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Fingerstyle Guitar Book Sale

Fingerstyle Guitar Book Sale

October 1st-31st

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By Stefan Grossman

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Stompin' Along the Fretboard

Stompin' Along the Fretboard

October 1st - 31st

6 Great Lessons in this Series

Just $17.50 EACH

from Ben Gateno

Every Wednesday is a FREE LESSON with tab/music

Every Wednesday is a FREE LESSON with tab/music

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VESTAPOL DVD SALE

VESTAPOL DVD SALE

All Vestapol Historic DVDs
now on sale for $10 each

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Alberto Lombardi Lessons

Alberto Lombardi Lessons

Challenge Your Fingerpicking Chops

Three great Lessons on Sale

October 7th - 14th ONLY

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Accessing the PDF Booklets on our DVDs & CDs
On our DVD lessons and some SGGW CDs you will find tab/music PDF booklets. These are easy to access on either a Mac or a PC.
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Welcome to Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop

Welcome to Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop and Vestapol Videos, offering the best in instructional guitar DVDs, Audio CDs and Books, and the Vestapol series of historic and concert DVDs. We offer a wide variety of DVD and CD audio lessons focusing on various aspects of fingerstyle and flatpicking guitar styles and techniques.

Our roster of teachers is a who's who of the guitar world.

Our roster of teachers reads like a "Who's Who" of the guitar world. Our DVD lessons present the finest in clear and incisive visual education. Each tune is performed in full and then explained.

You'll find Nashville fingerstyle, Country and Delta Blues, Ragtime, Celtic, Swing Jazz, Rockabilly, Classic Ragtime, and straight Jazz lessons in our catalog. Our DVD lessons present the finest in clear and incisive visual education.  

Each tune is performed in full and then explained. This is followed by the piece being played slowly on a split screen, allowing the student to see both the right and left hand movements. Everything played during the split screen segments is transcribed and presented in a PDF tab/music booklet that is on the DVD lesson. Bonus audio tracks are included on our Country Blues lessons.

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Accessing the PDF Booklets on our DVDs & CDs

On our DVD lessons and some SGGW CDs you will find tab/music PDF booklets. These are easy to access on either a Mac or a PC.
PDF Booklets are included for both physical products as well as digital downloads where they are indicated as part of A particular product.

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This lesson features a mixed bag of seven songs that I’ve arranged in a variety of ways, employing tricks and licks that I’ve picked up over the years in my quest to find my own “style”. Each song has it’s own built-in exercises for fingerpicker’s looking to head in new directions.

In this double DVD lesson I explore my approach to lick techniques on the acoustic guitar. I have been an electric guitarist for most of my life. I had to adapt the things I do on electric to the acoustic guitar. I had to learn how to incorporate these techniques to my thumb picking arrangements.

The Blues has been called The Devil's Music. It can be played in many different ways. Each brings a different dimension to this timeless musical form. In this lesson we travel the roads and byways of the South in search of various approaches to translate this musical form to the strings and frets of your guitar. From Atlanta to the Mississippi Delta, from New Orleans to Texas, this lesson presents diverse and exciting fingerstyle blues techniques and styles.

The CAGED system has become the most popular of many methods for understanding how to navigate the guitar fingerboard. In this DVD, Rolly Brown discusses its strengths and weaknesses, how to use it in order to get the maximum result with the least effort, and how to transcend its weaknesses, becoming able to move up and down the neck in the most fluid and fluent fashion.

In this DVD lesson you will learn some of the classic songs performed by Mississippi John Hurt. Unlike some of his contemporaries who played in open tunings, John Hurt mostly used standard tuning and played in a variety of keys. His playing demonstrates a systematic approach to playing melody and rhythm with an alternating thumb technique that allows for playing up and down the neck without the extensive use of chord inversions and tricky fingerings

Mississippi Hill Country Blues Guitar offers a look into the Hill Country technique byway of songs from legendary artists Fred McDowell, R.L. Burnside, Jessie Mae Hemphill, Junior Kimbrough, Rosa Lee Hill and Ranie Burnette.

Stefan's Updates

Dave Evans - In Between the Days Shindig Article
Read the complete Dave Evans article from Shindig Magazine
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Accessing the PDF Booklets on our DVDs & CDs
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"Work and Worry" Interview with Stefan Grossman
I had been reviewing records and DVDs from Stefan Grossman’s Guitar Workshop on this blog, pretty much since its inception. I happened to see an announcement on Grossman’s Yuku forum that he was getting ready to present a country blues workshop in Sparta, New Jersey, his home base. I thought that this might be my opportunity to nab an interview with the man.
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Fingerstyle Guitar Journal Interview
Read the full Interview with Stefan Grossman by downloading the PDF file link
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Wednesday's FREE Video Lesson with PDF tab/music
Every Wednesday we e-mail a link to a free lesson of ours on YouTube including a link to the PDF tab/music for that lesson. Make sure to be signed up to our mailing list to receive this information.
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VINTAGE GUITAR MAGAZINE praises The Guitar of Robert Johnson - By Michael Dregni
We rarely review instructional videos, but this one is something special. And it’s more than just a how-to guide:it’s an in-depth, note-for-note-documentary look at the playing-style of one of the most influential blues men of all time. And for that reason alone –whether you’re willing to sell your soul to the devil to learn to play like Mr. Johnson or not – you owe it to yourself to check out Mr. Feldmann’s study.
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