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Basic Guitar Chords
Accompaniment Styles, (Vol. I)

This course is designed for the individual with no playing experience or a beginning guitarist with some basic skills. This course provides a comprehensive introduction to chord forms and rhythm styles. John explains the parts of the guitar and teaches tuning, basic open chords, bar chords, and how to use a capo. Several songs including country, blues, folk, gospel, and bluegrass are presented in several keys. Simple step by step and easy to follow examples teach you how to accompany the songs, using a variety of strumming and finger picking styles. Booklet included. John Hartin

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Basic Guitar Chords
Accompaniment Styles, (Vol. II)

Thousands of people around the world have learned to play guitar with John Hartin's Basic Guitar Chords and Accompaniment Styles, Vol. I. In response to requests for a second volume John produced Vol. II. John teaches you how to connect all the chords with fun to play "bass runs." He also teaches advanced strums, finger style accompaniments, Merle Travis style picking, and country and folk melody picking. John also teaches many new chords including major 7ths, minors, sus 4 chords, and how to use diminished and augmented chords. When you finish this lesson, you will know more about music and guitar playing than you ever thought possible; you will be able to accompany most types of songs and even write a few of your own.   John Hartin

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Watch and Play the Guitar

Have you ever been around a guitar player who seemed to know how to play almost every style of guitar music? Joe Carr decided that a video/DVD that would teach many different styles of music would be a lot of fun for a beginner. The neat thing about this video/DVD is that you can start anywhere in the video/DVD. If you want to start with blues, rock, gospel, folk, or country just watch the tape and find what is most interesting to you. It's that easy; just Watch and Play. Booklet included.
Joe Carr

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Important Bar Chords
How to Use Them

If you play rock, country, metal, blues, jazz or almost any other style of music on the guitar you need to know all the bar chords. Tim McCasland teaches the material in a song by song method that makes it fun to learn the new chords, and you will quickly understand the applications of major, minor, diminished, augmented, and seventh type chords. Tim also shares his extensive recording studio experience with the student to help the student be prepared for professional performance requirements. Tim McCasland

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Flatpicking Guitar

This is an excellent beginner's course for learning the basic skills for guitar flatpicking. Clear step-by-step examples show you how to develop your flatpicking techniques. You will learn many fun to play flatpick songs, which incorporate many of the tricks and techniques of today's great flatpicking experts. Each song is exciting and fun to learn. Booklet included. Joe Carr

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Bluegrass Flatpicking Guitar Favorites

Fans of Joe Carr's popular Flatpicking Guitar video will love this all new volume with more bluegrass favorites. Learn guitar solos to many popular bluegrass pickin' tunes and use them at the next jam session. Joe selected a great batch of bluegrass instrumentals and teaches you his special arrangements, note-by-note. Includes Salt Creek, Whiskey Before Breakfast, Cripple Creek , and many more. Booklet included. Joe Carr

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"Hot" Flatpicking

Joe Carr is one of the world's foremost flatpicking experts. Joe was featured for several years with the famous Country Gazette band. Now you can learn from this outstanding guitarist with our new Joe Carr artist series video/DVD. This course is designed for the intermediate to advanced player and includes a number of Joe's recorded solos and detailed comparisons of right and left hand techniques. Joe reveals the secrets to his great sound and shows you how to master flatpicking guitar. Booklet included. Joe Carr

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Super Charged Flatpicking

David Grier is the premier flatpicking guitar stylist of his generation. His many recordings and personal appearances with today's leading Bluegrass artists are legendary. Here, for the first time, David reveals the secrets of his unique style and teaches you eleven of his most requested original compositions. Tablature book included. David Grier

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Fingerpicking Guitar

If you know a few basic chords and are ready to start playing melodies with chord accompaniment this is the video/DVD for you. Joe Carr teaches you how to play melodies with the alternating bass lines in the styles of Merle Travis and Doc Watson. In a simple and step by step method, Joe teaches both simple and advanced arrangements for several popular fingerstyle standards. Booklet included.
Joe Carr

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Fingerpicking Country Blues I

Great for the beginning fingerpicking blues guitarist. Step by step, you'll work through eight traditional country blues tunes in the styles of Rev. Gary Davis and Doc Watson, while learning the basic techniques you'll need to handle more difficult tunes as you progress. Booklet included. John Reid

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Fingerpicking Country Blues II

The next step for beginning/intermediate fingerpicking country blues guitarists. Step by step instruction will guide you through more of your favorite country blues tunes, while you increase your facility and learn more advanced fingerpicking techniques including rolls, bends, alternate tunings, and advanced chording. Booklet included. John Reid

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Traditional Irish Fiddle Tunes for the Fingerpicking Guitarist

Step by step instructions guide you through traditional Irish airs, reels, jigs, and hornpipes for the intermediate to the advanced fingerpicking guitarist. Detailed explanations are provided for the techniques used here. A great vehicle for expanding your fingerpicking repertoire.   Booklet included.   John Reid

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Today's Nashville Style
Guitar Method Vol. I

