Medium: DVD

Author: Jim Weider

Guitarist Jim Weider details the innovative and groundbreaking instrumental techniques of Roy Buchanan, James Burton, Steve Cropper, Robbie Robertson, Cornell Dupree, Freddy King, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimi Hendrix, and provides a close-up look at some of the famous guitars and amps that made rock 'n' roll history! An expert in Fender styles, Jim amassed a mind-boggling collection of original instruments for this session. Each is linked to a specific player and style for a complete understanding of the way they were used to achieve their trademark sounds.

90-MIN. DVD • INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB • LEVEL 3

 Medium: DVD

Artist: Keith Wyatt

By far the most comprehensive DVD ever offered for the beginner guitarist – well over 3 hours long! Over 50 Interactive Lessons! Step-by-step lessons incorporating clear, easy-to-follow 3-D graphics and unique play-along tracks teach the viewer the essential chords, scales, and techniques used by acoustic guitar players in every popular style, including rock, blues and country. This DVD is separated into two major sections:

The First Step: tuning up • string names • essential chords and scales used by all players • music reference section (notes, rhythms, chords and scales) • practice tips • fretting-hand technique • picking-hand technique • backing tracks for play-along • animated 3-D fretboard graphics

Play Acoustic!: rhythm technique (bare finger/thumb, bass/chord, fingerstyle, etc.) • soloing technique (chord embellishment, open-string chords, using a capo) • electrified acoustic • rock, blues and country styles • rhythm and solo technique in each style • backing tracks in each style for play-along • tips on caring for your instrument from the Fender Custom Shop.

Special DVD Features include:
• Bonus footage, including a Fender Factory Tour!
• Looping function
• Web links, including a web site specifically designed for beginning guitarists
• Multi-language feature so you can hear the DVD in English, Spanish, German, French, or Japanese
• Universally encoded for playability worldwide.
Total running time: Approximately 225 minutes.

 Medium: DVD

Artist: Jack Grassel

Jazz guitar master Jack Grassel gives performance tips, demonstrates techniques, and plays amazing guitar on this comprehensive DVD, which covers: music business advice, simultaneous bass and chords, single-note improv and bass, simulating multiple guitars, working with a vocalist, posture and right-hand technique, colorful altered chords, power practicing, melody chords, 12 keys in one position, student-teacher relationship, and much more. Guitar One magazine has voted Jack Grassel “One of the Ten Best Guitarists (You Probably Don't Know) in America.” The Wisconsin Area Music Industry has named him Jazz Artist and Guitarist of the Year seven times. 71 minutes.

 A Step-by-Step Breakdown of the Grateful Dead's Guitar Styles and Techniques
Medium: DVD

Artist: Grateful Dead

Learn the guitar styles and techniques of the Grateful Dead. Each guitar part is played up to speed, then broken down note by note. This DVD features in-depth analysis of seven songs: Bertha • Eyes of the World • One More Saturday Night • Playing in the Band • Scarlet Begonias • St. Stephen • U.S. Blues. 2 hours, 13 minutes.

 Medium: DVD

Artist: Grateful Dead
Author: Nate LaPointe

Learn the note-for-note riffs and solos of Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir – the legendary guitarists of San Francisco's ultimate jam band – via in-depth analysis of: Casey Jones • China Cat Sunflower • Friend of the Devil • Shakedown Street • Sugar Magnolia • Touch of Grey • Truckin' • Uncle John's Band. Running time: 2 hours!

