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60 Minute Lessons | Book Downloads | Blues Guitar | Jazz Guitar | Slide Guitar | Chick'n Pick'n | Let's Jam CD's

Play the Blues Guitar Book
Our 60 minute downloads are Quicktime video conversions of some our best selling DVD's. The downloads feature split screens, tablature on screen, and great attention to detail. For the beginner we have the Introduction to Acoustic Guitar by Bert Casey which will teach the beginner everything from how to hold the pick and guitar up to playing country and folk songs. For those wanting to learn rock n' roll songs on an acoustic guitar you can check out Peter Vogl's Acoustic Rock Guitar lesson. The follow up video Acoustic Guitar Part 2 covers how to play rhthymn guitar by learning popular songs like Brown Eyed Girl. The Intro to Electric Guitar takes a beginner's look at playing basic rock on an electric guitar. For the more advanced player we have the Intro to Blues Guitar and the Intro to Rock Guitar by Peter Vogl. These videos cover classic chord progressions, scales, and learning solos.

Our Book Digital Downloads are a conversion of our instructional books with audio cds into an Adobe .pdf file. All of the pages from the book are included inside. The audio .mp3s are also embedded into the file and represented by an icon next to the related exercise or song for easy to use access. Sample Page

Intro to Acoustic Guitar Primer Digital Download: This is the course for the absolute beginner. Learn everything from parts of the guitar and chords up to learning how to play your first songs.

Intro to Acoustic Rock Guitar Primer Digital Download: Learn how to play rock & roll on an acoustic guitar. This beginner course teaches you how to play songs like Free Falling and All Along the Watchtower.

Acoustic Guitar Book 2 Digital Download: Improve your rhythm guitar playing while learning how to play popular rock and country songs like Man of Constant Sorrow, Brown Eyed Girl, and Family Tradition.

Electic Guitar Primer Digital Download: Learn the basics of playing electric guitar. This beginner course covers chords and riffs to popular electric guitar songs.

Blues Guitar Book Digital Download: is the best way to learn blues guitar rhythm and soloing. Starting off with the basic 12 Bar Blues and advancing into licks and solos, this is the perfect intro to get you started on playing the blues.

Rock Guitar Book Digital Download: a dowloadable .pdf covering how to play rock rhythm and soloing. Learn standard chord progressions, pentatonic scales, and rock guitar licks.

Guitarist's Scale Book Digital Download: a complete scale encyclopedia for guitar with over 400 scales and modes in downloadable .pdf form. (no audio)

Guitarist's Chord Book Digital Download: a 144 page downloadable .pdf that contains over 900 chords with photos to clearly illustrate each chord and each note of the chord is labeled. (no audio)


Blues Guitar

Learn classic techniques and licks of the Blues with our Blues Guitar Premium Downloads. These lessons taught by Peter Vogl and Jody Worrell will teach you how to go beyond just using the penatonic scale in the 1st position. Improve your blues play with: Classic Blues Licks, Turnarounds, Scale Choice, Double Stops, Bends, Moveable Blues, Moveable Blues 2, Pedal Tone Notes, Pedal Tone Notes 2, Bluesy Thirds, Am Blues Licks

Rock Guitar

Our series of Rock Guitar Premium Downloads by are 15-20 minute downloadable Quicktime videos on how to improve your rock guitar solos. Many of the famous rock guitar solos that you recognize are based on specific music theories. We'll take a look at how to use those same scales and theories to create new licks and solos. Our lessons include Major Pentatonic Licks, Major Triad Licks, and More Major Triad Licks, Gm7 D7#9 Licks

Jazz Guitar

Our series of Jazz Guitar lessons by Billy Wilkie consists of 15-20 minute Quicktime video lessons. You will learn the basics of playing jazz guitar like standard chord progressions, comping, adding bass notes, different rhythms and licks. Our current lessons include jazz chord based instruction about the Blues Chord Progression, 2-5-1 Progression, Minor 2-5-1 Progression, Major Chord Substitutes, and Dominant Chord Substitutes. We also have lessons based on jazz guitar licks like Classic Jazz Licks, Classic Jazz Licks II, Altered Licks, Static Chord Licks, and More Joe Pass Style.

Guitar Techniques

Our Guitar Techniques series by Peter Vogl covers a variety of topics from stretching and drillls that will improve your guitar playing to skillful techniques that the pros use to enhance their sound. These Quicktime video lessons include Warm Up and Drills, Complex Drills, More Complex Drills, the beginning fundamentals of Classical Guitar, and Sweep Picking Concepts.

Slide Guitar

If you ever wanted to learn how to play slide guitar but didn't know where to start, Michael Doke's series of Slide Guitar lessons is your answer. Start with just the basics of how to hold the slide or check out some more advanced chord progressions or licks. Our slide guitar lessons include: Beginning Slide Concepts, Chord Progression and Licks, More Chord Progressions, Double Stop Jam, and Melodic Licks. We also have a lesson covering how to play slide like Duane Allman.

Chick'n Pick'n

The Chick'n Pick'n guitar series is the ultimate guide for learning how to play country guitar. Peter Vogl teaches you how to get that twang into your solos. The lessons cover such topics as how to use a pick and pluck with you right hand, scales, licks, equiptment set-up, and music theory. Our Chick'n Pick'n lessons include Intro and 1st Position Licks, More 1st Position Licks, Bends, Right Hand Technique, and Pentatonic Ideas.

Jam Tracks

blue and rock guitar lessons

The Let's Jam Digital Downloads (audio only) are a collection of rhythm tracks that are perfect for playing guitar over to practice scales, solos, and licks. Each album comes with a .pdf booklet that has the chord progressions for each songs and suggestions for scales to play over the track. We have collections of jam tracks for Rock and Blues, Country and Bluegrass, Jazz and Blues, Hard Rock, and Acoustic Rock. We also have jam tracks for bass players and drummers.