fingerpicking

Fingerpicking is essential to the blues, country, rock and folk music ...and it's a way to solo or accompany your own singing. In this DVD lesson, Fred Sokolow starts at the beginning (tuning up and playing simple chords), and shows you patterns, licks and grooves you can use to play any style of music.

A beautiful collection of 15 Celtic arrangements: The Ash Grove * Birniebouzle * Carrickfergus * Danny Boy * Loch Lomond * Mist Covered Mountains of Home * O My Love Is like a Red, Red Rose * Ned of the Hill * O'Carolan's Journey to Cashel * Scarborough Fair * Sheebeg and Sheemore (Si Bheag, Si Mhor) * The Skye Boat Song * Tarboulton Reel * Wild Mountain Thyme * Ye Banks and Braes O' Bonnie Doon.

DVD 1 starts you from scratch. The simple children's song "Skip to My Lou" helps you learn the basic concepts before you move on to fingerpicking standards such as "Spike Driver's Blues," "Green, Green Rocky Road," "Staggerlee," "Nine Pound Hammer" and " Hobo's Lullaby. " With each piece you'll acquire new skills and by the end of this lesson you'll be able to apply them to any song in your repertoire.

The fingerpicking style is one of the most popular and engaging ways of playing the guitar. It's especially good for song accompaniment, and has long been favored by folk, blues and country pickers. This lesson demystifies the right-hand technique by breaking it down into patterns that can be learned quickly and easily. Once mastered, these patterns can spice up anyone's favorite songs.

No traditional musician is better loved than Mississippi John Hurt. He has influenced innumerable musicians through the years and, four decades after his death, his songs and instrumentals continue to be played throughout the world by novice guitarists and professionals alike.

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—all these and much more make this DVD an exceptionally rewarding lesson from a British guitar master.

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 - all these and much more make this DVD an exceptionally rewarding lesson from a British guitar master .

Stefan Grossman has been recording, performing, and writing about acoustic fingerstyle techniques and styles for more than 30 years. At age 15 he started taking lessons from the legendary bluesman the late Rev. Gary Davis. He also learned music from records by Brownie McGhee and Lightnin' Hopkins. When Grossman was 18, he formed the Even Dozen Jug Band with guitarist Steve Katz, harmonicist/singer John Sebastian and pianist Josh Rifkin.

Contains solos that will challenge intermediate and advanced fingerstyle guitarists. These arrangements show the broad musical textures, fingerstyle techniques, and styles available to fingerstyle guitarists. Right hand rhythmic patterns, counterpoint lines, single-string runs, and alternating bass techniques are used throughout the arrangements. Many of the tunes are Stefans original compositions, however, the arrangements of music by Big Bill Broonzy, Reverend Gary Davis and other fingerstyle guitar gurus are showcased. All of these arrangements are presented in standard notation and tab. A thorough explanation on how to read tab is included in this text. An essay by Dale Miller in Stefan Grossmans colossal role in world of fingerstyle guitar is included in this text.