Essential Riffs For Acoustic Guitar
HOMESPUN
Taught By Artie Traum.
Level 3
CD plus 56 page music + tab book

This encyclopedia of licks is jam-packed with lead lines, bends, arpeggios, flatpicking tips, speed-licks, unique runs and great playing advice! It's the ultimate way to improve your technique and gain inspiration -- fast!

Guitarist Artie Traum delivers a lesson that teaches more than a hundred powerful riffs for blues, bluegrass, country and folk styles. Players at all levels will be able to master the material and quickly incorporate it into songs and guitar instrumentals. Eventually, you'll be able to expand on this material to create your own dazzling style for both lead and accompaniment playing.

You'll learn to move with speed up and down the fingerboard, improvise blues licks, uncover secrets of country and bluegrass soloing, hear exactly how riffs work in tunes, learn to play in all major and minor keys, and understand how to use these riffs to become a great player.

This CD/book package is particularly user-friendly as Artie helps you build your understanding of the guitar fingerboard. His approach is modular, allowing you to develop your skills at your own pace. Both this and his "Essential Chords and Progressions" are invaluable resources that should be in every guitar player's collection.

Student Review:

"I just wanted to tell you that I recently purchased "Essential Riffs for Acoustic Guitar" and "Essential Chords and Progressions for Acoustic Guitar" from my local music store and they are GREAT value!

"I have been playing mandolin for a few years and decided to get serious about guitar playing when my 13 year old daughter wanted to learn how to play... so I've had lots of experience with good and bad teaching materials, but these two book/CD's are so well put together that I've been able to really take off on learning at a fast pace, and my daughter has picked up lots of good stuff too." - Mark Ennamorato

About Artie Traum
Artie Traum is an award-winning guitarist who has been featured on over 30 albums. His latest release, "South of Lafayette," is a "hip fusion of folk and jazz esthetics," writes Sing Out! Magazine. "Letters From Joubee" (1994) spent six weeks at #1 on the smooth jazz radio charts. "Meetings With Remarkable Friends," with The Band, Sam Bush, Béla Fleck, Tony Levin, Laurence Juber, John Sebastian and other top musicians, was awarded Best Acoustic Instrumental Album of 1999 (NAV Award) and voted Best CD of 2000 by Hudson Valley Magazine. In 2001, Artie released "The Last Romantic," which was placed "on this year's list of best releases" by Jazz Times.
Performing since the 1960's, Artie Traum has worked with his brother Happy Traum, songwriter Pat Alger and The Woodstock Mountains Revue. Artie's songs have been recorded by The Band, David Grisman and Tony Rice, among others. He has produced CDs for Tony Levin, Laurence Juber, Livingston Taylor, Diane Ziegler and many other top artists. Artie has performed at dozens of festivals, including the Catalina Jazz Trax Festival, Philadelphia Folk Festival and the Newport Folk Festival, and has composed music for film and TV shows.

Artie Traum is a popular clinician for Taylor Guitars, performing guitar workshops around the world, and his instructional materials continue to be best-sellers for Homespun Tapes. "Artie Traum has the natural, soulful touch that other guitarists only dream about," says Donald Fagen of Steely Dan.