinating melting pot of European and American musical styles, and the pair achieves a sound as elegant as it is expansive. Though their individual contributions to the world of guitar playing had been weighty before their partnership, these duet albums serve to take both guitarists' playing to new heights, and their enduring compositions still sound fresh today.