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Exploring 8-Bar Blues covers everything a learning guitarist will need to get into the infectious 8-bar blues form. It will inspire novices as well as more advanced fingerstyle blues players. Mary Flower brings her expertise and musicianship to seven great fingerstyle arrangements: How Long Blues • Blood Red River • Some Old Lonesome Day • Key to the Highway • Crow Jane • Trouble in Mind • Searching the Desert for the Blues. 60 MIN. • LEVEL 3 • INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB .PDF
£22.95
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
Mickey Baker, best known for his Mickey & Slyvia hit Love is Strange, lived in France for the last thirty years of his life. During that time he played jazz as well as delving back into the roots of Black American music. As a result he began to experiment with various country blues techniques and styles. This exploration led to his album Blues and Jazz Guitar of Mickey Baker (SGGW107). At the same time he also began to perform as a solo jazz and blues artist which was quite different than his past where he usually fronted either a jazz or a rock band. His solo blues playing took him around Europe and during the last years of his touring throughout Africa on three occasions. On his last tour of Africa he was joined by the excellent bass player Alex Sanders and Mickey's show was able to expand to the full gambit of his musical experiences - from country blues to jazz. During this tour Alex and Mickey started to compose together and decided to try and record an album that would highlight their sounds and explorations. This is, in fact, the first jazz rock guitar album that Mickey Baker has ever done. It is full of surprises and intriguing sounds from a rendition of Rachmaninoff's Prelude In C# Minor to the disco sound of Alexander's Funk Time to the 7/4 of Ouagadougou. Plus for this album Mickey combined his skills of being one of the finest jazz guitarists with those of a teacher and prepared a tab/music booklet for students.
£9.95
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Jazz & Blues
This volume of the Guitar Play-Along series features 8 Modern Blues tunes each expertly arranged for Guitar in standard and TAB notation.
The Guitar Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily! Just follow the tab, listen to the CD to hear how the guitar should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are also included in the book in case you want to sing, or to simply help you follow along.
The audio CD is playable on any CD player. For PC and Mac computer users, the CD is enhanced so you can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch!
Songs include: Born with a Broken Heart • Damn Right, I've Got the Blues • Lie to Me • and more!
£12.95
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
Books have been written about Bix Beiderbecke, movies have been made. His incandescent talent, meteoric rise and tragic death at 28: this is the stuff of myth and legend.
We are fortunate that we have quite a few incomparable recordings. Although it is said that they only capture a shadow of Bix’s sound, you can hear right away what the fuss was all about. As Ernie Hawkins attempted to do with some Louis Armstrong songs in an earlier DVD set, (Louis and Bix, it is said, had opportunities to play together, and greatly admired each other), here he is playing and teaching some favorite Bix songs on guitar.
Once again, the extraordinary fingerpicking style developed by Rev Gary Davis shines through, making this approach to the jazz of the 1920‘s possible. These songs may be challenging, but they are fun and rewarding to learn and play. Hopefully, learning this style via these songs will open the student to new possibilities.
This lesson is over 2 hours. The arrangements are for the intermediate to advance players. They are multi-section compositions with lots of fingerpicking challenges. But all your hard work will be very worthwhile as these tunes are some of the greatest in the early jazz repertoire. Ernie teaches phrase by phrase and then uses the split-screen so you can carefully study what each hand is doing. A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD.
£22.95
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Jazz & Blues
One of the most musically inventive guitarists has devised a compelling and powerful way to use DADGAD tuning for playing a variety of fingerstyle blues instrumentals, from swampy Delta to the Piedmont, Big Bill to Doc Watson. This lesson will open up exciting new possibilities and musical explorations for guitarists at all levels. LEVEL 3 • 90 MIN.
£22.95
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
This Volume of the Guitar Play-Along series features 8 famous songs by the pioneering virtuoso Jazz guitarist, Django Reinhardt.The Guitar Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily! Just follow the tab, listen to the CD to hear how the guitar should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The audio CD is playable on any CD player, and also enhanced so PC & Mac users can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch! Songs include: Brazil • Daphne • Djangology • Honeysuckle Rose • and more!
