Richard R. Smith: Effortless Guitar - Jazz Soloing Techniques: Guitar:

Effortless Guitar Series-This is THE DVD for expanding your playing into the more exotic personalities of the acoustic guitar. 'Essential Acoustic Textures' provides an easy-to-learn method for learning Caribbean South American and Spanish styles that can work well in all musical situations from rock and pop to blues and bossa nova. Learn about: the samba style · rhumba · reggae · bossa nova · authentic flamenco techniques · rasgueado and golpe techniques · innovative plucking and strumming · and recommended guitars and strings. Richard Smith is a session player and recording artist who lives in Los Angeles California. His recordings have garnished praise such as 'Best Contemporary Jazz Guitar Album'(Tune Up Magazine) a nomination for 'Record of the Year' (Ad Lib Magazine Tokyo) and 'Best New Artist' (Radio

Greatly expand and develop your blues touch taste tone and ‘tude by learning cool new songs that you can play today! With Effortless Guitar Essential Blues Guitar Richard Smith’s expert instruction will help you go to the heart of great touch and tone through exercises and songs. Techniques covered include: Pick technique preparation pressure release Perfect intonation Dozens of great blues touch techniques Hammer on licks Pull-off and slurs runs Slides and string-skipping riffs Great melody playing Ways of getting the most from a melody line Developing a solo

A huge percentage of what all professional guitar players play is rhythm guitar. Some of the greatest musicians of all time were also amazing accompanists: Jimi Hendrix Eddie Van Halen Peter Townsend Eric Clapton Stevie Ray Vaughn John Mayer and The Edge to name just a few. Effortless Rhythm Guitar starts with developing the most fundamental of musical essentials - a good sense of time and feel moves on to dozens more musical concepts. This DVD will serve any aspiring rhythm guitarist! You’ll learn about: Developing a strong rhythmic feel Right hand exercises Incredibly funky funk vamps Rhythm and blues progressionsThinking like a drummer Organization and arrangement in contemporary song forms Fundamental rhythmic concept Syncopation and complex rhythm studies

Effortless Guitar Series-This DVD will introduce you to the world of octave playing in the style of Wes Montgomery George Benson Joe Pass and Pat Metheny. Learn how to dramatically musically and effortlessly expand your soloing using all of the touch taste tone time and above all tude as in ATTITUDE. Using octaves guitarists can kick-up the melodic possibilities of their soloing far beyond scales licks and chords – and give the player powerful new tools forimprovisation not just in jazz but blues pop and rock. Learn about octaves by learning easy to play contemporary jazz pieces in an effortless progression from the basics to some of the most advanced and expressive octave playingall in the course of one video! Sections include: Octave basics around the neck • using the thumb fingers and pick for maximum versatility • Chord solo concepts using octaves • blues licks scales and chromaticriffs in octaves • Play melodies expressively with octaves developing an awesome touch using right hand tonal techniques • developing a naturally expressive style using techniques such as expressive dynamic contouring• expressive devices such as slurs tremolo slides • additional harmony behond octaves • lots of solo ideas to develop and adapt into your own style.

Effortless Guitar Series-This easy-on-the-fingers intermediate DVD deals specifically with developing melodic voice or melodic guitar 'signature.' Every artist spends a lifetime developing the artistic signature that makes him sound unique. 'Effortless Blues Fusion' provides some of the techniques that go into the actual personality of a guitar player's own sound. These techniques can be practiced and refinfoced by methodical enjoyable practice. Learn what it takes to expand your musical personality effortlessly through fun-to-play fusion songs. Learn about: New sounds with bluesy octaves · New tones with the thumb and fingers · Various picking techniques · Expressive double stop snaps · Finger andpick combinations · Dramatic new left and right hand techniques · Cool hammer-on slur and bending runs.

Effortless Guitar Series-A huge percentage of what all professional guitar players play is rhythm guitar. Eddie Van Halen Eric Clapton and SRV are all incredibly cool rhythm guitar players. Learn to develop the most fundamental of musical essentials - a good sense of time and feel plus dozens more musical concepts that will serve any aspiring accompanist. Learn about: Developing a strong rhythmic feel · Right hand exercises · Incredibly funky funk vamps · Rhythm and blues progressions · Thinking like a drummer · Organization and arrangement in contemporary song forms · Fundamental rhythmic concept · Syncopation and complex rhythm studies · Signal processing; delay effects · Bubble and percolatorpicking · Double stop playing · Antecedent and consequent (call and response) phrasing · Single-note popping · Reggae Styles · Overdrive effects · Lots of alternative voicings.

From a guitarist's perspective Smooth Jazz is more like instrumental rhythm and blues funk and pop music! It is a vibrant playground of great grooves sophisticated blues-based harmonies and lush orchestration - in the tradition of James Brown Tower of Power Earth Wind and Fire and Carlos Santana. It is where jazz rock pop funk r&b and Latin styles all come together on the guitar. Thus DVD will help you to master this style extending your knowledge of jazz harmony blues techniques funk rhythm skills and a keen lyrical sense of melody in a variety of tone and amp settings.