A pioneering Celtic fingerstyle guitar player, Steve Baughman has toured, recorded and taught extensively throughout the world. The author of five guitar books and was recently named one of the world?s 100 best guitarists. His Solid Air Records CD, The Angels Portion , ranks on Digital Dream Door?s list of the 100 Greatest Acoustic Guitar albums, and his Celtic Guitar Summit CD was an Acoustic Guitar Magazine Editor?s Pick. Baughman not only performs a wide selection of dance tunes and lovely ballads here, but breathes life into them with a technique that he describes in detail and demonstrates step by step. Features: 12 songs; 57 pages of TAB notation on DVD (PDF) filmed in Hi-Definition; Multi-angle viewing for close ups of left or right hand or overall picture.

Guitar virtuoso Frederic Hand teaches exquisite classical guitar arrangements of four widely known and much-beloved American folk songs: The Water Is Wide, Wayfaring Stranger, Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair, and We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder. He shows you how, by using lush chords, rich harmonies and inventive improvisational elements, you can make each one a beautiful and compelling performance piece. Fred teaches full concert arrangements as well as easier alternate versions for novice players who are just getting into this style of music. Learning either (or both) of these will be deeply satisfying for anyone who loves the sound of classical guitar. Fred makes this a complete learning experience by carefully explaining chord extensions and substitutions, harmonic voicings up and down the neck of the guitar and elements of music theory. He shows how to use improvisational techniques and ways to enhance these as well as other songs, so that you can make them truly your own. NOTE: Although most classical guitarists prefer the tone and feel of nylon strings, these pieces can also be played on steel string guitars. Includes music and tab. 80 minutes.

Popular singer/songwriter David Wilcox is renowned for inventive fingerstyle accompaniments to his original songs. Using a variety of unusual tunings, David shows how he provides rich harmonics and counterpoints to accompany his incisive lyrics. Teaches nine of his popular songs: Eye Of The Hurricane, Rusty Old American Dream, New World, Language Of The Heart, Distant Water, spin, and more.Great insights - a must for all guitarists! 80 min. video, includes booklet, level 3.

One of the hottest guitarists on the Irish scene today breaks apart his accompaniment style for the learning player. He demonstrates his complex strumming patterns and shows how to add interest and depth to a basic three-chord tune by using substitutions to change the underlying harmonic structure. More than a dozen great reels, jigs and hornpipes are analyzed rhythmically, including: Crowley's ; The Mountain Road ; Craig's Pipes ; The Gooseberry Bush ; Gallagher's Frolics ; Mist Covered Mountain ; Langstrom's Pony ; Humours of Whiskey ; Banks of Loch Gamhna ; Return to Camden Town ; Fermoy Lasses ; The Girl That Broke My Heart ; Chief O'Neill's Hornpipe ; Tim Henry's Favorite ; The Pullet 85-min. DVD; includes music + tab ; level 3