John McCarthy - Blues Riffs Rhythms & Secrets: Guitar: DVD

A Complete Course-With this blues course designed by renowned guitarist John McCarthy you will develop general Guitar basics and a solid foundation for playing the blues. Learn essential blues chords scales and lead techniques like string bending vibrato and hammer-ons pull-offs. McCarthy teaches full blues scales with tri-tones the B.B. Box and how to construct a 12 bar blues progression. He challenges you to learn complete blues solos riffs and syncopated rhythm progressions. Learn the talk back effect expansion on a main theme and how to fuse jazz into blues music. Master techniques such as rakes pick and finger and advanced bending. McCarthy showsyou blues endings turnarounds melodic blues the circle of fourths slide techniques and many blues rhythms.See Hear and Apply Each Lesson:On the high density DVD find two full programs on one one disc! McCarthy teaches and illustrates each playing example through easy-to-follow close-up views of each hand. He slowly breaks down all the lessons so you can easily follow along to get the hand positions correct. The included video also allows you to hear how the examples are supposed to sound and most importantly how McCarthy applies them in a musical sense.Lifetime Web Membership for Lesson Support and Download Backing Tracks:You get free membership to The Rock House Method® support system on the web. Use the member number found inside this book to register for lifetime support at RockHouseMethod.com. Use this fully interactive Lesson Support site to download backing tracks to play the examples over enhance your learning experience link with instructors and connect with a community of people around the world who are also learning.

House of Blues Learn to Play Series-A continuation of Level One House of Blues and The Rock House Method® created this blues guitar program to take you from beginner to intermediate level of play in no time. The more than 90 minutes of one-on-one lessons withinstructor and guitarist John McCarthy encourages you to cultivate your own style by emphasizing the techniques and components needed to develop creativity. Learn advanced playing techniques such as full form blues chords bluesscales triplet lead patterns the shuffle feel and swing effect challenging blues riffs turnarounds and more techniques make famous by greats like Gary Moore Lighting Hopkins and Freddy King. The complete song rhythms withfull bass and drum backing tracks will prepare you for the stage.Each Rock House product includes free lifetime membership to Rock House's online lesson support system. Enhance your learning experience links withinstructors 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.

A Complete Course for Playing Guitar-House of Blues and producers of The Rock House Method join together to bring you this unique and comprehensive guitar course! With this course designed by world-renowned guitarist John McCarthy you will develop a solid foundation for playing acoustic and electric blues guitar by learning beginner through advanced techniques. You start with basic chords scales and proper technique training! You'll then graduate to strumming as you learn rhythm guitar learn lead guitar with bending hammer-ons and pull-offs and learn complete songs and leads. Finally you'll move onto full form chords and scales triplet lead patterns the shuffle feel and swing effect challenging blues riffs turnarounds and much more! John will encourage you to cultivate your own style by emphasizing the techniques and components needed to develop creativity. Everything is included to guide you through the process of mastering the guitar.

House of Blues Learn to Play Series-John McCarthy presents a four-part tutorial system that continues his exciting start to the world of the blues guitar featuring a book a DVD a CD and full online support. Get your head and hands around a kaleidoscope oftechniques with easy-to-follow lessons. With the emphasis placed on creativity and improvisation this second tutorial covers triplet patterns shuffle feel swing effect challenging riffs turnarounds and much more. The DVDillustrates each lesson with examples that concentrate upon both hands in crystal clear close-up. You also get player-perspective views and a video chord chart. On the CD the instructor talks you through each lesson providingdemonstrations and details exactly where you need them. You'll also find professionally produced backing tracks for you to play along with creating the feel and excitement of being in your own band. Full online support providesinteractive lessons and links to a global community of teachers and students.

From Beginner to Advanced-This 3-DVD mega-pack starts with the basics as you learn the parts of the guitar proper hand position tuning how to read chord and tab charts essential chords in song structures lead patterns and exercises.Next learn multi-position lead patterns blues scales riffs bar chords full natural minor scales and key lead techniques. After that challenging advanced riffs techniques scales pivoting and sweep arpeggios are covered that will help you start to develop your own style.With these 3 DVDs you'll also get to apply all you learn over the full band backing tracks that will give you the feel and excitement of being in your own band.

Levels 1-3 Complete-Designed by John McCarthy this Master Edition combines all three levels of this award-winning series in a complete course! Learn all the essential techniques needed to play all genres of music for electric or acoustic guitar. Start with how tohold the guitar for comfortable playing and fast effective learning. Next learn picking and strumming techniques chords rhythm timing and how they are used to play popular songs. Learn melodies scales and the basics of the blues. You will alsolearn lead techniques such as hammer ons pull-offs and bends and how to put them together to play leads and riffs! Level 2 guides you to learn and apply scales such as Natural Minor Pentatonic Major and Blues scales. Learn to play the mostused chords and progressions that will have you playing hundreds of songs quickly. Level 3 gives you all the guitar knowledge to stand toe to toe with the best guitar players in the world! Learn advanced chords scales techniques andcoordination building exercise that will have you tearing up the fretboard. As an added bonus included are audio backing tracks and playing examples you can download that follow each lesson and let you apply them over full band backing tracks.