£12.95
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Jazz & Blues
Everybody’s Jazz Guitar Method is a step-by-step approach that makes playing jazz on the guitar easy and fun! The careful pacing of the material provides exactly what jazz guitar instructional materials needs, an approach that makes students eager to turn the page to see what happens next. This comprehensive book instructs students in the need-to-know concepts of jazz: rhythm, swing, syncopation, jazz chord voicings, jazz theory, improvisation and interaction. The CD is an integral part of this innovative method providing: comping patterns, accompaniments by a live, professional jazz trio, opportunities for improvisation, and “call and response” practice.Book 1 Features:
Four major components of jazz: Rhythm, Harmony, Improvisation, and Interaction
Icons that tell students what the authors would say if they were at the lesson and the “inside tips” on playing jazz. Just Jazz, Improve your Improv, and Light-Bulb Moment icons supply insight and help students make connections to the music
Jazz Theory is presented in an easy to understand format
Extensive improvisation study on the ii-V-I chord progression with CD
£12.95
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Jazz & Blues
Stefan Grossman's Complete Country Blues Guitar Book contains over 50 fingerpicking guitar solos in notation and tablature in country blues, Delta blues, ragtime blues, Texas blues and bottleneck styles. An extremely comprehensive blues solo collection. 2 CDs included.
£24.99
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
This superb DVD includes a selection of easy to absorb lessons that are designed to teach the beginner guitarist some of the essential basics of Blues guitar playing.
Over the course of this DVD you will learn some essential lead guitar techniques such as string bending, hammer on and pull off, sliding, and vibrato that can also be other styles of guitar playing from jazz to metal.
Lessons include:
Essential beginner blues techniques including; The blues scale
The major and minor pentatonic scales
Outlining the chords
Doublestops
Phrasing
Relative scales
Turnaround licks
String bending
Vibrato
Hammer-ons and Pull-offs
Extended pentatonics
12 bar blues progression
Blues phrasing
Danny Gill is a former pupil of Joe Satriani, and co-author of the Musicians Institute Rock Lead Guitar series. His songs have appeared on numerous TV shows including 'The Osbournes' as well as motion picture soundtracks such as 'Insomnia' and 'Under Siege'.
£19.99
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
Learn killer blues licks in the style of Joe Bonamassa, one of the leading lights in the modern blues guitar scene! Also includes a blues guitar jam track. Lessons by Danny Gill.
Each Quick Licks DVD includes an arsenal of licks in the style of your chosen artist to add to your repertoire, plus a backing track to practice and jam with.
Danny Gill is a former pupil of Joe Satriani, and co-author of the Musicians Institute Rock Lead Guitar series. His songs have appeared on numerous TV shows including 'The Osbournes' as well as motion picture soundtracks such as 'Insomnia' and 'Under Siege'.
£19.99
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
The Nidaros Jazz Mass draws on a variety of jazz styles to present a fun and innovative setting of the Latin Missa brevis. With a gentle Kyrie, funky Gloria, ballad-like Sanctus, laid-back Benedictus, and passionate Agnus Dei, this work breathes new life into familiar words, perfectly combining the contemporary with the ancient. The stylistic piano part can be played as written or serve as a guide, and an optional bass and drum kit part is available separately for jazz trio accompaniment. Ideal for all upper-voice choirs, the Nidaros Jazz Mass will make a groovy and soulful addition to any concert programme.This work was commissioned by the Nidaros Cathedral Girls' Choir of Trondheim, Norway.
£5.95
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Jazz & Blues
99 blues classics packed into one affordable collection!
£8.95
Instruments: Piano, Vocal, Guitar, Vocal, Piano, Guitar, Piano and Keyboard
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
Learn ten jazz guitar standards, arranged for solo guitar. These performance-ready arrangements demonstrate different ways to interpret jazz standards and render them for solo guitar performance. Each includes a technical introduction from the arranger, discussing his motivations and identifying some of the defining aspects of each approach, such as the use of line cliché, harmony, song form, and modality. In learning these arrangements, you will gain insight into how to craft your own solos.
£14.95
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Jazz & Blues
The blues has always been spiced with suggestive metaphors. This collection of bawdy blues songs celebrates the off-colour blues repertoire: Bessie Smith is wild about her kitchen man's turnip tops, but Bo Carter's pencil won't write no more! There's lots of variety, with songs from the 1930s, 40s and 50s; some are simple three-chord blues tunes and others have beautiful, ragtimey chord changes.
Fred shows you how to play accompaniment and solos for all the songs. The evocative titles include Ain't Got Nobody to Grind My Coffee (Clara Smith), She's Your Cook But She Burns My Bread Sometimes and My Pencil Won't Write No More (Bo Carter), Kitchen Man (Bessie Smith), Big Ten Inch (Bull Moose Jackson), You Can't Tell the Difference After Dark (Alberta Hunter) and the holiday perennial Let's Make Christmas Merry, Baby (Amos Milburn).
Fred shows you how to accompany yourself singing the songs, and how to fingerpick an instrumental version of each one. His easy-going instructional style, his tips on playing the arrangements, and his slowed-down, split-screen performances of each tune make learning easy. All the arrangements are written out in tab and music as well... both the backup and solos
91 minutes • Level 2 • Detailed tab/music PDF file on the DVD
£22.95
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
The House of Blues and producers of The Rock House Method join together to bring you this unique and comprehensive blues guitar course!
