Anyone, with any instrument, can get into this beginner's bluegrass jam session. Seventeen classic songs are played at a slow, easy tempo. Only four basic chords (G, C, D and A) are needed to be able...
LEVEL 2/3 INCLUDES 50-PG. MUSIC BOOK This series teaches piano technique and pieces by Haydn, Bach, Beethoven and other masters. Dan covers the notes, phrasings, rhythmic accents, theory and nuances t...
Improving mandolin technique does not have to employ mind-numbing drills and exercises. Using our trademark Licks-ercises concept, Dix Bruce teaches licks, kick-offs, endings and solos that will hone...
Here's a DVD for anyone who loves the uke! It's instructional, entertaining and educational all at once. Jim Beloff teaches the basics, showing the strums and bringing the starting player quickly from...
Pete Dr. Banjo Wernick gets total novices to make good banjo music almost immediately. With only two chords, Pete has newcomers strumming and accompanying ten bluegrass standards. By learning a third...
One of the most popular harmonica players of our time teaches all the basics in this friendly, jam-along lesson: how to hold the instrument and find the blues notes, then add vibrato, note-bending, wa...
Bob explores clawhammer intricacies for players ready to move beyond the basics. Covers: drop-thumb, double C-tuning, hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, variations, endings and more. Includes advice on ch...
Mike Seeger's important survey of 19th and 20th century banjo styles teaches old-time pieces and traditional techniques. Each lesson features a complete performance of each song (played on a different...
Even a novice can make lovely sounds and play simple tunes almost immediately! Dulcimer virtuoso David Schnaufer includes scales, fingerings and strumming techniques for some of country music's all-ti...
Here's the ultimate beginners' how-to course for playing back-up in a band, from the simplest basic strum to the chord vamping, rolls, up-the-neck positions and fill-in licks that banjo players use to...
Steve Martin is a comedian, novelist, screenwriter, actor and many other things, but his first love is the banjo. His recent hit CD, The Crow, features 15 original tunes in both clawhammer and Scruggs...
In this follow-up DVD, Pete Wernick makes it easy to create convincing solos in common keys that normally challenge learning players: D, C, F and G - without a capo. Pete explores nine bluegrass stand...
This lesson by two of the ukulele's most enthusiastic proponents will get anyone started on this popular instrument - even those who have never played anything before! This friendly, joyful lesson tea...
Here's the perfect way to get a solid start playing the mandolin! A beginner will learn chords, notes, scales, rhythm strums and accompaniment for songs such as: Amazing Grace - Will the Circle Be Unb...
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Award-winning bassist Rob Wasserman teaches several acoustic bass styles, including his own speciality, 'Dawg' music, the blend of bluegrass, swing, latin and jazz he developed with David Grisman. Rob...
Singing and playing music at gatherings - whether around a campfire with friends, at parties or community sing-alongs - is always magical and uplifting. Music is the universal language that brings peo...
Beginners and intermediate players learn seven gospel favorites in bluegrass/country-style. Steve covers basic chords, bass walks, hammer-ons, pull-offs, runs and more techniques to add style to any s...
This lesson concentrates on creating bass lines for any musical style. He helps players strengthen their hands and build chops through scales and modes in every position on the fingerboard. Using a st...
Calling all aspiring blues guitar pickers! Popular YouTube guitar instructor Rainer Brunn has designed a special introductory course just for you! With this exclusive book and video teaching pack, Rai...
Legendary singer/guitarist Geoff Muldaur teaches six gospel and blues arrangements that are filled with ideas, techniques and wonderful songs. Geoff uses standard ingredients of fingerstyle playing co...
This follow-up DVD includes more instruction, ideas, advice and great blues songs, with lots of opportunity for the learning blues picker to play along with these two veteran guitarists. Songs in the...
Nick Forster teaches the cool rhythm chords and moving bass lines that are typical of western swing songs and Texas fiddle tune back-up. He provides the tools to move out of basic positions and into t...
Three-time winner of International Bluegrass Association's Guitar Player of the Year, David Grier is a rising star in the world of the acoustic guitar. Here he analyzes his breathtaking technique and...
