DVDs

Vern Juran has played and taught guitar professionally for over twenty years. His course presents beginning acoustic and electric guitar students with a practical, easy-to-learn approach. No previous knowledge of music is necessary. In the first video, Vern teaches tuning, the parts of the guitar, how to hold the guitar and pick, and proper right and left hand positioning. Using numerous close-ups and diagrams both on-screen and in the accompanying booklet, this video lesson teaches the student to strum basic chords for four folk songs and two blues progressions. By following this method, you can enjoy a lifetime of guitar playing, no matter what style of music you choose. Includes free instructional booklet at http://www.melbay.com/DVDbooklets/index.asp.

This course for acoustic and electric guitar is designed to follow our Volume 1 video and continues it its easy, step-by-step approach. Again, music reading ability is not necessary to learn the material in this course. You will learn both E and A-form bar chords with their major, minor and minor seventh fingerings. You will also be taught new strumming patterns along with functional chord changes commonly used by guitar professionals. Play-along examples are used throughout the method so you can strum along with the instructor. Includes free instructional booklet at http://www.melbay.com/DVDbooklets/index.asp.

This course is designed for the beginning guitarist who already understands and uses chords in first position. The student will learn many standard chord changes used in thousands of folk, country, blues and rock songs, and in the development of faster chord changing. It will also help songwriters to better write songs and assist the student in learning to play all of the friendly guitar keys. This course was written and taught by Vern Juran. Vern has over twenty-five years of teaching and performing experience, and has several other videos available through Mel Bay Publications, Inc. Free instructional booklet included at http://www.melbay.com/DVDbooklets/index.asp.

Vern has played and taught guitar professionally for more than 10 years. This course is designed to present beginning guitar students with a practical, easy-to-learn approach to guitar playing. If you follow this method, you will enjoy a lifetime of playing in any group worship situation. Includes free instructional booklet at http://www.melbay.com/DVDbooklets/index.asp.

No music-reading ability is required to learn with this method. It is designed for guitar players who want to learn rock guitar technique and who already understand basic open chord strumming as taught in Mel Bay’s Anyone Can Play Guitar DVD volume one. You will learn barre chords, power chords and lead gitar scales to use along with the rock accompaniment tracks included in the DVD. A PDF file for the free instructional booklet is available for download at http://www.melbay.com/DVDbooklets/index.asp.

Buster B. Jones is a master of the guitar styles of Chet Atkins, Merle Travis and Jerry Reed. He has explored their music, styles and techniques and has developed his own unique approach. Even though he is known as a blazing fast and dynamic player, Buster’s original compositions expose a lyrical and gentler side of his musical personality. In this lesson he presents six original instrumentals. They are dedicated and influenced by his friends and family – Thom Bresh, Marcel Dadi, Paul Yandell and his granddaughter Marissa. These instrumentals will charm you as well as challenge you playing techniques. A detailed tab/music instructional booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD.

In this unique DVD lesson, Buster B. Jones presents his approach to many facets of fingerstyle guitar techniques. He covers a wide variety of themes including:

Chord Shapes and Voicings

Scales, Alternating Bass Exercises

Double-Picking / Cross-Picking and Chromatic Rolls

How To Play Riffs In Any Key

Grooves and Learning to Improvise

Tunes include: Alabama Jubilee, Peanuts Theme, Ask John and Cannonball Rag.

This is a DVD lesson that will open up new horizons for the student of fingerstyle guitar. Brad has the wonderful ability to be able to teach complex ideas and playing techniques in a very down to earth fashion that strikes at the core of the music.

A detailed tab/music instructional booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD.

This DVD captures almost 30 years of rare performances from 1962 to 1991. Barney is seen playing in a trio setting, solo and with his friends - jazz guitarists Herb Ellis and Charlie Byrd. These performances capture the unique artistry of this great American musician.