With this course designed by world renowned instructor/guitarist John McCarthy you will develop a solid foundation for playing blues guitar by learning essential blues chords and scales, the BB Box, lead techniques used by greats such as Stevie Ray Vaughan, Buddy Guy and B.B. King, string bending, vibrato, hammer-ons, pull-offs and complete blues rhythms including the 12 bar blues.
The second part of the course encourages you to cultivate your own style by emphasizing the techniques and components needed to develop creativity. You'll learn full form blues chords and scales, triplet lead patterns, the shuffle feel and swing effect, challenging blues riffs and turnarounds and much more.
This expanded edition features: redesigned packagingupdated and revised lessons8 new pages of lessons addedall audio tracks now available as downloadand a PDF digital edition for portable devices when the product gets registered
£19.95
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
The House of Blues and producers of The Rock House Method join together to bring you this accelerated electric guitar course designed to take you from beginner to intermediate player in no time.
The instruction with world renowned guitarist John McCarthy takes you step-by-step through the basics. You start by learning the parts of the guitar, proper hand position, tuning, essential chords and scales, lead patterns, practice tips, rhythm techniques and exercises to build hand coordination.
You then move onto advanced lead guitar techniques like hammer-ons, pull-offs, bending and complete rhythm progressions. This comprehensive course will get you ready to play in your own band.
This expanded edition features:
redesigned packagingupdated and revised lessons8 new pages of lessons addedall audio tracks now available as downloadand a PDF digital edition for portable devices when the product gets registered
£19.95
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
The 2,000 licks in this book are organized into 36 chapters. These chapters explore the different pitches, rhythms, techniques, and methods of phrasing found in blues and blues-influenced guitar solos and fills.
Use these licks to deliver heavy, yet ear-catching riffs. These can be played along with the 43 backing tracks included on the 3 CDs that come with this book. They are all written in the key of a C blues, while the backing tracks are played in the keys of E, A, D, G, C, F, and Bb.
A handy table is included that shows how to transpose up or down from C to other blues keys. The backing tracks (performed by a live band in a studio) are all in the 12-bar blues form, but the licks do not necessarily have to be played over specific chords in the progression.
£29.95
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
"It is difficult to describe the transformation that took place as this smiling, friendly man hunched over his guitar and launched himself, bodily it seemed, into his music. The blues possessed him like a 'lowdown shaking chill' and the spellbound audience saw the very incarnation of the blues as, head thrown back, he hollered and groaned the disturbing lyrics and flailed the guitar, snapping the strings back against the fingerboard to accentuate the agonized rhythm. Son's music is the centre of the blues experience and when he performs it is a corporeal thing, audience and singer become as one." – Bob Groom/Blues World
"In the years before World War II, Son House created some of the purest, most powerful Mississippi Delta blues on record. Playing with partners Charley Patton and Willie Brown, he exerted a profound influence on Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters, both of whom copied his music and carried it to new generations. House's influence still echoes through the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, and many other musicians, and in many respects, he is the true father of what's known today as deep blues."– Jas Obrecht
In this lesson Tom Feldmann takes you step by step through 15 classic Son House tunes that span every phase of Son's recorded career. This 4 hour lesson is undoubtedly the most extensive look into the music of Son House and the techniques he developed.
DISC ONE highlights 8 songs in Spanish tuning. While DISC TWO focuses on 7 songs using the Vestapol tuning (Open D), Standard, and most surprising to students of House's playing, Cross-Note tuning with Clarksdale Moan.
Also included on DISC TWO is a bonus interview with Stefan Grossman where he talks extensively about meeting Son House and recording with him. Rare performances of Son House following his rediscovery are used throughout the lesson. The original audio tracks are included where footage is not used.
Titles Include: OPEN G TUNING: Death Letter Blues, My Black Mama, Low Down Dirty Dog Blues, The Jinx Blues, Special Rider Blues, Walkin' Blues (from 1930), Dry Spell Blues, County Farm Blues OPEN D TUNING: Shetland Pony Blues, Preachin' The Blues, This Little Light of Mine, CROSS-NOTE TUNING: Clarksdale Moan, STANDARD TUNING: Depot Blues, Am I Right Or Am I Wrong, Walkin' Blues (from 1940's)
240 minutes • Level 2/3 • Detailed tab/music PDF file on the DVD
£29.95
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
This superb DVD includes a selection of easy to absorb lessons that are designed to teach the beginner guitarist some of the essential basics of blues guitar playing.
Over the course of this DVD you will learn some essential lead guitar techniques such as string bending, hammer on and pull off, sliding, and vibrato that can also be other styles of guitar playing from jazz to metal.
