Great Guitar Lessons Package – Various

Get all three Great Guitar Lesson Compilations! Bluegrass Flatpicking, Blues and Country Fingerpicking and Fingerstyle Techniques, at a great package price.

Bluegrass Flatpicking:

This terrific compilation features basic to advanced lessons from some of Homespun’s most celebrated pickers. After Happy Traum gives an overview of flatpicking, you’ll become familiar with each instructor’s teaching and playing style and expand your own guitar technique, as you master several complete tunes.

Happy Traum – “Wildwood Flower” (new lesson)

Nick Forster – Texas style back-up for “Sally Goodin” (Country Swing Back-Up Guitar)

Russ Barenberg – “For J.L.” (The Flatpicker’s Guide to Better Playing)

Steve Kaufman – “Liberty” (Learning To Flatpick, DVD 3)

Dan Crary – “Arkansas Traveler” (Dan Crary’s Bluegrass Guitar Workshop)

Norman Blake – “Whiskey Before Breakfast “(The Guitar Of Norman Blake, DVD One)

Tony Rice – “Church Street Blues” (An Intimate Lesson With Tony Rice).

Blues and Country Fingerpicking:

This terrific compilation features basic to advanced lessons from some of Homespun’s most celebrated pickers. You’ll become familiar with each instructor’s teaching and playing style, and expand your own guitar technique, as you master several complete tunes.

Happy Traum – “John Henry” (new lesson); John Jackson – “Louis Collins” (The Fingerpicking Blues Of John Jackson); Rory Block – “Fixin’ To Die” (The Power Of Delta Blues Guitar,DVD 2); Roy Book Binder – “Ragtime Instrumental Medley” (Blues By The Book, DVD One); Doc Watson – “Southbound” (Doc’s Guitar); Eddie Adcock – “Red Wing” (Fingerstyle Bluegrass Guitar); Thom Bresh – “Walkin’ The Strings” (The Real Merle Travis Guitar)

Great Fingerstyle Lessons:

Some of the most creative and compelling contemporary music in recent years has been made by acoustic fingerstyle guitarists. The term “fingerstyle” denotes the use of thumb and two or three fingers of the picking hand to achieve moving bass lines, sharply delineated melodies and complex harmonies. Some artists use classical guitar techniques to create their music, others blend classical elements with traditional folk styles. Some fingerstylists apply their skills to enhancing song accompaniments, while others push the boundaries of the guitar with new and inventive sounds. This overview of fingerstyle repertoire and technique will immerse you in the work of eight guitarists who are redefining contemporary guitar music. They will give you much to work on.

Chris Proctor – “Aura Lee”

Martin Simpson – “Banks of the Bann”

David Wilcox – “Spin”

Preston Reed – “Tribes”

Muriel Anderson – “Angeline the Baker”

Frederic Hand – “Celtic Tale”

Alex de Grassi – “Lost in the Woods”

Laurence Juber – “Martha, My Dear”