Fast picking, "hot rod licks," an unique string bending licks which are heard on so many of today's records are presented in this exciting guitar course. Several songs are included to thoroughly develop the techniques for playing "Nashville style" electric guitar. This course also includes numerous examples of unique fingering and picking techniques and practical applications of scales and chords.  It teaches you to play "up the neck" on both acoustic and electric guitars. Booklet included.   Joe Carr

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Today's Nashville Style
Guitar Method Vol. II

The first tape in this series has been acclaimed as one of the best comprehensive guitar videos/DVD's available. In response to many requests, Joe has now expanded the concepts taught in Nashville Guitar into a three tape series. Included in series are more hot licks and solos-- plus materials that will help you understand the guitar more completely. The role of the acoustic guitar in modern country music from fingerpicking to bluegrass is also covered.    Joe Carr

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Today's Nashville Style
Guitar Method Vol. III

Learning solos from today's recordings, playing Nashville charts in the studio, adjusting your playing from stage to studio, developing riffs or hooks for your original country music -- all these skills are required of successful modern country guitarists. Joe shows you step by step how to accomplish these goals and you'll learn a lot of new licks along the way. Joe Carr

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Nashville Guitar 2000 A.D.

Joe Carr picks up where his popular Nashville Guitar (NG-60) left off. This video/DVD does not cover the fundamentals of country guitar playing; however, it does teach you a lot of the hottest licks and blazing country picking that you have heard on today's most successful records. Joe has produced this video/DVD in response to the many letters he has received from players who want to learn the exciting techniques of players like Ray Flacke, Albert Lee, and many of the today's other hottest pickers. You will start using these new ideas immediately in songs that you already know, and you will enjoy Joe's great teaching of some of today's best recorded solos. If you want to play hot and flashy, this video/DVD teaches you how to create some of the best guitar licks ever. Booklet included. Joe Carr

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60 Hot Chicken Picking Licks for
Country Guitar

You have heard all of these great "Chicken Picking" guitar licks in today's country music. Famous Nashville studio artist Heath Wright teaches 60 of the hottest "Chicken Picking" country licks ever recorded. These licks will give you a great new sound and you will play country guitar like you have always wanted to. Heath Wright teaches each lick note-for-note and step-by-step. Booklet included.
Heath Wright

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60 Hot Licks for Hot Country Guitar

Joe Carr teaches 60 blazing country guitar licks for playing today's popular country guitar style.   Joe Carr's friendly teaching style is enjoyed by people all over the world. Booklet included.    Joe Carr

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Western Swing Guitar Styles, Vol. I

Have you ever listened to the great guitar sounds on Bob Wills, Merle Haggard, Asleep at the Wheel, etc records? Have you wished you could play the exciting chords and great bass runs that were used by the guitarist on the records? Even a lot of real good "lead guitar" players don't quite understand how to play the "hot" exciting chords and how to "run the chords" like the great western swing players. Joe Carr teaches you all the chords and the harmonic theory to sound like a professional and he includes many famous songs for you to perfect your western swing playing. Your guitar playing friends will want to take lessons from you after you complete this fantastic video/DVD. Booklet included.   Joe Carr

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Western Swing Guitar Styles, Vol. II

This video/DVD includes more great guitar chords and bass lines in the western swing style. Using common western swing chord progressions, Joe Carr explains the principles of chord substitution in an easy to understand, step-by-step method. You will learn how to spice up even the simplest two chord song with sixth, ninth, minor seventh, augmented, and diminished chords! Ah-hah!    Booklet included.     Joe Carr

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60 Hot Licks for Western Swing Guitar

Get that authentic, professional "Texas" Western swing sound with these all-time best Western swing guitar licks from master guitarist Joe Carr. Booklet included. Joe Carr

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Reading Music Naturally for the Guitar Player

Intended for guitar players of all levels who want to read music; this is an easy-to-follow method. Reading music is a valuable skill that can open doors to new music and jobs for guitarists of all skill levels. It's great to play by ear, but don't let yourself be limited when it comes to reading music! Learn to play both ways for more versatility.   John Reid

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Instant Jazz Guitar

The award-winning jazz guitarist Slim Richey is well known for his workshops in the United States and throughout the world. Slim shows the correct chord types to use for Jazz guitar, and he starts you out playing great jazz licks like you have heard on his famous Jazzgrass album and many other recordings. If you want to play jazz like the pros really play, this is the best video/DVD on the market.
Slim Richey

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Chord-Solo Jazz Guitar

In this highly systemized approach, you will learn one of the most satisfying and impressive methods of playing the guitar. Steve will teach you to improvise full -sounding guitar solo pieces by harmonizing the melody notes of standard, jazz and pop tunes. Also covered are techniques for adding fills and bass lines to your chord solo arrangements.   Booklet included.