This DVD includes: Essential blues techniques including; 12 bar blues in E (dominant 7th chords) Finger style blues Chord embellishments 8 bar blues Quick change blues and shuffle rhythms 12 bar blues in A (6th and 9th chords) Blues bends Soloing over a blues progression; licks, double stops, turnaround licks Scales, arpeggios and much more!
£19.99
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
Hailed as a “young Ella Fitzgerald,” Nikki Yanofsky has toured the world, opened the 2010 Winter Olympics to a televised audience of more than a billion people, and released two albums ... all by the time she was 16!
This matching songbook to this young Canadian singing sensation's 2010 release features all 17 tracks.
£15.95
Instruments: Piano, Vocal, Guitar, Vocal, Piano, Guitar, Piano and Keyboard
Genres: Jazz & Blues
Taught by Tom Feldman
£22.95
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
Develop killer fusion chops and theory knowledge in this exciting and easy to understand course with fusion guitar master Tom Quayle.
This superb DVD takes metal, rock, blues and funk guitarists into the exciting and cutting edge world of fusion guitar playing. In this extensive course, Tom shows you how to develop your legato and hybrid picking to get an ultra- modern sound and performs awesome lines for you to learn and digest. Tom also shows you his scale and arpeggio approaches, pentatonic scale development, phrasing exercises and ways to tackle playing over chord changes.
From Rock to Fusion will push your playing to the next level and give you the tools you need to become the fusion player you always wanted to be.
Tom Quayle is a well respected guitarist and teacher whose influences include Greg Howe, Wayne Krantz, Tim Miller and Brett Garsed. He is a regular contributor to iGuitar digital magazine, view issues at iguitarmag.com. His blistering technique has been applauded by guitar legends such as Brett Garsed and John Petrucci.
£19.99
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
In this second DVD lesson devoted to the guitar playing of Lightnin’ Hopkins, Ernie Hawkins dives into Lightnin's early catalogue from the Aladdin and Gold Star record labels. There was an amazing variety to Lightnin's early work. Listening to his early recordings we hear an artist at his prime. He effortlessly employing widely different rhythms, keys and tunings. The deeper we listen to these songs, the deeper our insight into what a master of Texas blues Lightnin' Hopkins really was.
Lightnin's style itself came along at the perfect time: the advent of the electric guitar. His style, strong rhythms punctuated by his flowing but compact lead lines created a stinging and heart-tearing evocative sound. Lightnin's guitar style and technique worked great for both the acoustic or electrical guitars. The blues of Freddy King, Albert Collins, the Vaughn brothers, Billy Gibbons, testify to the power of this style. Lightnin' connects the generations of players, starting with Blind Lemon Jefferson, for whom he was lead-boy in the early 1920s. Standing tall at the center of the Texas Blues story is Lightnin’ Hopkins.
In this double DVD set, Ernie Hawkins covers songs in unusual keys such as: drop D(Sugar Mama), in drop D but played in the key of A (Santa Fe Blues), in G (Bad Luck and Trouble), as well as in the usual blues in A, Come Back Baby and the country gospel Needed Time in the key of E. As a bonus, Ernie teaches his version of Lightnin's Hideway, the Freddy King tune coming back home to Lightnin'.
Ernie teaches phrase by phrase and then uses the split-screen so you can carefully study what each hand is doing. Detailed tab/music booklets are included as PDF files on both DVDs.
186 minutes • Level 2/3 • Detailed tab/music PDF files on the DVDs
£29.95
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
The Guitar Play-Along DVD series lets you hear and see how to play songs like never before. Just watch, listen and learn! Each song starts with a lesson from a professional guitar teacher. Then, the teacher performs the complete song along with professionally recorded backing tracks. You can choose to turn the guitar off if you want to play along or leave the guitar in the mix to hear how it should sound. You can also choose from multiple viewing options; fret hand with tab, wide view with tab, pick & fret hand close-up, and others.
£12.95
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
The Legendary Licks series presents the songs of an artist or musical style in a comprehensive play-along package. This book contains note-for-note transcriptions and detailed performance notes on how to play a multitude of classic fingerpicking styles – complete with recorded demonstrations.
This edition features 11 fingerpicking favourites from artists such as Crosby, Stills & Nash, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and James Taylor: Blackbird • Deep River Blues • Dust in the Wind • Helplessly Hoping • Landslide • Scarborough Fair/Canticle • Tears in Heaven • You've Got a Friend • and more.
£16.95
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
The arrangements in this book are carefully written for intermediate-level guitarists. Each solo combines melody and harmony in one superb fingerpicking arrangement. The book also includes an easy introduction to basic fingerstyle guitar.
