Dear Guitar Player

Here's your chance to master fingerstyle acoustic guitar, with step by step lessons that take you to a high level of fingerstyle competence...

Take your acoustic guitar playing to a new level and master professional Fingerstyle techniques. In many ways, Fingerstyle is the most satisfying form of guitar playing. The guitar becomes the entire band, playing bass, rhythm and melody. And you can apply it to whatever style you're into - blues, jazz, classical, country, folk, rock...Surely the most fun you can have with your clothes on!

Taught by a great player and a superb teacher - Rick Payne

Rick's credentials are impeccable. Apart from pursuing a thriving solo career, Rick is a highly respected teacher in his hometown of Bristol, UK, teaching in schools and colleges. He has been playing and teaching for well over 30 years. The knowledge of half a lifetime has been distilled in these courses.

Is the Acoustic Guitar Workshop right for me?

It doesn't matter where your guitar playing is right now; you're going to expand the horizons of your playing dramatically when you join. Maybe you've been playing electric guitar and you want to brush up your acoustic technique... Or maybe you can strum a few chords but want to move your playing on some... Perhaps you want to learn how to create professional fingerstyle arrangements to accompany your favorite songs...

"I have played guitar for over 15 years now and have taken everything from private lessons to University level jazz guitar lessons. My playing has improved by leaps and bounds with this course. This was the best $25.00 I have ever spent. Keep up the outstanding work! Outstanding customer support, too." JOE MAROLI
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Whatever you want, here's an important point to realise: whatever style of playing you like - blues, jazz, classical, folk - there is a common ground of techniques applicable to all forms of fingerstyle.

For example, when you master the art of arpeggiating, you can apply this to an acoustic rock song, or a cool piece of Spanish guitar. It's handy to put labels on music, but the underlying techniques you use to express the music with your guitar are remarkably similar.

How do the courses work?

The lessons are arranged in a series of step by step sessions, each one designed to take you further along the road to mastery. You are guided through the process with clearly written notes, diagrams and tablature. The exercises and pieces are supported with Real Audio and mp3 files, played by the teacher. So you can hear what you're supposed to be playing.

Online courses currently available...

Fingerstyle Blues 1: A 10 lesson course in the art of fingerstyle blues that gives you a real insight into the music pioneered by legends such as Robert Johnson and Big Bill Broonzy. You'll learn all the techniques necessary to give your playing a real authentic feel.

Fingerstyle Blues 2: A 10 lesson course that follows and expands on "Fingerstyle Blues 1."

Pentatonic To The Blues: A course in 9 lessons that illuminates the link between Pentatonic and Blues scales. Once you've got to grips with this, you'll be able to create your own authentic blues riffs and play dynamic solos over common blues progressions.

Acoustic Blues Slide: A 10 lesson course in the haunting art of acoustic slide playing.The course includes 6 great acoustic slide instrumentals and takes you in logical steps, assuming no prior knowledge of the style, to playing like a regular Ry Cooder!

Beginning Fingerstyle: A 10 lesson course introducing you to the art of fingerstyle.This is a more general course and gives you a mixed bag of styles, including Classical, Blues, Ragtime and Country.

Beginners Guitar: 19 lessons ideal for people new to the acoustic guitar and guitar in general. You'll get to cover all the bases: blues, rock, folk, fingerstyle, learn cool strumming patterns, basic scales and chords. Plus you'll also learn some classic all-time monster riffs to impress your friends.

Jazz Blues Workshop: This 11 session course takes the 12 bar format and shows you how to really stretch it with a knowledge of jazz chords, substitutions, key changes and other tricks.

But that's not all...

There's a whole bunch more resources in our member's area to help you become the best acoustic guitarists you can be. You also get all this:

• High quality acoustic mp3's recorded by the Acoustic Guitar Workshop and others. Since the demise of mp3.com, most of our mp3's are now hosted by our partners, truefire.com. Click here for a selection.
• A growing archive of single lessons culled from some of the best resources on the web. No need to trawl around endlessly in cyberspace looking for stuff. We've done all the work for you. You'll find lessons in all kinds of styles here: Blues, Jazz, Classical, Pop, Rock, Folk, Celtic and Country.
• A growing collection of acoustic guitar tab.
• Software for guitarists. A neat program that generates chords and scales in all keys and modes for you at the click of a button. Also we have an audio chord generator - just type in the chord and hear it played.
• Lessons from top contributing guitarists. At present Tim Sparks, Joe Bennett, Gilbert Isbin and Gert de Meijer have some cool lessons in our members' area.
• Acoustic Radio - Our very own web radio station playing a mix of acoustic blues, folk, country, jazz and acoustic rock.
  

Grab these great bonuses when you enroll - 2 FREE NetCD's

When you subscribe you'll get immediate access to Rick Payne's fantastic downloadable "Lost Tracks" NetCD. This NETCD (exclusively available from AGW and nowhere else) features some of the best acoustic blues you're likely to hear, including sensational versions of classic tracks like "Little Red Rooster", "Ditty Wa Ditty" and "Smack Dab". Plus you'll also receive

It's important to realise that learning an instrument should involve a lot of listening too. You must steep yourself in the music you want to master. Apart from being fun, this process will cause the music to seep into your subsconscious and sooner or later it'll come out in your playing. Rick Payne has written most of our course content and "Lost Tracks" is a great accompaniment to the courses.

Great value today - even better value tomorrow

Of course, being internet-based, the Acoustic Guitar Workshop is expanding all the time. So your subscription of $24.95US will just keep giving you better and better value for money.

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