100 Country Lessons: Guitar Solo: Instrumental Tutor

Blues And Country Fingerpicking-This terrific compilation features lessons at a variety of levels from beginner to advanced by some of Homespun’s most celebrated pickers. Each segment covers a complete song or instrumental that will expand your repertoire improve your technique and enhance your musical knowledge. These lessons cover the steady bass and syncopated melody of the Piedmont blues players (Roy Book Binder and John Jackson); the muffled bass and swingy chords of Travis-style pickers (Thom Bresh and Doc Watson); the strumming and pounding of Delta blues stylists (Rory Block); and the banjo-like rolls and single-string approach of more bluegrass oriented fingerpickers (Eddie Adcock).

A complete guide for beginning guitarists with step-by-step lessons and 45 great acoustic songs to learn and play. The Hal Leonard Acoustic Guitar Method uses real songs to teach you all the basics of acoustic Guitar in the style of The Beatles Eric Clapton John Mellencamp the Indigo Girls Robert Johnson James Taylor and many others. Lessons include: strumming fingerpicking using a capo open tunings folk country and bluegrass styles acoustic blues acoustic rock and more. Songs include: Angie Barely Breathing Behind Blue Eyes Building a Mystery Change the World Dust in the Wind Fast Car Here Comes the Sun Jack and Diane Landslide Leaving on a Jet Plane Maggie May More Than Words Name You've Got a Friend Yesterday and more. This book is written in standard notation and tablature.

Nashville Guitar. Par KOCHLI RICHARD. A comprehensive analysis of American country music from a European perspective, this massive 275-page book comes with a companion CD with 97 tracks. Everything from basic rhythm accompaniment to blazing bluegrass solos is addressed including: Carter lead style, fingerpicking, rockabilly riffs, Nashville lead styles, Western swing and honky-tonk, country blues and rock, Cajun history and styles, and a forecast of the future of country. The book is carefully structured with progressively arranged exercises, theory lessons and original and traditional tunes. This book should prove to be an important resource for country music enthusiasts. All 387 musical examples appear in both standard notation and tablature. Complete lyrics are provided when applicable. Köchli's love and mastery of the entire spectrum of country music is evident throughout. / Niveau : Débutant à Intermédiaire / Western American - Solos / Tablatures / Guitare Tablatures

In this second volume of The Acoustic Guitar Method series for beginning guitarists you'll expand on Book 1 and continue to learn traditional American music using authentic techniques and songs! Learn how to play alternating bass notes in a country backup pattern how to combine chords and classic bass runs and how to play your first fingerpicking patterns. You'll find out what makes a major scale work and what blues notes do to a melody all while learning more notes on the fingerboard and more great songs from the American roots repertoire. Whether you are studying with a teacher or on your own this comprehensive approach with graded lessons andsupplementary songs is the tool you need to get started!

Here’s the ultimate course in Jorma Kaukonen’s unique and influential blues and country guitar finguerpicking style. These lessons are filled with wisdom advice and invaluable skills for pickers at all levels. You’ll learn five traditional and original songs each one becoming a springboard for important musical information that will be applicable to any songs you want to play. An experienced and inspiring instructor Jorma teaches at a leisurely pace taking care to point out all the possible variations that will enable you to make each song your own. JOrma reviews the chord positions needed for each song slowing them down phrase-by-phrase so that even relativebeginners will be able to play the piece with some practice. He discusses his alternate bass thumb work and adds runs bens double-stops bass walk-ups blues licks turnarounds endings and ornamental notes to enhance your fingerpicking and blues arrangements. Each song features a dynamic live performance by Jorma and Barry Mitterhoff. Jorma Kaukonen started out as an acoustic fingerpicker before becoming a rock legend as lead guitarist for the Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna. (He and the Airplane were included into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995). Jorma has released more than two-dozens albums both solo and in various groups. In recent years he has been pursuing the acoustic blues and country fingerpicking styles that he has always loved best. A lifelong interest in teaching has resulted in several Homespun instructional videos.