Dix Bruce carefully teaches lead and backup guitar to nine great and classic country, bluegrass, and folk standards, ballads and hot breakdowns played by musicians the world over. Dix demonstrates the basic "bass note/strum" technique and shows how melodies can be easily integrated into known chord patterns. You'll first learn leads on the country classics Worried Man Blues; Lonesome Valley; Storms are on the Ocean; and Handsome Molly in a variety of different keys. You'll also learn the all-time guitar hit Wildwood Flower and how to transpose it from the key of G to the key of C. Dix also demonstrates more complex leads on Redwing; John Hardy; Jimmie Brown the Newsboy; and more on the invaluable skill of transposing a song from one key to another. The instruction in this DVD will prepare you to play flatpicked leads in virtually any country, folk, and bluegrass ensemble. A detailed tab/music instructional booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD.

By the end of this DVD lesson, you will be playing the blues in several keys and styles. You'll know how to play blues turnarounds, boogie-woogie bass lines, several strumming and fingerpicking accom- paniment patterns, as well as blues solos, licks, and fills. Includes blues solos, licks, and accompaniment styles of Lightnin' Hopkins, Big Bill Broonzy, Jimmy Reed, Mississippi John Hurt and others. Classic blues tunes used as examples are: How Long Blues, Key To The Highway, Baby What You Want Me To Do, Blues With a Feeling, and Hesitation Blues. If you've always wanted to learn to play the blues, this is a sure-fire way to get started. A detailed tab/music instructional booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD. 70 minutes.

Country music is more popular than ever and all you need to put over a good country song is your voice and a guitar. This 65 minute DVD gives you the tools you need to play old-fashioned country, honky-tonk and country rock. Playing classics like Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, The Bottle Let Me Down, I'm Movin' On, Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Silver Wings and Jambalaya. Fred Sokolow shows you the basics of country guitar. You'll learn how to play:• Accompaniment strums for different rhythmic feels, A variety of first-position chords,• Bass runs, Major scales, Solos and turnarounds.• All the above in five different keys. Fred Sokolow's teaching is clear and easy to understand and he has lots of helpful hints for beginner Level 1-2. A detailed tab/music instructional booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD.

In this DVD, Fred Sokolow starts at the very beginning (tuning up and playing simple chords), and shows you patterns, licks and grooves you can use to play any style of music. By the end of this DVD session, you'll be able to play several fingerpicking patterns/rhythm grooves, bass runs and licks in five different keys. Lots of well known tunes including Stealin', Stagolee, Wabash Cannonball, Nine Pound Hammer, Sloop John B, Jamaica Farewell, St. James Infirmary Blues, Careless Love, House Of The Rising Sun, Scarborough Fair and Streets Of Laredo. Melodies and alternating thumb-bass at the same time. A detailed tab/music instructional booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD. 70 minutes.

Before rock n' roll became a big corporate industry, playing rock guitar used to be the most fun you could have with your pants on! Fred Sokolow shows why in this 72 minute DVD that uses your favorite garage-band tunes to demonstrate how to: Play power-chord backup in any key -- the Louie Louie way. Solo and play Chuck Berry style boogie backup on tunes like Roll Over Beethoven and School Days (duck-walk not included). Use blues scales and "substitute" scales for soloing. Solo with sliding major pentatonic scales in the styles of Dickey Betts and Jerry Garcia. Chord-based licks and double-note Steve Cropper-style licks. Play tunes and more tunes: Stand By Me, Midnight Hour, My Girl, The Wind Cries Mary, Let It Be, Proud Mary and many others. Level 1-2 / 64 page tab/music booklet.

Italian flatpicking wizard Beppe Gambetta introduces an international all-star roster of performers recorded live at the Teatro della Corte in Genova, Italy. Along the way, Gambetta takes his viewers on a personalized historic and sightseeing tour of his beloved hometown, providing an insider’s perspective of the city and its singularly gifted inhabitants.

Featured performers include the acoustic guitar super group, Men of Steel consisting of Gambetta, Dan Crary, Tony McManus, and Don Ross plus a seamless blend of Gambetta with multi-instrumentalists/vocalists Gene Parsons, Patty Larkin, and Martino Coppo performing instrumental tunes and vocals in English, French, and Italian.

