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Fingerpicking Guitar Techniques [VHS] $5.90 Basic concepts of fingerpicking guitar are explained and illustrated. A discussion of playing in different keys is included, with examples in A, C, D, E, F, and G. Features rare footage of Rev. Gary Davis, Mance Lipscomb, Elizabeth Cotten, and Lightnin’ Hopkins. Includes a free instructional booklet….

Great Guitar Lessons: Blues and Country Fingerpicking [VHS] $24.95 This terrific compilation features basic to advanced lessons from some of Homespun’s most celebrated pickers. You’ll become familiar with each instructor’s teaching and playing style, and expand your own guitar technique, as you master several complete tunes. Happy Traum – “John Henry” (new lesson); John Jackson – “Louis Collins” (The Fingerpicking Blues Of John Jackson); Rory Block – “Fixin’ To…

Beyond Acoustic Guitar: Adrian Legg $49.95 Adrian Legg, one of England’s musical treasures, shows you advanced single, double and even triple- note country stringbending, fingerpicking, open tunings, banjo-peg tricks, special effects and so much more. He uses electric guitar light gauge strings on his acoustic, so all techniques covered can also apply to electric guitar….

The Acoustic Guitar Method $23.61 These carefully graded starter lessons for the acoustic guitar are based on David Hamburger’s best-selling books, issued by the publishers of Acoustic Guitar magazine. Beginner guitarists will learn how to use a pick and form all the most important chords, while those with some guitar experience will learn fingerpicking styles and other essential playing techniques. More than two-dozen classic son…

Bass Method: For the Beginning Electric Bassist $10.95 The Hal Leonard Bass Method is designed for anyone just learning to play electric bass. It is based on years of teaching bass students of all ages, and it also reflects some of the best bass teaching ideas from around the world. Play your favorite songs in no time! Includes: tuning, playing position, on-screen music notation, notes in first through third position, rhythms through eighth notes, fin…

Ronnie Earl: Blues Guitar With Soul $16.44 RONNIE EARL:BLUES GUITAR WITH SOUL – DVD Movie…

Mel Bay Fingerpicking 12-String Guitar Method Book & CD …

Day Finger Pickers Took Over the World $2.64 The godfather of country guitar Chet Atkins, teams up with Australia’s most celebrated guitarist Tommy Emmanuel! Australian Only!…

Beyond Basics Fingerstyle Guitar (The Ultimate Beginner Series) $8.85 Featuring standard notation and tablature, this new book/CD package introduces basic accompaniment patterns, how to use thumb and fingers, “Travis” picking, solo guitar styles, and much more. It covers folk, blues, ragtime, and new age styles and offers some beautiful new chord voicings….

Beginning Fingerstyle Blues Guitar (Book and Audio CD) (Guitar Books) $13.28 A step-by-step method for learning this rich and powerful style. Takes you from the fundamentals of fingerpicking to five authentic blues tunes. Includes graded exercises, illustrated tips, plus standard notation and tablature….

50 Acoustic Guitar Licks You Must Know! $24.95 In this installment of the Guitar Lab series — which emphasizes an interactive approach to music instruction — expert guitarist Rich Maloof presents step-by-step lessons on 50 acoustic licks that incorporate a variety of essential techniques, including fingerpicking patterns, open-string voicings, descending bass lines, and hammer-ons and pull-offs. ~ Sandra Bencic, Rovi

Alchemy: Dire Straits Live $24.96 There is an interesting contrast on this 94-minute double-disc live album (recorded at London’s Hammersmith Odeon in July 1983) between the music, much of which is slow and moody, with Mark Knopfler’s muttered vocals and large helpings of his fingerpicking on what sounds like an amplified Spanish guitar, and the audience response. The arena-size crowd cheers wildly, and claps and sings along when given half a chance, as though each song were an up-tempo rocker. When they do have a song of even medium speed, such as “Sultans of Swing” or “Solid Rock,” they are in ecstasy. That Dire Straits’ introspective music loses much of its detail in a live setting matters less than that it gains presence and a sense of anticipation. Alan Clark’s keyboards help to fill out the sound and give Knopfler’s spare melodies a certain majesty, but Dire Straits remains an overgrown bar band with a Bob Dylan fixation, and that’s exactly how the crowd likes it. [The CD version of the album contains one extra track, "Love Over Gold," which adds a needed change of pace to the otherwise slow-moving first disc.] ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi

