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Steve Kaufman: Learning To Flatpick DVD 3 - Developing Speed And Style

Move beyond the basics and get into the finer points of bluegrass flatpicking! You''ll be jamming with the best of them once you've mastered the tunes and techniques on this final DVD in this series. Steve Kaufman broadens your musical vocabulary by focusing on the essentials of good picking techniques. You'll learn to play six classic fiddle tunes - Liberty, Salt Creek, Blackberry Blossom, Clarinet Polka, Home Sweet Home and Ragtime Annie. Steve slows each one down, highlighting the tricky areas and then playing it up-to-speed so you'll hear how it should sound in performance. You'll learn how to dress up your solos using slides, arpeggios, bends, accents and a variety of intros and endings. Detailed instruction in the intricacies of crosspicking will help give your playing more rhythmic appeal and style. Steve devotes much-needed attention to one of the most challenging areas for intermediate players - how to build speed - giving you invaluable advice on practicing, testing yourself and perfecting left and right hand positions to help you accomplish your goals.

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Learn to Yodel

This perennial favorite, now in CD format, was used by Bette Midler, who learned to yodel for a movie role, as well as by countless others who love the powerful singing styles of the great country and western stars. These CDs are great for practicing at home, in the car, or on top of a tall mountain. TWO CDs · LEVEL 1 · INCLUDES MUSIC

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Contemporary Fingerstyle Workshop With Chris Proctor

For the first time, key concepts of Chris Proctor's powerful and influential guitar workshops have been made available for home study. Using examples from a wide range of styles, Chris's method will add finesse, strength and fluidity to your playing. You'll learn spectacular solo pieces while developing invaluable insights into devices such as the partial capo, the E-bow, Alaska Picks and alternate tunings.

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Steve Kaufman: Get Started On The Mandolin! - A Complete Lesson For Beginners

Here's the perfect way to get a solid start playing the Mandolin! A beginner will learn chords, notes, scales, rhythm strums and accompaniment for songs such as: Amazing Grace • Will the Circle Be Unbroken? • Blue Ridge Cabin Home • and more. He or she will even be playing lead lines on fiddle tunes: Cotton-Eyed Joe • Old Joe Clark • Liberty • and Soldier's Joy! Includes music and tab PDF on disc. 1 hour, 40 minutes.

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Kids Guitar 1: Ten Easy Lessons

A brilliantly simple and effective method for the younger would-be guitarist. Easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions for children aged 8 and upwards. The ten easy lessons on this DVD can be used at home or in the classroom, either by a child alone or (for the younger ones) with the aid of a parent or teacher.The emphasis of this DVD is on singing and accompanying favourite children's folk songs. At the end of the lessons your kids will know six chords, and how to play in three keys (D, G and C).

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Get Rolling! An Ultra-Easy, No-Fail Introduction to Bluegrass Banjo

You can make good banjo music almost immediately with this DVD! With only two chords, Pete Wernick gets you started strumming and accompanying ten bluegrass standards. By learning just one additional chord, you are now able to strum along with almost any bluegrass song. Getting started this way is extrememly effective in learning timin, left hand, and 'ear' skills - all neccesary for eventually playing in jam sessions. Includes demonstrations of:Tom Dooley, Take Me Back To Tulsa, Long Journey Home, Foggy Mountain Breakdown and When The Saints Go Marching In.

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Dailey & Vincent Teach Bluegrass And Gospel Quartet Singing

Dailey & Vincent has electrified the bluegrass world, recording chart-topping CDs, playing more than 200 dates a year and winning numerous awards, including IBMA?s prestigious Entertainer of the Year. Their outstanding four-part gospel and bluegrass vocal arrangements are a highlight of their shows.On this DVD lesson, they break down their popular style, showing singers and fans how they put together their spectacular harmonies on songs including Living in the Kingdom of God, Until At Last I'm Home, Amazing Grace, Country Roads, Flowers on the Wall, Class of ?57 and Moses Smote the Water.

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Mastering Thumbpicking With Richard Smith (DVD)

Learn virtuoso pieces in the styles of Doc, Merle, Chet and Jerry with the Mastering Thumbpicking With Richard Smith instructional DVD. Richard Smith is one of today's hottest fingerstyle guitarists, a sensational musician who is equally at home playing blues, country, jazz or pop. In this tutorial DVD he takes apart his rhythmic “thumbpicking” style while breaking down four challenging tunes: Happy Blues, Windy & Warm, Farewell My Bluebell and the Jerry Reed show-stopper, Struttin' . Each song features Richard 's dazzling arrangements and eye-popping technique. This DVD is suitable for students at an advanced level. Duration: 1 hr., 30 min.

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Smartstart Guitar DVD

A fun, easy approach to beginning guitar for kids aged 5-10 by Jessica Baron Turner. Using SmartStart Open string tuning you can make a pleasing, musical sound simply by strumming across the strings, meaning you can play and sing along with Jessica and her two young friends almost immediately. By learning a few simple chord positions ('Easy D', 'Easy C' and 'Easy D minor') you will be able to play many well-known songs using different strums and rhythms. This DVD is designed for use at home or in the general music classroom, it will quickly get beginner guitarists playing, regardless of experience.

