Top country artist Lee Roy Parnell is a slide guitar player of the highest order! Here he delivers in-depth examples of both acoustic and electric slide playing. Using E & G tunings and covering both blues and country, Lee Roy deals with scales for slide, emulating blues harp, vibrato and slide control, glass versus metal, and using a capo. It's a real professional's treasure trove of tricks, tips, and techniques brought to you by a star player.
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This book/CD teaches beginning to advanced guitarists the secrets of shred. It covers: sweep, alternate and tremolo picking; string skipping; multi-finger tapping; legato, trills and more. The techniques are broken down into 48 exercises and etudes progressing in difficulty, and the CD has examples of each, at regular and slow tempos.
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Tuck Andress is a master of fingerstyle guitar who now shares his subtle skills and techniques with you. Tuck gives in-depth demonstrations and explanations about every aspect of fingerstyle, including walking bass patterns combined with chords, comping rhythms, voicings, vibrato, sliding, leading with the melody, various right- and left-hand techniques and much more. Includes close ups, music and tab shown on screen as it's being played, split-screen shots and slow motion segments to make learning easy. Other features include a new introduction by Woody Mann, an artist biography, selected discography, suggested listening and more. A superb course in fingerstyle mastery!
Jazz and blues guitarist Woody Mann learned from the legendary Rev. Gary Davis and then played and recorded with Son House, Bukka White and John Fahey. He has performed throughout the world, recorded over a dozen CDs, and is an internationally renowned guitar teacher.
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Learn from one of the best rock players and teachers around! Vivian Campbell is best known for his work with Whitesnake, Dio, Trinity, and his contributions to Hear'n Aid. In this DVD, Vivian takes the beginning electric guitarist from the basic level up to playing more advanced techniques and styles. As one of rock's true wunderkinds, Vivian helps ward off bad habits and shows you how rock guitar should really be played! You'll never miss a note with these unique features: see the music and the tablature on screen as it's being played • all right- and left-hand techniques are shown in close-up and with helpful split-screen effects to make learning easy • slow-motion segments with standard pitch sound • artist biography • selected discography • suggested listening • 8-page booklet with music examples included.
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Meet one of Nashville's true guitar stars as Johnny Hiland takes you through some key aspects of country playing. As well as chicken pickin', he covers double-stops, pedal steel licks, pick-and-finger hybrid picking, banjo rolls and lots more. He's also joined by Arlen Roth, Bill Holloman, and Shannon Ford for some truly memorable band segments. 1 hour, 20 minutes.
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A true giant in the world of jazz guitar, Tal Farlow reveals many of his unique playing secrets in this now-classic instruction session. He covers pre-electric rhythm guitar styles, tritones, playing in flat keys, chords within solos, chromatic movement, right-hand extensions and many more jazz guitar techniques. With contributions from Lenny Breau and George Benson, this DVD is a rare treat not only for long-time fans of the late, great Talmage Holt Farlow, but for anyone interested in the history of jazz guitar styles.
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The tragic and ultimately heroic story of one of the most awe-inspiring and innovative metal guitar heroes of the eighties. As co-member of Cacophony, with Marty Friedman, Becker defined the liquid-smooth super-complex playing style that characterized the Los Angeles guitarists of the decade. After being diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's Disease in the early nineties, Becker has continued to play and compose. This DVD features rare and archived footage of both Cacophony and many solo performances. Furthermore, the film includes Becker's guitar clinic at the Atlanta Institute of Music, giving a poignant insight into this legendary figure.
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Scotty Anderson is a true master of the Telecaster with an incredible personal style that he demonstrates on this disc. Double and triple stops, unique right-hand techniques, wide-split double stops, chicken pickin', open string banjo- and steel-styles, and Travis picking are just some of the wonders he demonstrates and explains during this feast of red hot guitar playing. A dazzling instructional gem!
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Here's your chance to learn more than 150 original acoustic licks in a detailed lesson from the one and only Arlen Roth. Double-stops, roll patterns, pick and finger style, advanced bending, arpeggios, harmony runs, turnarounds, banjo, dobro and pedal steel styles, chicken pickin' and much more are all demonstrated by one of the world's master player/teachers.
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James Burton is highly regarded in the industry with a roll call of famous names who have sought his contribution to their music: Randy Newman, Gram Parsons, and Emmylou Harris among them. On this DVD he covers vibrato, stringbending, pick & finger techniques, solo construction, slides steel effects and his trademark “chicken pickin'” style. The result is a unique insight into the skills and techniques of the man Elvis Presley called “one of the finest guitar players I have ever met.” Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
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Michael Lee Firkins is one of the hottest players around, possessing a guitar style of incredible depth and maturity that belies his young age. On this DVD he gives a thorough and well-rounded lesson dealing with scales and routines, whammy bar effects for unique slide and pedal steel sounds, overdubbing lead harmonies and solos over a rhythm part, blues leads, tapping effects and real tapping for lightning fast runs, fingerpicking for both lead and rhythm, Jimmy Page and Joe Walsh styles, special harmonica and banjo effects, open-string tapping styles, and advanced sweeping and arpeggio techniques and exercises. This is a rare opportunity to get in on some red-hot info from a truly unique and gifted artist.