 DVD - TAB

Artist: Various

This rich compilation covers a wide range of instruction for the electric guitar, taught by some of the top guitar players in their respective genres. Derived from Homespun's DVD library, it includes a beginner's introduction to basic blues (Adam Traum); bottleneck slide (Roy Rogers); western swing (Ray Benson); Chicago blues (Hubert Sumlin); country fingerpicking (Steve Wariner); classic rock and rockabilly (Jim Weider); modern rock (Jorma Kaukonen); and country Telecaster® (Ray Flacke). 90 MIN • LEVEL ALL • INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB

 DVD - TAB

Author: Dan Crary
Author: Happy Traum
Author: Nick Forster
Author: Norman Blake
Author: Russ Barenberg
Author: Steve Kaufman
Author: Tony Rice

These lessons for both novices and advanced pickers in flatpick style will help guitarists play the notes and make music out of them as well. Seven celebrated bluegrass artists tackle everything from simple backup to hot bluegrass solos. Includes music and tab. 75 minutes

 DVD - TAB

Author: Doc Watson
Author: Eddie Adcock
Author: Happy Traum
Author: John Jackson
Author: Rory Block
Author: Roy Book Binder
Author: Thom Bresh

This terrific compilation covers a vast range of possibilities in a variety of fingerpicking styles. Seven instructors cover the steady bass/syncopated melody of the Piedmont blues players; the muffled bass and swingy chords of Travis-style pickers; the strumming and pounding of Delta blues stylists; and the banjo-like rolls and single-string approach of bluegrass-oriented pickers. Includes music and tab. 75 minutes.

 DVD - TAB

Author: Chris Proctor
Author: David Wilcox
Author: Martin Simpson

Taught by Chris Proctor, Martin Simpson, David Wilcox, Preston Reed, Muriel Anderson, Frederic Hand, Alex de Grassi, Laurence Juber

This overview of fingerstyle repertoire and technique will immerse learning players in the work of eight guitarists who are redefining acoustic guitar music. They include Celtic and classical repertoire, song accompaniment, contemporary compositions and other challenging pieces. Includes music and tab. 75 minutes.

 Medium: DVD

Artist: Mike Dowling
Artist: Pat Donohue

In a lively, “jam-packed” display of ideas and musicianship, Mike Dowling and Pat Donohue teach the necessary strategies that enable guitarists to make good music together, regardless of the song or style, or even if they've never played a particular tune before. The two pros demonstrate a wide variety of essential skills, taking the mystery out of how to jam on classic folk, ragtime and blues tunes. Includes music and tab. 105 minutes.

 Medium: DVD

Author: Various Authors

Hal Leonard is elated to be the first company to take the concept of a chord book to DVD format! This DVD follows up on the success of our bestselling book, Picture Chord Encyclopedia (#00695224). Beginning with helpful notes on how to use the disc, choose the best voicings and construct chords, this extensive resource for all playing styles and levels features five easy-to-play voicings of 44 chord qualities for each of the twelve musical keys, for a whopping total of 2,640 chords in all! For each chord, there is a clearly illustrated chord frame, an actual full-color photo of the chord being fingered on the fretboard, and a great-sounding audio example of the chord being played to facilitate learning. Guitar Chord Encyclopedia includes a booklet with info on basic fingering principles and chord theory, covering open chords, barre chords, partial chords, broken-set forms and more. Slick and easy-to-use navigation tools make this DVD a real treat for all guitarists!

Lesson One: A Guide to Cool Chords and Progressions
Medium: DVD

Author: Artie Traum

Artie teaches how to build chords, turning them into 7th, 9th, 11th and 13th formations. He illustrates these techniques with new ways to play blues progressions and original songs. Includes chords. 60 minutes.

 Lesson Two: Spicing Up Your Fingerstyle Arrangements
Medium: DVD

Author: Artie Traum

Artie continues his exploration of the guitar's harmonic possibilities with easy but effective chord shapes, progressions, moving basses, harmony lines, instrumental compositions and song accompaniments. Includes chords. 60 minutes.

