The Right Way is the Easy Way! Get your skills and techniques started off right the first time— if you want to learn faster with less practice & frustration!

Virtuoso bluegrass multi-instrumentalist Dennis Caplinger, with the able assistance of John Moore, Kenny Blackwell, and Bill Bryson, guides you through all the bluegrass basics and beyond. You'll learn classic bluegrass guitar techniques, all in the context of classic bluegrass standards. Beginning with basic left- and right-hand techniques, Dennis guides you through developing great backup parts, playing solos, and working with a bluegrass band. Learn technique through up-close camera angles.

For those of you who have never played guitar. Using the 3 basic chords G, C, and D, you are guided through 22 songs from the bluegrass, folk, and gospel repertoire. Uses basic bluegrass strum with alternating bass strings. Great ear training! Lesson on keys and capos. NoTab. (2 hours)

(Formerly titled Basic Bluegrass Runs on Guitar Volume 1) Tired of just strumming the guitar? Wish you could add a little variety to your ryhthm playing? These runs will do it! Each run is explained note-by-note in Murphy's easy-to-learn style. She also shows you how these runs fit into simple three-chord bluegrass songs. Most of the runs are taught in the key of G, but we also introduce the runs in the key of C. In addition, we show you how to make the F chord and do the rocking bass.

In this DVD, renowned guitarist Scott Nygaard guides you through different types of songs, and shows you how to combine these influences when creating a solos on a bluegrass tunes. Scott explains in detail the techniques needed to master the bluegrass lead guitar style and the ideas behind his arrangements. All are clearly illustrated in split-screen close-ups. A detailed tab/music instructional booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD.

Steve Kaufman is one of America's top bluegrass guitarists! His DVD covers the basics of back-up guitar, from the simplest two-chord song to Texas-style fiddle tunes. Players will master bass walks, the Lester Flatt 'G run,' altered chords, complex progressions and more.

This long-time video favorite is now available in a DVD three-pack! Steve Kaufman's comprehensive course in bluegrass flatpicking starts at the beginning level and takes students to advanced techniques that will enable them to hold their own in any band or jam session.

No matter what style of guitar you play, you will love this DVD! This DVD helps viewers think like musicians. Using familiar tunes, Fred Sokolow teaches the movable fretboard patterns all the pros use. Guitarists will learn how to solo and play back-up in all keys, all over the fretboard.

Happy Traum makes it easy for beginners to play favorite bluegrass tunes. He teaches all the basic techniques needed and helps guitarists build their own repertoire. Happy covers pick technique, elementary theory, song accompaniment, and how to play solos.

Beginners and intermediate players learn seven gospel favorites in bluegrass/country-style. Steve covers basic chords, bass walks, hammer-ons, pull-offs, runs and more techniques to add style to any song.

Steve Kaufman has chosen 11 well-known and much-loved songs, each one associated with an important season or holiday. As one of America's most experienced teachers, Steve adds the techniques and advice novice flatpickers will need to pick these as instrumentals.

Dix Bruce carefully teaches lead and backup guitar to nine great and classic country, bluegrass, and folk standards, ballads and hot breakdowns played by musicians the world over. Dix demonstrates the basic "bass note/strum" technique and shows how melodies can be easily integrated into known chord patterns.

New! Sit in and jam with a top notch bluegrass band. The definitive fun, practice and playing tool for all guitarists. Includes a full-length DVD, and two bonus CDs. The CDs include 13 songs, each recorded twice - once with a guitar solo, and once without (so that you can solo yourself over the backing tracks.) Notes on each song - including the key, to help center your improvisation - are included in the booklet.

Every flatpicker wants to play faster while maintaining good tone and timing. Steve Kaufman has advice and well-thought out exercises to help get a player's right and left hand mechanics working correctly. Using well-known fiddle tunes, he works on coordination and how to practice.

For easy intermediate to advanced level players. Steve Kaufman teaches his arrangements to some of the most beautiful instrumentals in the guitar repertory, showing how to play them flatpick style: When I Grow Too Old to Dream • Star of the County Down • Ookpik Waltz • Memory Waltz • Skaters Waltz.

An adventure in acoustic world music! Beppe Gambetta's reinterpretations of American and European musical traditions offer flatpickers a passport to inspiration. He teaches unique renditions of American fiddle tunes (Soldier's Joy, Old Joe Clark), his lyrical signature piece (Slow Creek) and three lively Mediterranean dances: Margaritin, Iride and Moravian Journey. Includes music & tab, advanced level. 1 hour, 30 minutes.

Two undisputed giants in the field of bluegrass guitar pass on the techniques, musical insights and wisdom they have gained through decades of experience. Intermediate guitarists will be guided by Peter's rich rhythm playing, while more advanced pickers will learn from Tony's unique chord inversions, licks and mind-bending solos.

Steve Kaufman Teaches Crowd Pleasers and Show Stoppers One of Homespun's most prolific instructors teaches nine exciting and challenging pieces for intermediate to advanced flatpick guitarists. The instrumentals include bluegrass standards, Celtic session tunes, folk and pop arrangements and a beautiful waltz!

One of bluegrass and country music's most high-profile acoustic guitarists lays out his tricks of the trade for aspiring players. This extraordinary DVD is filled with spectacular picking, detailed instruction and invaluable advice for aspiring bluegrass guitarists at all levels.

Every flatpicker wants to play faster while maintaining good tone and timing. Steve Kaufman has advice and well-thought out exercises to help get a player's right and left hand mechanics working correctly. Using well-known fiddle tunes, he works on coordination and how to practice.

Crosspicking is a classic bluegrass flatpicking style that features a rolling, complex sound. This technique has been enthusiastically adopted by guitar masters and has become an integral part of every hot bluegrass guitarist's arsenal. In this DVD, Steve teaches beautiful arrangements of seven songs.

