Toby Walker
Toby Walker is a fingerstyle guitar virtuoso, especially adept at blues, rags and hot country picking. He is also a skilled singer and songwriter who draws inspiration from traditional and contemporary music, having learned directly from blues masters Eugene Powell, James “Son” Thomas, Etta Baker and R. L. Burnside, among others.
Toby takes that musical foundation and creates something uniquely his own. He has been eagerly received in concert halls, festivals and coffeehouses throughout the U.S., England and Europe. Toby has been featured in the N.Y. Times, London Sunday Times, Elmore Magazine, Downbeat and Blues Revue, among many others.
Beefsteak When I'm Hungry - Single Song Download
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.
"Beefsteak When I'm Hungry" is a funky blues ...
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Blues Fingerpicking Freedom - DVD One
Toby Walker
Liberate Yourself From the Tyranny of TAB and Become a More Creative Player
Guitarists: There’s life after TAB! Break your dependence on the printed page and become a freer and more creative blues and fingerpicking guitarist. This DVD will help you truly put the "play" into your playing! Toby Walker is a clear and compelling communicator with years of teaching experience. His lesson is perfect if you want to express yourself and start ...
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Blues Fingerpicking Freedom - Lesson Two
Toby Walker
Liberate Yourself from the Tyranny of TAB and Become a More Creative Player
As his fans well know, Toby Walker is a guy who puts joy, excitement and passion into every blues note he plays. His enthusiasm is contagious on this follow-up to his first Homespun DVD, and it’s even more densely packed with fingerpicking techniques, musical ideas, great songs - and just enough guitar theory to help you move freely around the fingerboard ...
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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: GET BOTH DVDs and SAVE! Break your dependence on the printed page and become a freer and more creative blues and fingerpicking guitarist. These two DVDs 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 ...
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Bringin' Out the Bounce
Toby Walker
Techniques to Make Your Fingerpicking "POP"
The remarkable Toby Walker has made an outstanding lesson that is sure to appeal to all fingerpickers who love blues and traditional guitar playing. He helps bring your songs to life by adding the rhythmic bounce that will put "pop" into anything you want to play.
Toby starts off with a basic version of Roll In My Sweet Baby's ...
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Fingerpicking Hank Williams
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Guitar Arrangements for Western Swing and Honky Tonk Classics
Learn fingerpicking guitar instrumental versions of some of the most popular country songs ever written: Your Cheatin’ Heart, Move It On Over, My Bucket’s Got a Hole In It, Hey Good Lookin’! and Honky Tonkin’.
The solo guitar arrangements of these timeless classics are fun to play and will build your fingerpicking skills, expand your fretboard knowledge and show you ...
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Get Started On Bottleneck Slide Guitar
Toby Walker
Easy Steps to Success
If you've always wanted to play bottleneck slide guitar, this lesson shows you how it can be done in the easiest and fastest possible way. Toby Walker's introduction is perfect for fingerstyle players who want to put real power in their picking.
You'll learn all the fundamentals: what kind of a slide to use, which finger to ...
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Guitar "Licks-Ercises"
Toby Walker
Turn Powerful Fretboard Exercises Into an Arsenal of Blues, Country and Swing Guitar Licks
This encyclopedia of “exercises disguised as licks” might be the coolest, most user-friendly lesson you’ve ever worked with. Toby Walker has put together dozens of fretboard drills that lead you into phrases for blues, country, swing and boogie-woogie guitar tunes. Do the exercises, then apply the licks in real-life musical situations and really play!
Toby’s foundational drills will help you ...
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How to Build Awesome Fingerpicking Instrumentals
Toby Walker
Create Show-Stopping Country, Boogie-Woogie and Swing Solos
Guitarist and educator Toby Walker understands what you need to bring your guitar technique to a higher level. This fantastic lesson, for intermediate and experienced fingerpickers alike, teaches three exciting, performance-worthy guitar solos. Toby starts with an easy version of each piece, then adds the “bells and whistles” that build a show-stopping solo from the ground up.The country classic ...
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How To Improvise Great Blues Solos With Just a Few Notes
Toby Walker
A Download-Only Homespun Single Song Lesson
“You don’t have to play a bazillion notes to sound really good. B. B. King could tear the house down with two or three notes.” - Toby Walker Every guitarist wants to be able to improvise an ear-catching solo in a blues jam and really say something. This lesson is as good a place to start as you’ll find anywhere ...
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Sitting On Top of the World
Toby Walker
A Country Blues Tune in Dropped D
“Sitting On Top of the World” has been played and sung many ways through the years, from its earliest string band rendition by the Mississippi Sheiks to versions by artists as diverse as Doc Watson, Willie Nelson, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Chet Atkins and innumerable others. There’s even a version by the heavy rock band Cream! This one, played and ...
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Take A Solo!
Toby Walker
The Secrets to Blues and Country Guitar Improvisation
A blues or country guitarist creates a great solo, spinning single-string notes seemingly out of nowhere, thrilling the audience and getting nods of approval from fellow musicians. How does this happen? How do you even start figuring out which notes to play in the midst of a song or jam session? Toby Walker has the perfect key to unlocking ...
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