 Softcover with DVD - TAB

Author: Barrett Tagliarino
Author: Chad Johnson
Author: Mike Mueller

A first of its kind, the At a Glance series pairs an instructional DVD lesson taught by a professional guitarist with a supplemental book for a comprehensive learning experience. Each book/DVD features several lessons pertaining to one topic, and the DVD lessons feature on-screen music. The lessons are loaded with valuable tips and information, and song examples help to demonstrate the concepts in action. In addition, the At a Glance series uses real songs by real artists to illustrate how the concepts you're learning are applied in some of the biggest hits of all time. For example, in DVD Guitar Chords you'll learn the riffs to 20 classics, including Rod Stewart's “Maggie May,” the Beatles' “Across the Universe,” the Who's “I Can't Explain,” and Black Sabbath's “Iron Man.” The four lessons include: Open Chords, Power Chords, Barre Chords, and Introduction to Seventh Chords. The DVD is filmed in high definition and features on-screen music.

 Softcover with DVD - TAB

Author: Barrett Tagliarino
Author: Chad Johnson
Author: Mike Mueller

A first of its kind, the At a Glance series pairs an instructional DVD lesson taught by a professional guitarist with a supplemental book for a comprehensive learning experience. Each book/DVD features several lessons pertaining to one topic, and the DVD lessons feature on-screen music. The lessons are loaded with valuable tips and information. Guitar Shred - At a Glance features four lessons, including: Speed Building, Legato, Tapping, Sweep Picking and uses 19 great songs that put the concepts into action. Songs include: Children of the Grave • Eruption • Hot for Teacher • Rising Force • and more.

 Medium: DVD

Artist: Allman Brothers
Artist: Carlos Santana
Artist: Jeff Beck
Artist: Johnny Winter
Artist: Stevie Ray Vaughan

Learn the guitar styles and techniques of the Allman Brothers, Jeff Beck, Johnny Winter, Carlos Santana and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Each part is played up to speed, then broken down note by note. Features in-depth analysis of eight songs: Little Martha and Stormy Monday Blues (Allman Brothers Band) • Freeway Jam and I Ain't Superstitious (Jeff Beck) • Winning (Santana) • Change It (Stevie Ray Vaughan) • Highway 61 Revisited and Hustle Down in Texas (Johnny Winter). 3 hours, 36 minutes.

 Medium: DVD

Author: Beth Marlis
Author: Daniel Gilbert

This DVD is a comprehensive source for mastering the art of single-note, melodic improvisation. It covers: scales, modes, arpeggios and technique exercises • rock, blues, jazz and other styles • sequences, phrases and licks • and more. 51 minutes.

 An Easy Guide to the Fingerboard
Medium: DVD

Artist: Marcy Marxer

Even novice guitarists can start playing melodies and improvising lead parts with this beginner's method. Marcy Marxer's user-friendly course brings all the notes, frets and strings into clear focus, providing an invaluable roadmap to the guitar fingerboard. Beginner level. Includes music & tab. 117 minutes.

 Medium: CD

Author: Stephen Funk Pearson

This CD teaches an almost foolproof method for getting a guitar in tune. For the beginner and experienced guitarist alike.

 Medium: BOOK W/CD

Artist: Happy Traum

Here is a complete course that will have anyone playing the guitar in minutes! Happy Traum, one of the world's most experienced guitar teachers, has carefully designed this hands-on, step-by-step method for all age groups. All the basic chords and important picking and strumming techniques are taught, and the student will be singing and playing more than a dozen songs right from the first lesson! By the end of this course he or she will know over 70 songs, and be able to play in most keys using a variety of picking and strumming techniques.

FOUR CDs • INCLUDES BOOK OF CHORDS + LYRICS • LEVEL 1

 Medium: DVD

Composer: Peter Huttlinger

Solo guitarist and studio musician Peter Huttlinger outlines his method for effective and consistent practice techniques. He includes numerous drills, exercises, scales, metronome use and other regimens for guitarists who want to solve problems and make greater strides in improving their musical skill level.

90-MIN. DVD OR VIDEO • INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB • LEVEL 2

 DVD - TAB

Artist: John Hammond

Legendary blues musician John Hammond distills forty years of experience in this remarkable exploration of his guitar, harmonica and vocal techniques. He sings, plays and breaks down a variety of songs and instrumentals, sharing his blues wisdom with aspiring players and enthusiasts. Includes music and tab. 1 hour, 50 minutes.