You'll never miss a note! All exercises are transcribed in the accompanying booklet, corresponding to example numbers on the screen. And of course, all right- and left-hand techniques are shown close-up, with special split-screen effects, so you can closely observe and learn all the subtleties the top players are known for.
Michael Lee Firkins is one of the most talked-about and brilliant new talents to burst upon the music scene in a long time. His combination of rootsy sound and influence coupled with truly modern, inventive technique and phrasing has made him a standout among his peers. Hailing from Omaha, Nebraska, he currently resides in California, where he continues to work on solo albums for the Shrapnel label.
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This special DVD offers six great lessons from the masters of blues guitar!
Lesson 1: Arlen Roth shows you Chicago blues techniques and BB King and Clapton styles
Lesson 2: Blues legend Lonnie Mack shares his secrets of blues rhythm techniques
Lesson 3: Ronnie Earl, the master of soulful blues, shows you how to play blues licks and solos.
Lesson 4: Celebrated bluesman Duke Robillard teaches you the essentials including T Bone Walker and Chuck Berry styles
Lesson 5: Buddy Guy, the King of Chicago blues, gives a master class in lead guitar soloing
Lesson 6: Unique blues original Harvey Mandel teaches scales, modes and their improvisational possibilities.
Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
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Grammy winning guitarist and acclaimed author Mark Hanson teaches you how to arrange fingerstyle guitar solos on this DVD. Features include music notation and tablature for all the music presented on the DVD; five tunes arranged at all levels of difficulty, from easy to advanced; songs presented at varying speeds – slow for learning or quicker for performance; individual lesson segments. 1 hour, 7 minutes.
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At the time this DVD was filmed, Friedman was best known for his solo albums on Mike Varney's Shrapnel label, and for his duo albums with Jason Becker in Cacophony – and all this before he had spent an extended period as the guitarist in Megadeth. This DVD will help any metal guitarist add spice and speed to their playing, as Friedman covers unusual scales (Japanese-sounding scales, half-step bend scales, and more); odd time signatures; picking exercises; and even playing out of time. Learn from this unique guitarist, filmed at the height of his career! 52 minutes.
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This DVD offers six great lessons from the masters of slide guitar:
Lesson 1: Arlen Roth on open E tuning, slide fundamentals, right and left hand damping
Lesson 2: Lee Roy Parnell demonstrates open E box patterns, acoustic slide technique and playing the blues
Lesson 3: Ex-Rolling Stone Mick Taylor shows you standard turning slide, string damping, playing slide with a pick and more
Lesson 4: Jay Geils teaches standard tuning slide, vibrato and Muddy Waters style
Lesson 5: Greg Martin covers fingerpicking, standard tuning slide and Duane Allman style
Lesson 6: Allman Brothers guitarist Warren Haynes teaches lead slide licks, tone and open G tuning
51 minutes. Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
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The greatest country lead guitar lesson you'll ever take – featuring country string bending (and how it differs from blues bends), pedal steel-style licks, chicken pickin', rockabilly, volume swells, double-note bends, false harmonics, and other important country lead techniques. 55 minutes.
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This overview of the nearly endless sonic possibilities of the modern guitar shows you how to create a huge variety of analog and digital sounds using a myriad of techniques, pedals, plugins, amps, accessories and more. The accompanying 83 audio tracks available for download or streaming online feature demonstrations of each notated sound effect, along with specially-composed etudes that put them in a musical context. Topics covered include: reverb & delay, looping, wah wah, distortion, compressions, studio effects, slide guitar, sweep & economy picking, alternate tunings & capos, tapping, harmonics, bends, and much more!
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Une methode complete de qualite professionelle. Ce DVD vous guident depuis les exercises du premier jour jusqu'a vous faire jouer avec un accompagnement enregistre! Debutons Bien a ete concu pour vous apprendre tout ce dont vous avez besoin des le moment ou vous sortez votre guitare.
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Adrian Legg takes an in-depth look at some of the more intriguing open tunings for acoustic guitar plus a variety of trailblazing effects. “Frailing” for guitar, Celtic-style playing, DADGAD tuning, open G tuning, dynamics, attack, advanced hammer and pull techniques, and even Scottish bagpipe effects, make this DVD an exceptionally rewarding lesson from a British guitar master.
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Designed by world renowned guitarist John McCarthy, this collection of lead guitar techniques will help you expand your arsenal and create new ideas for your own blazing solos. Develop arpeggio skills with sweep tap, small three string sweep and arpeggio progressions. Learn techniques like bi-dextral scale hammer-ons, pivoting, whammy bar tricks, muted scratching and full neck runs. Add color to your style with violin effect, natural flange, sextuplet speed runs, two string speed riffs and much more! Use the backing tracks that are included to help you apply these examples and start using them right away!