£5.95
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
The Legendary Licks series presents the music of a band or artist in a comprehensive play-along package. Each book contains note-for-note transcriptions and detailed performance notes on how to play a multitude of classic licks, fills, riffs & solos – complete with recorded demonstrations. The CD also features slowed-down versions for the fast and tricky passages.
This edition teaches 13 of Joe Bonamassa's best: The Ballad of John Henry • Blues Deluxe • Bridge to Better Days • Dirt in My Pocket • If Heartaches Were Nickels • Man of Many Words • Miss You, Hate You • My Mistake • Pain and Sorrow • Revenge of the 10 Gallon Hat • The River • So It's like That • and So Many Roads, So Many Trains – plus info on his gear setup.
£17.95
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
Who hasn't been influenced by Mississippi Fred McDowell? Imitated by just about everyone that has picked up a slide, his impact has spread the world over. With so many trying to figure out exactly how he played, we are so fortunate to have a lesson like this one where we get to learn from the man himself.
The footage of Fred McDowell seen in this lesson is a treasure because it's as if it was filmed with us, the students of McDowell's style, in mind. With clear shots of his left and right hands, it's like your own private lesson with the master himself.
DISC ONE is devoted to footage of Fred McDowell performing many of his classic tunes in Open E tuning. After each performance, Tom Feldmann breaks down Fred's techniques and then goes to the split screen, playing the song slowly as you play along.
DISC TWO is devoted to the recordings of McDowell in Open A tuning. Tom performs this time around as none of the available footage has McDowell performing in Open A.
A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on each DVD. In addition the original recordings of all the tunes in lesson two are included. On Disc Two there is 51 minute interview with Tom Feldmann where he talks about his influences as well as performing a wide variety of tunes.
Titles Include: OPEN E TUNING: When I Lay My Burden Down, Keep Your Lamp Trimmed
And Burning, John Henry, Break 'Em On Down, Louise, Mojo Hand, I Heard Somebody Call OPEN A TUNING: Write Me A Few Lines, Been Drinking Out of A Hollow Log, Fred's Worried Life Blues, The Train I Ride, Kokomo Blues
£29.95
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
Learn the essential tools and skills for playing jazz guitar. This practical guidebook will help you master the theory, technique, and conceptual framework for how to play jazz: comping chords, soloing, and playing with expression, facility, and good hand health.
The accompanying recording provides demonstrations of key technical concepts with play-along tracks to help you develop phrasing and location concepts on the fingerboard.
It also provides examples to train your ear with call-and-response exercises similar to what you might be asked to perform at an audition or jury.
A unique section on audition preparation for colleges and professional music programs, with an extended interview with Berklee College of Music's director of admissions, will help you advance in your career.
£17.95
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Jazz & Blues
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£29.95
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
The great ragtime pieces of the early 20th century were written mostly for Piano, but many translate superbly for the Guitar, and David Laibman will show you how.
Here's a mystery: if the great ragtime pieces of the early 20th century were not written for Guitar, and if they weren't player on the Guitar at all (until some of us started doing so half a century ago), then why do they work so will on Guitar?
Well, thumb vs. three fingers on the right hand (we'll leave out the pinky for now) creates that subtle antagonism between steady bass and syncopated melody - the 'twinkle in the eye' of Ragtime. There is a theory that the original borrowing actually went in the other directed, from three-finger Banjo to Piano. Who knows? But I'm finding that the 'educated thumb' is only one neat thing about ragtime Guitar. Classic rags are very expressive, with moods and tempers, hills and valley. You can capture some of this with left-hand notes (slides, hammer-ons, pull-offs), with right-hand brushes, rolls, nail strokes, with clever use of open strings and natural harmonics. This works. It is it's own story - not an imitation of a Piano, or of a dixieland or jazz band. It is, simply - ragtime Guitar.
In these lessons, I have tried, for the most part, to meet two goals. First, to create versions of some of the most beautiful classical rags that 'lay down' well on Guitar, so when you play them you are working with the instrument, not fighting it. I have tried to pitch and arrange the pieces so that a lot of the action is in first position rather than high up on the neck, and to keep left hand gymnastics to a minimum. Second, I didn't want these arrangements to sound like 'student' arrangements, too elementary to be believable. It is all about striking a balance. I am generally pleased with the result, and I hope you will be too.
While the focus of these lessons is on the 'greats' - Joplin, Lamb and Scott - I have also included one of my own recent compositions: Pandora's Rag. This version is simpler than the one I play on my recent CD, Adventures in Ragtime, in Em, G and E, rather than Am, C and A, and not so high up the neck. I hope you like it; I think it has some nice harmonies. No one will ever touch the ragtime masters, but I would not be doing them justice if I didn't try to use their inspiration to strike out on my own a bit.