Alchemy: Dire Straits Live $23.98 There is an interesting contrast on this 94-minute double-disc live album (recorded at London’s Hammersmith Odeon in July 1983) between the music, much of which is slow and moody, with Mark Knopfler’s muttered vocals and large helpings of his fingerpicking on what sounds like an amplified Spanish guitar, and the audience response. The arena-size crowd cheers wildly, and claps and sings along when given half a chance, as though each song were an up-tempo rocker. When they do have a song of even medium speed, such as “Sultans of Swing” or “Solid Rock,” they are in ecstasy. That Dire Straits’ introspective music loses much of its detail in a live setting matters less than that it gains presence and a sense of anticipation. Alan Clark’s keyboards help to fill out the sound and give Knopfler’s spare melodies a certain majesty, but Dire Straits remains an overgrown bar band with a Bob Dylan fixation, and that’s exactly how the crowd likes it. [The CD version of the album contains one extra track, "Love Over Gold," which adds a needed change of pace to the otherwise slow-moving first disc.] ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi

Biscuits for Breakfast $12.98 One has to give the NinjaTune label credit for taking a chance on Biscuits for Breakfast. When we last listened in on Finian Greenhall (aka Fink), he was making ambient trip-hop beats (2000s Fresh Produce), and a long six years later he’s become a full-blown, guitar picking singer/songwriter. No, we’re not speaking of the whiskey-rotted, cowboy-hatted, delusional Americana of a Townes Van Zandt wannabe, nor the wasted Cocaine California decadence of the Jackson Browne-Eagles brood, nor the weepy, terminally depressed Nick Drake-wish-upon-a-Pink Moon-songstrelsy either. Instead, Fink’s gone his own way. That’s not to say the sounds of his heroes aren’t in here: one can hear John Martyn in his noirish approach to jazzy acoustic blues, the bottleneck influence of Peter Green (post-Fleetwood Mac y’all) and even the fingerpicking toughness of Davy Graham. There is a wonderfully intimate smokiness in Fink’s approach to his songs. It’s intimate, but utterly lacking in sentimentalism,. Check the opener “Pretty Little Thing,” on which he plays the whole menagerie: bass, guitar (nylon strings, no less), and B-3. The lyrics in this cut are not much to be sure, but as a first track Fink’s looking to usher in the set’s atmosphere, and as such it works beautifully. Dave Matthews would kill to have written a tune like this one for his “solo” album Some Devil. The real surprise is when his co-writers — bassist Guy Whittaker and drummer Tim Thornton — and bandmates jump in on “Pills in My Pocket.” The steel-string acoustic comes out, as does the bottleneck slide, a shuffling rhythm ushers in his streetlife tale matter-of-factly. Vocalist Tina Grace (Nitin Sawhney, Cirque du Soleil) sings lead on the swampy, spooky love song “Hush Now,” as Fink plays slide, and sings backup and creates a series of shuffling little loops that enter the picture. The title track has a few sparse FX on it, but the tone is a moaning little streetwise blues and the main instrument is his voice…

Blues Dream $14.99 From the beginning of Blues Dream, the listener knows that something special is going on. The spare notes of Ron Miles’ trumpet and the relaxed guitar work of Greg Leisz lay the groundwork for a spacious sound on the title cut. This openness remains throughout the album, even when alto and trombone are added into the mix. The instrumental “Ron Carter” begins with the loose, electrified feel of an early Miles Davis fusion piece, with Bill Frisell’s distorted guitar exploring the space of the piece without resorting to excessive volume. The short and sweet “Pretty Stars Were Made to Shine” leans heavier on the country side, with steel guitar and Chet Atkins’ fingerpicking dominating. The arrangements on Blues Dream are a big change from last year’s solo effort, Ghost Town. An essential part of the overall sound is Leisz’ steel guitar and lap steel work. He also played with Frisell on Good Dog, Happy Man, and helps to set the mood and pace throughout Blues Dream. Ron Miles plays a smaller role, but it is fascinating how well his relaxed trumpet, with its carefully chosen notes, fits into the mix on the title cut and the short “Episode.” Blues Dream is a perfectly chosen title: the material, steeped in the blues, is approached in a lazy, dreamlike fashion. Frisell’s fondness for putting unusual combinations of instruments together adds to the overall effect, leaving the listener to wonder why no one has ever tried this before. Blues Dream is a lovely release that should satisfy Frisell fans as well as jazz, country, and blues fans looking for a genre-bending experience. ~ Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr., Rovi