 Medium: Softcover with CD

A Hands-On Beginner's Course In Acoustic Country Blues Homespun Listen & Learn Series Take a lesson in fingerstyle blues guitar from one of the world's most respected teacher/performers. All you need to know is how to play a few basic chords to get started playing along with this user-friendly book/audio package. Beginning with the most basic strumming of a 12-bar blues pattern. Happy gradually starts adding fills, runs, turnarounds, bass rhythms and 'boogie woogie' walking bass patterns that make the basic blues progression come alive. All of these elements are notated in both notes and tab.

 A Step-by-Step Breakdown of Guitar Styles and Techniques
Medium: DVD

Artist: Troy Stetina

Learn the trademark riffs and solos of the greatest guitarists in hard rock! 8 songs are taught note-for-note, including: Bark at the Moon • I Don't Believe in Love • Living After Midnight • Paranoid • Round and Round • Shock Me • Smoke on the Water • You Really Got Me. Also includes DVD bonus features: jam-along songs and practice tips. 1 hour, 36 minutes.

 Medium: DVD

Composer: Artie Traum
Artist: Richie Havens
Composer: Richie Havens

Richie Havens' distinctive guitar sound, rich voice and compelling arrangements of folk, blues and rock classics have enthralled millions throughout his long and successful career. In a lively and fascinating conversation with guitarist Artie Traum, Richie demonstrates his powerful approach to his instrument, detailing his open tunings, unusual fretting style and amazing rhythmic strumming techniques. Eight of his best-known songs are taught. 85-MIN. DVD OR VHS

 Medium: DVD

Author: Steven Lee

Start getting the sound you've always wanted, while learning the secrets of pro recording engineers and producers. This DVD will teach you numerous strategies for miking and recording your electric and acoustic guitars. Topics include: amp miking, isolating instruments, microphone placement, monitoring, stereo miking and more!

 Medium: DVD

Author: Tommy White

Tommy White is well-known as one of the foremost artists on pedal steel guitar. This steel guitarist for the Grand Ole Opry presents this DVD course for the E9th tuning – jam-packed with hot licks to keep your fingers twisted up for days. Learn how to play amazing speed picking runs and double stops, get great tone, play clear harmonics, and develop new licks. 45 minutes.

 Medium: Book & Cassette Package

Artist: Artie Traum

LEVEL 3 INCLUDES TAB Great licks in all styles to make your playing dynamic, exciting and professional. Covers bluegrass, country, western swing, blues, rock, and jazz licks, with ideas for improvisation. For both acoustic and electric players.

 Medium: BOOK W/CD

Author: Artie Traum

Great licks in all styles to make your playing dynamic, exciting and professional. Covers bluegrass, country, western swing, blues, rock, and jazz licks, with ideas for improvisation. For both acoustic and electric players.

 Medium: DVD

Artist: Oscar Jordan

This interactive jam session is designed for musicians who currently have a guitar and no one to play with, or who just want to brush up on their practice with other musicians – in a cool blues setting! Watch for visual cues and interactively join the rehearsal and become the lead guitarist in the band! 60 minutes.

 DVD - TAB

Artist: Geoff Muldaur

Legendary singer/guitarist Geoff Muldaur teaches six gospel and blues arrangements that are filled with ideas, techniques and wonderful songs. Geoff uses standard ingredients of fingerstyle playing combined with rich chord voicings that add a jazz sensibility to traditional music, making these songs sound fresh and new: Just a Little While to Stay Here • Trouble Soon Be Over • I Believe I'll Go Back Home • Wild Ox Moan • Got to Find Blind Lemon • Tears • Come Rolling Down.

