Mastering Alternate Tunings

This, the third book of a power-packed series, begins with exercises for developing speed and agility. Techniques such as machine gun strums, right-hand muting, slapping, tapping, slap harmonics and tremolo are introduced. You'll go further into Celtic music, blues, modal improvisation and alternate tunings and learn some world music styles, such as reggae, African/Brazilian, norteno and conjunto. This in-depth, thorough method for intermediate to advanced acoustic guitarists includes a look at more than ten alternate tunings and teaches analysis, counterpoint and voice leading. Any player, no matter how advanced, can improve their playing with this book. The CD offers play-along opportunities and demonstrates the examples.

This advanced volume in the comprehensive method for fingerstyle guitar is perfect for experienced players who want to add greater variety, refinement, and creativity to their playing. Develops skillful tone production and dynamic control, and covers the free-stroke, rest-stroke, shifting, tremolo, planting, and inventive techniques used by contemporary fingerstyle masters like left-hand tapping, right-hand tapping, drumming, and the scrape. Also includes unusual alternate tunings, ideas for creating your own new tunings, and arranging. All music is shown in standard notation and TAB, and the CD demonstrates all the examples in the book. 96 pages.

Hawaiian slack key Guitar (Ki Ho'alu) is one of the world's great acoustic Guitar traditions. This tradition includes virtuoso Guitar pieces but the majority of songs played slack key are classic Hawaiian melodies eitherplayed as instrumentals or as accompaniment to vocals with instrumental breaks between the verses. The term ''slack key'' does not refer to a type of Guitar but rather to any Guitar played in the slack key style that is in alternate tunings with ''slacked'' strings and fingerstyle technique. Acknowledged slack key master Keola Beamer is a member of a family known for its musical artistry for generations. We are fortunate to have him writing inconjunction with veteran Mel Bay author educator and multi-instrumentalist Mark Nelson who simply followed his love of the music to the Islands. Written in standard notation and tablature to accommodate numerous alternatetunings this book is presented in four sections: 1) The most common tuning introduced by fairly easy songs2) Illustrations of how to build your own arrangements3) A presentation of various slackkey tunings4) A selection of duets in the slack key style.Historical and cultural insights are offered throughout in the spirit of aloha producing an informative musically enlightening book with souland humor. The companion audio download available online features tuning tracks and informal introductions of the audio content by the authors plus some beautiful slack key music.

Here's your expert guide to the world beyond standard tuning! The master teachers at Acoustic Guitar magazine help you get oriented in ten popular tunings and share chords and songs drawn from blues folk Celtic Hawaiianand classical traditions. Features exercises licks and full songs to play all in standard notation tablature and chord diagrams. The CD includes all of the examples and songs!

The Bluegrass Violin-El Violin en el Bluegrass. The endlessly energetic duo of Oriol Saña and Lluís Gómez have created a charming and informative account of the musical phenomenon we call bluegrass. Originally a quirky supercharged folk music played by about ten people, bluegrass music, with its Mozart-like formality and ferocious rhythmic zest, now describes an extended international family of related string band styles. Master fiddler Oriol and bluegrass banjoist Lluís, both acclaimed educators, present both the wide view and crucial details about this music in a clear, personable manner. Bravo! Includes access to online audio. El dúo formado por Oriol Saña y Lluís Gómez, siempre tan activos, se ha puesto manos a la obra una vez más para producir esta brillante obra, amena a la vez que informativa, sobre el fenómeno musical que llamamos bluegrass. En sus inicios, era un estilo folk muy rebuscado y minoritario, pero esa formalidad digna de Mozart y ese ritmo frenético tan característico han conseguido que actualmente abarque una gran familia de estilos musicales en distintos países. El maestro violinista Oriol y el banjista de bluegrass Lluís, ambos reconocidos profesores, presentan una visión amplia y a la vez detallada sobre esta música, aportando tanto claridad como su punto de vista personal. ¡Bravo! Incluye acceso a audio en línea.

