Easy Steps to Guitary Fingerpicking, Vol. 2 & 3
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In response to numerous requests, Happy Traum has taken his "Easy Steps" fingerpicking course to the next level. Starting once again with some fairly easy material, Happy builds your skill level step-by-step, adding increasingly challenging techniques until your playing is firmly in intermediate territory.
On DVD Two, Happy shows you how to play in the versatile and useful "dropped D" tuning, with its rich, booming bass notes and easy chord shapes. You'll learn how to play and sing five classic songs, each one rich with possibilities for creating exciting arrangements. You'll start by playing each one in its simplest form, picking out the basic melody using an alternating bass pattern. By adding chords, licks and melodic variations, you'll soon be playing complex and compelling arrangements, with each tune featuring new and different additions to your bag of tricks. These include "The Colorado Trail," "My Home's Across the Smoky Mountains," "Fishin' Blues," "The Blues Ain't Nothin'" and the famous "John Henry."
Back in standard tuning, DVD Three introduces you to the songs and styles of Merle Travis, Doc Watson, John Hurt and other masters of traditional guitar fingerpicking. You'll learn to move freely around the fingerboard using alternate chord shapes, and you'll be playing licks, slides, hammer-ons and bass runs while maintaining the steady thumb rhythm that gives this style its ear-catching appeal. By the time you've completed this course you'll be picking show-stopping arrangements of "I Am a Pilgrim," "Deep River Blues," "Louis Collins," "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" and "Step It Up and Go."
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ASIN: B0001BP93Q Release Date: 2004-01-14 |
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In response to numerous requests, Happy Traum has taken his "Easy Steps" fingerpicking course to the next level. Starting once again with some fairly easy material, Happy builds your skill level step-by-step, adding increasingly challenging techniques until your playing is firmly in intermediate territory.On DVD Two, Happy shows you how to play in the versatile and useful "dropped D" tuning, with its rich, booming bass notes and easy chord shapes. You'll learn how to play and sing five classic songs, each one rich with possibilities for creating exciting arrangements. You'll start by playing each one in its simplest form, picking out the basic melody using an alternating bass pattern. By adding chords, licks and melodic variations, you'll soon be playing complex and compelling arrangements, with each tune featuring new and different additions to your bag of tricks. These include "The Colorado Trail," "My Home's Across the Smoky Mountains," "Fishin' Blues," "The Blues Ain't Nothin'" and the famous "John Henry."
Back in standard tuning, DVD Three introduces you to the songs and styles of Merle Travis, Doc Watson, John Hurt and other masters of traditional guitar fingerpicking. You'll learn to move freely around the fingerboard using alternate chord shapes, and you'll be playing licks, slides, hammer-ons and bass runs while maintaining the steady thumb rhythm that gives this style its ear-catching appeal. By the time you've completed this course you'll be picking show-stopping arrangements of "I Am a Pilgrim," "Deep River Blues," "Louis Collins," "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" and "Step It Up and Go."
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Great intro for intermediate players to finger picking.......2005-01-16
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