Al Petteway
Grammy Award-winning guitarist Al Petteway is known for his original compositions and arrangements of traditional tunes for acoustic fingerstyle guitar. His style is strongly influenced by his love of Celtic music and his own roots in folk, rock and blues. Al's playing can be heard on over 75 recordings, including 15 of his own, and on the soundtracks of Ken Burns' documentaries "Mark Twain," the Emmy Award-winning "The National Parks - America's Greatest Idea," "Baseball - The Tenth Inning," “Prohibition” and “The Dust Bowl.”
Al was voted one of the Top Fifty Acoustic Guitarists of All Time by the readers of Acoustic Guitar Magazine, where he also won Silver and Bronze medals in the magazine's Player's Choice Awards. In addition to performing with his wife Amy White and teaching, Al is Guitar Week coordinator for the world famous "Swannanoa Gathering" music camp at Warren Wilson College near Asheville, N.C.
Appalachian Fingerstyle Guitar in DADGAD Tuning - Two Video Set
Al Petteway
Two Video Set
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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 One
Al Petteway
Blues, Hymns, Celtic and Banjo Styles
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 it is to play in DADGAD and how this tuning can enhance even the ...
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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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Blues Guitar Arrangements in DADGAD Tuning
Al Petteway
Create fingerstyle blues instrumentals, from Delta swamp to Piedmont bounce, and transform your guitar arrangements with new ideas and thrilling sounds! Al Petteway, one of our most musically inventive guitarists, teaches you six original tunes, each highlighting a different rhythmic and melodic feel and utilizing the unique qualities that DADGAD tuning offers. It's Only the Blues employs a steady ...
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Celtic Instrumentals For Fingerstyle Guitar - Two-Video Set
Al Petteway
These wonderful lessons by one of today's most admired fingerstyle players are filled with invaluable insights into playing in Celtic style, from strongly syncopated rhythm strokes to the ringing, harp-like sounds of "cross-string" picking. You'll master the notes and chords in DADGAD, as well as standard, dropped D, open G and low C tunings. Al explains how to ...
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Celtic Instrumentals For Fingerstyle Guitar - Video 1
Al Petteway
Arrangements in DADGAD Tuning
Learn to play in DADGAD, the popular guitar tuning that gives many Celtic and British Isles instrumentals their special beauty and power. Al Petteway shows you how to play exquisite arrangements using droning bass notes, slides, bends, trills and other guitar tricks to imitate the haunting sounds of harps and pipes. This wonderful lesson by one of today's most ...
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Celtic Instrumentals For Fingerstyle Guitar - Video 2
Al Petteway
Alternate Tunings
Al Petteway continues his excellent lesson with five beautiful and evocative guitar instrumentals in the Celtic style. This time, he covers songs and effects that can be attained through a variety of tunings, including standard, dropped-D, open G and low C. Al shows you how to create your own arrangements by finding the melody within the chord structure, then fleshing ...
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Expand Your DADGAD Blues Vocabulary
Al Petteway
Get Rich, Bluesy Sounds With This Tuning!
With its ringing strings and modal-sounding timbre, DADGAD is a beautiful tuning for coaxing rich, bluesy sounds out of your guitar.
Master player Al Petteway shows you how to create cool Delta blues-style turnarounds, chord progressions, licks, and other playing techniques, along with arrangements for two classic blues songs: Going Down Slow and T-Bone Walker's classic, Stormy Monday. ...
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"Guitar Rag"
Al Petteway
A Fingerpicking Instrumental for DADGAD Guitar
Al originally heard this great old-time guitar piece as “Steel Guitar Rag,” made famous in the thirties by Bob Wills’ legendary steel player, Leon McAuliffe. However, the tune had originally been recorded as a bottleneck instrumental by New York blues artist Sylvester Weaver back in 1927. It has since become one of the classics of Western Swing steel guitar ...
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"Little Sadie" in DADGAD Tuning
Al Petteway
A Homespun Instant Access Download
"Little Sadie" is one of the most widely played songs in the American folk and Southern Appalachian traditions. Originally made popular by North Carolina banjo player Clarence Ashley, the flatpicked versions by Doc Watson and Tony Rice have become iconic among guitar pickers. Hundreds of other players, from Jerry Garcia to Bob Dylan, have added their licks and styles to ...
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The Cherry Tree Carol
Al Petteway
Here’s a beautiful and compelling tune that’s fairly easy to play. It’s perfect for the Christmas season but will have its place in your repertoire at any time of year.
Al Petteway has arranged it for fingerstyle guitar in DADGAD tuning. Its open and parallel strings, with ringing overtones, give the piece a lovely reverb-like resonance. Al starts by stating ...
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"The Parting Glass" - An Irish Guitar Instrumental
Al Petteway
A Single Song Lesson
This classic Irish song is perfect for the holidays - or any time of the year. Al Petteway's gorgeous and compelling version, in DADGAD tuning, is played as a guitar instrumental, but you can easily find the lyrics on line if you want to sing it. It has been recorded and performed by countless artists through the years and is ...
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