These lessons for both novices and advanced pickers in flatpick style will help guitarists play the notes and make music out of them as well. Seven celebrated bluegrass artists tackle everything from...
Paul Mehling (Hot Club of San Francisco) focuses on warmups, practice techniques, training exercises, scales, arpeggios, vibrato, strumming styles, and chord progressions - basically everything a play...
Paul puts all the techniques from his previous lesson into practical use, demonstrating how to play arpeggios, chromatic runs and harmonics in Don't Panic, G Minor Blues, a progression using cycle of...
Guitar ace Toby Walker systematically teaches three exciting, performance-worthy guitar solos. Intermediate players will learn a great version of the basic tune; more advanced guitarists will be shown...
Here's an opportunity to learn to play the lush and elegant sounds of Hawaiian slack key guitar. Keola Beamer, a contemporary master in this style, provides the perfect introduction to a rich traditio...
Chris Proctor is a talented fingerstyle guitarist and a top clinician whose popular workshops have helped thousands of aspiring guitarists throughout the country. This lesson highlights Chris' unique...
Alex de Grassi pioneered the techniques that have become standard in the repertoire of many of today's acoustic fingerstylists. Here's a rare glimpse of a master guitarist's technique at work. Alex ha...
Ernie Hawkins uses the amazing C-A-G-E-D System when playing his specialty - blues and ragtime tunes in alternate-thumb fingerpicking style. On his third lesson, Ernie explores blues melodies as they...
During a brilliant three-decade career, Dan Fogelberg's iconic songs, soaring vocals and rich guitar arrangements gained him millions of avid fans and secured him a place in the pantheon of American p...
Individuals, friends, choirs, church, camp and community groups of any background will enjoy participating in this uplifting singing tradition. Ysaye, a charter member of the great a cappella group Sw...
Classically trained bluegrass virtuoso Richard Greene covers a fascinating array of musical ideas, exercises and instrumental examples on this one-of-a-kind fiddle lesson. 85-MIN. DVD * INCLUDES MUSIC...
After a quick review, students get into some real fiddle playing! Focusing on building repertoire, Luke and Jenny Anne break three tunes down into small, easy-to-grasp sections. By the end of this les...
Kenny teaches 11 great tunes, showing the basic melody and several hot variations. Chock-full of great tips on bowing, fingering, licks and tricks of the trade.
The violin can be used to accompany old time country songs with startlingly beautiful results, and no one does this better than Bruce Molsky. On this DVD lesson, he shows you how you can achieve disti...
In nearly three hours of play-along instruction, Jim Wood teaches new fiddlers everything they'll need to play America's best-loved tunes. With the help of his wife Inge on guitar, Jim gives beginners...
taught by Jim Wood, Kenny Kosek, Vassar Clements, Richard Greene, Brad Leftwich, Bruce Molsky, Jay Ungar, Stacy Phillips The eight lessons on this DVD, compiled from Homespun's incomparable library of...
Sing along with Riders in the Sky as they pass along a magnificent American vocal music tradition. In the lighthearted, humorous manner that has endeared them to millions of fans, the Riders show how...
Marcy and Ginger present five new chords and a variety of strumming techniques. On-screen chord charts, graphics and lyrics make understanding the chords, and learning to sing and play nine more great...
A true bluegrass legend shares the secrets of his dynamic soloing and the innovative crosspicking style he invented. Jesse breaks down some of the songs and instrumentals he made famous, including: Di...
Steve Allen, one of the world's most beloved entertainers, had a passion for jazz piano. Here he divulges his tricks of the trade and shows how to build lovely arrangements with a variety of easy tech...
A challenging and rewarding learning experience for all proficient Jazz pianists who want to broaden their vocabulary and improvise more creatively, based around six stunning standards. Andy LaVerne i...
This DVD lesson is a treasury of the ideas and techniques of one of rock's legendary bassists. Jack Casady analyses his bass parts for classic tunes from the Hot Tuna repertoire and discusses the musi...
Packed with dozens of time-tested musical phrases, this lesson will help even a beginner become a strong lead guitarist. Each riff is played slowly, and then up to speed to give a feel for how it shou...
This DVD captures the legendary Roy Book Binder performing at a sold-out concert at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee. With his signature wry wit and guitar technique, Roy...