This top Nashville guitarist, Pat Flynn, breaks down his method for improvising across the entire guitar fingerboard, teaching how to create guitar solos through finding “chord centers” in every position. Pat includes new ideas for adding harmonies within chords, improvising blues and minor-key songs, and innumerable tips on playing technique.

Three-time winner of International Bluegrass Association's “Guitar Player of the Year,” David Grier is a rising star in the world of the acoustic guitar. Here he analyzes his breathtaking technique and takes apart some of his signature tunes for intermediate players: Red-Haired Boy, Liberty, Bill Cheatham, Engagement Waltz, and others. Includes music & tab.

This melodic approach to guitar soloing and improvisation teaches players how to fully understand the fingerboard, particularly for playing flatpick style fiddle tunes and bluegrass instrumentals. 90-MIN. - INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB - EARLY INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

Watch Chris as he analyzes and teaches 5 example songs, breaking each down into its component parts, explaining why he chose what he played every step of the way. By learning this approach you will be able to invent your own intelligent, melodic solo for each song you encounter!

Learn the style, fanciness, smoothness, comfort, finess, power, dynamics & subtle details that will make you sound slick! Tony Rice once said that 'PLAYING RHYTHM IS AS CHALLENGING AS PLAYING LEAD' REFINE YOUR BLUEGRASS RHYTHM PLAYING SKILLS!

If you only own one instruction course: This Is It! Dan Huckabee teaches you how to make the most of your practice time by laying down 23 secrets, & explaining each, step-by-step. These are the procedures you need, to achieve total & absolute mastery!

Master instructor and flatpicking great Steve Kaufman breaks down fifteen of the most-played banjo-driven songs, showing step-by-step how to build a powerful flatpick solo. 100-MIN DVD - INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB - EARLY INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

Here, at last, is the definitive lesson by one of the greatest guitar flatpickers of all time! In a wide-ranging and detailed session, Tony Rice demonstrates his world-famous technique, gives invaluable advice, analyzes some of his best-known pieces and discusses his style, influences, guitars and favorite players.

Tony Rice slows down his fabulous picking style as he demonstrates his hard-driving flatpicking solos, accompaniments, intros and licks. Includes: Gold Rush Blackberry Blossom Muleskinner Blues Church Street Blues Cold On The Shoulder & more. 60-MINUTE DVD INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB LEVEL 3.

The highly revered guitarist Tony Rice continues the breakdowns and analysis of his world-class style and technique. His lesson includes folk and country instrumentals, fiddle tunes and his innovative arrangements to well-known standards. For intermediate level guitarists. 1 hour, 50 minutes.

This DVD presents Tony in three different settings recorded at the 1992 Merle Watson Festival playing a wide variety of music all stamped with his personal style and sound. Tony once remarked , 'Others have said about me from time to time that I have a unique tone and balance on the instrument. I just kind of play it the way I hear it.'

Flatpicking master teacher Steve Kaufman takes rhythm playing to a whole new level with this in-depth lesson. He covers chord substitutions, walking bass lines, complex chord shapes, and accompaniment ideas for a variety of tunes.

In this 90-minute DVD, rhythm guitar master Wyatt Rice teaches you how to greatly expand your rhythm guitar abilities by teaching: crosspicking rhythm; syncopated rhythm; a variety of right hand patterns combined with left hand technique to develop a "groove" rhythm; unique bass runs; passing chords; chord substitutions; and chord inversions. Additionally, Wyatt is shown improvisationally accompanying various instruments (banjo, fiddle, guitar, mandolin) and then analyzing what he has done to provide the rhythmic foundation behind each instrument.

An In-Depth Exploration Of Dynamic Flatpicking. Dan Crary imparts a wealth of knowledge, encouragement, inspiration and ideas that will benefit all guitar students. Includes instruction on numerous runs, syncopated licks, crosspicking and more.85-MINUTE DVD INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB LEVEL 3.

With Brad Davis' Flatpick Jam Volume 1, you are never without a jamming partner. Each of these two-hour DVDs is packed with flatpicking jam session favorites (11 tunes on each DVD). Brad plays each tune at four different tempos (slow, slow/medium, medium/fast, and fast) so that you can work on your tone, timing, note clarity, and fluidity at the slower tempos and then work to develop your speed at the higher tempos.

With Brad Davis' Flatpick Jam Volume 2, you are never without a jamming partner. Each of these two-hour DVDs is packed with flatpicking jam session favorites (11 tunes on each DVD). Brad plays each tune at four different tempos (slow, slow/medium, medium/fast, and fast) so that you can work on your tone, timing, note clarity, and fluidity at the slower tempos and then work to develop your speed at the higher tempos.

With Brad Davis' Flatpick Jam Volume 3, you are once again never without a jamming partner. This two-hour session is packed with 11 flatpicking jam favorites. Brad plays each tune at four different tempos (slow, slow/medium, medium/fast, and fast) so that you can work on your tone, timing, note clarity, and fluidity at the slower tempos and then work to develop your speed at the higher tempos.

With this set, you are never without a jamming partner. This six-hour session is packed with 33 flatpicking jam favorites. Brad plays each tune at four different tempos so that you can work on your tone, timing, note clarity, and fluidity at the slower tempos and then work to develop your speed at the higher tempos.

Having created the first day-long workshop devoted exclusively to rhythm playing, renowned flatpicker Orrin Star has helped guitarists around the country improve their rhythm skills. This 95-minute video offers an enhanced version of Orrin's live workshop, featuring additional bass runs and songs, a new section on playing with other guitarists, and a guest appearance by Kenny Smith.