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Titles by: ROLLY BROWN
 
Rolly on the Blues - A Beginner's Guide to Playing Fingerstyle Blues Guitar (DVD)
taught by Rolly Brown
In this beginners’ guide to playing acoustic fingerstyle blues, Rolly Brown teaches the essential nuts and bolts for getting acquainted with some primary forms of this wide-ranging topic. The starting point is the solo 12 bar blues in the key of E, influenced by the primal sounds of the playing of the great Sam Lightnin  Hopkins. Within this simple but eloquent structure, Rolly explores ...
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PRODUCT ID: GW1053
FORMAT : DVD
UPC: 796279114196
Price:
$29.95
Where Blues Meets Jazz (DVD)
taught by Rolly Brown
Rolly Brown has spent a good bit of his guitar career navigating the territory between the more primal and emotional forms of blues and the more cerebral and sophisticated elements of jazz as they apply to the acoustic guitar. In this video lesson, he explores the large blurry area where the two closely related genres meet. Beginning with an explorat...
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PRODUCT ID: GW1052
FORMAT : DVD
UPC: 796279114189
Price:
$29.95
A Nuts & Bolts Approach to Exploring Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar (DVD)
taught by Rolly Brown
Choosing four of his favorite jazz standards, Rolly Brown presents an inside view into his construction of a fingerstyle guitar version of each tune. With a concentration on sophisticated but easily fingered chord positions, this lesson offers an excellent introduction into the world of jazz for folk, pop, or blues guitarists who are ready to expand their panorama of musical colors. The tunes move from the more familiar keys, C and G, into approachable "starter" keys for jazz: F and Bb, and move from the mo...
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PRODUCT ID: GW1034
FORMAT : DVD
UPC: 796279114011
Price:
$29.95
A Nuts and Bolts Approach to Ear Training for the Guitarist (DVD)
taught by Rolly Brown
Rolly Brown leads you through a series of lessons designed particularly to help guitarists hear, understand, and learn guitar music. The emphasis here is on hearing and identifying sound, with only the bare minimum of music theory information required to help you organize sound into understandable patterns. Included are quizzes and exercises about some very basic scales and melodies, then on to some chords and chord progressions. These give you ample opportunity to test your listening skills on the included...
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PRODUCT ID: GW1035
FORMAT : DVD
UPC: 796279114028
Price:
$29.95
Art of Noodling (DVD)
taught by Rolly Brown
The Art of Noodling reflects Rolly Brown's ongoing campaign to offer user-friendly material which helps guitarists obtain more freedom on their instruments. In this case, "Noodling" refers to the ability to just pick up your guitar and make the music you hear in your head, whether it's a country blues, a folk song, or a free improvisation. The pathway is a series of specific exercises which can be learned and memorized, but which, one hopes, will also be used as templates or models which can lead you to ...
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PRODUCT ID: GW1025
FORMAT : DVD
UPC: 796279113885
Price:
$29.95
A Nuts and Bolts Approach to Arranging for Fingerstyle Guitar (DVD)
taught by Rolly Brown
Rolly Brown teaches an organized approach to exploring and combining rhythm, melody, and harmony to create fingerstyle guitar arrangements. This lesson includes numerous tips, tools and techniques, a look at approaching different musical styles and just enough theoretical knowledge to get you started at arranging your own versions of whatever sort of music you want to create on the guitar. Numerous examples are shown and discussed. Topics include: Arpeggiated rolling rhythm , Arranging for constant alter...
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PRODUCT ID: GW1024DVD
FORMAT : DVD
UPC: 796279113823
Price:
$29.95
A Nuts and Bolts Approach Waste Not Thy Time (DVD)
taught by Rolly Brown
Rolly Brown has been practicing the guitar for 50 years, and, in that time, he's developed a large armamentarium of tools to aid and motivate himself and his students. In this two hour DVD, starting with his rule of "half work, half play", he shares many of these ideas, interspersed with teachings to help you better enjoy and understand music and the guitar from a simple "nuts and bolts" point of view. Whatever style of music you play, you want ways of practicing rhythm, harmony, and melody, the 3...