Renowned studio musician, performer, recording artist, and clinician Matt Smith opens his bag of tricks and tells all in Chop Shop for Guitar. Matt demystifies topics such as chord progressions, 'cool notes' in solos, harp scales, harmonics, improvisation, alternate tunings, and much more. His unique, creative approach to composition, soloing, and mastering the fretboard will inspire and motivate you to reach new levels of musicianship and self-confidence in your playing. Providing all the tools you need to improve your playing, Chop Shop for Guitar is a must-have for all guitarists. The companion DVD is hosted by Matt Smith and includes lessons, MP3s, and demonstrations of the examples in the book. / Guitare

Par AL PETTEWAY. Master guitarist Al Petteway ventures into new territory with 15 Celtic-inspired, traditional, and New Age fingerstyle compositions in standard and alternate tunings. Derived from Al's award-winning solo recording of the same title, each piece bears the inimitable Petteway signature of profoundly graceful, inspired innovation. Written in standard notation and tab with several pieces in alternate tunings. Al began his professional music career at the age of 11. He played guitar, drums, and string bass with a variety of rock and folk acts in the Washington D.C. area during the 60's, becoming a local legend by the time he went to college to study music composition in 1970. In1977, Al took a job with The National Geographic Society. His work as Supervisor of Picture Editing for the society's Image Collection, gave him the artistic freedom to develop his own acoustic guitar style. While long recognized as one of the country's foremost bluegrass and folk sidemen, Celtic music specialty label Maggie's Music signed Al in 1993 and released Whispering Stones following by The Waters and the Wild-exposing his solo acoustic guitar work to an international audience for the first time. Al left the National Geographic to become a full-time musician in the spring of 1995, just before the release of Midsummer Moon. / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Tablatures / Guitare Fingerpicking

This unique MMO album brings you blues master Dick Weissman explaining and demonstrating guitar techniques (strums chords picking alternate tunings etc.) with some of the greatest blues classics such as Frankie and Johnny and Kansas City Blues. Mr. Weissman demonstrates provides accompaniments and carefully guides you through to becoming a master. At the end of this great master class you'll be calling yourself a blues pro! Includes a high-quality printed music book with explanatory text photographs and diagrams and a narrated CD featuring every exercise and composition in the method book. Performed by Dick Weissman guitar

This book/CD package is an insider's guide to the guitar style of Johnny Winter. You'll learn blues licks riffs turnarounds and solos from the master himself plus slide technique alternate tunings and much more. The CD features performances by Johnny Winter on regular slide and National Steel guitar with Paul Nelson on rhythm guitar and Dave Rubin on bass. Detailed performance notes are provided for each example.

Learn to master any chord progression anywhere on the guitar! With just a few different chord shapes you can strum through hundreds of songs-from blues to rock to folk and beyond. Includes: famous progressions from hit songs in all styles; notes & tab; barre chords in alternate tunings; and more. Learn riffs from artists such as: James Brown Eric Clapton Nirvana The Police Soundgarden The Who and others.

In this 2 DVD set shred master Andy James explains how to play five of Alter Bridge guitarist Mark Tremonti's most challenging and well loved songs highlighting some of the Guitar techniques that set him apart from the rest.From his successful career as guitarist in Creed and Alter Bridge to his own self-titled solo project Mark Tremonti has rightfully gained respect and recognition amongst the metal community. Considered one of the saviours of heavy metal songwriting and context driven shredding we can't help but agree with the critics Mark Tremonti is a great guitar hero to have.Perfect for fans of Alter Bridge and metal alike in Lick Library: Learn To Play Alter Bridge James takes you through each song Guitar part and solo one note at a time. Altered tunings complex fingerstyle patterns intense alternate picking and palm muting skills are all covered.This DVD set includes lessons on the songs Ties That Bind Isolation Broken Wings Blackbird and Ghost Of Days Gone By.Watch a preview of Lick Library: Learn To Play Alter Bridge:

Written by a master of Hawaiian Slack-Key Guitar this text teaches the history tunings and other techniques found in Slack-Key Guitar music. Because of the altered tunings in Slack-Key Guitar music all of the examples andexercises in this text have been written in tab only.Topics discussed are: right and left hand technique alternating bass slides pull-offs hammering harmonics and other Slack-Key related topics. Recordings of nineexercises from the book which demonstrates these techniques (with tunings) are provided on an accompanying audio online. Beautiful black and white photos of native Hawaiian musicians are scattered throughout the text.