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Gain mastery over the fingerboard and dramatically improve your ability to improvise freely on the guitar. On this accessible and engaging DVD, jazz guitar great John Abercrombie provides the tools you need to play with more confidence, more clearly and with greater creativity. John demonstrates the basics of improvisational technique an then with unique series of exercise- playing on one string, creating half and quarter-note phrases, using only two notes per measure and more. He helps you play with limitations that force you to think differently about your music. You'll slow down and really listen, which will help your development as an improviser. John's own compositions, along with the beautiful standard Stella By Starlight demonstrate the wide range of possibilities that exist for the improvising guitarist. Working through these pieces will give you powerful ideas on melodic development, polychording, dynamic, rhythmic changes and other essential skills. John's lively and informative conversations and free-flowing duets with guitarist John Basile give you important insights into the vast potential of the guitar fingerboard.

The sensational Kelly Joe Phelps guides you through his country blues and gospel guitar playing style in this fascinating DVD. Phelps plays the instrument Dobro style, with a unique bar and alternate-thumb fingerpicking technique, which allows for unusually free improvisation. In this video he demonstrates aspects of his musical craft - covering bar technique, string muting, use of the capo, fingerpicking style and how to find scale and chord patterns in open D tuning. His exploration of improvised solos using these ideas will help you create expressive melody lines and evocative harmonies, turning your songs into vehicles through which you can express your ideas and emotions.

From the first notes of this DVD, Roger McGuinn's signature Rickenbacker 12 string will immerse you in the sound that made The Byrds a prime musical force. Now you can learn the licks and guitar techniques that made his timeless hits instantly reconigzable.

This lesson by a legendary gigure in the world of country and old-time music is perfect for the intermediate picker who wants to explore a wide variety of flatpicking techniques. Norman Blake's teaching is clear and concise, and his choice of songs and instrumentals come from the heart of his repertoire. You'll learn Whiskey Before Breakfast, Gray Coat Soldiers, Prettiest Little Girl in the County, The Wreck of the Old'97, Ginseng Sullivan and Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine. Norman's emphasis is on flatpicking fundamentals such as: Alternating strokes Flatpick rolls Cross-picking Single-string/rhythm-chord combinations Slides, pull-offs, hammer-ons Chord positions Melody playing Joined by his wife and musical partner Nancy Blake on second guitar, Norman Blake discusses back-up technique, as well as invaluable tips on the use of the capo, getting the most from open strings, special tunning techniques and lots of more.

British Guitar guru Adrian Legg guides you through some of his trademark devices that will help you look at the instrument in a new, unusual and creative way. His pioneering ideas are designed to help you step away from all the pre-conceived ideas of how a guitar works and what it can do.The techniques in this tutorial will add rich textures and stunning effects to your arrangements. They include:Use of Keith-style banjo tunersImitating the sound of the pedal steel guitarUsing double string bendsworking with harmonised scalesUsing half-capos that leave some strings ringing whilst barring othersNine full instrumental pieces are used to show these ideas in context, including Silent Night, Auld Lang Syne and Brooklyn Blossom. Each piece is explored in depth, examining the possibilities for embellishment that will transform each performance into something that is entirely your own.

1.Pompeya; 2.Palermo; 3.San Telmo; 4.Microcentro (for guitar and string quartet)

Guitar virtuoso Rusty Cooley who is at the fore front of pushing the boundaries of modern guitar playing challenges you to expand on the fretboard visualization and modal knowledge learned in Level 1. Rusty unlocks the road map that will give you the freedom to improvise over the entire fretboard without being locked into positions. Learn 4, 5 & 6 string root modes, extended patterns spanning the neck, 3 octave modes, reverse linear patterns and modal sequences. Rusty shows you how to create modal chord progressions for each of the 7 modes that you can shred your own leads over. Develop your own style while applying what you learn over the full band backing tracks!

Get a close-up look at the virtuoso Lap Steel technique of Darick Campbell in this unique tutorial. As a member of the Campbell Brothers, Darick has played a large part in taking the 'Sacred Steel' sound from it's roots in the 1930s worship of the House Of God and introducing the music to an international secular audience. Starting with simple open tunings, Campbell discusses a full range of techniques and disciplines including:String blockingVibrato and octave licksBar techniqueHammer-ons and pull-offsSee how Campmbell employs the tone, volume and Wah-Wah to give his melodies their distinctive singing quality. Then watch the man put it all into action with performances of gospel favourites Amazing Grace, I'll Fly Away, and Walk With Me, Lord.

Electric Guitar and String Quartet. Published 1975. First performance: Mitchell Dalton, Chilingirian String Quartet, Bat, 2nd July 1976.

Arranged by John Williams and Christopher Gunning for Guitar and String Orchestra. This edition for Guitar with Piano reduction.

Expand and develop your six string theory with Danny Gill. Harmony and Theory is the language of music. It is what allows musicians from all over the world who may speak different languages verbally to speak the same language on their instrument. This DVD will guide you through the major scale modes, the harmonic minor scale, the melodic minor scale, modal interchange, secondary dominants, and the diminished scale. Each example is clearly demonstrated and performed with a backing track which is also included for you to play along with. Danny Gill is a former pupil of Joe Satriani, and co-author of the Musicians Institute Rock Guitar series. His songs have appeared on TV shows including 'The Osbournes' and film sound tracks such as 'Insomnia' and 'Under Siege'.

Use Guitar Sidekick with your iPhone, Smartphone or other media player to help you play and learn.The Guitar Sidekick works with almost any Guitar, by clamping onto the strings behind the nut, without disturbing the tuning or sustain of your instrument.The grip will fit any device up to 8 1/2 cm wide (3.35 inches) such as iPhone, iPod Touch, Zune, Sony PSP, Blackberry, the iTab, or a range of different Android and Windows phones.Great for busking, rehearsing, learning, and jamming too!