101 Essential Riffs for Acoustic Guitar

Artie Traum
This encyclopedia of licks is jam-packed with lead lines, bends, arpeggios, flatpicking tips, speed-licks, unique runs and great playing advice! It's the ultimate way to improve your technique and gain inspiration -- fast! Guitarist Artie Traum delivers a lesson that teaches more than a hundred powerful riffs for blues, bluegrass, country and folk styles. Players at all levels will be ... Read More

12-String Guitar Techniques

Happy Traum

Blues, Rags, Ballads and Instrumentals

Play the powerful basses, dynamic rhythms and rich, resonant chords that are only possible on the 12-string guitar! This lesson by veteran guitarist Happy Traum teaches songs, styles and techniques that will open up vast possibilities on this exciting instrument. The 12-string's six sets of doubled strings provide a depth of sound, richness of tone and rhythmic possibilities that ... Read More

20 Bluegrass Guitar Solos That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know! Series 1

Steve Kaufman
Here's an amazing series of lessons that will help every player, regardless of level, improve flatpicking skills, learn great tunes and become a better bluegrass guitarist! These six audio hours and 163-page pdf book will change the way you flatpick! Whether you're just starting out or have been playing for years, Steve Kaufman's unique three-tiered system will ... Read More

20 Bluegrass Guitar Solos That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know! Series 2

Steve Kaufman
Imagine what it would be like to get into a picking session with a bunch of other players and be able to take hot solos with the best of them! Steve Kaufman's second compilation of twenty favorite bluegrass tunes breaks each one down, highlighting the guitar parts so you'll be able to hold your own in any jam ... Read More

20 Bluegrass Guitar Solos That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know! Series 3

Steve Kaufman

What To Play When The Singing Stops

Many people want to know how to figure out those great instrumentals that the top pickers play between verses of a song. Steve Kaufman's third set of popular lessons for Parking Lot Pickers teaches you how to work out the guitar breaks that dress up favorite bluegrass and country songs, and how to take a great solo. The vocals ... Read More

20 Bluegrass Guitar Solos That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know! Series 4

Steve Kaufman
This six-hour set of lessons teaches you 20 more great traditional instruments, which we predict will quickly become favorites. Once again, Steve starts with the easy melody so beginners get the basics down first; he then concentrates on intermediate-level licks and runs; and finally, advanced pickers will be challenged by the full-bore championship-level finished instrumental. Steve even provides rhythm tracks ... Read More

20 Gospel Songs That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know

Steve Kaufman
Here's a course of study that teaches you flatpicking techniques on your guitar while inspiring you with classic songs of faith. Steve Kaufman teaches a dazzling set of challenging and beautiful gospel standards that are essential repertoire for every aspiring guitarist - great for playing at jam sessions and for family, church, camp or other venues for sacred songs. As ... Read More

20 Swing Tunes That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know

Steve Kaufman
Steve Kaufman has done it again! He has recorded a series of lessons for bluegrass flatpickers, this time covering a dazzling set of challenging and beautiful swing tunes. These are standards that Steve feels are essential repertoire for every aspiring swing guitarist. As he has done in the past, Steve has constructed these lessons according to his unique method: A ... Read More

A Beginner's Guide to Chord Positions

Happy Traum

Simple, Creative Ways to Move Up the Neck

This two-hour course was made specifically for those guitar students who have never ventured into the unknown territory above the third fret. Although it may seem mysterious at first, it's actually easy to find your way into the upper reaches of the fingerboard. The knowledge you'll gain will give you a deeper understanding of the guitar and will ... Read More

Acoustic Blues Guitar - A Beginner's Guide

Happy Traum
Learn to play in the styles of great country bluesmen such as Brownie McGhee, Lightnin' Hopkins, Big Bill Broonzy, Leadbelly and countless others! Happy starts with the assumption that you know nothing at all about playing blues, and all the basics are covered for novice players. The lessons progress very quickly, though, so that before the first lesson is finished ... Read More

Acoustic Guitar Instrumentals - Three Video Set

Martin Simpson

Arrangements, Style & Repertoire

In this comprehensive three-lesson set, Martin Simpson shows how he uses a variety of tunings to achieve a broad spectrum of musical and emotional effects. You'll learn his beautiful arrangements for Irish Airs, American banjo pieces, Scottish fiddle tunes and traditional English songs. While teaching these songs, Martin reveals his ideas about guitar musicianship and chord theory; how to ... Read More

Acoustic Guitar Instrumentals - Video 1

Martin Simpson

Celtic Arrangements in Alternate Tunings

Learn Martin Simpson's most compelling arrangements, along with the guitar techniques that give his playing great distinction and popularity. Martin has pioneered the use of altered tunings to bring out the widest possible harmonic range of the guitar, and each of the songs on this video features that special sound. You'll learn three Scottish airs in dropped-D tuning ... Read More
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