In addition to 100 minutes of concert footage, special features on this DVD include a video overview of Gambetta’s renowned Traversata Show, a costumed dramatic, musical, and dance review of the cultural elements that traveled to the New World with Italian immigrants in the early to mid-twentieth century. Gambetta also includes a charming animated music video of a favorite flatpicking tune called “On the Road with Mama”.

Learn the guitar styles and techniques of Zakk Wylde with this two-disc set. Each guitar part is played up to speed, then broken down note by note. An in-depth analysis of eight songs, including: Suicide Messiah • The Blessed Hellride • Stillborn • and more.

This collection of traditional music from Ireland and Scotland arranged for solo guitar is the result of a passionate study and adaptation of the tradition by the featured musicians: Pat Kirtley, Martin Simpson, Steve Baughman, Duck Baker, Pierre Bensusan, Tom Long, and El McMeen. The 4 basic categories of music in this collection are: dance music, songs (ballads and airs), martial music, and the unique music of the blind Irish harper, Turlough O'Carolan. These arrangements are written in standard notation and tablatures as all were composed in alternate tunings. Includes a historical essay on the evolution of the Irish solo guitar style by Pat Kirtley as well as a biographical sketch of each contributing artist.

Crosspicking is an exciting flatpicking technique that is an essential part of every bluegrass guitarist's arsenal. Utilizing repeated patterns on three-string groups, crosspicking captures the bounce of a fiddler's double shuffle and the drive of three-finger banjo Scruggs-style rolls. ERIC THOMPSON it out for you in easy to understand steps, illustrating the basic patterns with arrangements of Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss, Blackberry Rag, Beaumont Rag, Wildwood Flower, and Crosseyed Fiddler. Split-screen close-ups let you see exactly what and how Eric is playing. A detailed tab/music instructional booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD.

In this DVD, renowned guitarist Scott Nygaard guides you through the old-time fiddle tune Little Billy Wilson. A crosspicking arrangements of Home Sweet Home, a melodic solo on the blues song Trouble in Mind, and shows you how to combine these influences when creating a solo on a bluegrass tune like East Virginia Blues. Scott explains in detail the techniques needed to master the bluegrass lead guitar style and the ideas behind his arrangements. All are clearly illustrated in split-screen close-ups. A detailed tab/music instructional booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD.

Bob Brozman is one of those rare artists whose exceptional wit, music, energy and depth of knowledge combine powerfully to create an unforgettable, truly live concert. A master of blues, slide, hot jazz, Hawaiian and Caribbean guitar styles, Bob has a fast-paced, wide-ranging show that keeps audiences worldwide on the edge of their seats laughing, marveling and participating in his infectious rhythms. His mainstay is the novel mixing of American and world music styles in completely new ways, as his slide guitar explores the musical frontiers between the first and third worlds. Throughout, Bob maintains a disarming talent for humor, from the zany to the sardonic. This 90 minute DVD concert was recorded at the Freight & Salvage, Berkeley California.

Titles include: Zonky, Highway 49 blues, Down the Road, Phonograph Blues, Hawaiian Medley, La Vie en Rose, Ukulele Spaghetti, Love in Vain, Telegram Blues, Old Dog Blues, Green River Blues, Backwards Blues, Minnie the Moocher, Cinemascope Calypso, Dinah, Meleana E, Come On In My Kitchen, Train Song

This 82 minute dvd is a MUST for anyone interested in bottleneck blues guitar. It is a complete survey of country blues bottleneck styles and techniques featuring rare footage of Son House, Fred McDowell, Mance Lipscomb and Bukka White. Left hand playing techniques are discussed as well as choice of bottleneck/slide. Playing in Open G (Spanish) and Open D (Vestapol) tunings are explored. A 32 page tab/music booklet is included with transcripts of all the tunes taught. For the imtermediate student.