Country and Blues Fingerpicking
A Guitarist's Guide to Hybrid Picking
Zak Hobbs
Combining Flatpicking with Fingerpicking
Hybrid picking is a versatile technique that combines the power of a flatpick with the intricacy of fingerpicking. The pick plays strong bass and rhythm notes while your middle and ring fingers pick out arpeggios, harmonies and melodies. This style of picking can be applied to many musical genres and is used by numerous well-known players.
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A Lesson With Steve Earle
Steve Earle
Guitars, Songs and Picking Techniques
Take a lesson with one of the most celebrated singer/songwriters of our time! A master storyteller, Steve Earle crafts his powerful songs with basic chords and a two-finger picking style that is eloquent in its simplicity. His music combines folk, blues, alt-country and rock styles in a powerful, instantly recognizable genre all its own. This unique video gives us ...
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Appalachian Fingerstyle Guitar in DADGAD Tuning - Two Video Set
Al Petteway
Two Video Set
Get both of Al Petteway's incredible Appalachian DADGAD lessons and SAVE!
Video 1: The ringing strings and open voicings of DADGAD produce an ethereal, almost magical guitar sound. In Al Petteway’s masterful hands, well-known Southern Mountain songs and instrumentals are given a new treatment, brought to life with fresh new harmonies and inventive fingerpicking. Al shows you how easy ...
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Appalachian Fingerstyle Guitar in DADGAD Tuning - Video Two
Al Petteway
Mountain Songs, Fiddle Tunes, and Blues
Fingerstyle master Al Petteway continues his exploration of the evocative DADGAD tuning with a variety of must-learn tunes in the Southern mountain tradition. In his hands, this tuning becomes an inventive and compelling way to play bluegrass, blues and country songs. A small alteration of chord shapes will give you the "high lonesome" sounds of Appalachian music, and standard chords ...
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Art of Acoustic Blues Guitar - Early Roots
Woody Mann
"Art of Acoustic Blues Guitar – Early Roots" teaches the song forms and techniques of early American folk and blues guitar styles. Acclaimed blues performer and educator, the late Woody Mann teaches five blues songs based on the playing of such originators as Charley Patton, Son House, Robert Johnson, Big Joe Williams, Scrapper Blackwell, and Tommy Johnson. Written for ...
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Art of Acoustic Blues Guitar - Handful of Riffs
Woody Mann
In Art of Acoustic Blues Guitar - Handful of Riffs the late Woody Mann teaches five repertoire building songs arranged for the intermediate fingerstyle guitarist. Inspired by Woody's favorite traditional blues tunes, these easy to follow arrangements teach a variety of acoustic blues styles and sounds. Each song spotlights a specific technique for developing fingerpicking skills, rhythmic grooves and ...
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Beefsteak When I'm Hungry
Toby Walker
Blues in E by James "Son" Thomas
As his many fans and students have learned, Toby Walker has a solid command of all aspects of blues fingerpicking - and he knows how to teach it, too. In this lesson he explores a song that he learned personally from the Mississippi Delta blues guitarist and singer James "Son" Thomas.
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Blues and Roots Guitar 3-lesson Value Pack
Steve James, Hans Theessink, Geoff Muldaur
Learn From Three Masters of Blues/Roots Guitar!
This package introduces you to the artistry and fabulous instruction of three of our greatest roots/blues guitar players at a fantastic price. The songs, guitar techniques and deep knowledge that each of these musicians impart will open new doors in your playing, musicianship and overall knowledge of our musical traditions. Steve James is known for his mastery of old-time ...
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Blues By The Book - Two Video Set
Roy Book Binder
Fingerpicking Blues
Roy Book Binder modestly asserts that he's just showing you "some tricks about playing the guitar" here. Well, Roy's humble, that's sure, but by the end of these two videos you will have mastered a complete vocabulary of licks and techniques and be ready to develop your own distinctive blues style, which is what "Book" had in ...
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Blues By The Book - Video 1
Roy Book Binder
Fingerpicking Blues: Lesson One
If you're ready to develop your own distinctive blues style, Roy Book Binder has assembled a complete vocabulary of licks and techniques to help you do it. Roy humbly calls this thorough breakdown of the elements of his own fingerstyle blues style "some tricks about playing the guitar," but don't let his laconic delivery fool you. By the ...
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Blues By The Book - Video 2
Roy Book Binder
Fingerpicking Blues: Lesson Two
Roy Book Binder's back again! This time, his in-depth exploration of blues techniques concentrates on chords and positions needed to play in the essential key of A. With his trademark wit and good humor, Roy encourages you to take his "book of tricks" and incorporate them into your own playing to build repertoire and arrangements in traditional fingerpicking style ...
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Blues Fingerpicking Freedom: Two-Video Set
Toby Walker
Liberate Yourself From the Tyranny of TAB and Become a More Creative Player
Guitarists: Break your dependence on the printed page and become a freer and more creative blues and fingerpicking guitarist. These two lessons will help you truly put the "play" into your playing! You'll get three-and-a-half hours of great instruction, plus invaluable playing tips, licks, turnarounds, advice, exercises, and classic songs. Toby Walker is a fingerpicking wizard; a songwriter/performer ...
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