Techniques For Soloing & Performing
HOMESPUN
Flatpick Style
Taught By Pat Flynn.
Level 4
90-minute DVD or VHS, Includes chords + tab book

Here’s a DVD lesson that will provide hours of practicing fun, and keep your guitar fingers busy for months! Nashville session guitarist Pat Flynn opens up your creative doors, demonstrating his own method for creating solos and improvising across the entire guitar fingerboard.

You’ll learn how to work up the neck, finding the chord centers on which you can base scales and, ultimately, create exciting guitar solos. Combining these with open, ringing notes will give your playing the unique sound that has made Pat one of the most sought-after acoustic pickers on the country/rock scene today.

Pat covers the “Five T’s” that he considers indispensable for any good musician: Timing, Tuning, Tone, Taste and Technique. He discusses each of these with the goal of creating solos for maximum effect. You’ll get new ideas for adding harmonies within chords, improvising blues and minor-key songs, and innumerable tips on hand positions, pick style, left and right-hand technique and more.

About Pat Flynn
Pat Flynn is best known as the guitarist for New Grass Revival. His powerful rhythm playing and dynamic, innovative solo work was an integral part of the group’s live performances and numerous albums for Sugar Hill and Capitol Records. Pat’s studio work on the Nashville scene can be heard on hit albums by Glen Campbell, Roseanne Cash, Don Williams, Kathy Mattea, George Strait, Reba McIntire, Holly Dunn, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and many others. His first solo CD, entitled "reQuest," has garnered great reviews from radio and print media, and his performing career has thrived recently with appearances at MerleFest, Rocky Grass, Winfield and other major folk and bluegrass festivals.