Fred Sokolow is an extremely versatile musician. Although he is
most often seen playing jazz guitar and singing in Los Angeles night spots,
he is just as likely to turn up playing 5 string banjo at bluegrass
festivals or rock guitar at studio sessions. You may even spot him playing
Resonator Guitar or mandolin on various folk revivals seen on cable and
public television.
Besides soloing as a jazz guitarist/vocalist, Fred also has fronted his
own jazz, bluegrass and rock bands. He has toured with Bobbie Gentry, Jim
Stafford and The Limeliters. He has performed in such diverse settings as
The Fillmore, The Fairmount Hotel and The Boarding House in San Francisco,
The Denver Folklore Center, The Alladin, Sahara and Harrah's in Las Vegas
and the Banjo Cafe, Donte's and McCabe's in LA.
He has written over 50 instructional books, tapes and videos. If you
think that Fred Sokolow still isn't versatile enough, know that he has MC'd
for Carol Doda at San Francisco's legendary Condor Club, accompanied a
Russian balalaika virtuoso, won the Gong show, played lap steel on the
Tonight Show, played Resonator Guitar with Chubby Checker and written and
performed the music score for the movie Rampaging Nurses!
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Fred Sokolow - Jazz Chord Melody Solos For
Beginners - DVD
If you love old
standards like
"Georgia On My Mind" and "Ain't Misbehavin" but always thought that
only advanced
guitarists could
play
them, you'll love Fred's easy-to-play jazz chord melody solos! In this DVD, you'll learn six
timeless tunes from
start to
finish, how to play backup while you sing them and how to play a beautiful chord melody
solo instrumental
for each song. The tunes are arranged for beginners. There are no difficult chords
and Fred explains each song measure by measure before playing it. Then you'll
watch him re-play the song slowly
on
a split screen with
close-ups of both hands. Chord melody soloing (playing the melody and chords at
the same time) is a very complete and cool sounding guitar style! This lesson
will get you started and Fred's relaxed teaching style makes it easy! Songs include: "Summertime, Fly Me To the Moon, Georgia On My Mind, It
Had To
Be You,
What a
Wonderful World, Ain't Misbehavin".
(110 minutes) Booklet
included..............................................Price - $29.95
Fred Sokolow - The George Gershwin Songbook -
DVD
George and Ira Gershwin's
beautiful
songs are timeless jazz standards and they sound great on the guitar! In this DVD, Fred
plays and
teaches
six
complete arrangements of Gershwin songs, including guitar rhythm chord backup comping (for singing) and instrumental chord
melody solos for each tune. Just for fun, Fred includes the rarely-heard introductory verses to
three of the
songs,
as
well as ad-lib instrumental solos. After playing each tune, Fred gives you a run-down on
the
arrangement,
going over tricky spots and analyzing the chord progressions and chord substitutions, Then he
re-plays it slower,
on
a split screen with close-ups of both hands. Chord melody soloing (playing the
melody and chords at the same time) is a very complete and exciting guitar style. This lesson will get you playing
some of
the classiest
jazz
tunes ever written! Songs include: "They Can't Take That Away From Me, Nice Work If You Can
Get It,
Our Love Is
Here
To Stay, Oh Lady Be Good, Someone to Watch Over Me, A Foggy Day".
(98 min) Booklet
included..........................................................Price
- $29.95
Fred Sokolow - The Hoagy Carmichael Songbook - DVD
In this DVD, Fred plays and
teaches six of Hoagy Carmichael's best songs, including guitar rhythm chord backup comping (for singing) and chord melody solo instrumental versions of each tune!
Just for fun,
Fred also includes the rarely-heard introductory verses to four of the songs as
well as ad-lib
instrumental chord solos. After playing each song, Fred gives you
a run down on the arrangement, going
over tricky spots and analyzing the chord
progressions and chord substitutions. Then he replays it slower, on a
split screen with
close-ups of both hands. Chord melody soloing (playing the melody and chords at
the same time) is a very complete and exciting guitar style. This lesson will get
you playing some of the classiest jazz
tunes ever written! Songs include: "Stardust, Georgia On
My Mind, Lazy River, Skylark, Rockin' Chair, Lazybones".