On this repertoire-building lesson, Jorma delves into seven of the traditional and original guitar pieces that have become his trademark, taking them apart lick-by-lick for intermediate players.
Taylor shows you how to take the simplest songs and add a little Taylor Magic with descending bass lines and rich harmonizations. 80-MIN DVD * INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB * EARLY INTERMEDIATE LEVEL
Barre chords are vital if you want to move beyond the third fret, play solid rhythm in all keys and get a wide variety of sounds through chord inversions. This lesson teaches basic chord theory, trans...
Bass runs offer movement, harmony and a smooth transition while changing chords. Learning them helps guitarists understand how to play scales in several keys and develops good timing and single-note a...
The beauty of the guitar is not necessarily based on advanced and highly technical playing skills. Happy takes very easy songs and shows how to transform them into beautiful showpieces using right-han...
In a lively, jam-packed display of ideas and musicianship, Mike Dowling and Pat Donohue teach the necessary strategies that enable guitarists to make good music together, regardless of the song or sty...
Martin teaches his complex arrangements to Donal Ogg, My Generous Lover, and Betsy the Serving Maid (all in Gsus4 tuning), The Coo Coo Bird in the spectacular mountain minor tuning, and the fiddle tun...
This top Nashville guitarist breaks down his method for improvising across the entire guitar fingerboard, teaching how to create guitar solos through finding chord centers in every position. Pat inclu...
Artie continues his exploration of the guitar's harmonic possibilities with easy but effective chord shapes, progressions, moving basses, harmony lines, instrumental compositions and song accompanimen...
A formula for instant success on the electric guitar! Jorma Kaukonen teaches licks, solos, lead lines and rhythm grooves to rival the best of them. Instructional and entertaining Jorma and Electric Ho...
Adrian Legg teaches some of the tricks of the trade that have made him one of the most sought-after fingerstyle guitarists on the scene today. Includes nine original instrumentals, each utilizing devi...
Even novice guitarists can start playing melodies and improvising lead parts with this beginner's method. Marcy Marxer's user-friendly course brings all the notes, frets and strings into clear focus,...
Patty Larkin, widely known for her compelling, emotionally charged songs, is also a master of fingerstyle picking, alternate tunings, tapping and slapping techniques, and innovative chord progressions...
In this in-depth lesson for electric and acoustic players, multi-award winner (Grammy, Country Music Award, and eight-time winner of the BMI Award) Steve Wariner shares the insights needed to master s...
Stacy moves into more advanced territory as he discusses drones, scale patterns, and other techniques, now with an emphasis on using bar slants and string pulls to create more complex chords and effec...
Guitarists, take control of your pick technique! Paul Mehling has developed a powerful series of exercises and practice regimens that will help all plectrum (flatpick) guitarists play with greater str...
An adventure in acoustic world music! Beppe Gambetta's reinterpretations of American and European musical traditions offer flatpickers a passport to inspiration. He teaches unique renditions of Americ...
Swing chords and rhythms, Gypsy jazz, 32-bar song forms, calypso rhythms, palm harmonics, minor key jazz/blues and a variety of exercises transform a guitarist's repertoire and range. Includes tab. In...
Adam Traum continues his exploration of basic guitar skills with simple chord progressions, strumming and picking techniques and lots of practical advice for guitar newbies. He teaches chords in open...
This starter lesson by a top blues musician will give novices a basic understanding of how to play in a variety of open tunings on the guitar, and get into new and exciting sounds. Includes arrangemen...
Jim Kweskin is regarded as one of the most influential guitarists and performers to emerge from the 1960s folk revival. His lesson starts with an overview of fingerpicking patterns for beginners, then...
The legendary Josh White is widely considered to be one of the most influential blues and folk artists of all time. Josh White, Jr. can replicate his father's dazzling guitar technique and passionate...
Guitarist, songwriter and journalist Jeff Rodgers knows the Grateful Dead canon intimately. As a follow-up to his previous hit DVD, Jeff has created solo acoustic guitar versions of songs that capture...
One of the most exciting and accomplished players in ki ho'alu (slack key) guitar gives a lesson for novices as well as advanced players in the slack key style. He teaches instrumentals encompassing b...