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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This DVD offers six great lessons from the masters of southern rock guitar:
Lesson 1: James Burton demonstrates Suzie Q, pick and finger technique, and string bending
Lesson 2: Lonnie Mack demonstrates rhythm guitar, whammy bar tricks, and plays his hits Wham and Memphis
Lesson 3: Greg Martin teaches Eric Clapton, Chuck Berry and Keith Richards styles
Lesson 4: David Grissom demonstrates vibrato, attack, Billy Gibbons style and pedal tones
Lesson 5: Lee Roy Parnell presents slide guitar in open G tuning, Lowell George style and Dixie Chicken
Lesson 6: Warren Haynes brings a touch of the Allman Brothers Band to string bending, plus Albert King style.
Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
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This DVD offers six great lessons from the masters of Chicago blues guitar!
Lesson 1: Buddy Guy, the King of Chicago blues, on blues chords, T-Bone Walker style and “Stormy Monday”
Lesson 2: Arlen Roth covers fingerpicking, constant bass, independence, turnarounds and dissonance
Lesson 3: Soulful blues man Ronnie Earl on turnarounds, fingerpicking and constant bass
Lesson 4: R&B blues master Jay Geils covers the B.B. King style, vibrato and blues styling
Lesson 5: Cornell Dupree shows you flat picking and Billy Butler's famous Honky Tonk solo
Lesson 6: Otis Rush focuses on B.B. King and Earl Hooker styles.
39 minutes.
Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
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This DVD offers six great lessons from the masters of rockabilly guitar
Lesson 1: Arlen Roth shows you Travis Picking, heel damping and alternate bass licks
Lesson 2: Legendary pioneer of rockabilly James Burton teaches techniques from his days with Ricky Nelson
Lesson 3: Danny Gatton teaches pick and finger style, trills and special chords
Lesson 4: Ex-Stray Cats frontman Brian Setzer shows you his special tricks
Lesson 5: Country and rockabilly specialist Joe Dalton demonstrates hot chromatic runs, double stop licks and arpeggios
Lesson 6: Scotty Anderson gives you an intense workout on Chet Atkins fingerstyle guitar and boogie licks.
31 minutes. Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
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A master class in rock guitar from the much sought-after guitarist from Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. Electric guitar segments include Nils on Keith Richard-style rhythm, lead over constant bass, fingerpicking, rolling the notes, volume swells and more. The acoustic section covers dropped-D tuning, open tuning, chord positions & patterns and a host of advanced techniques. A definitive rock lesson from one of the genre's master players! Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
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This unique DVD concept has master guitarist Arlen Roth and Double Trouble (bassist Tommy Shannon and drummer Chris Layton) showing you how to make a 3-piece band “fill in all the gaps.” Arlen demonstrates different grooves from blues, R&B, rockabilly & rock and shows you shuffle licks, pick and finger parts, lead parts, classic fills, and a whole lot more!
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Designed by world-renowned guitarist John McCarthy, this program is jam-packed with the fundamental techniques you need to develop the skills to play any style of metal rock.John's instruction guides you step-by-step through easy-to-learn heavy 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.
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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Master guitar teacher Arlen Roth explores the finer points of guitar soloing in this two-DVD lesson. Arlen explains how to develop interesting and musical guitar solos, and stresses the importance of choosing notes wisely. Also contains rare archival footage of studio and live performances with legendary musicians.
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Celino Romero's The Art of Spanish Guitar embodies more than two hundred years of guitar playing experience accumulated by three generations of Romeros. Celino embraces the variety of styles and innovations that the Romeros have brought to this art form individually and through the many years of playing together. This DVD explores the complexity and subtlety of Spanish guitar while explaining it in a way that makes learning both accessible and highly enjoyable. See and hear how to apply the immaculate Romero technique to your playing. Right- and left-hand techniques are shown in close-up and split-screen to make learning easy. Includes an 8-page booklet of examples and exercises. You will learn: how to hold the guitar correctly; proper placement of right and left hands; apoyando and enganchando (rest and free strokes); full and sequential planting for arpeggios; rasgueado and flamenco; daily exercises; shaping of the fingernails; how to adopt the unique “Romero Touch.” Languages: English, Spanish.
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Back by popular demand, this is Warren's follow-up to his first extremely successful Hot Licks release, Electric Blues and Slide Guitar. In this DVD, Warren teaches the country blues of Son House and Robert Johnson, different slides for different sounds, open-tuning licks in G and E tunings, using vibrato to correct pitch, damping for a cleaner sound, Muddy Waters' standard tuning style, switching off between the slide and fingers, “call and response” improvisation and so much more. As an extra bonus, many of the examples are illustrated with Warren's band, Gov't Mule! Don't miss this opportunity for yet another blues guitar “tour de force” with the great Warren Haynes!
Warren Haynes has become one of America's most important blues and rock guitarists. His work with the Allman Brothers Band and his trio, Gov't Mule, has brought him acclaim as both a slide and lead guitarist. This is his second instructional DVD for Hot Licks.
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Learn bluegrass picking from one of the best there is! Johnny Hiland teaches rapid-fore flatpicking techniques, special bluegrass runs, hammer-ons and pull-offs, slides, rhythm strums, bluegrass fills, and much more. The disc also features some acoustic bluegrass jam sessions with Arlen Roth and Mac Wilson. You'll be pickin' and grinnin' right from the first lick!
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