(100 min). Booklet
included.......................................................Price - $29.95
Fred Sokolow - The Cole Porter
Songbook - DVD
Cole Porter's beautiful,
witty songs
have become timeless jazz standards and they sound great on the guitar! In this DVD, Fred
plays
and teaches
six complete arrangements of Cole Porter gems, including guitar rhythm chord backup comping (for singing) and instrumental
chord melody solos for each tune. Just for fun, Fred includes the rarely-heard introductory verses to
three
of the
songs, as
well as ad-lib instrumental solos. After playing each tune, Fred gives you a run-down on
the
arrangement,
going over tricky spots and analyzing the chord progressions and chord substitutions. Then he
re-plays it slower, on
a split screen with close-ups of both hands. Chord melody soloing (playing the
melody and chords at the same time) is a very complete and exciting guitar style. This lesson will get you playing some
of
the classiest jazz
tunes ever written! Songs include: "Night and Day, At Long Last Love, Let's Do It, All Of You, You'd
Be
So Nice to
Come Home To, Easy To Love".
(90 min) Booklet
included..........................................................Price
- $29.95
Fred Sokolow - The Irving Berlin Songbook - DVD
In this DVD, Fred plays and teaches
six Irving Berlin favorites, including guitar
rhythm chord backup comping (for singing) and chord melody solo instrumental versions of each tune! Just
for fun,
Fred includes the rarely heard introductory verses to some of the songs and
plays ad-lib instrumental
chord solos for all of them. After playing each song,
Fred gives you a run down on the arrangement, going
over tricky spots and
analyzing the chord progressions and chord substitutions. Then he replays it slower, on
a
split-screen with close-ups of both hands. Chord melody soloing (playing the
melody and chords at the same time) is a very complete and exciting guitar style.
This lesson will get you playing some of the classiest jazz
tunes ever written! Songs include:
"Cheek to Cheek, Say It Isn't So, Blue Skies, How Deep is the Ocean, I've Got My
Love
to Keep Me Warm, Change Partners".
(95 min). Booklet
included.........................................................Price - $29.95
Fred Sokolow - Building a Jazz Chord Solo
- Book and CD
A guitarist's guide to the art
of chord melody playing.
Whether you're a beginner or an intermediate guitarist, this book/CD will help
you to understand and learn the art of jazz chord soloing in 4 stages. Four jazz
standards are presented,
each with 4 arrangements at varying levels
of difficulty: a beginner's arrangement, using mostly first-position chords • an
intermediate arrangement, using moveable chords and featuring a more developed
chord
vocabulary • an advanced arrangement, including ample chord substitutions
and reharmonizations • an
improvisational chord solo that leaves the melody
behind. Songs include: "Indiana, Avalon, April Showers,
My Melancholy Baby". This teaches how to improvise a chord solo over a given set of changes.
Plenty of
information is presented along the way that will teach you how to
build your own chord solos as well as
understand and play jazz progressions.
Notation, tab and chord
diagrams............................................Price - $14.95
Fred Sokolow - Fingerpicking The Beatles -
Book
Includes: "And I Love Her, Come Together, Eight
Days A Week, Eleanor Rigby, Girl, Here Comes The Sun, Here, There and Everywhere, Hey
Jude, If I Fell,
In My Life, Let It Be, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, Michelle, Norwegian Wood, Something,
Strawberry
Fields Forever, When I'm Sixty-Four, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, With a Little Help From
My Friends,
Yesterday".
Notation and tab.........................................................................Price
- $14.95
Fred Sokolow - Great Jazz Standards Anthology
for Guitar - Book & CD
Includes chord melody solo arrangements of
"A Certain Smile, I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance, I Surrender Dear, I'm Gettin'
Sentimental Over You,
Just Friends, Laura, Moonglow, On Green Dolphin Street, The Shadow of Your Smile, Stairway
to the Stars,
Star Dust, Stars Fell on Alabama, Take Five, What Are You Doing The Rest of Your
Life?"
Notation, tab and chord diagrams / Pickstyle........................Price
- $19.95
Fred Sokolow - Great Jazz Standards Duke Ellington for Guitar - Book & CD
Includes chord melody solo arrangements of "Caravan, Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me, Don't Get Around Much Anymore, I
Got It Bad
(And That Ain't Good), In A Sentimental Mood, It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That
Swing), Mood
Indigo, Prelude To a Kiss, Satin Doll, Solitude, Sophisticated Lady".
Notation, tab and chord diagrams / Pickstyle........................Price
- $19.95
Jazz Guitar Chords & Arpeggio
Patterns - Stacy McKee
- This unique book includes 300 jazz
guitar chord formations and matching single note arpeggio patterns in a quick reference format
that no one has ever done before!
