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We offer a wide variety
of DVD lessons focusing on various aspects of fingerstyle and flatpicking
guitar styles and techniques. These styles range from country blues to
fingerstyle jazz, from the picking styles of Chet Atkins to the jazz motifs
of Larry Coryell. Our teachers read like a "Who's Who" in the
guitar world. They include: Chet Atkins, Martin Taylor, John Fahey, Larry
Coryell, John Renbourn, Stefan Grossman, Duck Baker, El McMeen, Marcel
Dadi, Dave Van Ronk, Woody Mann, Pat Donohue, Martin Carthy, John Low,
Pat Donohue, Pierre Bensusan, Buster B. Jones, Fred Sokolow, Jody
Stecher, Eric Thompson, Pat Kirtley, Ian Cruickshank, Adrian Ingram and
Craig Wagner. We've recently added Ernie Hawkins, Tony McManus, Dix Bruce,
Ari Eisinger, Harry Lewman and Scott Nygaard to our roster! You can use
the jump menus on each page to browse the dvds/videos by category or by
instructor.
Here's an unsolicited
comment from a customer:
I hang out on this
site because what's offered here actually works if you're trying to
learn blues guitar. At least where I live, teachers of this style are
few and far between and very expensive, $45 for a twenty-five minute
lesson. How many lessons can you get out of one of Stefan's videos?
I've worked with other videos, but others are mostly designed to show
how well the presenter plays the material, not really to teach the viewer
how to play it. All the videos I have from The Guitar Workshop (and
I have a lot of them) are painstakingly specific and tabbed so you can
learn the whole song finger for finger. This way you learn a song in
three ways: by watching the presenter, by listening to what he does,
by noting exactly which finger he's using on each note from the tab.
There are no sections where they just give you the chord diagrams and
you have to guess how to play those chords to get the sound on the video.
Stefan knows how to learn using this method, so he is better at designing
learning tools for this method than anybody else I've come across. If
you know of something as good or better, I'm only interested in learning
to play better, faster, so I'll try it. But, candidly, Hotlicks and
Starlicks are simply not useful for learning to play from scratch. Homespun
is much better but their tab is confusing and often incomplete. Stefan
Grossman's Guitar Workshop is the only series from which I've been able
to learn song after song while understanding and developing the techniques
of players I admire. I see so much fraud in the world, especially of
the "Learn the Guitar in Fifteen minutes" variety, when I
see something that actually does what it says it will do, I feel compelled
to tell everyone about it; and I stick with what works!
--Patrick King
Our DVD lessons
present the finest in clear and incisive visual education. Each tune is
performed in full and then explained. This is followed by the piece being
played slowly on a split screen that allows the student to clearly see
both the right and left hand movements. Everything played during the split
screen segments is transcribed and presented in the free tab/music booklet
that accompanies the DVD lesson. We've added short Real Video
clips of each lesson so that you can get an idea of what's on the DVD,
but please keep in mind that these clips are highly compressed for the
web, and don't represent the quality of the originals.
We have indicated
the duration, grade level (see below), and page length of the accompanying
booklet for each lesson.
Check out this note
from Stefan on how you might best proceed if you're new to our
instructional DVDs.
Grade Levels
Level 1:
For the beginner. You know the basics of your instrument. These lessons
will help you establish a strong playing foundation.
Level 2:
For the advanced beginner/early intermediate player. You have been playing
awhile and feel comfortable with your instrument. These lessons will
help you develop your repertoire, expand your techniques and explore
new styles.
Level 3:
For the intermediate student. You play well and are looking for challenges
and new directions.
Level 4:
For the advanced player. You are ready to tackle anything!
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