85-MIN. • INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB • LEVEL 3

 For Electric and Acoustic Guitar
Medium: DVD

Author: Dave Celentano

This comprehensive DVD picks up where Dave Celentano's Beginning Rock Lead Guitar left off. On this DVD you will learn exercises to improve finger dexterity, “three note per string” scale exercises, alternate picking, tremolo picking, sweep picking, advanced string bending, triads, arpeggios, long legato licks, speed licks, string bending licks, connecting licks to make solos, and a complete solo to play over the rhythm track at the end. Transcription booklet included. 60 minutes.

 For Electric and Acoustic Guitar
Medium: DVD

Author: Dave Celentano

This DVD picks up where Dave Celentano's Beginning Rock Rhythm Guitar left off. Here you will learn advanced bar chord forms, jazz chords that can be used in rock, pedal tone rhythms, palm muting, advanced right hand rhythms, finger picking, Travis picking, and valuable tips and advice. Styles covered include rock, blues rock, jazz rock, '80s rock, funk rock, and acoustic fingerpicking. Dave also discusses and demonstrates the different sounds produced by the Gibson Les Paul, Fender Strat, and acoustic guitar. Transcription booklet included. 60 minutes.

 Accompanying Celtic Tunes
DVD - TAB

Artist: John Doyle

One of the hottest guitarists on the Irish scene today breaks apart his accompaniment style for the learning player. He demonstrates his complex strumming patterns and shows how to add interest and depth to a basic three-chord tune by using substitutions to change the underlying harmonic structure. More than a dozen great reels, jigs and hornpipes are analyzed rhythmically, including: Crowley's • The Mountain Road • Craig's Pipes • The Gooseberry Bush • Gallagher's Frolics • Mist Covered Mountain • Langstrom's Pony • Humours of Whiskey • Banks of Loch Gamhna • Return to Camden Town • Fermoy Lasses • The Girl That Broke My Heart • Chief O'Neill's Hornpipe • Tim Henry's Favorite • The Pullet. 85-MIN. DVD • INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB • LEVEL 3

 Medium: DVD

Author: Sid Jacobs

Develop your jazz soloing skills with this comprehensive DVD! It covers: three-octave diatonic scale patterns • triads and triad pairs • common jazz phrases • guide tones and non-chordal tones • harmonized fourths. Includes instructional booklet. 45 minutes

 Berklee Master Class Series
Medium: DVD

Author: Rick Peckham

Bring new colors and voicings to your playing with Berklee professor Rick Peckham, internationally known jazz guitarist, composer, writer and clinician. In this master class DVD, Peckham unlocks the mysteries of modal tonality, with a series of exercises and demonstrations that will expand your vocabulary, no matter what instrument you play. Peckham will show you how to extend your capabilities by integrating a variety of new voicings and articulations into your playing, so you can handle any modal situation guided by your own ears and instincts. 57 minutes.

 Medium: DVD

Artist: Eric Johnson

In this DVD, Eric shares his 10 “must-know” musical concepts in an intimate one-on-one format in his recording studio. Discover the techniques that have contributed to the genius of this guitar legend in his own words and detailed demonstrations. Eric covers his unique perspectives on improvisation, chords, lead guitar, songwriting, and much more. The second part of the DVD features a full-band performance as Eric, Chris Maresh (bass) and Tommy Taylor (drums) take you on a musical journey through eight never-heard-before songs! The fantastic audio and widescreen multi-camera visuals bring you right into the creative realm and mind of one of the world's top guitar talents! 1 hour, 19 minutes.

 Medium: DVD

Author: Ledward Kaapana

One of the most exciting and accomplished players in ki ho'alu (slack key) guitar gives a lesson for novices as well as advanced players in the slack key style. He teaches instrumentals encompassing both quiet, beautiful melodies and rip-roaring showstoppers with lightning-fast licks and fancy picking. Booklet includes TAB. 80 minutes.

