"guitar Techniques"

This superb DVD breaks down and explains the exciting guitar technique known as legato. Smooth, lightning fast runs can be performed easily either ascending or descending the fretboard. Useful scale shapes, legato patterns and six-note octave copies are all shown here to great effect. Learn the legato styles popularized by guitar legends Joe Satriani and Steve Vai. If you want to take your guitar techniques to the next level this excellent DVD tutorial will give you a stockpile of legato licks to add to your repertoire.

Learn to play cool rhythm patterns with Steve Trovato and Richard Smith. This Ultimate Guitar Techniques DVD from the Lick Library series teaches you all you need to know to become a one piece rhythm section, combining percussive techniques and chord progressions. Guitar playing styles covered in these lessons include Rock, Blues, Jazz and Latin grooves.

Contemporary acoustic fingerstyle blues encompasses a wide variety of styles, techniques and sounds. In this lesson, four multi-sectioned blues instrumentals based on traditional techniques, blues piano ideas, single string melodic guitar licks and horn styled solos are presented. The music varies from a piano-styled boogie to a slow country blues reminiscent of the playing of Blind Blake and Jelly Roll Morton, to a New Orleans blues in the style and feel of Ray Charles and Snooks Eaglin.

The guitar styles and techniques of Blind Blake, Big Bill Broonzy and Rev. Gary Davis combine blues and ragtime techniques into a style that can best be described as raggin' the blues. This exciting and challenging approach to fingerstyle playing combines complex right hand picking with intricate left hand fingerings, single string runs and rhythmic licks. In this lesson, Stefan Grossman illustrates and explains seven famous ragtime blues instrumentals.