Cross indexing makes
this manual
extremely easy to use and regardless of what style of music you play, we know
you
will find this
to be a
valuable, "must have" addition to your library. Stacy McKee was the
featured guitarist with "Les
Brown and The Band Of Renown" and for a limited
time only, we will include an exclusive copy of his book
FREE with
your first
order!
Fred Sokolow - Jazz Guitar - Fretboard Roadmaps - Book and CD
Includes the essential
patterns all great guitarists know and use. Fred Sokolow teaches you to play lead and
rhythm anywhere on the
fretboard - in any key. Play a variety of lead guitar styles using moveable
patterns, double-note licks, sliding
pentatonic scales and more. You will know your way around the fingerboard like a pro by
using easy-to-follow
diagrams and instructions with CD recorded examples and practice tracks.
Notation, tab and chord
diagrams............................................Price
- $14.95
Fred Sokolow - Jazzing It Up - Book
and CD
How to Improvise with Jazz Chords on Guitar
The purpose of this book/CD is to demonstrate, with simple tunes that everyone knows, how
you can improvise with chords like a jazz player does. Starting with a chord dictionary and a study of
chord groups, you'll
learn many substitution ideas and theories of chord movement. This preliminary work will
prepare you for a
series of jazz versions of simple, familiar songs, plus detailed analysis of how each tune
was given a jazz sound.
There's also a section on creative comping (chord back-up) that will give you a better
understanding of chord
progressions and chord improvisation. Chord melody solos include: "Shenandoah, Aura
Lee, Frankie and
Johnny, Red River Valley, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, Home On The Range, Bury Me Beneath the
Willow,
Londonderry Air (Danny Boy), Amazing Grace, Dixie, Betty and Dupree, The Old Kentucky
Home".
Standard notation with chord
diagrams..................................Price
- $16.95
Fred Sokolow - Antonio Carlos Jobim for Solo
Guitar - Book
Includes: "Agua De
Beber, Cheg De Saudade, Corcovado, Desafinado, Dindi, Favela, A Felicidade, The Girl From
Ipanema,
How Insensitive, Meditation, Once I Loved, One Note Samba, So Danco Samba, Triste,Vivo
Sonhando,
Wave".
Notation and tab / Fingerstyle..................................................Price
- $17.95
Fred Sokolow - The Roots of Jazz Guitar - Book and CD
Contains: history and development, biographies of the pioneering artists,
instruction in the essential playing styles, 6 note-for-note transcriptions as
well as exercises and licks! Tunes include: "Dinah" -Eddie Lang, "East Of The
Sun" -Barney Kessel, "Rose Room"-Django Reinhardt, "Honeysuckle Rose" -Charlie Christian, "I'll Remember
April" -George Van Eps,
"Yesterdays" -Wes Montgomery Performance notes for each song.
Notation and
tab.........................................................................Price - $14.95
Fred Sokolow - Swing Guitar - Book and CD
Learn to play swing rhythm and lead
guitar in the
style of the masters! Great swing tunes, from the classics of the 30s and 40s to the swing
revival of the 90s.
These tunes are transcribed from the original hit versions, with performance notes to help
you understand the
solos, instruction in comping patterns and chord embellishments. The CD includes full-band
demos of all songs,
with guitar parts isolated. Songs include: "Choo Choo Ch' Boogie" -Louis Jordan
and the Tympany Five, "Go Daddy-O" -Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, "Just a Gigolo / I Ain't Got Nobody" -Louis
Prima, "In the Mood, A String
of Pearls, Tuxedo Junction"-Glenn Miller Orchestra, "It Don't Mean a Thing, Take
The A-Train"-Duke Ellington,
"Jersey Bounce"-Benny Goodman, "Jump Jive an' Wail, Since I Don't Have
You" -Brian Setzer Orchestra, "Route
66" -Nat King Cole Trio, "Sentimental Journey" -Les Brown and His
Orchestra, "Zoot Suit Riot" -Cherry Poppin'
Daddies. All guitar
parts transcribed note-for-note from the original recordings.
Notation and tab.........................................................................Price - $19.95
Fred Sokolow - Playing and
Understanding Jazz Guitar - DVD
This
DVD lesson
presents a very clear and thorough introduction to playing jazz guitar! You will
learn all the
licks,
chords, scales
and
theory that you will need to know to get started. Fred shows you chord
construction and
chord types including inversions and diminished chords as well as scalewise progressions and how
to use them.