And that is what you should do too! It would be great is you learn to play these charming and challenging pieces. But even greater if you improve the arrangements, adapt them to your own tastes, see if you can apply the various techniques to other music - ragtime, and beyond - that can give pleasure to yourself and others, and enrich the treasure-house of fingerstyle Guitar. None of us has tapped even a fraction of its full potential - and that's what makes it fun!"
- David Laibman
£24.95
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Ragtime, Jazz & Blues
The All Music Guide describes The Light of the Sun by Jill Scott as "21st-century Philly soul at its best." This matching songbook features all 15 tracks from the CD by this accomplished poet, actress and three-time Grammy-winner.
£10.95
Instruments: Piano, Vocal, Guitar, Vocal, Piano, Guitar, Piano and Keyboard
Genres: Jazz & Blues
In any music style, there are essentials – scales, licks, chords, etc. Jazz Guitar Chords teaches you the must-know chords that will get you swinging in no time. You won't get bogged down with tons of details. Rather, you'll be armed with many chord shapes that have been used throughout jazz guitar history.
The included DVD demonstrates each chord and all the song examples are accompanied by a full band, so you can hear these chords in the proper context. Covers: seventh chords, 6 and 6/9 chords, extended chords, altered dominant chords, full song examples, and more. You don't need to learn how to read music to play jazz guitar. But you do need to know these chords!
£6.95
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Jazz & Blues
In any music style, there are essentials – scales, licks, chords, etc. Blues Guitar Chords teaches you the must-know chords that will get you shufflin' like a pro in no time. You won't get bogged down with tons of details. Rather, you'll be armed with many chord shapes that have been used throughout the history of the blues.
The included DVD demonstrates each chord and all the song examples are accompanied by a full band, so you can hear these chords in the proper context. Covers: boogie patterns, dominant seventh chords, extended chords, other chord types (min7, maj7, altered), alternate/partial chords, full song examples, and more! DVD running time: 37 min.
£7.95
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
There's always an emphasis on lead guitar but learning Blues rhythm guitar is an equally essential skill. This DVD is the second Intermediate Module to be released and follows on for those that have finished the Intermediate Method Foundation.
Contained on the DVD are all 10 Lesson of the Online series, PLUS 3 DVD only bonus lessons (totaling 43 minutes) PLUS a pdf booklet with all the tabs, charts and text, PLUS the mp3 backing tracks that match every lesson! The bonus lesson on Voice Leading is one that I'm extra happy with, think it's cracker!
The total time of the DVD is just under 3 and half hours and the full course outline can be seen on the Blues page.
I really think this is a solid course and will be enjoyed by anyone that wants to play blues guitar and needs to work on their rhythm.
£15.00
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
This 2 DVD and CD set is a great way to get your blues lead guitar sorted out! It comes with all 20 lessons from Justin's Blues Lead Guitar course PLUS a CD of the 12 tracks from JamBlues, Justin's new blues play along tracks.
Included on both DVDs are pdf files of all the licks and all the scales (in all 5 positions) for you to print out, but not all the text!
The advantage of having the lessons on DVD is that it is a lot easier to stop and start, you don't have to be online or waiting for vids to buffer!
£30.00
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
In this double DVD lesson of over 4 hours of instruction, Ernie Hawkins teaches ten of Big Bill’s greatest guitar solos and arrangements. Each tune is taught phrase by phrase and then uses the split-screen so you can carefully study what each hand is doing.Detailed tab/music booklets are included as PDF files on both DVDs. Also included is rare footage of Big Bill as well as bonus audio tracks of Big Bill’s recordings of the tunes on this lesson. Big Bill Broonzy (June 26, 1903 – August 15, 1958) was an incredible American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. His career began in the 1920s when he played country blues to mostly black audiences. Through the 1930s and 1940s he successfully navigated a transition in style to a more urban blues sound popular with white audiences. In the 1950s a return to his traditional folk-blues roots made him one of the leading figures of the emerging American folk music revival and an international star. He was one of the first bluesmen to tour in Europe and his performances and records influenced folk guitars from John Renbourn, Martin Carthy, Stefan Grossman and Davey Graham to rock guitarists as Eric Clapton (who recorded several Big Bill tunes on his Unplugged CD) to Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones who said: "Big Bill’s Guitar Shuffle was one of the first tracks I learnt to play, but even to this day I can't play it exactly right."
£29.95
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
This book/CD pack will teach you to play 13 signature John Mayer tunes, including: Back to You • Blues Intro • City Love • Come Back to Bed • Come When I Call • Covered in Rain • Good Love Is on the Way • Gravity • Human Nature • I Don't Need No Doctor • Neon • Vultures • Who Did You Think I Was.
