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Drawing on four decades of teaching experience, Happy Traum has devised this nearly foolproof method to help you get off to a great start. He trains you to "rewire your brain" so that playing in this style becomes second nature. Happy also imparts invaluable information about finger picks, string damping, Travis style picking and other important topics.
DVD 1 starts you from scratch. The simple childrenŽs song Skip to My Lou helps you learn the basic concepts before you move on to fingerpicking standards such as Spike DriverŽs Blues, Green, Green Rocky Road, Staggerlee, Nine Pound Hammer and HoboŽs Lullaby. With each piece youŽll acquire new skills and by the end of this lesson youŽll be able to apply them to any song in your repertoire.
This video was added to our catalog on April 16, 2005 in Musical Instruction::Guitar.
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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.
I was very pleased with this video. The instructor has an easy-going yet encouraging manner. The approach makes a lot of sense and gets you going in this challenging style fairly quickly. Each tune builds on the previous one. Good foundation for learning this style.
