 acousticguitarworkshop.com The Acoustic Guitar Workshop
We are based in Bristol, UK. Partners and artists include Steve Elliott, Rick Payne, Tim Sparks, Gilbert Isbin, Martin Solomon and Bob Pierce. From our studios we produce a wealth of acoustic guitar instruction material. Acousticguitarworkshop.com has stacks of resources for acoustic guitarists and fans. We publish a monthly newsletter, ACOUSTIC GUITAR REVIEW which brings you free content including lessons, mp3 and tab.
Acoustic Guitar Workshop CD ROM Acoustic Guitar Instruction packages, featuring digital video. These tuition packages are produced in association with truefire.com
60 DAY FINGERSTYLE BLUES CAMP Written by Rick Payne
DIGITAL VIDEO | MP3 | POWERTAB | PDF
Less is more when it comes to fingerstyle blues. Just a few basic chords and open tunings to learn. And the fingerpicking techniques are easy for any player to pick up even hard-core flatpickers.
10 CD US Version
5CD UK Version
FINGERSTYLE FUSION Written by Rick Payne
DIGITAL VIDEO | MP3 | POWERTAB | PDF
Written and presented by AGW's Rick Payne, Fingerstyle Fusion is your first step to getting a quick grip on contemporary fingerstyle.
US Version Only
BLUENOTES
- 2CD ROM Written by Rick Payne
DIGITAL VIDEO | MP3 | POWERTAB | PDF
This course presents a fresh approach for applying blues scales, pentatonics and even the mysterious diminished connection to power up your blues solos.
US version
UK version
FINGERSTYLE ENCORES 4CD ROM
Written by Rick Payne
DIGITAL VIDEO | MP3 | POWERTAB |PDF
Blues, rags and classic Fingerstyle techniques and tunes. 8 tunes broken down in detail and dissected on video. This is a real handful and will keep pickers pickin' for a month of Sundays!
US version ONLY
RAGTIME PICKER -
2CD ROM Written by Rick Payne
DIGITAL VIDEO | MP3 | POWERTAB | PDF
AGW's Rick Payne presents 4 classic Ragtime guitar tunes: "The Glory Of Love","The Deptford Cakewalk", "Cincinnati Flow Rag"and"St Louis Blues".
UK VersionONLY
Rick Payne, Professor of the Blues says:
Dear
Guitar Player
As an eager student of the acoustic guitar, I have always been interested in discovering the mechanics of playing different styles. The blues and ragtime had me reeling to work out how something so simple as a few chords thrown together, could be so dammed difficult. I had been through loads of normal books on fingerstyle but couldn't find the essence of simplicity that the playing of Muddy Waters or Big Bill Broonzy conjured up. It was frustrating. I found I could play all kinds of bluesy instrumentals but lacked what I felt was real blues.
As all good things come to pass, I finally had my eureka a few years down the line. I was listening to an album by Lightening Hopkins and was amazed that all I was hearing was a four beat boom on the bass strings and an occasional ting on the top. Of course, there were other things happening - a pick here and a pick there but the essence was there in tharhythmic, 'boom, boom, boom, boom'. From then on, I could hear the same in all the great players - Broonzy, Johnson, etc. etc. I started from that four beat pattern and took it from there.
It's all a simple thing really. The hardest part is to train your self to be simple and be clear about the bottom line. All the other elements in the playing will fit together easily. So, these sessions that I share with you, are just a small part of my own discovery, and hopefully part of yours too.
Cheers
Rick Payne
C O M I N G S O O N
ROOTS RAGS & BLUES - TIM SPARKS
Anticipated Release Date: December 2006
Produced by: Acoustic Guitar Workshop
The collection of tunes on ROOTS RAGS & BLUES finds Sparks returning to his own roots, the music he learned growing up in rural North Carolina.
It was a world of tobacco fields, fire-breathing itinerant preachers, cornbread and collard greens, bluegrass and barbecue, moonshine on Saturday night and rapturous gospel singing on Sunday morning...and the country blues that seemed to come right up from the earth, out of the sun-baked, red clay Piedmont bottom land.
Tim Sparks plays and explains new and original versions of three classic fingerstyle standards: Willie Brown's Mississippi Blues, Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag and The Victory Rag, made famous by Mother Maybelle Carter. In addition, he does a country gospel workout on Amazing Grace, shows some New Orleans style on the Original Jelly Roll Blues and finishes with a Klezmer classic recorded in the 1920's, Tanst Yiddlekh.
More details at www.acousticguitarworkshop.com/artists/sparks.htm www.acousticguitarworkshop.com
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