Musician, teacher, producer, and songwriter Jamie Findlay presents in-depth instruction on acoustic guitar fingerpicking. He demonstrates exercises to build technique in a variety of styles, such as folk, pop, country, blues, and jazz. Jamie shows variations on fingerpicking from accompanying to soloing, and from chord melodies to walking bass lines. The instructional DVD features Jamie performing with a vocalist and bass player, incorporating many of the techniques he teaches.

Hal Leonard Play Along Miles Davis (Book/CD) Standard

Learn to play cool rhythm patterns with Steve Trovato and Richard Smith. This Ultimate Guitar Techniques DVD from the Lick Library series teaches you all you need to know to become a one piece rhythm section, combining percussive techniques and chord progressions. Guitar playing styles covered in these lessons include Rock, Blues, Jazz and Latin grooves.

Take your playing from ordinary to extraordinary in this all-encompassing book/CD package for guitarists. You'll receive valuable tips on performing, recording, the music business, instruments and equipment (including electronics), grooves, fills, soloing techniques, care and maintenance, and more. Styles such as rock, jazz, blues, R&B, and funk are represented through demonstrations of authentic grooves appropriate for each genre. The accompanying CD includes many of the examples in the book, performed both in solo bass format and in a full band setting to hear how important concepts fit in with other instruments and ensembles.

Ukulele Masters: Lyle Lite features 16 easy chord solos (both melody and harmony captured in the chord changes) arranged for GCEA-tuned ukuleles by jazz master Lyle Ritz. Learn to play his arrangements, that will delight advanced beginners and intermediate players alike. The instructional CD features all the songs performed by Lyle on both ukulele and bass.

Hal Leonard Jazz Play-Along Series Essential Jazz Standards Book with CD Standard

Trey Alexander, winner of Guitar Player's Guitar Superstar award, opens up his big bag of improvisational, theoretical, and technical chops in this instructional DVD to reveal the blazing techniques and high-level concepts that he has cultivated over years of intensive study, live performances and a tenacious dedication to his craft. The guitar tutorials on the Guitar Sherpa Presents Trey Alexander: Atomic Rock DVD will help you develop the playing abilities and technical skills needed in today's modern rock arena. You'll learn fretboard navigation concepts and a variety of right- and left-hand techniques to facilitate easy movement both vertically and horizontally across the neck. Trey also drills down on a wide range of improvisational skills so you can deliver strong melodic statements and distinctive rhythmic grooves. Atomic Rock covers a broad range of modern rock concepts, including Trey's award-winning "Modern Equivalent." This instructional course is designed to expose guitarists to the variety of contemporary grooves, rhythmic patterns, techniques, phrasing, and theoretical approaches that today's rock guitarist must master. You'll work through ballads, up-tempo power grooves and jazz rock styles; and also study expressive devices such as legato, tapping, sweep-picking, the use of harmonics to enhance a tune's melodic structure, and avoiding shred for shred's sake.

In Hot Licks: Danny Gatton 2 - Strictly Rhythm Guitar, Danny Gatton presents a comprehensive study on rhythm guitar styles and playing technique with lessons covering everything from blues/jazz chord substitutions, rockabilly and country power chords, R&B and Motown rhythm, and even some acoustic country/bluegrass guitar ideas! Gatton shows you how to play the rhythm parts slowly at first, before demonstrating them in a band context with Arlen Roth on lead guitar. 73 minutes.

This instruction, featuring guitarist John McCarthy will propel you to the most advanced stages of Blues Guitar. Learn the talk back effect, expansion on a main theme and how to fuse Jazz into Blues music. Master lead techniques such as rakes, pick and finger, and advanced bending. John's lessons cover how to play blues endings, turnarounds, melodic Blues, the circle of fourths, slide techniques and many Blues rhythms that you will learn to play with full band backing tracks.Each Rock House video Includes a printable lesson tab e-book PDF file, iPod-ready video, and free lifetime membership to Rock House s online lesson support. Enhance your learning experience to 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.

Hal Leonard Solo Jazz Guitar (Book) Standard

Format: DVD+Chart. Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.. Date Published: 1/19/2004. Difficulty: beginning. Chart page count: 4. Binding: folded. Size: 8-3/4" x 11-3/4".

Format: DVD+Chart. Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.. Date Published: 1/19/2004. Difficulty: advanced. Chart page count: 4. Binding: folded. Size: 8-3/4" x 11-3/4".