joel w.'s Profile

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This dvd featuring Happy Traum, was really just what I needed to get me started with the fabled "alternating thumb" style guitar that I have heard all of my life, and wondered "how they did that". My concern was if the teacher would jump all over the place and leave me behind? Well the answer is no for this dvd. Happy is a very good player, and is a very humble teacher. He starts out with the very basics, ie...to use fingerpicks or not, the basics of the alternating notes, the chords and the bass strings that accompany them. You may think its too easy to start out with, but he includes varying degrees of difficulty throughout the dvd. He includes the tab with all of the songs tabbed out so you dont have to learn strictly by ear. I have never played this style and I am on the third song already. I would consider myself almost an intermediate on the guitar before I rented it. So if you want to learn this style by what I call the "easy way" then I think this dvd is the ticket.