 DVD - TAB

Artist: Jorma Kaukonen

A formula for instant success on the electric guitar! Jorma Kaukonen teaches licks, solos, lead lines and rhythm grooves to rival the best of them. Instructional and entertaining Jorma and Electric Hot Tuna give powerful rock renditions of the songs taught: Hit Single #1 • Homespun Blues • Ode to Billy Dean. Includes music and tab. 90-minutes

  DVD
Artist: Jorma Kaukonen

Jorma Kaukonen's course dissects his unique and influential blues and country guitar fingerpicking style. It is filled with invaluable wisdom, powerful advice and useful techniques for learning pickers at all levels. Jorma teaches five traditional and original songs, each one becoming a springboard for in-depth guitar explorations. He also includes dynamic “live” performances of each song, played with his touring partner Barry Mitterhoff. Songs: I'll Let You Know Before I Leave • Trouble in Mind • Tom Cat Blues • Genesis • Vampire Women. Total running time: 2 hours and ten minutes.

 DVD One
Artist: Jorma Kaukonen

Jorma teaches his solid fingerpicking blues style through some of his favorite traditional and original tunes: West Coast Blues • Hesitation Blues • Crystal City • Embryonic Journey. Includes tips on picking style, slide technique, open tunings and a demo with Jefferson Airplane/Hot Tuna partner Jack Casady.

100 MIN. • INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB • LEVEL 3

 DVD Two
Artist: Jorma Kaukonen

Jorma continues his examination of blues-based fingerpicking, taking apart favorites from his repertoire and teaching runs, chords, picking and other techniques. Songs include: I Know You Rider • his original Water Song • and the perennial favorite San Francisco Bay Blues.

90 MIN. • INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB • LEVEL 3

 DVD Three
Artist: Jorma Kaukonen

On this repertoire-building lesson, Jorma delves into seven of the traditional and original guitar pieces that have become his trademark, taking them apart lick-by-lick for intermediate players.

80 MIN. • INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB • LEVEL 4

 3-DVD Set
Artist: Jorma Kaukonen

Lesson One: Jorma teaches his solid fingerpicking blues style through some of his favorite traditional and original tunes. Includes tips on picking style, slide technique, open tunings and a demonstration with Jefferson Airplane/Hot Tuna partner Jack Casady. 100-MIN. • INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB • EARLY INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

Lessons Two: Jorma continues his examination of the blues-based fingerpicking that has long been his signature style. He takes apart, in detail, some favorites from his repertoire, teaching the runs, chords, picking and other techniques that make his arrangements so memorable. 90-MIN. • INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB • EARLY INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

Lesson Three: Jorma delves into seven of the traditional and original guitar pieces that have become his trademark. He mixes traditional folk picking patterns with rolls, back-brushing, double-time playing, percussive rhythms and other concepts for the intermediate-level player. 80-MIN. • INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB • INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

 Medium: DVD

Artist: Keb' Mo'

Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Kevin Moore (aka Keb' Mo') takes students on a powerful journey into the world of traditional and contemporary blues guitar. He begins by showing how turnarounds and harmonized scale passages can be the basis for developing fluid phrases in a Robert Johnson-style blues tune. Keb' then teaches two originals, both employing a rhythmic alternating bass style as well as some jazz-oriented chords that add spice and interest to the songs. Switching to his National steel guitar, he then discusses the basics of slide technique, rounding out this exciting blues lesson. Songs: Delta-Style Blues • Perpetual Blues Machine • Angelina • Henry.

75-MIN. DVD • LEVEL 3 • INCLUDES TAB

 Medium: DVD

Author: Jim Kelly

The interactive song lessons on this extremely comprehensive DVD disc represent a cross-section of modern guitar styles and song forms. The split-screen footage, multiple camera angles and incredible close-ups let you watch Jim Kelly's hands to learn his secrets, tips and tricks as he presents each tune as a full performance followed by a special teaching section. He plays in the style of guitar greats like Jeff Beck, Wes Montgomery, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Joe Pass, Pat Metheny and more. With over 90 minutes of guitar performance and instruction and lessons in English, Japanese and Spanish, Jim Kelly's Guitar Workshop DVD lets everyone have fun and improve their playing at their own pace. 90+ minutes.