Beginners Fingerpicking Blues Guitar

One of Fred Sokolow's best lessons
This DVD lesson is a gem. While the DVD is entitled "Beginners Fingerpicking Blues", the arrangements certainly don't sound like beginner's stuff. Sokolow, who plays a spectacular New Era Senorita steel-string guitar on this DVD, presents a tasty bunch of blues classics that cover a lot of different styles (like alternating bass, monotonic bass à la Mance Lipscomb, songs that use some jazzy chords). I like especially the modern urban blues arrangement of Charles Brown's 1951 hit "Black Night", where he changed the line "my brother is in Korea" to "my brother is in Afghanistan", explaining there is "never any shortage of wars to bring a tune up-to-date".

Each song is being taught according to the same pattern: First, there is a full-fledged performance of the tune, then Sokolow goes step by step through the arrangement explaining what to look out for. Lastly, there is a split-screen version of each tune where he plays the arrangement in slow speed.

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Great teacher~
I love Fred Sokolow's teaching method - so easy and clear. This video was exactly what I was looking for and it's truly helped me begin to explore my bluesy side!



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