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by Russ Barenberg
DVD + TAB
Intermediate Level
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| 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. |
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by Dix Bruce
DVD/Book/CD Set
Beginner - Intermediate Level
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| This is a step-at-a-time enjoyable method for learning to play great sounding country guitar. Dix Bruce, in his humorous yet musically "right-on" teaching style, introduces you to country back-up, bass runs, Carter-style bluegrass picking, the Nashville Numbering System for indicating chord changes, use of the capo, transposition, and much more. Work at your own pace and learn to sound like the country greats! Written in standard notation and tablature. |
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by Dix Bruce
DVD + TAB
Intermediate Level
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| Now in DVD! Dix Bruce explores the picking of Mother Maybelle Carter in this video. This style of guitar playing is the foundation upon which all traditional country, folk, bluegrass, and hot flatpicking guitar is based. Dix carefully teaches lead and backup guitar techniques, demonstrates the basic "bass note / strum" technique and shows how melodies can be easily integrated into known chord patterns. Duration: 79 min. |
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by Fred Sokolow
Book/CD Set
Beginner - Intermediate Level
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| This book looks at the essential guitar patterns that the pros know and use. It includes instructional book and examples CD. With standard guitar notation, guitar tablature and instructional text. |
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by Steve Kaufman
DVD + TAB
Intermediate - Advanced Level
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| 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. |
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by Eric Thompson
Book/3-CD Set
Intermediate - Advanced Level
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| Eric Thompson began performing bluegrass music in the early 1960's with the likes of Jerry Garcia, David Grisman and Jody Stecher. These CD lessons will expand your flatpicking horizons with thirteen challenging instrumental tunes and breaks to songs. You'll learn complex runs, bluesy hot-licks, and exciting cross-picking patterns, all illustrated and explained on the lesson CDs. |
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by Steve Kaufman
DVD + TAB
Intermediate - Advanced Level
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| Every bluegrass flatpicker wants to play faster while maintaining good tone and timing. Steve Kaufman has powerful advice and well-thought out exercises to help get a player's right and left hand mechanics working correctly. Using well-known fiddle tunes as drills, Steve works on coordination and how to practice for best results. Also included are a cross-picked version of Wildwood Flower and show-stopping chord runs and picking combinations on the classic Little Rock Getaway. |
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by Marcy Marxer
DVD + TAB
Beginner-Intermediate Level
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| Marcy Marxer’s user-friendly method brings all the notes, frets and strings into clear focus, giving you an invaluable roadmap to the guitar fingerboard. She has successfully taught this foolproof method at guitar camps and workshops across the country and provides both practical exercises and theoretical knowledge to demystify the guitar for learning players. Marcy shows you how to hear each melody note in terms of intervals, where it lies on the scale, and its place in a chord. Adding passing tones, slides and other ornaments start to make your melodies come alive. This in-depth two-hour course imparts a huge amount of information that will take you from basics of improvisation to the intricacies of the CAGED system. |
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by Pat Flynn
DVD
Intermediate - Advanced Level
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| This top Nashville guitarist carefully breaks down his method for improvising across the entire guitar fingerboard. Teaching how to create fascinating guitar solos through finding 'chord centers' in every position, Pat includes new ideas for adding harmonies within chords, improvising blues and minor-key songs, and innumerable tips on playing technique. |
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by Steve Kaufman
DVD + TAB
Intermediate Level
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| Have you ever wondered how to improvise solos using the entire length of the guitar fingerboard? Steve Kaufman clears up the mystery and teaches you how to play fluidly and confidently anywhere on the neck. Starting with well-known fiddle tunes, Steve shows you how to find the notes and develop a melodic sense. He then teaches you how to find movable chord forms in different positions on the fingerboard. Finally, you’ll learn the famous “CAGED” system, enabling you to understand and play scales and melodies in all positions up the neck. Tunes include Soldier's Joy, June Apple, Cluck Old Hen, Arkansas Traveler, Cripple Creek and Old Joe Clark. |
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