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Advanced Fingerstyle GuitarThis follow-up to the popular Fingerstyle Guitar book by Ken Perlman is really two books in one. For the advanced player, it's an excellent tune book featuring 33 interesting and highly playable guitar arrangements. For the intermediate player, it serves as a clear and detailed guide to the technical expertise and theoretical knowledge required to bridge the gap to the advanced level. Covers Baroque tuning, DAD-GAD tuning and much more. The tunes are organized according to genre: Alternating Bass Pieces, The Country Blues, Melodic Guitar, Fiddle Tunes, Ragtime and Chord-Melody, with all tunes played on the CD. 00000306Book/CD Pack $24.95 |
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Advanced Rock Lead GuitarFor Electric and Acoustic GuitarDave Celentano finishes up the course by introducing the student to a variety of complete solos to learn and play over the band rhythm tracks. Topics include: '80s style soloing, modal soloing in rock, acoustic blues soloing, triads, arpeggios, legato, string bending, vibrato, tapping, and more. Dave demonstrates all the solos, then breaks each down into small sections for easier learning, discussing important concepts, theory and scales. A booklet of all the examples is enclosed. 60 minutes. 00000352DVD $19.95 |
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Advanced Rock Rhythm GuitarFor Electric and Acoustic GuitarDave Celentano concludes his "three level" rock rhythm guitar course with challenging rhythm work in the styles of funk/rock, fast boogie blues, slow blues/rock, and heavy metal. Techniques and topics covered are fast electric and acoustic strums, palm muting, string muting, scratch strumming, riff rhythms, seventh and ninth chords, power chords, bar chords and more. Dave demonstrates each example then breaks it down into smaller sections for learning. Includes a booklet of all examples. 60 minutes. 00000351DVD $19.95 |
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This book/CD pack teaches intermediate-level guitarists how to choose an appropriate tuning for a song, develop an arrangement, and solve any problems that may arise while turning a melody into a guitar piece to play and enjoy. 00000313Book/CD Pack $19.95 |
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ASAP Classical GuitarLearn How to Play the Classical WayTeacher-friendly or for self-study, this book/CD pack for beginning to intermediate guitarists features classical pieces and exercises presented progressively in notes and tab, with each explained thoroughly and performed on the accompanying CD. A great way to learn to play ASAP! 00001202Book / CD Pack $15.95 |
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25 Ways to Improve Your Improvising for GuitarKeep your music sounding fresh with these ideas for ways to expand and improve your guitar playing. Learn how to: improvise with chords, use chord synonyms, work with modes, licks, and arpeggios, use dynamics and tone, improve melodic lines, use the entire fingerboard, improve your solos' contour, and many more technical and creative ideas. 00000344Book/CD Pack $19.95 |
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25 Ways to Improve Your Solo Guitar PlayingKeep your music fresh with the great ideas in this new book! Covers: chords, dynamics, harmonics, phrasing, intros & endings and more! 00000323Book/CD Pack $19.95 |
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This book/CD pack features easy to advanced play-along arrangements of 23 top holiday tunes for classical/fingerstyle guitar. Includes: Birthday of a King, God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen, Good Christian Men, Rejoice, Jingle Bells, Joy to the World, O Holy Night, O Sanctissima, What Child Is This? (Greensleeves), and more. The CD features a demo track for each song. 00000271Book/CD Pack $15.95 |
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Acoustic Blues GuitarThis DVD presents a combination of 3-key blues techniques for players who already know basic chords and have some experience with the guitar. Features straight blues in the key of A, ragtime blues in G, and slide guitar in open D tuning. Includes musical examples. 75 minutes. 00000336DVD $19.95 |
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Acoustic Blues GuitarThis book/CD pack for intermediate-level players incorporates slide or bottleneck playing in both open and standard tunings. All songs are primarily fingerstyle with a monotone bass used for most. 00000157Book/CD Pack $18.95 |
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