Grammy winning guitarist and acclaimed author Mark Hanson teaches you how to play great fingerpicking blues guitar instrumentals on this DVD. Included are Mark's fun arrangements of Every Night When the Sun Goes Down, Stick With Me Baby, and his extended bluesy guitar solo of the classic Amazing Grace. Also included are Mark's sprightly ragtime composition 'Riff Raff' and a thorough explanation of developing fingerstyle solo techniques through multi-voiced back-up shuffle patterns. As an added bonus, Mark is shown performing his highly regarded arrangement of Water Is Wide. Contains complete music notation and tablature for all the five tunes. Includes individual lesson segments and multiple camera angles and close-ups all to help your learning!
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Master guitarist Duke Robillard gives you 30 ways to improve and expand your blues soloing and comping in this easy-to-use book/CD set. Designed for aspiring and experienced blues players alike, these lessons present unique concepts, merging elements of jazz with blues to take your playing to new heights.
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A first of its kind, the At a Glance series pairs an instructional DVD lesson taught by a professional guitarist with a supplemental book for a comprehensive learning experience. Each book/DVD features several lessons pertaining to one topic, and the hi-def DVD lessons feature on-screen music. The lessons are loaded with valuable tips and information, and popular song examples help to demonstrate the concepts in action. Electric Blues – At a Glance features these lessons: Blues Progressions, B.B. King Style, Stevie Ray Vaughan Style, and Progressive Licks. Songs include: Ask Me No Questions • Cold Shot • Couldn't Stand the Weather • I'm Tore Down • Just like a Woman • Mama, Talk to Your Daughter • Sweet Home Chicago • Thrill Is Gone • Tightrope • and more!
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Do you want to sharpen up your improvisational technique? This DVD features renowned blues guitarist Bill Boazman (aka Sonny Black) and his band demonstrating a variety of jazz-blues songs and showing you how to play them. Now you can enjoy jamming with a full live band whilst sharpening your blues chops. This DVD is intended for the blues players wishing to extend their vocabulary to take in the jazzier sounds in the blues. It covers tuning, passing chords, lead runs and scales, with full up-close demonstrations, as well as 7 full length backing tracks that allow you to practice with a full band. Furthermore, two accompanying audio CDs feature 12 original songs in the styles of T-Bone Walker, Wes Montgomery, Ronnie Earl and Magic Sam amongst others. Each song is indexed as two tracks: one full demonstration recording with the guitar solo, followed by the backing track that allows you to sit in and take over the solos yourself. This is a fantastic look-and-learn method, a useful practice tool and a great way to unwind, just playing along with your own world-class band! Authored for Zone 0. Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
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House of Blues and The Rock House Method® join together to bring you this unique and comprehensive beginner Metal method. Jam-packed with the fundemental techniques you need to develop the skills to play any style of metal. World renowned instructor/guitarist John McCarthy guides you step-by-step through easy to learn metal power chords, complete classic and modern metal rhythms, his very own speed demon exercises, pentatonic death scales and the demonic half step. You will learn bends, pull-offs, and hammer-ons all key components of effective lead playing. It is a must have for aspiring metal guitar players!
Each Rock House product includes free lifetime membership to Rock House's online lesson support system. Enhance your learning experience, links with instructors, download backing tracks, access message boards, and much more. You'll connect with a community of musicians around the world learning to play music using The Rock House Method.
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House of Blues and producers of The Rock House Method join together to bring you this unique and comprehensive guitar course! With this course designed by world-renowned guitarist John McCarthy, you will develop a solid foundation for playing acoustic and electric blues guitar by learning beginner through advanced techniques. You start with basic chords, scales and proper technique training! You'll then graduate to strumming as you learn rhythm guitar, learn lead guitar with bending, hammer-ons and pull-offs and learn complete songs and leads. Finally, you'll move onto full form chords and scales, triplet lead patterns, the shuffle feel and swing effect, challenging blues riffs, turnarounds and much more! John will encourage you to cultivate your own style by emphasizing the techniques and components needed to develop creativity. Everything is included to guide you through the process of mastering the guitar.
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The Guitar Play-Along DVD series lets you hear and see how to play songs like never before. Just watch, listen and learn! Each song starts with a lesson from a professional guitar teacher. Then, the teacher performs the complete song along with professionally recorded backing tracks. You can choose to turn the guitar off if you want to play along, or leave the guitar in the mix to hear how it should sound. You can also choose from three viewing options: fret hand with tab, wide view with tab, pick & fret hands close-up. Each DVD includes great songs that all guitarists will want to know!
Volume 4 includes: All Your Love (I Miss Loving) (Otis Rush) • Easy Baby (Magic Sam) • I Ain't Got You (Jimmy Reed) • I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man (Muddy Waters) • Killing Floor (Howlin' Wolf) • Mary Had a Little Lamb (Buddy Guy) • Messin' with the Kid (Junior Wells) • Sweet Home Chicago (various artists). 81 minutes.
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A Hands-On Beginner's Course In Acoustic Country Blues Homespun Listen & Learn Series Take a lesson in fingerstyle blues guitar from one of the world's most respected teacher/performers. All you need to know is how to play a few basic chords to get started playing along with this user-friendly book/audio package. Beginning with the most basic strumming of a 12-bar blues pattern. Happy gradually starts adding fills, runs, turnarounds, bass rhythms and 'boogie woogie' walking bass patterns that make the basic blues progression come alive. All of these elements are notated in both notes and tab.