Chris Smither Teaches Six Outstanding Fingerpicking Arrangements (dvd) $29.95 Singer/songwriter Chris Smither teaches his superb fingerpicking renditions for some of his most popular songs: “No Love Today,” “Drive You Home Again,” “Get a Better One,” “Leave the Light On,” “Blues in the Bottle” and Bob Dylan’s “Visions of Johanna.” 90 MIN • LEVEL 3 • INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB

Corey Harris Teaches Blues – From Mississippi to Mali $29.95 Corey Harris teaches songs that bridge the gap between Mississippi country blues and African guitar styles, exploring the similarities and differences in each approach to the guitar. He teaches classic and original fingerpicking and slide guitar pieces as well as two songs he learned in Mali: High Fever Blues • C. C. Pill Blues • Jack O’ Diamonds • Special Rider Blues • King Cotton • Bajourou • Sundiata. Booklet includes music and tab. 2 hours.

Dharma Blues $15.98 One always wonders what happened to an artist who recorded several albums and then dropped out of sight for 25 years. Guitarist Peter Lang notes that he distanced himself from the music business, though not music itself, in 1978. Turning 50, however, prompted him to give recording another shot. Dedicated to John Fahey, Dharma Blues pretty much picks up where Lang and his fellow pickers left off in the 1970s. Unlike Fahey or, say, Robbie Basho, however, Lang’s fingerpicking seldom uses dissonance or shows the influence of Eastern music. Instead, “Thicker Than Wicker” and “Walter’s Wings” offer melodic, free-flowing lines that are easy on the ears. Like his friends, however, he does combine multiple styles ranging from folk to blues, and more often than not utilizes open tunings. In “Poor Boy/Guitar Rag” and “Halloween Blues,” in particular, Lang emphasizes country blues with a slide guitar, while the title cut features a more open-ended approach to the genre played in a standard tuning. Most of the pieces on Dharma Blues are self-penned and have enough bite to keep them from falling into new age sameness. Lang says that it’s more difficult physically to record an album than it was 25 years ago, but he’s nonetheless accomplished what he set out to do. Guitar players and aficionados will be glad that he did. ~ Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr., Rovi

Easy Steps to Guitar Fingerpicking – DVD Two: Songs in Dropped D Tuning $29.95 In response to numerous requests, Happy Traum has taken his “Easy Steps” course to the next level, adding songs and techniques that will bring your playing firmly into intermediate territory. You’ll learn how to play in the versatile and useful “dropped D” tuning, with its rich, booming bass notes and easy chord shapes. Five classic songs are taught, each one rich with possibilities for creating exciting arrangements: The Colorado Trail • My Home’s Across the Smoky Mountains • Fishin’ Blues • The Blues Ain’t Nothin’ • John Henry. 60 MIN. • LEVEL 3 • INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB

Emotionalism $14.98 Americana with attitude is the best way to describe the Avett Brothers’ music, a sublime blend of folk, country, hillbilly, and blues, swirled through with pop, rock, and a touch of wry punk. In their dreams, it all sounds perfect, but not so much so, they think, when they awake. “Yeah, you deserve the best,” they bemoan, not just some “Hand-Me-Down Tune.” Well, regrets, we’ve all had a few, and the Avett Brothers more than some. But if you’re going to be filled with “Shame,” best to offset your remorse with an incredibly infectious melody. Besides, life is short, and since we’re all going to “Die Die Die,” we might as well live and love while we can, even if that does just occasionally mean the band must shrug off “All My Mistakes.” And love is the paramount emotion of Emotionalism, be it too young (the bouncy “I Would Be Sad”), Spanish-flavored (“Pretty Girl from San Diego”), blues-flecked (“Living of Love”), or exuberant (the British Invasion-styled “Will You Return?”). However, of the many marvelous romantic-themed numbers, the most striking is the romantic tale “The Ballad of Love and Hate,” whose opening line, “Love writes a letter and sends it to Hate,” immediately grabs your attention. Elsewhere, the band explores other emotions, like the nervousness that infects the otherwise jaunty “Paranoia in B-Flat Major,” or the amusing attempts of the band to shrug off the attentions from cities around the country: “Salina” begins in fingerpicking style but ends with evocative classical piano and cello, and “Pretty Girl from San Diego” also shifts tactics from Spanish guitar to a big rock finish. From lullabies to the contrarily rousing singalong party piece “Go to Sleep,” the Avett Brothers pick their way through America’s folk styles, and deliver them in ways you’d never expect, all wrapped around lyrics, sometimes wry, sometimes dead-serious, but all delivered with the band’s signature intensity. A fabulous album from a band that ju…

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