"Buster B. Jones is the best fingerpicker I’ve heard since Jerry Reed. He plays like he’s double parked." – Chet Atkins

"Buster B. Jones is an acoustic player, a fingerpicker, a country flavored soloist, and he’s one of the finest players we've heard in years... His technique is only a means to an end. His true gifts are his melodic sense, innate musicianship, unfailing human, and brilliant improvisational powers. He can drive a tune with fluid rhythmic force or stroke it with sensuous, loving touch... He’s a monster player with chops galore, great ideas and an encyclopedic reservoir of guitaristic influences." – Guitar Player Magazine

The style of Jerry Reed is a unique blend of syncopated rhythms, banjo-style rolls and brilliant chord voicings that brings a new dimension to fingerstyle guitar. Walking bass-lines, chromatic runs, double-stops and counterpoint melodies are seamlessly joined by Jerry’s unique "claw" style right-hand technique which is essential to getting his sound. In this dvd lesson Buster B. Jones teaches you all the necessary elements to play like Jerry Reed.

Titles include: Reedology, The Claw, Jiffy Jam, Jerry’s Breakdown, Down Home, Papa’s Knee and Lord Mr. Ford

70 minutes • Level 3/4 • Detailed tab/music PDF file on the DVD

"I can't remember when I didn't play the guitar. And I can't remember when playing the guitar didn't lift me up to seventh heaven or thereabouts. Sleeping and eating were never nearly as important to me, and up to the time I was twelve, there wasn't a pretty girl within a hundred miles who looked half as good as my old guitar. Ever since I first heard guitar music, I knew I had to learn to create that sound -- the sound that I thought was the most beautiful music in the world. I still think so." - Chet Atkins

This DVD lesson is for intermediate and advanced fingerstyle guitarists. Chet performs and describes in detail, phrase by phrase, the playing of nine of his classic arrangements. An 80 page tab/music booklet is included.

"Someone once asked me to estimate how many guitar lessons I've had in my lifetime," Chet has said. "The answer is simple -- none. There were no teachers in our neighborhood when I was learning. And if there had been I doubt whether they would have taught me with that shabby guitar of mine. But I kept a lookout for any stray 'picker' that wandered into town and if he knew any new runs I would learn them before he left."

You are fortunate -- your teacher for this lesson is one of the foremost fingerstyle guitar masters in the history of the guitar. Have fun!

Titles include: Maybelle, Petite Waltz, Happy Again, Londonderry Aire, When You Wish Upon A Star, Young Thing, Bye Bye Blackbird, Mr. Bojangles and Lover Come Back

84 minutes - Level 3/4 - Detailed tab/music PDF file on the DVD

Review: Informative and entertaining. If you are a Chet Atkins fan, and any guitar player should be, this little DVD is something that should always be in your collection. Not just "how to play licks" but a look at how Chet approached a song and how he thought. - Eldon Snippet/Amazon Customer Review 

Review: Great music ideas from Chet. I got this DVD a few years ago. Its not easy but its worth learning. Chet explains his tunes well, and plays them so smoothly. It's a joy to listen to. With a lot of practice you'll have 9 great guitar pieces to play. They will impress anyone. - Big Man Band/Amazon Customer Review

Review: You must be a Intermediate or Advanced player. A very good DVD. Tommy Emmanuel plays like Chet and learned some things from him before he past away. This would not be a starter for guitar. This is kind of hard stuff. His harmonics are very hard to do. Even Intermediate players like me will have a problem with those but with enough practice you will get them though. - Mike Neiheisel/Amazon Customer Review

"Dadi's knowledge of and affection for Travis shine through in this video. The presentation and the accompanying tab booklet are excellent... This tape serves as both an educational tool and a documentary on the work of Merle Travis." – Sing Out!

Merle Travis's playing combined blues, jazz, ragtime and country music into a unique style that defined "Country Fingerstyle Guitar." In this exciting DVD lesson, Marcel Dadi teaches seven of Merle's greatest instrumentals: Fuller's Blues, Cane Break Blues, Blue Bells, Saturday Night Shuffle, Memphis Blues, Cannon Ball Rag and Walkin' The Strings. All the tunes are transcribed in a PDF tab/music booklet. As well, five rare performances from 1951 of Merle Travis playing Nine Pound Hammer, Lost John, John Henry, Mus'rat and Too Much Sugar For A Dime are included in the DVD.

95 minutes • Level 3/4 • Detailed tab/music PDF file on the DVD

Review: Fingerpicking Great by a Fingerpicking Great!! I just got this DVD and it is amazing! If you are a fingerpicker or a fan of country jazz fingerstyle guitar you will love this. There are not only footage of Merle playing 'Lost John', 'John Henry', Nine Pound Hammer' (my favorite),'Muskrat' and a very entertaining duet on 'Too Much Sugar For A Dime'(the combo is hot: guitar, standup bass, fiddle and trumpet and Merle soloing flawlessly). It is evident that this project is a labor of love and that guitarist Marcel Dadi has spent lots of time perfecting the Travis Style of picking. He displays a detailed knowledge of Travis' style: the two-finger approach with the use of thumb in chording as opposed to bar chords. Marcel is a great teacher too! He explains the songs and plays them at regular speed then slow with split screen. He teaches songs such as Memphis Blues, Walking The Strings and of course 'Cannonball Rag' (this alone is worth the price of the DVD!). I learned this song note for note from this DVD as well as gained a new respect for Marcel Dadi as a guitarist and teacher and deepened my fascination and respect for Merle Travis! Buy this DVD! You will fall in love with the music of Merle Travis, and your feet won't stop tapping! – Philip D. Parshall/Amazon Customer Review 

Review: Incredibile value and invaluable! I knew this would be a great Merle Travis tutorial given that it was done by the legendary Marcel Dadi. Marcel was a great picker - too soon gone and much missed. I was afraid I would have trouble with his accent, but he spoke very clear English. This video did not disappoint in quality. The surprise though is in the value! I thought I was getting 7 tunes, 3 of which I already learned from Thom Bresh's Homespun video. However, not only does Marcel give a slightly different version of each (Travis never played the same way twice, so this is in true Travis tradition) but, in true Marcel tradition, he includes a tab of every tune on the video! That means, not only do you get the rare footage of Travis playing 5 tunes (one with the great Eddie Kirk on rhythm, and you can learn a lot just by studying his great rhythm chord break - like Eldon Shamblin used to use to punctuate all those great Bob Wills tunes) but you get the full tab - so, you really get 12 full tunes! That makes this lesson the best value ever. – Oldsouth/Amazon Customer Review