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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...