50 Right-Hand Techniques covers ALL of the essential right-hand techniques: Tone & Motion of Right Hand, Motion of the Thumb, Shaping Fingernails & Picks, Free Stroke, Rest Stroke, Twist & Slice, Flamenco Picado, Planting, Staccato, Arpeggio 4/4 Time, Lullaby Pattern in 3/4 & 4/4, Arpeggio Exercises, Thumb-index Roll, Bouncing the Arm, Fingerpicking Patterns, Alternating Bass with Melody, Scarborough… Read More »

Vignola’s approach is simple and highly effective. First he’ll teach you just three movable chords; a major 7th, minor 7th and a dominant 9th. These three chords alone will power you through hundreds of jazz standards and progressions. Rhythm guitar and comping is next; Frank demonstrates and walks you through just three jazz rhythms: a swing, the Charleston… Read More »

While a single-note line — a lick — is certainly fair game in here, the bread-and-butter of acoustic playing is covered in 50 lessons demonstrating fingerpicking patterns, open-string voicings, changes with bass lines, alternate tunings, Brit-pop strums, left-hand mutes, double-stops, funk patterns, alternating bass, movable chord-shapes, advanced voicings with open strings, barre chords concepts, Travis-picking, descending bass lines,… Read More »

Let’s get two things straight right off the bat; don’t use modes to play bebop (see the Bebop Improv Survival Guide if that’s your calling); and secondly, you won’t find any Greek references in Fareed’s teachings. “When’s the last time you saw or heard a toga-wearing ancient Greek jazz musician?” Throughout the Modal Improv Survival Guide, Fareed demonstrates… Read More »

In this accelerated introduction to bossa nova rhythm guitar for intermediate players and beyond, Fareed shows you the authentic bossa nova rhythms and chord voicings used by the Brazilian greats including Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao Gilberto, Luis Bonfa, Baden Powell and many others. Fareed breaks the style down into one versatile rhythm pattern that underlies almost every bossa… Read More »

Virtuoso acoustic wizard and fingerstyle master, Tim Sparks presents Fingerstyle Roots, Rags & Blues, an insightful exploration of Early Americana Roots music and intensive fingerstyle study program for intermediate and advanced students. Fingerstyle Roots, Rags & Blues covers Delta Blues, Country Gospel, New Orleans, Ragtime, Early Jazz and the most amazing version of “The Mississippi Blues” that we’ve… Read More »

Andy covers a diverse range of soloing styles and techniques within the context of eight different key centers (E, F, G, A, Bb, C and D). Each key center series of lessons features different forms, feels and progressions and includes performances and detailed breakdowns covering requisite techniques, solo development, improvisation and application of theory. The soloing examples demonstrate… Read More »

Jump Start Rock starts you off with a series of video lessons showing you how to tune up, hold the pick and position your hands. In your very first practice session, you’ll learn your first rock riff and immediately start jamming along with the instructor in a playalong lesson with a practice rhythm track. Over the next series… Read More »

Vamps, Jams and Improvisation illustrates dozens of approaches for developing solid melodic and rhythmic ideas for soloing or comping over one and two-chord vamps. You’ll first learn how to think melodically and then how to best express those ideas, in a vamp or jam setting, with the other band members. Your vamp, jam and improvisation guide is the… Read More »

Rhythmic Grooves thoroughly examines how rhythmic patterns are constructed, executed and applied to various styles of music. This intensive study program will turn your whole understanding of rhythm right-side up. You’ll start at ground zero “playing drums” on the guitar and learning how to get “in the pocket” and stay there. You’ll progress into the “ring/dead” technique with… Read More »

Welcome to the percussive, rhythmic, textured, chicka-whacka world of Funk Fission from monster player and top educator Chris Buono. Don’t let the title of this study program fool ya — this is NOT a “funk” course (although funk guitar freaks will indeed flip over this one). Rather, Buono’s curriculum of funk guitar lessons is designed for intermediate to… Read More »

Fingerstyle Funk will completely overhaul your thinking of what can be played with ten fingers and six strings. With your faithful fingerstyle guru at your side, Jamsire Ernoir (aka Ernie Jackson), will teach you how to create insane grooves, layer chords over the groove, and play a melody over the top — and then play it all at… Read More »

This DVD features top-rated session player Mat “Gurminator” Gurman teaching one of the most important music lessons you will ever take, regardless of the style you play. Mat demonstrates the art of phrasing – the key to all improvised music. He teaches how to get the music out of your head and into your playing, so your solos… Read More »

Most of us have been taught to solo and improvise by learning how to play specific scale patterns over certain chords and progressions. The classic example of this is the minor pentatonic scale, which we are told works beautifully over any I IV V progression. And sure enough, millions of guitar players blow minor pentatonic scales incessantly without… Read More »

Presented by studio hot shot, Brad Carlton, the video guitar lessons in Rhythmology demonstrate essential techniques for spicing up your rhythm parts with bubble parts, keyboard voicings, hybrid picking, chord extensions, triple stops, fills and a bagful of other skills that will quickly advance your rhythm playing. You’ll play your way through the Rhythmology working with blues, rock,… Read More »