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This exciting series of instrumental instruction books includes complete music plus easy-to-follow instructions, tips and advice. The accompanying CDs allow you to listen and play along to the matching audio tracks. These user-friendly book/CD packs provide riffs, licks, chords & tricks you can learn now, and easily incorporate into your own playing style!
Playing good blues solos depends on musical understanding. Unlike other books, this volume will show you what and how to play. Hear what can be done with only five notes. Learn the all-important secret of mixing scales – the way the pros do. Play as you learn with the pro-quality CD backing tracks.
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You can become a better player by studying the authentic licks of Albert King, B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, John Mayer, and Joe Bonamassa. This book/CD pack puts you on the path to learning licks, tricks and techniques, working your way towards the ultimate goal of building stronger solos regardless of your current skill level. With examples from a dozen classic recordings, including: Hide Away • Laundromat Blues • Lucille • Pride and Joy • Texas Flood • and more, this is blues soloing straight from the horse's mouth! The CD is playable on any CD player and also enhanced so Mac & PC users can adjust the tempo without changing the pitch.
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Master the basics of blues guitar. Explore riffs, solo ideas, and special techniques. Learn to play 12 of the greatest blues tunes of all time.
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This superb DVD includes a selection of easy-to-absorb lessons that are designed to teach the beginner guitarist some of the essential basics of blues guitar playing. You'll learn some essential lead guitar techniques such as string bending, hammer-on and pull-off, sliding, and vibrato that can be used in styles of guitar playing from jazz to metal. Topics covered include: 12-bar blues in E (dominant 7th chords) • fingerstyle blues • chord embellishments • 8-bar blues • quick change blues and shuffle rhythms • 12-bar blues in A (6th and 9th chords) • blues bends • soloing over a blues progression (licks, double stops, turnaround licks) • scales, arpeggios and much more!
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Take a journey inside the blues with Dave Rubin's latest book, Rockin' the Blues: 1963-1973. This seminal 10 years produced some of the most influential blues-rock guitarists of all time. Learn about the lives of these trail-blazing guitarists, their individual styles, accomplishments, and techniques, then play along with the accompanying CD and taste the magic yourself. Each chapter delves into the world of a key blues-rock guitarist from this period, with rare photos, historic insights, interviews, and guitar solos written in standard notation and tablature and performed by a full band on the included audio CD. Explore this exciting time in music history with a book that covers it like no other. Artists covered include: Duane Allman, Jeff Beck, Roy Buchanan, Eric Clapton, Alvin Lee, Keith Richards, Robbie Robertson, and others.
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Learn killer licks in the style of your favorite players and jam along with our superb guitar jam tracks. Each Quick Licks DVD includes an arsenal of licks in the style of your chosen artist to add to your repertoire, plus backing tracks to practice your new-found techniques! Learn killer blues licks in the style of Joe Bonamassa, one of the leading lights in the modern blues guitar scene! Also includes a blues guitar jam track. Lessons by Danny Gill
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The new way to practice jamming! This book/CD pack includes full-band backup to 12 Chicago-style extended jams in authentic blues styles. Includes tips on scales and techniques to use with each track. Songs include, in standard notation and tablature: Back Against the Wall • Candy Apple Coupe • I Can't Feel Your Love • I'll See You Later • Just One Night • My Little Honey • No Credit • Plantation Blues • Soon My Time Is Coming • Two-Room City Flat • Waiting on My Lady • You Really Got to Love Me.
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Steve Kaufman brings his masterful skills to an engaging and user-friendly collection of twelve “bluesy” bluegrass standards that will serve any intermediate-level picker well in a jam, practice session or performance. Songs include: Little Maggie • Shady Grove • Milk Cow Blues • East Tennessee Blues • Florida Blues • Wayfaring Stranger • Lonesome Road Blues • Blue Ridge Mountain Blues, Salty Dog Blues • St. Louis Blues • and more. Includes music and tab booklet. Early intermediate level.
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The House of Blues and producers of The Rock House Method join together to bring you this unique and comprehensive blues guitar course! With this course designed by world renowned instructor/guitarist John McCarthy you will develop a solid foundation for playing blues guitar by learning essential blues chords and scales, the BB Box, lead techniques used by greats such as Stevie Ray Vaughan, Buddy Guy and B.B. King, string bending, vibrato, hammer-ona, pull-offs and complete blues rhythms including the 12 bar blues. The second part of the course encourages you to cultivate your own style by emphasizing the techniques and components needed to develop creativity. You'll learn full form blues chords and scales, complete blues leads, the shuffle feel and swing effect, challenging blues riffs, turnarounds and much more. This expanded edition features: redesigned packaging • updated and revised lessons • 8 new pages of lessons added • all audio tracks and video lessons now available as download • and a PDF digital edition for portable devices when the product gets registered.
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As rhythm guitarist for blues legend Muddy Waters, Steady Rollin' Bob Margolin has gained invaluable experience in the art of Chicago blues rhythm guitar. And now in this exclusive and comprehensive book/DVD package, Bob Margolin and blues author/historian Dave Rubin bring you the definitive instructional guitar method on the subject, featuring loads of rhythm guitar playing examples to learn and practice, covering a variety of styles, techniques, tips, historical anecdotes, and much more. To top it off, every playing example in the book is performed on the accompanying DVD by Bob Margolin himself! The book also features a unique code to access the same videos online for download or streaming!
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