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Dave Van Ronk's DVD lesson spans a wide variety of exciting and powerful music. The blues of Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell, the 'old fashioned' picking of Rev. Gary Davis, the ragtime bounce of Bl...

This DVD lesson is designed to give the intermediate/advanced student a wide assortment of technical challenges and an arsenal of hot licks that can be used, expanded and explored when playing blues t...

In this double DVD lesson, Ernie Hawkins teaches in detail nine of Rev. Gary Davis's best known blues arrangements. These songs have become well known through the playing of Bob Dylan (Baby, Let Me La...

In this double DVD set, Stefan Großman teaches a wide array of folk blues arrangements. You will study playing in various tunings, i. e. Standard, Dropped D, DADGAD, Open D and Open C tunings. The son...

Learning to play the Guitar without having a deep exposure to the Blues seems almost as strange as wanting to sing without first being able to speak. This method allows you to therefore discover all o...

This course in solfege and tablature, is perfect to introduce or to improve yourself to the blues guitar. It will teach you the blues rhythmics, typical phrases used in blues, the turnarounds, the ope...

An entirely revised edition of the classic instruction guide for guitar players. Explore traditional playing styles through transcriptions and analysis of 26 tunes by master players. Includes LP disco...

This 2 DVD set comnprising Electric Blues Volumes 1 and 2 includes tutorials for: > Blues scale positions > Phrasing ideas > Fast blues licks in the style of Gary Moore, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapt...

In this lesson John Miller will provide you with the tools you need to develop your ability to tell what position or tuning a Country Blues performance was played out of simply by listening to the rec...

Beginning to build a repertoire of songs that you can play comfortably is the first important step in getting started in the Country Blues. But once you've got that repertoire-building process started...

Fingerpicking blues guitar is a never ending study full of surprises and discoveries. Each key of the guitar offers new sounds and textures. A blues played in the key of C sounds world's apart from a...

Fingerpicking blues guitar is a never ending study full of surprises and discoveries. Each key of the guitar offers new sounds and textures. A blues played in the key of C sounds world's apart from a...

In this instructional DVD, Fred teaches you how to fingerpick eight all-time blues classics. Most of them come from the old school of blues performers like Memphis Minnie, Big Bill Broonzy, Mance Lips...

The blues has always been spiced with suggestive metaphors. This collection of bawdy blues songs celebrates the off-colour blues repertoire: Bessie Smith is wild about her kitchen man's turnip tops, b...

In this second DVD lesson devoted to the guitar playing of Lightnin' Hopkins, Ernie Hawkins dives into Lightnin's early catalogue from the Aladdin and Gold Star record labels. There was an amazing var...

The city of St. Louis played host, in the 1920s and 1930s, to one of the most distinctive and vital blues scenes ever documented on record. Like Memphis and Atlanta, St. Louis served as a sort of magn...

As the Country Blues began to be recorded, in the mid-1920s, it soon became apparent that the music was being played and appreciated not only by African-American musicians and audiences, but by white...

The blues recorded from the late 1920's through late 1930's is certainly some of the most vibrant sounds in American music history. It seems that anyone and everyone could and would be recorded which...

In this lesson Tom Feldmann takes you to where it all began, Dockery Plantation, dubbed 'The Birthplace of the Blues', and highlights the earliest recording artists that gave Dockery its legendary sta...

The Country Blues guitar duet tradition is rich and varied, but it has been relatively unexplored by present day blues players. This is a shame for a couple of reasons there are a lot of great duets t...

Music from the church always featured in the repertoires of Country Blues Guitarists. In this lesson we explore several styles of fingerpicking gospel tunes. We start with playing in the key of C and...

Rare and historical recordings from 1965-70. The musicians presented in this video are amongst the greatest exponents of slide blues guitar who ever lived and are ample testimony to the superb variety...

This DVD features rare footage depicting some of the greatest blues musicians who ever lived. Features Mississippi John Hurt, Son House, Rev. Gary Davis, Big Bill Broonzy and others.

An opportunity to explore the world of a generation of pre-war bluesmen, now long-dead, captured on film for this DVD. Rare footage of Bukka White, Sam Chatmon, Big Joe Williams, Houston Stackhouse, R...

John Lee Hooker is one of the foremost blues performers of the post war period. A Mississippi country bluesman, he has remained true to his fundamental principles throughout a professional career of m...