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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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