Circle-of-fifths progressions and how to play and recognize them, chord comping,
chord melody soloing and playing
single-note solos to
standards like "I Got Rhythm, Honeysuckle Rose, and Watch
What Happens".
You'll also learn how to
improvise solos using
scales and chord-based licks as well as how to solo over II-V-I
standard changes.
(75 min)
Booklet included..........................................................Price - $29.95
Fred Sokolow - Understanding Chord Progressions - DVD
When you know how chord
progressions work it's much easier to learn and remember new
songs! And when you understand a song's chord structure you're not just
memorizing letter names - in fact, you will now be able to play the tune in any key. Learning how
songs are put
together also develops your musical ear and enhances your
appreciation of music in general. In this lesson,
Fred draws from several
musical genres (rock, blues, jazz, pop and country) to illustrate many standard
types
of chord movement and song structures. You'll learn about chord families,
the twelve bar blues, circle-of-fifths
changes, diatonic chord movement and
more! Along the way you'll learn how to play and comprehend the
progressions of
many classic tunes including "All of Me, Every Day I Have the Blues, Blue
Skies, Your Cheatin' Heart, Blue Moon, Mister Sandman, Honeysuckle Rose, Like a
Rolling Stone, Ain't Misbehavin, I Got
Rhythm". Fred explains everything in
terms of the guitar fretboard so you'll not only learn how to play these songs
but learn how to use your guitar to understand music theory and harmony at the
same time!
(109
min) Booklet included........................................................Price - $29.95
Sokolow - Beginner's Fingerpicking - Folk, Blues &
Country - Book & 3 CDs
Book and 3 CDs.
These lessons contain 3 full hours of instruction featuring note-by-note,
phrase-by-phrase
instruction taught by Fred Sokolow. Includes the following
tunes: "Nine Pound Hammer, Careless Love,
Red River Valley, Worried Man Blues, Stealin', Spikedriver's Moon, Railroad Bill, Hesitation Blues, John
Henry, Bury
Me Beneath The Willow, The Wreck of Old 97".
Notation, tab and lyrics............................................................Price
- $24.95
Fred Sokolow - Beginner's Fingerpicking
Guitar - DVD
Fred Sokolow starts at the very
beginning (tuning up and playing simple chords), and shows you patterns, licks and grooves
you can use to
play
any style of music. By the end of this session you will know how to play: several fingerpicking
patterns/rhythm
grooves useful for many styles of music, chords and licks in five different keys,
connecting
"bass runs" in all five
keys, melodies (solos) and alternating thumb-bass at the same time, and lots of well
know tunes including "Sloop
John B, Stealin', Stagolee, Wabash Cannonball, Nine Pound Hammer, Jamaica
Farewell, St
James Infirmary Blues,
Careless Love, House of the Rising Sun, Scarboro Fair, Streets of Laredo".
(70 min)
Booklet included........................................................Price - $29.95
Fred Sokolow - Beginner's Country
Guitar - DVD
Fred Sokolow gives you the tools you
need to play old-fashioned country, honky-tonk and country rock. You'll learn to play:
accompaniment strums
for different rhythmic feels, a variety of first-position chords, bass runs, major scales,
solos and turnarounds -all
in five different keys. Playing classics like "Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain, I'm So
Lonesome I Could Cry,
The
Bottle Let Me down, I'm Movin' On, Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Silver Wings and
Jambalaya, Fred's
teaching is easy to understand with lots of helpful hints for beginners.
(65 min) Booklet
included.........................................................Price - $29.95
Fred
Sokolow - Better Lead Guitar Through Chords - DVD
If you're trying to improve
your lead guitar playing by studying scales,
that's only half the picture. The best lead guitarists base much
of their
improvisation and soloing on chords - even when they're playing single note
solos. In this lesson,
Fred Sokolow shows you several chord-based approaches to
soloing and backup. He teaches you how to
play arpeggios, country licks and fast flatpicking solos in country/bluegrass tunes like "Jambalaya" and
"Wreck of the
Old 97", solo and back-up R&B songs like "People Get Ready" and "Just My
Imagination" in
the colorful style Jimi Hendrix used on "Little Wing", play
Steve Cropper-style licks on "Dock of the Bay"
and "Under the Boardwalk"
as well as
improvise Django-style solos on swing tunes like "Avalon". You'll also
learn some music theory and get a better understanding of the guitar as Fred
shows you ways to instantly find chords up and down the fretboard - and connect them
in chord families!
