Fingerpicking Blues Guitar

This DVD lesson is for the intermediate and advanced fingerstyle guitar player. It is for the student who feels comfortable with an alternating bass technique and wants to expand and explore ideas in blues and ragtime usingmoreadvanced right and left hand techniques. The four instrumentals featured in this lesosn are all extended compositions offering a variety of musical ideas. Piano sounding blues in the key of A are presented in 'MississippiBlues'and 'Blues For The Mann'. A Blind Blake approach in the key of C is used for the 'Glory Of Love'. 'Struttin' Rag' in the key of E Brings together thress distinct sections. It opens with a blues piano sounding motif and thenstepsinto a more country atmosphere. It finishes with a series of bass licks reminiscent of Merle Travis's 'Walkin' The Strings'.