Centerstream Advanced Fingerstyle Guitar (Book/CD)

$24.95

This follow-up to the popular Fingerstyle Guitar book by Ken Perlman (00000081) is really 2 books in one. To the advanced player, it's an excellent tune book featuring 33 interesting and highly playable guitar arrangements. To 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, and all tunes are played on the accompanying CD.

Hal Leonard Acoustic Guitar Fingerstyle Method Book with 2 CD Set

$24.95

Whether you're a first-time fingerstylist who's studying with a teacher or on your own, The Acoustic Guitar Fingerstyle Method by David Hamburger gives you the detailed, comprehensive instruction you need to improve your skills. This book introduces you to the two most essential fingerstyle approaches for playing American roots music: Travis picking and the steady-bass style. In each lesson, you'll learn new techniques, concepts, and chord voicings along with ways to practice and get them under your fingers. Then you can use what you just learned to play a classic song or solo break from the blues, folk, country, and ragtime traditions. 18 In-Depth Lessons, including: Travis Picking Basics, Switching Chords, Eighth Notes and Syncopation, Picking Pattern Fills, Double Stops, and much more. 15 songs to play, including: John Henry Delia St. James Infirmary Nobody's Fault but Mine Houston Blues Alberta and more.

Hal Leonard John Denver Greatest Hits for Fingerstyle Guitar

$14.95

For the first time ever, 11 favorite Denver standards In fingerstyle arrangements which incorporate the melodies of the songs and can therefore be played as solo guitar pieces or vocal accompaniments. Includes "Annie's Song, " "Leaving on a Jet Plane, " "Rocky Mountain High, " and more.

Homespun Essential Exercises For Fingerstyle Guitar (DVD)

$29.95

An accomplished fingerstyle guitarist needs to have full control of his or her picking hand and a complete knowledge of the fingerboard. Peter Huttlinger provides the advice, practice routines, and exercises that will enable learning guitarists to play with good tone, strict timing, and confidence. 60 min. Early intermediate. Music and tab.

String Letter Fingerstyle Guitar Masterpieces (Book/CD)

$16.95

12 instrumental compositions and arrangements from Acoustic Guitar magazine by today's best fingerstyle players. Hear all the original artist performances on the CD and then use the clear, accurate song transcriptions in notes & TAB to bring their songs to life on guitar. Includes artist bios and photos, plus detailed performance notes with tips from the artists themselves. Includes works by Duck Baker, Peppino D'Agostino, Ed Gerhard, Leo Kottke, Jorma Kaukonen, Adrian Legg, Chris Proctor, Preston Reed, John Renbourn, Martin Simpson, Jacques Stotzem, and John Williams.

Homespun Easy Steps to Guitar Fingerpicking 1 (DVD)

$29.95

For many aspiring players, the ability to maintain a rock-steady rhythmic pulse with their thumb while picking out off-the-beat melody notes with their fingers is an essential skill for country, folk and blues playing. Drawing on 4 decades of teaching experience, Happy Traum has devised this nearly foolproof method to help them get off to a great start. The simple children's song Skip to My Lou helps teach the basic concepts before getting into fingerpicking standards such as: Spike Driver's Blues; Green, Green Rocky Road; Staggerlee; Nine Pound Hammer; Hobo's Lullaby. 100-MIN. DVD, LEVEL 2, INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB

Homespun The Real Merle Travis Guitar (DVD)

$29.95

Thom Bresh, the only son of the legendary guitarist Merle Travis, shows how to get the real Travis sound. He teaches several of Merle's best-loved guitar instrumentals: Guitar Rag, Cannonball Rag and others. A must-have for all serious acoustic guitar students! 90-MIN., INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB, LEVEL 3

Homespun Exploring DADGAD Guitar (DVD)

$29.95

Fingerstyle guitar virtuoso Laurence Juber unravels the mystery of this beautiful and versatile guitar tuning, long used by Celtic guitar stylists. Laurence has mastered its intricacies, and he teaches the evocative tunes he has composed, and which appear on his latest CD for Narada Records. He shows how this tuning can be used to beautiful effect in different keys, and how an arrangement of a familiar tune such as Danny Boy can be developed in a variety of ways. This is a video that will open vast new possibilities for guitarists who want to extend their musical vocabularies. 90-MIN. DVD, INCLUDES TAB, INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

Homespun Jorma Kaukonen's Fingerpicking Guitar Method 2-Video Set (DVD)

$49.95

Jorma Kaukonen's course dissects his unique and influential blues and country guitar fingerpicking style. It is filled with invaluable wisdom, powerful advice and useful techniques for learning pickers at all levels. Jorma teaches five traditional and original songs, each one becoming a springboard for in-depth guitar explorations. He also includes dynamic live performances of each song, played with his touring partner Barry Mitterhoff. Songs: I'll Let You Know Before I Leave, Trouble in Mind, Tom Cat Blues, Genesis, Vampire Women. Total running time: 2 hours and ten minutes. 2 DVDs, INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB, LEVEL 2