(90 min) Booklet
included.........................................................Price - $29.95
Fred Sokolow - Country Classics - Book
Contains 30 all-time country favorites arranged for
fingerpicking and flatpicking guitar including: "Act Naturally, Always On My Mind,
Any Time, Blue Eyes
Crying In The Rain, Born To Lose, Crazy, Faded Love, Folsom Prison Blues, Funny How Time
Slips Away,
Heartaches By The Number, Help Me Make It Through The Night, I Can't Stop Loving You, I
Fall To Pieces,
I Walk The Line, I'm Movin' On, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, If You've Got The Money (I've
Got The
Time), It Makes No Difference Now, King Of The Road, Making Believe, Mama Tried, Oh
Lonesome Me,
Pick Me Up On Your Way Down, Release Me, Rocky Top, Sweet Dreams, Tennessee Waltz,
Together
Again, Walking The Floor Over You, Your Cheatin' Heart".
Notation, tab and
lyrics............................................................Price - $14.95
Fred Sokolow - Country Guitar - Fretboard
Roadmaps - Book and CD
Includes the
essential patterns that all great guitarists know and use. Fred Sokolow teaches you
to play lead and rhythm
anywhere on the fretboard - in any key. Play a variety of lead guitar styles using
moveable scale patterns,
sliding scale patterns, chord-based licks, double-note licks and more. You will play basic
country progressions,
boogie licks, steel licks and other melodies and licks. He uses easy-t0-follow diagrams
and instructions with
CD recorded examples and practice tracks.
Notation, tab and chord
diagrams...........................................Price - $12.95
Fred Sokolow - The Dictionary of Strum
& Picking Patterns - Book & CD
If you
play rock, blues, country, pop, soul/funk, heavy metal, or folk, here are all the
strumming and picking patterns
you need to help you cover any musical situation. It contains over 150 picking
patterns and nearly 100
strums with a recorded example of every pattern. Musical styles are cross-referenced
and tips on equipment
and effects are also included.
Notation and
tab........................................................................Price
- $14.95
Fred Sokolow - Flatpicking Country Classics - DVD
In this 75 minute DVD, Fred teaches
nine
standards every country picker/singer should know... from start to finish!
You’ll learn an intro for each
song, a backup pattern and bass runs to play
while singing, an instrumental solo and an ending. Picking up
where his
Beginner's Country Guitar DVD left off, Fred keeps the arrangements fairly
simple but also includes
some up-the-neck chord positions and hot licks! You’ll
learn solos and runs in five different keys. Each song is played at regular
speed and then slowed down on a split-screen that gives you a close-up look at
the picking hand and the chording hand. Titles include: "New San Antonio Rose,
Wild Side of Life, Waltz Across
Texas, The Race is On, Beautiful Kentucky Waltz,
That’s the Way Love Goes, I Don’t Hurt Anymore, Someone I Used To Know, City of
New Orleans".
(96 min). Booklet included........................................................Price - $29.95
Fred Sokolow - Hank Williams Songbook
- Book
Contains 26 of Hank Williams' classic songs
arranged for fingerpicking and flatpicking guitar including: "Baby, We're Really In
Love, Cold Cold Heart,
Half As Much, Hey Good Lookin', Honky Tonkin', I Can'g Help It (If I'm Still in Love With
You), I Saw The
Light, I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, Jambalaya (On
The Bayou),
Kaw-Liga, Long Gone Lonesome Blues, Lovesick Blues, Mansion on the Hill, May You Never Be
Alone,
Mind Your Own Business, Moanin' the Blues, Move It on Over, My Sweet Love Ain't Around,
Take These
Chains from My Heart, There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight, There's a Tear in My Beer, Why
Don't You Love
Me, You Win Again, Your Cheatin' Heart, Honky Tonk Blues".
Notation, tab and
lyrics............................................................Price - $14.95
Fred Sokolow - Legends of Country Guitar - Book
Includes the artists, performance notes,
rare photos, and 18 classic songs. "Chinatown, My Chinatown, Galloping on the
Guitar" -Chet Atkins,
"Wildwood Flower, Will the Circle Be Unbroken" -The Carter Family, "Foggy
Mountain Breakdown, Foggy
Mountain Special" -Lester Flatt, "I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink, It's
All in the Moves" -Merle Haggard,
"Night Life, Always On My Mind" -Willie Nelson, "Mule Skinner Blues, T for
Texas" -Jimmie Rodgers,
"Golden Rocket, I'm Moving On" -Hank Snow, "One More Ride, Tumbling
Tumbleweeds" -Sons of the
Pioneers, "Cannon Ball Stomp, Divorce Me C.O.D" -Merle Travis. All guitar parts transcribed
note-for-note from the original recordings.