Russ shows guitarists at all levels how to achieve good tone, keep solid time, compose solos, improvise and play with more assurance, better control and stronger technique. Tunes include For J. L. , O...
Steve covers use of the capo, how to play up and down the neck, chord back-ups, bass runs, damping, slides, substitution chords and crosspicking. Build a flatpicking solo to tunes like: Old Joe Clark...
Move beyond the basics into the finer points of flatpick guitar style with this focus on speed-building and the essential elements of style. Steve covers rhythmic crosspicking techniques, left- and ri...
By popular demand, Pete Huttlinger has added a fourth DVD to his best-selling series. He teaches beautiful and accurate guitar versions of ten most-requested John Denver songs: Back Home Again - Song...
Practical Tools for Everyday Playing These two DVDs are the first in a planned series of new products by famed guitarist/educator Happy Traum. Aimed at novice players, these lessons demystify the guit...
These two DVDs are the first in a planned series of new products by famed guitarist/educator Happy Traum. Aimed at novice players, these lessons demystify the guitar fretboard and provide clear, pract...
A musician and popular writer for Acoustic Guitar magazine and other publications, Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers breaks down seven iconic Grateful Dead songs at a very user-friendly pace. He teaches the rhyt...
Here are the colorful riffs, rich melodies and rhythmic bass lines that give the New Orleans style its distinctive sound. David Cohen combines blues, gospel, country and boogie-woogie to create great...
A fun and easy lesson for those who love the signature sound of the Kingston Trio and want to sing and play their songs on their banjo. Veteran Kingston Trio member George Grove teaches classic folk h...
Kate and Steve, widely known as the Ukalaliens, bring their novice players to the next level, teaching new chords, keys, strums and picking patterns. These songs are great fun to play at parties, picn...
Jumpin' Jim Beloff, who has done more than anyone for the worldwide resurgence in the uke's popularity, teaches a dozen timeless songs taken from his best-selling songbook, The Daily Ukulele. His idea...
Traditional hymns, with their resonant melodies, rich harmonic structures and deep messages of faith and inspiration, have been joyfully passed down through the ages. Pete Huttlinger has taken seven c...
Klezmer, the celebratory dance music of Eastern European Jews, has gained popularity in recent years, partly through the work of the musical super-group, the Klezmatics. Lisa Gutkin, their virtuosic f...
Danny Gottlieb covers everything from rudiments to rock and jazz grooves, including powerful pad exercises and in-depth advice to help aspiring drummers develop the speed and consistency needed to exc...
The veteran rock and jazz drummer covers styles and methods of his major influences: Buddy Rich, Mel Lewis, Gary Chester, John McLaughlin, Airto Moreira and Gil Evans. He teaches advanced drum set exe...
Using the Yamaha Disklavier as a teaching aide, Andy analyzes three of his original compositions, along with a brilliantly re-harmonized version of All The Things You Are. He details scales, modes, vo...
A study of scales, chords, and modes and their application up and down the fretboard, including all the possible combinations of chord tones with play-along bass line examples. Variations on the blues...
Dailey & Vincent has electrified the bluegrass world, recording chart-topping CDs, playing more than 200 dates a year, and winning numerous awards - including IBMA's prestigious Entertainer of the Yea...
Fingerpicking arrangements to five classic ragtime/blues songs, especially recorded for intermediate-level guitarists who want to dig into exciting new repertoire and style. Mary Flower's unique arran...
Adam Traum shows how you can develop powerful blues style, percussive rhythms and punchy lead lines using a flatpick. He teaches right-hand technique as well as bluesy chords, scales, licks and progre...
Eddie Adcock transforms basic country tunes into musical adventures! He teaches traditional and contemporary guitar instrumentals using right-hand rolls, Travis-style picking, complex slides, pull-off...
The red-hot guitarist from the popular band the Waybacks brings the acoustic guitar into a modern rock sensibility with this groundbreaking DVD lesson. James Nash teaches the scales, grooves, licks, r...
Mark O'Connor's Fiddle Camps attract students from all over the world, and this DVD puts you in a center seat for his Back to Basics class. He focuses on development of ear training and essential fidd...