DVD-Celtic Instrumentals For Fingerstyle Guitar #2- Alternate Tunings

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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 it out with pipe-like drone notes, chord substitutions, moving bass lines, the rhythmic "Scottish Snap" and other Celtic-sounding elements. Embellishment techniques_right hand rolls, hammers, pull-offs, etc._help you turn basic tunes into elegant guitar pieces.
You'll learn wonderful exercises for developing your right- and left-hand speed and dexterity, along with complete arrangements for five beautiful instrumentals: Fy to the Hills in the Morning (Johnny Cope), Light and Airy (a slip jig), the classic Sidh beag sidh mor, Red Haired Boy and Jock O'Hazeldean. Finally, Al pulls all the elements together with his Caledon Wood, a piece that incorporates everything he has taught on both volumes: right hand rhythm patterns, damping effects, harmonics, lyrical and percussive playing, and more.
These videos will give you invaluable insights into the music of one of the world's most accomplished fingerstyle soloists and accompanists. A natural and engaging teacher, Al's music features beautiful renderings of both traditional Irish and Scottish tunes as well as his own Celtic-inspired compositions.
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DVD-Celtic Instrumentals For Fingerstyle Guitar #1-DADGAD Tuning
Starring: Al Petteway Manufacturer: Homespun Tapes ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0002VI9B4 Release Date: 2004-08-06 |
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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 admired fingerstyle players is 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 learn to locate the notes and chords in DADGAD, and how to use the capo to utilize open strings in different keys. Al explains how to play the modal scales that feature strongly in this kind of music, which allow you to improvise within the genre, and he provides important exercises for gaining maximum fluidity in all of your guitar playing.
Best of all, you'll learn to take traditional tunes and make them unique to your own style and abilities. Al teaches five beautiful pieces from his vast repertoire including "Sligo Creek," "Rise Up My Love," "New Year's Day," "On Christmas Night" (a medley) and "Chesapeake."
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DVD-Celtic Instrumentals For Fingerstyle Guitar #2- Alternate Tunings
Starring: Al Petteway Manufacturer: Homespun Tapes ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0002VI9BE Release Date: 2004-08-06 |
Description
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 it out with pipe-like drone notes, chord substitutions, moving bass lines, the rhythmic "Scottish Snap" and other Celtic-sounding elements. Embellishment techniques_right hand rolls, hammers, pull-offs, etc._help you turn basic tunes into elegant guitar pieces.
You'll learn wonderful exercises for developing your right- and left-hand speed and dexterity, along with complete arrangements for five beautiful instrumentals: Fy to the Hills in the Morning (Johnny Cope), Light and Airy (a slip jig), the classic Sidh beag sidh mor, Red Haired Boy and Jock O'Hazeldean. Finally, Al pulls all the elements together with his Caledon Wood, a piece that incorporates everything he has taught on both volumes: right hand rhythm patterns, damping effects, harmonics, lyrical and percussive playing, and more.
These videos will give you invaluable insights into the music of one of the world's most accomplished fingerstyle soloists and accompanists. A natural and engaging teacher, Al's music features beautiful renderings of both traditional Irish and Scottish tunes as well as his own Celtic-inspired compositions.
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Celtic Instrumentals for Fingerstyle Guitar, DVD 1 & 2
Manufacturer: Hal Leonard ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0002Y4TGU Release Date: 2004-09-21 |
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