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 a
nd 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.
Ideal for lifelong flatpickers, and the perfect companion course for David's Handbook 1, Fingerstyle Blues Handbo
ok 2 provides a solid foundation and repertoire for playing solo fingerstyle blues guitar. Graduates of both 1 and 2 will be well prepared to take on Hamburger's more advanced New School Fingerstyle Blues course, also from TrueFire.
Fingerstyle Blues Handbook 2 features 40 video lessons, text overviews, notation, interactive Power Tab and is presented in TrueFire’s multi-media video player for Windows and Mac, featuring zoom, frame advance, looping and other useful tools.
Here's how Fingerstyle Blues Handbook 2 is presented …
The course is presented across twenty progressive lessons, starting with a foundation of basic moves and then adding on building new techniques and skills.
- Hamburger overviews each new technique and move with tips and exercises for nailing the skill before taking on the lesson's arrangement.
- Hamburger then performs a solo fingerstyle blues arrangement using only the techniques and moves covered in the lesson.
- All twenty solo fingerstyle arrangements are broken down note-by-note, move-by-move along with tips for nailing the arrangement.
- With the included Power Tab, students can "see" and "hear" the notation played out. Tempo can be adjusted without changing pitch and any section can be looped.
Fingerstyle Blues Handbook 2
Alternating Thumb Solo Fingerstyle
Blues Guitar - 2 CD-ROM Course
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