Notation, tab and lyrics............................................................Price - $16.95
Fred Sokolow - Travis Picking For Beginners - DVD
Merle Travis' brilliant fingerpicking
style inspired Chet Atkins and
generations of country, folk, bluegrass and rock guitarists. Travis picking is a
very complete use of the guitar: when you play steady, alternating bass notes
with your thumb and pick
melodies with your fingers you're playing lead, rhythm
and bass all by yourself. But how do you keep that
thumb-bass independent so it
doesn't get derailed when your fingers pick the melody? Fred makes it easy for
beginners or intermediate guitarists by breaking it all down and taking each
song step by step. First you learn
the melody, then add the bass, then add the
syncopation that makes it swing. Split screen versions of the
songs with
close-ups of both hands will help you learn Travis style - it's a great
introduction to fingerpicking!
Songs include: "Nine Pound Hammer, I Am a
Pilgrim, Windy and Warm, Whispering, Mack the Knife".
(92 min) Booklet
included.........................................................Price - $29.95
Fred Sokolow - Western Swing Guitar-
Book
Includes: "Across The Alley from the Alamo,
A Big Ball in Cowtown, Bring It on Down to My House, Choo Choo Ch'Boogie, Don't Let Go,
Red Wing,
Yearning" -Asleep At The Wheel, "The Blues Come Around, Honky Tonkin" -Hank
Williams, "Cajon Stomp"-The Farr Brothers, "Corrine Corrina, Fat Boy Rag, My Window Faces the South, New San
Antonio Rose,
Stay a Little Longer, Steel Guitar Rag" -Bob Wills, "Faded Love" -Eldon
Shamblin, "Hesitation Blues, Right or
Wrong"-Milton Brown, "Hide Your Face" -Spade Cooley, "My Bucket's Got
a Hole In It" -"T" Texas Tyler,
"A Six Pack To Go" -Hank Thompson, "Won't You Ride In My Little Red
Wagon" -Hank Penny, "Smoke
Smoke Smoke, You Waited Too Long" -Tex Williams. All guitar parts transcribed
note-for-note from the original recordings.
Notation, tab and lyrics............................................................Price - $19.95
Fred Sokolow - Beginner's Blues Guitar
- DVD
In this lesson, Fred starts
at the
very
beginning: tuning up and playing simple chords. But by the end of this session you
will be
playing the
blues
in several keys, strumming and fingerpicking. You'll know how to play: blues turn-arounds,
boogie
woogie
bass
lines, several strumming and fingerpicking accompaniment patterns, blues
solos, licks and
accompaniment styles
of Lightnin' Hopkins, Big Bill Broonzy, Jimmy Reed, Mississippi
John Hurt and
classic
blues
tunes like "How
Long Blues, Keys To The Highway, Baby What You Want
Me To Do,
Blues
With a Feeling,
Hesitation
Blues". Fred Sokolow's teaching is clear and very easy to
understand.
(70 min). Booklet included........................................................Price - $29.95
Fred Sokolow -Beginner's Fingerpicking
- Ragtime, Blues, Jazz -Book & 3 CDs
These lessons contain 3 full hours of instruction featuring note-by-note,
phrase-by-phrase
instruction taught
by Fred Sokolow. Includes the following
tunes: "Stealin', Cocaine, Oh Babe Ain't No Lie,
Bill Bailey, Maple
Leaf Rag,
The Entertainer, Bully Of The Town, Nine Pound Hammer, Wabash Cannonball,
Will
The Circle Be
Unbroken, Bury Me Beneath The Willow Tree".
Notation, tab and
lyrics.............................................................Price - $24.95
Fred Sokolow - Blues Guitar - Fretboard Roadmaps - Book and CD
Includes the essential
patterns all great guitarists know and use. Fred Sokolow teaches you to play lead and
rhythm anywhere on
the fretboard - in any key. Play a variety of lead guitar styles using moveable blues boxes,
chord-based licks,
blues scales and double-note licks. You will play boogie woogie licks and moveable
turnarounds and will
know your way around the fingerboard like a pro. He uses easy-to-follow diagrams and
instructions with CD
recorded examples and practice tracks.