Homespun The Fingerpicking Guitar of Kelly Joe Phelps (DVD)

$29.95

Kelly Joe explores the fingerpicking technique that has made him one of the most sought-after performers on today's acoustic music scene. He has chosen six of his most popular pieces to demonstrate how he builds fingerpicking arrangements and improvisations to communicate his unique musical vision: Tommy, Sally Ruby, Capman Bootman, River Rat Jimmy, I Am the Light of This World, and Beggar's Oil. 95-MIN. DVD, LEVEL 3, INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB

Carl Fischer Guitar Grimoire - The Fingerpicking Book

$20.36

Starting with chord fingerpicking patterns and expanding to scale (major and minor) fingerpicking and ostinato bass variations, author Adam Kadmon uses thousands of charts, diagrams, and musical examples to guide and instruct you on how to master the technique and the instrument. All the examples are working and function operations that will lead to the immediate application and creation of progressions, songs, and compositions.

Alfred Beginner s Fingerpicking Guitar Book w/CD

$14.99

Now available with CD, this classic book is the perfect introduction to fingerstyle solo guitar. It features 21 popular country-blues and ragtime songs set by Stefan Grossman, Happy Traum, Dave Van Ronk, and John Fahey in entry-level fingerpicking arrangements. Includes "Delia, " "Death Comes Creepin', " "John Henry, " "St. James Infirmary, " "Silent Night, " "Just a Closer Walk with Thee, " and more. In standard notation and tablature.

Homespun Easy Fingerpicking Favorites (DVD)

$19.95

Happy teaches five basic fingerpicking tunes that should be in every guitarist's repertoire. He starts with the basics, then teaches essentials of the style: hammer-ons, pull-offs, bass runs, jump notes, walk-ups and other important techniques. 60-MIN., INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB, LEVEL 2

Homespun Happy Traum s Fingerpicking Method CD Set

$59.95

These 6 CDs will teach you how to pick out syncopated melodies while maintaining a steady rhythmic bass pattern in the styles of Merle Travis, Elizabeth Cotten, Mississippi John Hurt, and others. Even students who have never done this kind of picking before will be improvising fingerpicking solos by the end of this series! Music and tab. Level 2-4.

Hot Licks Adrian Legg: Fingerpicking and Open Tunings DVD

$24.95

Adrian Legg takes an in-depth look at some of the more intriguing open tunings for acoustic guitar plus a variety of trailblazing effects. "Frailing" for guitar, Celtic-style playing, DADGAD tuning, open G tuning, dynamics, attack, advanced hammer and pull techniques, and even Scottish bagpipe effects-all these techniques and much more make this instructional DVD an exceptionally rewarding guitar lesson from a British guitar master.

Homespun Celtic Instrumentals for Fingerstyle Guitar (2-DVD Set)

$49.95

Learn Celtic styles with one of today's most admired fingerstyle players, Al Petteway. Includes insights into syncopated rhythm strokes and the harp-like sounds of cross-string picking. You'll master the notes and chords in DADGAD, as well as standard, dropped D, open G, and low C tunings, plus modal scales.

Hal Leonard Chet Atkins - Vintage Fingerstyle Guitar Tab Songbook

$19.95

Features 14 fingerstyle favorites transcribed in notes and tab from this unparalleled player. Includes "Blue Echo, " "My Little Waltz, " "When You Wish upon a Star, " and more. Includes a note from Chet Atkins, tips on playing his music, photos and a guitar notation legend. 80 pages. 12" x 9".

Hal Leonard A Fingerstyle Guitar Christmas Tab Songbook

$12.95

Over 20 songs for fingerstyle guitar: Auld Lang Syne, Ave Maria, Away in a Manger, The Coventry Carol, Deck the Hall, The First Noel, Good King Wenceslas, I Saw Three Ships, Joy to the World, Silent Night, Up on the Housetop, What Child Is This?, and more.

Homespun Norman Blake's Guitar Techniques 2 (DVD)

$29.95

Norman demonstrates guitar techniques, musical ideas, playing style and ten great songs and instrumentals taken from his vast repertoire: Coming Down from Rising Fawn, Caperton Ferry, Uncle Joe (Miss McLeod's Reel), Old Virginia Reel, and more. 90-MIN. DVD, INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB, LEVEL 4

Homespun The Blues Guitar of Keb' Mo' (DVD)

$29.95

Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Kevin Moore (aka Keb' Mo') takes students on a powerful journey into the world of traditional and contemporary blues guitar. He begins by showing how turnarounds and harmonized scale passages can be the basis for developing fluid phrases in a Robert Johnson-style blues tune. Keb' then teaches 2 original songs, both employing a rhythmic alternating bass style as well as some jazz-oriented chords that add spice and interest to the songs. Switching to his National steel guitar, he then discusses the basics of slide technique, rounding out this exciting blues lesson. 75 minutes, includes tab.