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TFU 4.8 Video CD-ROM: Twang Thangs
Let's have some fun this month and work on our "twang" bag. Now hold on ... don't turn your nose up at learning what you think might be a few country licks. Derived in part from "country" guitar, Twang is really a modern hybrid of blues, country, rock and jazz guitar. Players like Danny Gatton, Albert Lee, Johnny Hiland, Will Ray, Ray Flacke and hundreds of others all have their twang thang happening.
You ever hear one of your favorite blues, rock or jazz players throw a cool pedal steel lick or two into their solos? That's a twang thang. Dig that chicken picking stuff so many modern blues players spice their stuff up with. That's a twang thang. Western swing, rockabilly and country-fried bends and pulls ... all twang thangs...
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FREE Online JamBox
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Tip Jar: Jeff Scheetz's "Beggars, Rogues & Thieves"
The Just Plain Folks music awards is the largest music awards program in the world.
Our very own rock guru Jeff Scheetz is up for the Blues Album of the year award. But wait there's more.... the title track "Beggars, Rogues & Thieves" that's
featured on every episode of "All my Children," showcased worldwide on
"Blues Deluxe" with Clapton, and gets tons of airplay - is up for the top Blues rock song too!
Way to go!
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The
Midnight Oil Burns Bright at TrueFire
Man,
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Fingerstyle Blues Handbook 2 are flying out of here to countries we've
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Featured Guitar Lessons of the Month
Focus On: Basic Blues Intros 
by Mark Stefani
My students frequently ask me about intros and endings when it comes to blues and other progressions, and there are some tried and true formulas that are very effective and easy to create "on the fly." One of the easiest methods is simply using the last four bars of a 12-bar blues progression to set the stage for a vocal or an instrumental blues, so the subject for this month's lesson is building a solid blues intro for a basic slow blues....
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Lines Of Fire: Eric Johnson's Single-Note Theory
by Jesse Gress
Eric Johnson's style is elusive. Elements of rock, blues, country and McLaughlin-inspired fusion mingle, with each taking center-stage for awhile. Jesse calls him the most successful practitioner of the 'secondary fusion.' Johnson's approach is built around his dizzying single-note excursions.....
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lesson download,
Part 1 ...
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Big Rhythm :
David Grissom
by Andy Ellis
Powerful roots/country player David Grissom hipped Andy to the secret of his ringing rhythm assault. The keys - open strings and hybrid picking. He issues a progression of arpeggiated chords using fretted and open strings...
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Etude #1 In C By Fernando Sor , Part 2
by Jamie Andreas
This is the 2nd Etude in the collection of 20 Essential Studies by Andres Segovia that he felt should be studied and mastered by all classical guitar students. It is a study on the right hand technique of playing a melody on top of
arpeggiated chords in the bottom ...
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NEW VIDEO COURSE! Fingerstyle Blues Handbook 2 by David Hamburger
In Fingerstyle Blues Handbook 1, David Hamburger introduced you to the world of solo instrumental blues guitar with twenty progressive lessons in the essential steady-bass style. Now, with Fingerstyle Handbook 2, Hamburger provides a step-by-step method for playing solo fingerstyle blues guitar in the equally important alternating thumb or “Travis Picking” style used by countless contemporary and classic blues guitarists.
Fingerstyle Blues Handbook 2 shows you how to achieve the finger and thumb independence to go far beyond basic “pattern picking” so that you can set up a groove and play melodies, blues licks and chord fills over an alternating thumb bass. You’ll learn how to keep your thumb going like clockwork while incorporating hammer-ons and pull-offs, ragtime-style syncopations and chord rolls into a variety of eight, twelve and sixteen bar blues in the keys of E, A, D, C, A minor and E minor. Each of the twenty lessons features a new fingerstyle blues tune that you learn and add to your repertoire.
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