Notation, tab and chord
diagrams...........................................Price - $14.95
Fred Sokolow - Bottleneck Slide Guitar - DVD
Acoustic and electric guitar techniques
taught by Fred Sokolow. Nothing
sounds as bluesy as a slide guitar, and this 70 minute lesson shows you
how it's
done on electric and acoustic, solo or with a group. Using classic blues tunes -
"Little Red Rooster,
Sittin' On Top Of The World, Reconsider Baby, The Sky Is
Crying, Farther On Up The Road, One Way Out",
Fred Sokolow shows you how to play
and improvise slide in the styles of the great bluesmen - Muddy
Waters, Elmore
James, Mississippi Fred McDowell and Duane Allman. In this lesson you will
learn: solos,
backup licks, turnarounds and fills in three tunings: open G, open
D and standard, how to play slide in any
key and how to improvise slide solos in
standard and open tunings using moveable blues boxes. Close-ups
of both hands
help you see just how it's done and Fred's teaching is clear and easy to
understand. This
lesson is a great introduction to the soulful world of
bottleneck / slide guitar!
(70 min) Booklet included.........................................................Price - $29.95
Fred Sokolow - The Dictionary of Strum &
Picking Patterns - Book and CD
If you
play rock, blues, country, pop, soul/funk, heavy metal, or folk, here are all the
strumming and picking patterns
you need to help you cover any musical situation. It contains over 150 picking
patterns and nearly 100
strums with a recorded example of every pattern. Musical styles are cross-referenced
and tips on equipment
and effects are also included.
Notation and
tab........................................................................Price
- $14.95
Fred Sokolow - Electric Blues & Rock Guitar
The 1930s, 40s &
50s - Book and 3 CDs
Lesson 1: The Roots of Electric Blues - Electric
blues stylists grew out of the guitar picking of versatile single-string
soloists like Lonnie Johnson and Scrapper Blackwell and the country bluesmen,
turned electric, like
Lightnin' Hopkins and John Lee Hooker. Fred slows down and
analyzes the licks, scales and techniques of
these players. Lesson 2: Electric
Slide Guitar - Using several sample tunes, Fred teaches how to play electric
slide guitar in the styles of the blues masters, the players who inspired Johnny
Winter, The Allman Brothers, Ron Wood and the rest of today's rock slide
guitarists. Several techniques are covered as you learn the techniques of Tampa
Red (open D), Muddy Waters (open G), Elmore James (open E) and Robert Nighthawk
(standard tuning) and how to apply these techniques to rock progressions. Lesson
3: Early Blues/Rock: Chuck
Berry and Bo Diddley - These two guitarists
defined rock guitar in their day. The licks and styles they used,
derived from
blues players, are still an important part of every rock guitarist's repertoire.
These lessons include
3 CDs (3 full hours of instruction) featuring
note-by-note, phrase-by-phrase instruction!
Notation and tab........................................................................Price -
$24.95
Fred Sokolow - Electric Blues & Rock Guitar
The 1960s and 70s - Book and 3 CDs
Lesson 1: King of Modern Blues: BB. King, Albert King, Freddie
King and T. Bone Walker - By analyzing
sample tunes, Fred teaches how to
play electric single-string blues licks. You will learn several scale positions
and how to improvise with them, how to do the "blues vibrato" and how to use
fill-in licks, chords and turn-arounds. Lesson 2: Modern Rock: English Blues and
Heavy Metal - This lesson concentrates on the licks,
scales and playing styles
of Eric Clapton, Eddie Van Halen, Ted Nugent and Jimmy Page - guitarists whose
playing directly derives from the blues masters. This lesson includes
instruction in effects (distortion, vibrato
bar, etc.), blues and sliding
scales. Lesson 3: Jazzy Electric Blues - Our last lesson in the series
illustrates how
to jazz up the 12-bar blues progression, how to vary the blues
scales with diminished scales á la Charlie Christian, how to apply blues scales
to jazz tunes, how to "substitute scales" and the special techniques used by
Wes
Montgomery and George Benson. These
lessons include 3 CDs (3 full hours of instruction) featuring
note-by-note,
phrase-by-phrase instruction!
Notation and tab........................................................................Price - $24.95
Fred Sokolow - Slide Guitar - Fretboard Roadmaps - Book and CD
Include the essential
guitar patterns that all great guitarist know and use. Fred Sokolow teaches you to play
lead and rhythm anywhere on the fretboard - in any key. Play a variety of slide guitar styles using moveable
scale patterns, common
licks, and slide techniques. Play slide guitar in open G tuning, open D tuning, open A
tuning, open E tuning,
and standard tuning. You will know your way around the fingerboard like a pro using
easy-to-follow diagrams
and instructions with CD recorded examples and practice tracks.