Steve Wohlrab

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Rhythm and Blues Electric Guitar

Tim McCasland is one of the best known teachers, artists, and studio players in the Southwest. In addition to his widely acclaimed steel guitar and dobro playing, Tim is one of the best rhythm and blues guitar players in the country. Tim has prepared this video/DVD for the guitar player who wants to play rhythm and solo guitar in the rhythm and blues styles of the master artist. He teaches licks, solos, riffs, intros, outros, and slow blues, and he also includes five of his greatest solos and note-for-note instruction of some of the hottest rhythm and blues guitar ever. Booklet included. Tim McCasland

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The Complete Blues Guitar Series
Tape One-Hot Blues Guitar: What to Play

This three part series was designed by Tim McCasland for guitar players who want a more complete understanding of blues style guitar. Each video/DVD includes a play-along section with Tim and the Texas Blue Notes. Recommended for intermediate players.

In #1, Tim covers the fundamentals of blues guitar including major, minor and 7th chord forms, major and minor blues scales, and the forms of the blues. Play-along blues allows you to try out new ideas.
1. Basic movable blues chords types, how to name them.

Major, minor and 7th forms.
2. Blues scale patterns that relate to these chords.
3. Forms of the blues: 12 bar, 16 bar, etc.
4. The I-IV-V chord relationship on the fingerboard.
Tim McCasland

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The Complete Blues Guitar Series
Tape Two-Hot Blues Guitar: How to Play

This three part series was designed by Tim McCasland for guitar players who want a more complete understanding of blues style guitar. Each tape includes a play-along section with Tim and the Texas Blue Notes. Recommended for intermediate players.

Learn the left hand techniques that make blues guitar sing. Tim demonstrates the essential blues rhythm styles. Also, ten killer licks every blues guitarist must know and how and where to use them.

1. Vibrato: how to find your own unique blues sound.
2. Bends: make solos sing with 1/4, 1/2, whole, tone bends.
3. Rhythm styles.
4. Classic fills and solo licks.
5. Endings.

Tim McCasland

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The Complete Blues Guitar Series
Tape Three-Hot Blues Guitar: How to Sell It

On the last video/DVD in this series you will learn the essentials of slide or bottleneck style, time tested performance techniques and how to put it all together. Crowd pleasers!

1. Slide and bottleneck blues techniques.
2. Ten classic slide licks.
3. Stage effects, slide techniques using mic-stands bottles, etc.
4. Practice progressions.

Tim McCasland

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Bender Style Guitar

String bending devices for the electric guitar are featured on many of today's most popular recordings; and now, for the first time, Nashville guitarist Dan Schafer reveals the secrets of the "bender style." Beginning with a history and demonstration of currently available devices, Dan introduces great licks for the "B" string bender, including pedal steel licks, moving harmonics, combination bends, and much more! Dan also includes a list of string bender manufacturers and installers.    Dan Schafer

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Advanced "Bender Style" Guitar

String bending devices are used by many of today's top guitarists to achieve new sounds for the electric guitar. Nashville studio musician, Dan Schafer, breaks down, note by note and bend by bend, the hottest "B" and "G" bender licks, and these licks work with all types of bending devices! Included are advanced "B" bender licks, "G" bender licks and combination licks using both "B" and "G" benders.   Dan Schafer

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Bluegrass Guitar

The world famous Joe Carr has produced the best video yet for learning how to be a great bluegrass guitar player. Joe teaches you how to get the best possible sound from your guitar and how to play the solid rhythm and great bluegrass licks and bass runs that are used by all of the famous professional artists. When you finish this video, you will have the skills to play all of the chords, licks, and runs that have been played on most all of the commercial records. Joe also teaches you how to use the capo, play many all time favorite bluegrass songs, and Joe's great teaching style makes every project a lot of fun. Booklet included.   Joe Carr

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60 Hot Licks for Bluegrass Guitar

Great bluegrass guitarist Joe Carr teaches you 60 of his all-time favorites flatpicking licks. Booklet included. Joe Carr

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60 Hot Licks for Rock Guitar

Outstanding young college guitar instructor K.K. Stowe has put together 60 of the all-time greatest rock guitar licks to help you develop great solos in the popular rock and blues styles. Booklet included.       KK Stowe

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Easy Gospel Guitar

The world famous Alan Munde brings a great new product for beginning guitarists. If you can play a few chords and strum a little, you will quickly be playing Alan Munde's arrangements of I'll Fly Away, Blessed Assurance, The Old Rugged Cross, and many other gospel guitar favorites. Alan also includes a special section on improving your rhythm and fingering techniques, as well as teaching you how to arrange your favorite tunes for the guitar. Alan also is the world famous banjo player and has instructional videos/DVD's on banjo. Booklet included. Alan Munde

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Learn Guitar in French! Le Guitarre Pour Tous!

Using traditional French folk songs, Claude Rossat teaches the basic chords, hand positions, rhythm strums, and exercises to help you and your French speaking friends start playing guitar in no time. This is also a great way to brush up on your French while you learn the guitar. This is a French language version of the video/DVD, Basic Guitar Chords and Accompaniment Styles BG60. Claude Rossat

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EZ-Chord

You have seen the fantastic E-Z Chord guitar attachment advertised on The Nashville Network and on several other major networks. Thanks to this wonderful invention anyone can sound great on the guitar in a matter of minutes. This video/DVD teaches many songs and strumming techniques and a lot of fun to play special E-Z Chord tricks that will amaze your friends and make you sound as though you have played the guitar for years. Joe Carr

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