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Extreme Guitar Techniques
If you want to come over like a crazy stadium rocker this is the book for you! You won't learn much about music theory or fancy chords, but you will learn how to.. - Play a Fender Statocaster with your teeth
- Execute a half-twist 40-degree inverse machine gun hold
- Find out which guitar gives you the most realistic 'motorbike' sound
- Avoid taking the skin off your knuckles while performing triple anti-clockwise windmills
Extreme Guitar Techniques reveals the secrets of gargling, dive-bombing, tapping, banjo rolls and amp feedback. It teaches you weird skills like how to play behind your head or using an electric drill! This is the guitar book for the Jackass generation!
Price:£7.95
Product Code: AM957814
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Fingerpicking Guitar Techniques (2 Volume DVD Set)
This two DVD set is for beginner and intermediate guitarists who want to start fingerpicking. Rev. Gary Davis used to tell his students that playing the guitar was easy. He would say that a piano player has only two hands (the left keeps an alternating bass while the right plays a melody) but a guitarist has three hands! Our right hand thumb is one hand and plays the bass figures while our index finger is our second hand and plays the melody. Our third hand is our left hand which fingers chords. The results produce a full and orchestrated fingerstyle sound with a rhythmic bass played against melodic lines. This is the alternating bass technique which we sometimes jokingly refer to as 'bum-chick.' It is the most popular fingerpicking style played and has been used by legendary guitarists. Mississippi John Hurt, Rev. Gary Davis, Merle Travis, Doc Watson, Chet Atkins are but a few of the giants of this style. On these two DVDs we will explore how to master the alternating bass sty
Price:£29.90
Product Code: GW9667
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The Slide Guitar Of Kelly Joe Phelps: Techniques, Arrangements And Improvisation (DVD)
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.
Price:£22.90
Product Code: HL00641554
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Techniques for Contemporary 12-String Guitar DVD
Chris Proctor's exceptional DVD will bring your 12-String guitar playing to new levels, and will teach you challenging and beautiful instrumental solos. This course is jampacked with instruction in the use of open tunings, bottleneck/slide techniques, harmonics and string muting, as well as invaluable advice on finger picks, tuning, stringing and setting up your instrument.
Most 12-string players strike the octave and unison pairs of strings simultaneously. Chris shows you a revolutionary way of picking the twelve strings individually, using alternate thumb and finger picking with the pairs of octave and unison strings. Scales, fiddle tunes and other melodic passages can be played with flowing melody lines and shimmering, cascading tones, with a minimum of left-hand movement.
Through exercises, insights and detailed instruction, Chris helps you realize 12-string guitar's sonic power, and he enables you to play spectacular fingerstyle solos: Sailor's Hornpipe, Fisher's Hornpipe, Halfway, Bells of the Harbor, War Games, and Over the Pass.
Price:£22.90
Product Code: HL00641580
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Norman Blakes Guitar Techniques DVD One
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.
Price:£22.90
Product Code: HL00641604
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Norman Blakes Guitar Techniques DVD Two
On this fascinating DVD, Norman Blake shows you, up close, the elements that make his guitar playing singularly beautiful and unique. Expanding on the basics he covered in his first Homespun lesson, he teaches ten original and traditional songs and instrumentals selected from his vast repertoire, each one featuring his trademark flatpick-and-fingers style. To this he adds crosspicking, drones, string-hopping, ornaments, bass lines, slides and other means of making a solid instrumental statement. Norman demonstrates his powerful back-up technique, and discusses 'how to do teh most with the least', which he brings to bear on these masterful arrangements.
As a bonus, you'll hear about Norman's preference for 12-fret, short scale guitars (he plays a 1934 Martin 00-40H on this DVD), andd ideas about practicing, adding syncopation to get 'those notes between notes', and many other insihgts into flatpick style.
Price:£22.90
Product Code: HL00641605
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