Intro to Lead Guitar

You remember that time when the lead singer turned to you and said "Take it!"? She meant take this DVD lesson on guitar soloing and make good use of it! Here's some of the stuff you'll learn about: Thinking like a Lead Guitar player * Vibrato * Building a Solo using movable licks * Picking Exercises for the Right Hand * Sweep Picking* Alternating Picking * Harmonized Scales on adjacent and non-adjacent strings * Bending Strings - whole steps and half steps * Hammer on Licks * Sliding phrases* Finding and playing melodies * Playing Licks vs. Melodies* Training Your Ear* Spicing Up A Melody * And more! It will improve your solo playing and get you spinning out some hot guitar breaks!


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Resophonic Guitar for Beginners Volume 1

The firs of a two volume set of DVDs that takes you from zero to 60 MPH in a couple of hours. This set is specifically designed for beginners and covers tone production, intonation, good right and left hand positioning, hammer-ons and pull-offs, rolls, blocking and damping techniques, and scales. I also teach a few tunes to apply your newfound techniques. The tunes include Wildwood Flower, Weave & Way, Kentucky Waltz, Trouble in Mind, Fireball, one of my tunes, Lamb Chops, and some blues variations. If you fully work your way thru both discs you WILL be able to play the dobro.

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Resophonic Guitar for Beginners Volume 2

Lesson #2!

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Tricks, Licks, and Techniques for Dobro Volume 1

This disc contains a smorgasbord of tips and techniques good for beginners and intermediate players. It concentrates on nuts and bolts of operating your musical appliance. Some of the topics covered include * Scales & Blocking Techniques * Playing up and Down One String * Sliding with Triplets * Intonation * Bar Tilts * Damping * Scale Patterns Across 6 Strings in Closed Positions * Practicing Scales in a Musical Manner * Vibrato * Harmonics * Palm Harmonics (Chimes) * Playing In Different Keys Without a Capo using Red Haired Boy as an example* There's a little overlap (scale patterns and harmonics) with my previous discs but enough other material to make this one valuable even if you've been thru the others.

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Tricks, Licks, and Techniques for Dobro Volume 2

Orville continues his Dobro lesson this time with an emphasis on the blues for intermediate players. He covers: what makes something sound bluesy, playing through a 12 bar blues in G, rhythm and lead - blues in E, slanting bar techniques and scales, playing in open G, the rake, pulling behind the bar, fast triplet licks, melodic style picking, "Shenandoah" and arranging for yourself, and more.

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Bottleneck Slide

This lesson is for beginners. I offer exercises to develop good tone and intonation, finding melodies on the guitar, and getting a good sound. Most of the lesson is in standard tuning but I go into open G for one song at the end.

 

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Fingerstyle Open D Tuning

The point of this video is to introduce open D tuning to intermediate players who are new to open tunings. I concentrate on scales and patterns, ways to approach arranging tunes you already know in the new tuning and I teach a few tunes to illustrate my ideas. Tablature for the tunes is included with this DVD on a separate CD-ROM so you can print it out. No tab book to lose!

 

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Hey Everybody!- You may have noticed my calendar ends at the beginning of the pandemic. finally, three years later, gigs are becoming a reality again and I do have some things on the horizon. I'll begin posting here again soon, so I hope to see you in the near future in a live, human-to-human situation!

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