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Learn to play GUITAR Learn to play play guitar with our great selection of guitars, videos, books and CDs. Whether you play bluegrass guitar, blues guitar, folk or fingerstyle guitar we offer guitar lessons covering a variety of styles for the beginner to the advanced guitar player. These guitar lessons are taught by some of the best pickers in the business. Hot Picks
Old
Time Country Guitar Backup Basics
Old
Time String Band Songbook
Rhythm Guitar The Ranger Doug Way Laying down that solid groove for the rest of the band is a joy! In this book, 26 western tunes are transcribed in varying levels of difficulty: You can play guitar the Ranger Doug way. More info
New Arrivals Here are a few of the new instructional items we have recently added to the guitar instruction category. For a complete listing please go to the Guitar Instruction of our online catalog.
Packed with dozens of time-tested musical phrases, this
lesson will help even a beginner become a strong lead guitarist. Each riff is
played slowly, and then at speed to give a feel for how it should sound in
context. Jeff Pevar (currently playing with David Crosby) joins Artie to
demonstrate how to use these lead lines while jamming on blues guitar progressions. A
demonstration of minor key jazz-blues phrases will round out this repertoire of
licks and will allow a player to create hot solos. 55-MIN. VIDEO · INCLUDES
MUSIC + TAB.
The right- and left-hand techniques of traditional fingerstyle blues. Chord progressions, turnarounds, walking basses, picking techniques, blues riffs and several complete songs and instrumentals are taught, along with the elements of blues improvisation.
Blues in the key of A, as played by the great blues
masters. More advanced chord positions, bass runs, turnarounds, licks and solos.
Songs: Betty And Dupree * Key To The Highway * Blood Red River * and others.
90-MIN. VIDEO * LEVEL 2/3
Russ shows guitarists at all levels how to achieve good tone, keep solid time, compose solos, improvise, play with more assurance, better control and stronger technique. Includes several exercises and original instrumentals. 90-MINUTE VIDEO * INCLUDES TAB * LEVEL ALL.
Three-time winner fo the International Bluegrass Association's Guitar Player Of The Year, David Grier is a rising star in the world of the acoustic guitar. Here he analyzes his breathtaking technique and takes apart some of his signature tunes for intermediate players: Red Haired Boy, Liberty, Bill Cheatham, Engagement Waltz, and others.
Create back-up guitar parts to fiddle and country tunes in real Western Swing style! Nick Forster dissects moving bass lines and jazz-based chords and shows how to move out of open chords and into the complex chord shapes and progressions typical of Texas-style back-up. Songs: Sally Goodin * Deep Water * Brain Cloudy Blues * Gray Eagle. 60-MINUTE VIDEO * INCLUDES CHORDS * LEVEL 2/3.
An In-Depth Exploration Of Dynamic Flatpicking. Dan Crary
imparts a wealth of technical knowledge, encouragement, inspiration and powerful
ideas that will benefit all guitar students. Includes instruction on numerous
runs, syncopated licks, crosspicking and more. Dan redefines performing,
arranging, improvising, soloing, and practicing, and teaches these songs: Lime
Rock * Arkansas Traveler * John Henry * Foggy Mountain Special * Sally Goodin.
85-MINUTE VIDEO * INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB * LEVEL 3
The founder, singer and guitarist for the western swing band Asleep At The Wheel details the rhythm parts and lead solos that characterize this infectious style. Includes detailed instructions for playing the swing favorites: Take Me Back To Tulsa, Fat Boy Rag, Milk Cow Boogie, Redwing, Roly Poly, and other great tunes from the repertoire of Bob Wills, and others.
Tony Rice slows down his fabulous picking style as he demonstrates his hard-driving flatpicking solos, accompaniments, intros and licks. Includes: Gold Rush * Blackberry Blossom * Muleskinner Blues * Church Street Blues * Cold On The Shoulder * and a fabulous jazz chord arrangement of Georgia On My Mind. 60-MINUTE VIDEO * INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB * LEVEL 3
Crosspicking is a classic bluegrass flatpicking style that
features a rolling, complex sound. This technique has been enthusiastically
adopted by guitar masters and has become an integral part of every hot bluegrass
guitarist's arsenal. In this video, Steve teaches beautiful arrangements of
seven songs: Back Up and Push * Blue Ridge Mountain Blues * Wildwood Flower *
Bill Cheatham * Golden Eagle Hornpipe * Sweet Bunch Of Daisies * and
Grandfather's Clock. 60 Min. Video, Includes Booklet, Level 3/4.
Guaranteed the quickest and easiest way to get into playing the real country guitar! Happy Traum will get you started in this popular American guitar style and get you ready to move on to more advanced studies. You'll learn to handle a flatpick, play a basic scale, then master these techniques: accompanying songs in straight and waltz time; picking out melodies while strumming chords; adding bass runs, hammer-ons, pull-offs and other variations, and playing the famous bluegrass "G Run." Songs: John Hardy, Bury Me Beneath The Willow, All The Good Times Are Past And Gone, East Virginia, Wildwood Flower, Mama Don't 'Low, Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms.
Songs: "Wabash Cannonball," "Blackberry Blossom,"
"Sally Goodin."
Steve is joined by veteran singer and guitarist John Herald, best known for his work with the legendary band, the Greenbriar Boys, who lends his bluegrass vocals to six classic tunes. Their in-depth hour of performance and analysis prepares you to create your own distinctive guitar solos, tasteful rhythmic backups, and full arrangements to complement any bluegrass singer. "Blue Ridge Mountain Blues" sets the stage for Steve's study method. As with each tune, he slows it down and takes it apart section-by-section, showing you how to find, arrange and embellish melodies while working off the tune's basic chord structure. Steve covers a wide variety of picking devices -- licks, runs, rolls, endings, triplets, hammer-ons -- the true benchmark of an in-demand accompanist. In "Wabash Cannonball," perhaps the most famous "train song" in the bluegrass vault, Steve steps off the track to show you how to create an authentic "train whistle" guitar lick. He then mirrors John's vocal yodeling with stringed yodel licks in the evocative "Peach Picking Time In Georgia." "East Virginia Blues" highlights essential crosspicking patterns, and Steve gives a detailed examination of its open strings and chordal repetitions. The duo's lovely rendition of the waltz; "Somebody Loves You, Darling" is an irresistible invitation to dig into the often misunderstood key of F. Steve spices up the standard I-IV-V progressions of "'Til The End Of The World Goes 'Round" with the break from "Ragtime Annie" before closing with a red-hot medley that's downright inspiring. If you follow Steve's lead, your entire repertoire of guitar solos and arrangements will soon shine like well-polished gems! There is a whole lot more than what you see here. Visit the Pickin' Parlor.
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