50 Licks You Must Know

Top educator Rich Maloof presents 50 Acoustic Guitar Licks covering a broad range of crucial acoustic techniques you MUST know! This DVD will guide you through some of the most essential and commonly used phrases and licks used by acoustic guitar players.

Recording artist, stunt guitarist and TrueFire's Professor of the Deep and Unwieldy, Chris Buono presents another hand-picked collection of 50 Funk Guitar Licks you MUST know! This DVD will guide you through some of the most essential and commonly used phrases and techniques used in funk music.

Your buddy dragged you along that Saturday night. The stadium was packed and the crowd was growing restless as the stage lit up and the dude plugged in. The first few notes from his guitar sent a mad rush down your spine; the following notes arrested your ears and blew your mind for a solid hour. That was the night you first experienced an instrumental rock performance and swore, come hell or high water, you'd learn to play like that one day. Thanks to Neil Zaza, that day has come.

Jazz vibraphonist Gary Burton and Larry Coryell collaborated on Duster back in ’67 evoking wider use of the term ‘jazz rock’ and stimulating broader appreciation for what was then a very fresh-sounding new genre that fused jazz and rock. Coryell can certainly be credited with attracting guitarists from both sides of the fence to the jazz rock scene but Miles Davis’ highly improvisational Bitches Brew with John McLaughlin (recorded in ’69) blew minds and made jazz rock history. Listen carefully and you can hear Miles snapping fingers to set tempos, assigning solos to players and whispering direction such as, “Keep it tight.”