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PRODUCT ID: GW1023DVD
FORMAT : DVD
UPC: 796279113816
Price:
$29.95
The Guitar of Bert Jansch (DVD)
taught by Rolly Brown
Bert Jansch was one of the most influential and unique guitarists emerge from the British folk music scene of the sixties. His influence can be traced in the playing of Neil Young, Jimmy Page, Johnny Marr, and countless others. Over the course of nearly fifty years, he produced a prodigious body of work, as a solo guitarist, singer, and songwriter, as a member of the seminal "folk-baroque" band Pentangle, as a duo with his equally revered friend John Renbourn and in a variety of other ensemble situations...
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PRODUCT ID: GW1021DVD
FORMAT : DVD
UPC: 796279113779
Price:
$29.95
A Nuts & Bolts Approach to Fingerpicking Guitar (2-DVD Set)
taught by Rolly Brown
In this double DVD, Rolly Brown teaches you how to fingerpick the guitar from the ground up, starting with the most basic components and, in a step-by-step method, marking the path from rank beginner to competent intermediate/advanced player. If you know a few basic chords on the guitar, then you're ready to start working with these DVDs. Also, if you've played fingerstyle guitar for 20 years, but never quite gotten beyond playing specific arrangements of tunes, or if you feel that there's still s...
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PRODUCT ID: GW1016SDVD
FORMAT : 2-DVD Set
UPC: 796279113724
Price:
$39.95
Uncaged & Free (DVD)
taught by Rolly Brown
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. Included are: The five neck positions and their chord structures.The five most effortless major scale fingerings. Superimpositio...
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PRODUCT ID: GW1015DVD
FORMAT : DVD
UPC: 796279113717
Price:
$29.95
Improvisation An Interactive Approach (DVD)
taught by Rolly Brown
Rolly Brown leads you through an organized approach to improvisation on the guitar. Starting with "Rolly's Rule", the notion that your guitar should recall aspects of the human voice, the lesson takes an interactive approach to exploring several different genres of musical improvisation, with Rolly playing instructive examples of these styles, then playing rhythm while you work through the exercises. You'll learn: The one, two and three note solos Soloing over a Blues...
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PRODUCT ID: GW1013DVD
FORMAT : DVD
UPC: 796279113328
Price:
$29.95
Owning A Jazz Standard (DVD)
taught by Rolly Brown
This lesson focuses on developing a comprehensive understanding of a single tune, "Back Home In Indiana", as a model for learning and understanding jazz standards in general. You'll learn: The Melody ...
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PRODUCT ID: GW1014DVD
FORMAT : DVD
UPC: 796279113335
Price:
$29.95
Solo Flatpicking Guitar (DVD)
taught by Rolly Brown
This lesson focuses on solo flatpicking guitar, both for creating interesting accompaniments for singers, and for playing solo instrumental tunes and breaks. Starting with a discussion of the mechanics of good right and left hand technique, you'll learn: 3 Basic Flatpick Rhythm Techniques Playing a Melody Keeping the Beat Connecting Chords With Bass Runs Syncopated Bass Runs Crosspicking and Rolls Devices for the Melody The Mighty Middle Finger Floating and Arpeggio...
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PRODUCT ID: GW1012DVD
FORMAT : DVD
UPC: 796279113311
Price:
$29.95
A Nuts and Bolts Approach to Chords (DVD)
taught by Rolly Brown
Life is short! Music is important! Don't procrastinate about something you actually want to do! Go to guitar camp for a week. Go to jams and festivals! Music enriches your life! Do what you love! You'll be happier and healthier. You'll meet some wonderful people, one of whom may be yourself. Rolly Brown This lesson is designed to set you on the road to playing chordal swing and jazz guitar with the freedom of an accomplished improvisor. It can help you hold a large repertoire of chords in your head, with...
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PRODUCT ID: GW1009DVD
FORMAT : DVD
UPC: 796279113212
Price:
$29.95
A Nuts and Bolts Approach to Melody (DVD)
taught by Rolly Brown
In this lesson Rolly gets you on the road to playing improvisationally over all manner of chord progressions. It will teach you how, with just a couple basic scales, you can understand how all of the twelve tones fit into a framework for soloing, and, then, how you can develop great soloing chops without even thinking about scales. Material covered includes: Major and Blues scales; the basic building blocks. Understanding how each note sounds within a key signature by training your ear. Alt...
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PRODUCT ID: GW1010DVD
FORMAT : DVD
UPC: 796279113229
Price:
$29.95
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