The book contains note-for-note transcriptions and detailed performance notes on how to play the licks, fills, riffs, ad solos. The CD includes recorded demonstrations as well as slowed-down versions for the fast and tricky passages.
£19.95
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
The term “12-bar blues” has become synonymous with blues music and is the basis for an incredible body of jazz, rock 'n' roll, and other forms of popular music.
This book and CD package is solely devoted to providing you with all the technical tools necessary for playing 12-bar blues with authority. It covers many blues styles, including country, Chicago, Texas, swing, R&B, blues-rock, and funk blues. You'll also learn the blues bass scales and a history of the bass in blues music.
The CD includes 51 full-band tracks!
£10.95
Instruments: Bass Guitar, Guitar
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
This book/CD pack contains 25 authentic fingerstyle solo blues arrangements for beginning to intermediate guitarists. Play fun arrangements in the styles of country blues, ragtime, Piedmont blues, prewar and postwar Chicago blues, Texas blues, and modern American fingerstyle blues. The companion CD includes a demonstration of every example in the book.
£9.95
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
15 jazz classics arranged for intermediate guitarists in notes and tab.Each solo combines melody and harmony in one superb fingerpicking arrangment.Includes an easy introduction to basic fingerstyle guitar.
£5.95
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Jazz & Blues
Texas blues guitar legend Smokin' Joe Kubek and acclaimed author and music historian Dave Rubin have teamed up to create this one-of-a-kind DVD/book bundle, featuring a high-definition DVD with Smokin' Joe himself demonstrating loads of electric blues licks, riffs, concepts, and techniques straight from his extensive arsenal. The companion book, co-written with Dave Rubin, provides standard notation and tablature for every smokin' example on the DVD, as well as bonus instructional material, and much more! DVD running time: 1 hour, 8 min.
£16.95
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
This songbook contains the sheet music to the dozen songs from Caro Emerald's album Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor. Contains both Piano/Vocal/Guitar versions as well as 'fake book' lead sheets for the more experience jazz/pop players.
£14.95
Instruments: Piano, Vocal, Guitar, Vocal, Piano, Guitar, Piano and Keyboard
Genres: Jazz & Blues
"The material is a mix of traditional and original, the playing superb. Grossman and Renbourn combine their talents and mix of styles here to produce appealing instrumental music of rare beauty and taste." – AllMusic.com
On their duet records, John Renbourn and Stefan Grossman meet on the common turf of American blues and Celtic fiddle tunes and airs. Under The Volcano is a collection of seven duets. Including an extended four-part work for which the album is named, and one solo by each of the players, the album has what has come to be the characteristic sound of the duo. Reflecting what Stefan quite accurately describes as "an interweaving of styles," it is quite difficult, and somewhat pointless, to tell which of the two is playing the lead in most parts of the album.
The original compositions are at once down-home and high-flown, brimming with contrapuntal funkiness, and the music manages to sound both loose and precise. Grossman and Renbourn contribute equally to the composition and arrangement of the traditional material. They aren't uptight about overdubbing or using the occasional electric guitar texture. But the lingering impression is one of crisp, snapping strings and air being moved by wooden-boxed guitars.
Track Listing:
1. Idaho Potato
2. Medley: Sheebeg An Sheemore & Drunken Wagoner
3. Under The Volcano
a) Resurrection of Blind Joe Death
b) Four for the Roses
c) Montagu's Pact
d) Rights of Man
4. Medley: Bonaparte's Retreat & Billy In The Lowgrounds
5. Swedish Jig
6. Water Gypsy
7. All Things Parallel Must Converge
8. The Blarney Pilgrim
9. Mississippi Blues No. 3
(All tunes except for "Bonaparte's Retreat" have been transcribed and included in a pdf tab/music booklet on the CD)
£9.95
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
In this lesson John Miller will provide you with the tools you need to develop your ability to tell what position or tuning a Country Blues performance was played out of simply by listening to the recording. Believe it or not, this is a learnable skill and John, who has taught it for many years, will show you what to listen for and help you get started hearing the various auditory clues that identify the distinctive sound of the different playing positions and tunings most commonly used in Country Blues guitar playing. Developing your ability to do this kind of informed listening, or listening with knowledge will reap significant rewards for your playing, most especially improving your ability to learn by ear and increasing the speed with which you're able to pick up new material.
