HOMESPUN
Taught By Bob Brozman.
Level 2
85-minute DVD or VHS, Includes tab book
Get the real Hawaiian steel guitar sound!
This lesson for guitarists, Dobro, lap steel and pedal steel players covers bar techniques, hand positions, scale patterns, Hawaiian tunings, vibrato, harmonic "chimes" and more. Bob stresses the importance of using palm harmonics and explains some incredible secrets for getting sounds up and down the neck.
You'll learn to play four Hawaiian classics "Mai Kai No Kauai;" "Maui Chimes;" "Moana Chimes;" "Uhe, Uhene" and grasp how this music has profoundly influenced today's bluegrass, country, Western swing, jazz and Tex-Mex styles.
Review:
"For years, Bob Brozman has been known to other guitarists and aficionados
as one of the world's best slide players and most knowledgeable experts on blues
and Hawaiian music. On this video, Brozman proves to be a great teacher as well." -
Acoustic Guitar
Bob Brozman is a master of bottleneck blues as well as Gypsy
swing, calypso, ragtime, Hawaiian, Indian, African, Japanese/Okinawan, Caribbean
and other World Music styles. He has been called "an instrumental wizard" and "a
walking archive of 20th Century American music." Bob maintains a nearly
superhuman schedule throughout the year, touring constantly throughout North
America, Europe, Australia, Asia, and Africa. He has recorded numerous albums
and has won the Guitar Player Readers' Poll two years in a row in both the blues
and slide guitar categories. In 1999, he co-founded International Guitar Seminars,
which hosts over 120 students annually at sites in California, New York, and
Canada. Bob is also a linguist, anthropologist, and ethnomusicologist, lecturing part- time at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He is starting a foundation for the purpose of getting some of the western surplus of instruments and other musical supplies directly into the hands of musicians in third world countries in Africa and Oceania. For more info: www.bobbrozman.com