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20 Swing Tunes That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know

This series of CDs teaches essential swing guitar repertoire to bluegrass flatpickers. Steve's unique method features three levels: a beginner's version in which he teaches the basic melody; an intermediate arrangement that will give players a solid musical grounding; and finally, a full-blown solo that will challenge any aspiring swing guitarist. Backup tracks make for productive and exciting practice sessions. Tunes: After You've Gone · Back Home Again in Indiana · Blue Moon · Danny Boy · Georgia on My Mind · Honeysuckle Rose · I Got Rhythm · Kansas City Kitty · Lady Be Good · Limehouse Blues · Little Rock Getaway · Minor Swing · Miss Molly · Panhandle Rag · It's Only a Paper Moon · Remington's Ride · Over the Rainbow · Sugar Foot Rag · Summertime · The Sunny Side of the Street. 160-PAGE BOOK WITH 6 CDs · INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB · LEVEL ALL

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Learn to Sing Harmony

Now that these popular lessons are on CD, it's easier than ever to start harmonizing! Complete beginners will learn the theory behind harmony singing and get the ear training they need, while those with some knowledge will hone their skills and build repertoire. The vocal parts are recorded on separate channels for singing along with Cathy, Marcy, Robin and Linda. Songs: Stay All Night · Down by the Riverside · Bury Me Beneath the Willow · Broken-Hearted Lover · Red River Valley · Trouble in Mind · Careless Love · Leavin' Train · Down in the Valley · Turtle Dove · Little Darlin' Pal of Mine · Keep on the Sunny Side · Blues Stay Away from Me · Gold Watch and Chain · Amazing Grace · Goodnight, Irene · I'm Going to Sit at the Welcome Table · Long Journey Home · Good Old Mountain Dew · Hand Me Down My Walking Cane. THREE CDs · INCLUDES SONGBOOK · LEVEL 1

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Hans Theessink: Hooked On The Blues

Soulful songs and powerful techniques from a master bluesman. Blues fans and players worldwide have embraced the haunting, soulful sounds of the Mississippi Delta. Hans Theessink, a masterful player, singer and performer, teaches the powerful Guitar styles that he learned first-hand from traditional players in the American south. Hans' passion for the blues is clear as he details the tunings, chord shapes, bass runs, fingerpicking style, slide technique and percussive strokes that form the core of every good blues player's repertoire. He plays, sings and analyzes seven favourite classics and originals: Prison Blues, Big Bill's Guitar, Vicksburg Is My Home, Sugar Babe, You Make Me Feel So Good, Sitting On Top Of The World, and Two Trains. Hans closes this DVD lesson with a full performance of Down In Mississippi Where The Blues Was Born, a stirring homage to his favourite blues masters. As you add these powerful songs to your repertoire, your understanding of this important tradition will deepen and you'll be inspired to create your own compelling blues arrangements.

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Tony's Choice

On this digitally-enhanced CD, Tony Rice personally teaches intros, licks and complete solos to some of his favorite songs. Taken mainly from his hit albums "Cold On The Shoulder" and "Church Street Blues," these examples will give you a real taste of Tony's amazing Guitar style as he interprets songs by Gordon Lightfoot, Bob Dylan, Norman Blake, Ian Tyson and other top songwriters. He provides invaluable tips that are sure to help you build your repertoire of licks, improve your flatpicking technique and expand your overall musicianship. Tony teaches his inventive kickoffs to "The Likes of Me," "Fare Thee Well," "Ten Degrees and Getting Colder" and "The Soul of Man." He then breaks down, in detail, his complete solos to "Annie, Orphan Annie," "Wayfaring Stranger," "Blue Ridge Mountain Home" and the challenging finger-twister "Fishscale." His Guitar work on these songs combine his distinctive bluegrass picking with a pop-folk approach that make up on of the many high points in his long and successful musical career.

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Tony Rice Teaches Bluegrass Guitar

Tony Rice is known world-wide for his spectacular technique, brilliant improvisation and powerful soloing. On this CD (accompanied by a transcription book in both music and tab), he personally passes on to you the style he has pioneered during two decades as the top bluegrass picker of his generation. In careful detail, Tony analyses licks, runs, solos and rhythm parts to hot bluegrass songs and fiddle tunes that will challenge and delight all flatpickers.Intermediate players will learn the intricacies if the Tony Rice style in detail: the secrets of his left and right hand techniques as well as kick-offs and endings, licks, riffs and complete solos to fiddle tunes and country songs. He covers rhythm techniques, cross-picking, improvisation, variations on the popular ?G run? and much more!Before long you?ll be picking advanced solos to a number of tunes that should be in every good picker?s repertoire: The Red Haired Boy, Little Sadie, Your Love is Like a Flower, Blue Railroad Train, Home from the Forest, Wildwood Flower, Old train, Wild Horse, and Jerusalem?s Ridge.

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Chris Smither: Six Outstanding Fingerpicking Arrangements

Chris Smither's foot-tapping high-groove guitar style and blues-inflected songs have kept him in the top ranks of singer/songwriters for four decades. On this DVD lesson he shows you how he uses his alternating thumb and two-finger picking, along with a variety of left hand techniques, to create the rhythmic drive and distinctive harmonies that distinguish his unique arrangements. No Love Today (The Fruit And Vegetable Song), a rich evocation of old New Orleans street life, is one of Chris' most requested songs; Drive You Home Again, a moody minor-key blues, is the title song of one of his best-selling CDs; Bob Dylan's titanic Visions Of Johanna gets a new treatment; the humorous Get A Better One features infectious single note riffs against a steady bass groove; Leave The Light On is joyous, straight-ahead fingerpicking in open D; Lightnin' Hopkins' 'spooky' Blues In The Bottle is played and taught on both 12-string and 6-string guitars. Chris' wry humour and deep understanding of traditional styles help to make this an outstanding guitar lesson for all fingerpicking enthusiasts.