Alternate Tunings Guitar Essentials

This method is aimed at those looking to explore all the facets and techniques of beautiful folk Guitar or simply acoustic Guitar in general. This book provides advice on techniques like fingerpicking and flatpicking as well as arpeggio and chord accompaniment. The use of the capo an essential part of folk Guitar is covered in a separate chapter along with alternate tunings. Finally techniques like slide hammer-ons pull-offs are covered along with basic percussive techniques. All this is illustrated with a number of acoustic tunes in the style of great artists like Bob Dylan Tracy Chapman Cat Stevens Simon and Garfunkel and The Beatles.  The accompanying CDallows these techniques to be played along to professional backing tracks while the DVD shows the number of accompaniments presented in the method. This method is aimed at those looking to explore all the facets and techniques of beautiful folk Guitar or simply acoustic Guitar in general. This book provides advice on techniques like fingerpicking and flatpicking as well as arpeggio and chord accompaniment. The use of the capo an essential part of folk Guitar is covered in a separate chapter along with alternate tunings. Finally techniques like slide hammer-ons pull-offs are covered along with basic percussive techniques. All this is illustrated with a number of acoustic tunes in the style of great artists like Bob Dylan Tracy Chapman Cat Stevens Simon and Garfunkel and TheBeatles.  The accompanying CD allows these techniques to be played along to professional backing tracks while the DVD shows the number of accompaniments presented in the method.

A thorough guide to the most widely used tunings! Tunes and exercises that illustrate each technique are written in tab and standard notation and played on the CD featuring fifty demo tracks.These essential fretboard patterns are roadmaps that all guitarists need to know and use to play in alternate tunings. Learn to: solo and play backup in Drop D Open G Open D DADGAD Open A and Open E tunings; play a variety of lead Guitar styles and songs (acoustic and electric) in open tunings; play chords and progressions anywhere on the fretboard in all keys in many tunins and more.Each chapter presents a fretboard pattern and shows how to use it along withplaying tips and Guitar insights.An absolute beginner can follow the diagrams and instruction from the beginning. Intermediate and advanced players can use the chapters non-sequentially to increase their understanding of the Guitar.

Open Tunings for Folk Guitar is a ground breaking Guitar concept for studying the scale and chord shapes relevant to the most popular Open Tunings. By utilising a combination of modal scales and perfectchords Open Tunings for Folk Guitar has effectively mapped out the lead and rhythm Guitar essentials for all Folk styles. Open Tunings for Folk Guitar successfully demystifies the use ofalternate tunings and allows the student to learn in a more straight-forward and immediately usable way.Open Tunings for Folk Guitar covers the 20 most common Open Tunings including Open D Open G Open Cand DADGAD.

This revised book and DVD package is great for guitarists who know the basics and are ready to take the next step. Learn everything from harmonics and funk strumming to swing, Celtic, bluegrass, and Delta blues styles. Master the upper positions of the fretboard using major scales, triads, and pentatonic scales. Learn alternate tunings and perform examples in the styles of the masters. The new DVD is hosted by guitar virtuoso Jared Meeker and includes essential demonstrations and performances. If you have completed Beginning Acoustic Guitar or you are an advanced beginner, Intermediate Acoustic Guitar takes you to the next level. Second Edition Features * Updated examples in the styles of acoustic guitar masters * New companion DVD demonstrating the examples in the book * Improved instruction on acoustic guitar techniques and theory, covering flatpicking, fingerstyle, and strumming / Guitare

Matt Smith. Introduces you to fifty essential tunings needed for rock acoustic blues alternative and metal styles. Features tunings accompanied by typical progressions and grooves of each as well as performance notes.

The word 'DADGAD' refers to the names of the notes on the open strings of one of many alternate tunings for the guitar one that is very popular with acoustic guitar players. It has a wonderfully warm resonance allowing you toplay simple single-note melodies yet still fill out the sound of the instrument. The twenty Christmas carols presented here form a perfect introduction to playing guitar in DADGAD tuning. The melodies are presented withoutadded bass notes or chords - just those great melodies once heard never forgotten. This means you already know what the tune is supposed to sound like leaving you to concentrate on playing the notes on the right string andfret and for the right length of time. This book is the easiest of Rob Mackillop's DADGAD books. It assumes you know how to hold and tune the guitar and play some notes and a few simple chords. The book includes a'Technique Primer' to help get you up and running plus the essential chord diagrams for playing in DADGAD tuning. Book includes access to online audio featuring Rob MacKillop's performance of each piece.