HOMESPUNBuilding Powerful Solos
Taught By David Grier.
Level 3
75-minute DVD,Includes music + tab book
Here is an award-winning guitarist's blueprint for taking a successful bluegrass solo. On this excellent lesson, David Grier outlines the wide variety of techniques necessary to establish solid flatpicking style and play hot bluegrass guitar. He takes all the elements of his dazzling style - slides, hammers, pulls, crosspicking, pick-and-fingers technique, bends, double-stops, raking and other devices - and pulls them together into outstanding solo pieces.
Before long, you'll be digging into arrangements of well-known bluegrass tunes such as Liberty, Bill Cheatham, and a spectacular version of Nine Pound Hammer, incorporating all the elements in David's arsenal of licks to create your own instrumental breaks. Learning to play Grier originals, such as the haunting Engagement Waltz and The Meeting, will give you additional insights and direct you toward reaching your guitar playing potential.
David Grier has won accolades for the sheer originality of his style and technical virtuosity. Working with his personal method will provide hours of enjoyment as you add interest and power to your guitar sound.
Review:
"Bluegrass Guitar - Building Powerful Solos" exactly lives up to
its title. Grier is focused here on presenting highly useful, accurate examples
of many of the types of runs, licks and techniques he uses to create his distinctive
sound. Watching this video won't let you match David Grier's instinctive ability
to break boundaries and reinvent old approaches to flatpicking guitar, but it
certainly will give any guitarist who appreciates his style an enormous amount
of useful material to study and use in their own playing. Highly recommended." -
David McCarty, Flatpicking Magazine
Guitarist and composer David Grier is a rising bluegrass
star who has played on over 65 recordings. His own CDs - with Sam Bush, Stuart
Duncan, Bela Fleck, Victor Wooten, Mike Compton, Mark Schatz, and others - have
received great critical acclaim. David has performed on national TV (Nashville
Now, New Country, American Music Shop) and was three times voted Guitar Player
of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association. He is guitarist
in the acoustic super-group Psycho Grass, The Grass Is Greener and is currently
recording and touring both solo and with Phillips, Grier & Flinner.