One of the real advantages of having this material presented in this 2DVD format is that it allows John to go over the material in real detail, presenting the sound characteristics of the different playing positions and tunings at length, and providing you with memory devices to help you remember the sound of alternating bass for the different positions and tunings. The material is not presented in the abstract, either - as John goes along, he plays a host of examples drawn from Country Blues performances that help illustrate and exemplify the characteristic sound of each playing position. The PDF study guide that accompanies the lesson includes a summary of the sound characteristics that identify each of the playing positions/tunings presented in the lesson, as well as the memory devices that will help you remember the sound of the bass in the different positions. Also included on the DVD is a test to take when you have completed the lesson, with a selection of recordings of Country Blues played out of different positions and tunings for you to identify using your new skills.
Disc One: E position, standard tuning • C position, standard tuning • D position, standard tuning • A position, Standard tuning
Disc Two: G position, standard tuning • F position, standard tuning • Dropped-D tuning • Vestapol tuning • Spanish tuning
230 minutes • Level 1 • Detailed PDF booklet file on the DVD
£22.95
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
As the Country Blues began to be recorded, in the mid-1920s, it soon became apparent that the music was being played and appreciated not only by African-American musicians and audiences, but by white musicians and audiences as well. Many of these white musicians played with and learned from black musicians, for even in the Jim Crow Era there was always a good deal of musical interaction and exchange. So it is that the term "Hillbilly Blues" can be used to describe the music made by white musicians of that era in the Country Blues style.
Included on this DVD are songs from Clarence Greene, known mostly as a fiddler, but an ace guitarist, Dick Justice, who in his one day in the recording studio waxed ten masterful performances, Frank Hutchison who excelled at lap slide, harmonica on a rack and conventional blues picking, Sam McGee, a banjo and guitar master who went on to star on the Grand Ole Opry, Hobart Smith, a musical powerhouse, Maybelle Carter, a rocksteady and beautifully lyrical player who may have been the most influential of the bunch and Emry Arthur, a soulful singer and player who recorded one of the earliest versions of Man Of Constant Sorrow.
The songs selected for inclusion on the DVD have been chosen to introduce you to a variety of different keys and playing positions, as well as a host of different right hand techniques.
A PDF included on the DVD offers not only detailed transcriptions of the songs, but the songs' lyrics, too. All of the original performances by the musicians are included on the DVD as bonus tracks, both as references and for your listening enjoyment.
£22.95
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
The city of St. Louis played host, in the 1920s and 1930s, to one of the most distinctive and vital blues scenes ever documented on record. Like Memphis and Atlanta, St. Louis served as a sort of magnet, attracting musicians from the surrounding hinterlands and providing performance opportunities that were not available out in the country. Many of the St. Louis musicians were transplanted Mississippians, like Charley Jordan, while others, like Clifford Gibson and Teddy Darby, originally hailed from Kentucky. The various early influences that the music of these players displayed ended up coalescing into something that might be called the "St. Louis sound".
Included on this DVD are transcriptions and teaching of the songs of Teddy Darby, where the guitar and voice track each other closely, Clifford Gibson, with his distinctive approach to playing in Spanish tuning and the mysterious low cross-note sound, Charley Jordan, with his acrobatic thumbwork and occasionally raggy sound, and the enigmatic Lane Hardin, who only recorded two titles under his own name. The songs selected for inclusion in the lesson have been chosen to introduce you to a variety of different tunings and playing positions, and employ different right hand approaches that will expand your ability to utilize techniques like thumb lead and brush strokes.
A PDF file is included on the DVD which can be printed out into an easily readable, 8.5” by 11” booklet, including not only detailed transcriptions of the songs, but the songs’ lyrics, as well. As well, all of the original recordings from which the transcriptions were made are included on the DVD.
£22.95
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
Happy Traum demystifies open D tuning, showing how even novices can get rich, bluesy, resonant sounds with relatively little effort. He helps solidify alternate-bass fingerpicking while teaching licks, chord positions, bass runs and six classic songs: John Henry • Sittin' on Top of the World • Jesus Is on the Main Line • Willie Moore • Deep Ellum Blues • I'll Fly Away. INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB .PDF • LEVEL 2 • 2 HOURS
£22.95
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
Here is a concise yet thorough way to learn the essentials of jazz chording on the Guitar. From the very basics of harmony to the sophistication of chord alteration and substitution, no stone is left unturned. More than 100 musical examples demonstrate the most important progressions in jazz. All examples are easy to read, with standard notation, chord diagrams & tab. Grab your Guitar and have fun on the path to jazz mastery!
£8.95
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Jazz & Blues
Learn killer licks in the style of guitar legend Gary Moore.
Also includes a guitar jam track.
Lessons by Jamie Humphries.
Each Quick Licks DVD includes an arsenal of licks in the style of your chosen artist to add to your repertoire, plus backing tracks to practice your new licks and techniques.
£19.99
Instruments: Guitar
Genres: Blues, Jazz & Blues