Notation, tab and chord
diagrams...........................................Price - $12.95
Fred Sokolow - Understanding Chord Progressions - DVD
When you know how chord
progressions work, it's much easier to learn new
songs. And when you understand a song's chord structure,
you're not just
memorizing letter names - in fact, you can play the tune in any key. Learning how
songs are put
together also develops your musical ear and enhances your
appreciation of music in general. In this lesson,
Fred draws from several
musical genres (rock, blues, jazz, pop and country) to illustrate many standard
types
of chord movement and song structures. You'll learn about chord families,
the twelve bar blues, circle-of-fifths
changes, diatonic chord movement and
more. Along the way you'll learn how to play and comprehend the
progressions of
many classic tunes, including "All of Me, Every Day I Have the Blues, Blue
Skies, Your
Cheatin' Heart, Blue Moon, Mister Sandman, Honeysuckle Rose, Like a
Rolling Stone, Ain't Misbehavin, I Got
Rhythm". Fred explains everything in
terms of the guitar fretboard so you'll not only learn to play these songs -you'll learn how to use your guitar to understand music theory.
(109
min) Booklet included.......................................................Price - $29.95
Fred Sokolow - Beginner's Fingerpicking
Guitar - DVD
Fred Sokolow starts at the very
beginning (tuning up and playing simple chords), and shows you patterns, licks and grooves
you can use to play
any style of music. By the end of this session you will know how to play: several
fingerpicking patterns/rhythm
grooves useful for many styles of music, chords and licks in five different keys,
connecting "bass runs" in all five
keys, melodies (solos) and alternating thumb-bass at the same time, and lots of well
know tunes including "Sloop
John B, Stealin', Stagolee, Wabash Cannonball, Nine Pound Hammer, Jamaica Farewell, St
James Infirmary Blues,
Careless Love, House of the Rising Sun, Scarboro Fair, Streets of Laredo".
(70 min)
Booklet included........................................................Price - $29.95
Fred Sokolow - Open Tunings for Beginners - DVD
Open tunings are as old as the guitar itself and they've been used to play blues, folk country rock and old-timey
music. In this DVD lesson Fred shows you how, contrary to what many beginners might think, open tunings make it
easier to play guitar. You'll learn songs from all the above musical genres in open D, open G and
DADGAD tuning. In addition to learning songs, you get some tips on how to improvise and play chords in G and D
tuning. It's a great way to expand your range on the guitar and get a whole different sound! Tunes include:
"Buckets of Rain, Statesboro Blues, Mean Old World, Little Sadie, K.C. Jones, Stackerlee, The Way I Am, I
Didn't See It Coming".
(92 min) Booklet
included.........................................................Price
- $29.95
Fred Sokolow - Beginner's Blues Guitar
- Book and 3 CDs
This book contains 3 full hours of instruction featuring
note-by-note, phrase-by-phrase instruction taught by Fred Sokolow. Includes the
following tunes: "Early Morning Blues, Twelve Bar Blues,
That's Alright, Airport Blues, Hesitation Blues, Cocaine, Worried Blues, Call Me
a Dog".
Notation, tab and lyrics............................................................Price - $24.95
Fred Sokolow - Beginner's Country
Guitar - DVD
Fred Sokolow gives you the tools you need to play old-fashioned country, honky-tonk and country rock. You'll learn to play:
accompaniment strums for
different rhythmic feels, a variety of first-position chords, bass runs, major scales,
solos and turnarounds - all in
five different keys. Playing classics like "Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain, I'm So
Lonesome I Could Cry, The
Bottle Let Me down, I'm Movin' On, Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Silver Wings and
Jambalaya, Fred's teaching is easy to understand with lots of helpful hints for beginners.
(65 min) Booklet included.........................................................Price - $29.95
Fred Sokolow - Beginner's Rock Guitar - DVD
In this DVD, Fred Sokolow uses your favorite
garage-band tunes to demonstrate how to: play power-chord backup in any key - the
"Louie Louie" way, solo and
play Chuck Berry style boogie back up on tunes like "Roll Over Beethoven"
and "School Days", use blues scales
and 'substitute' scales for soloing, solo with sliding - g major pentatonic scales in the
styles of Dickey Betts and
Jerry Garcia, play chord-based licks and double-note Steve
Cropper-style licks,
and play these tunes: "Stand By
Me, Midnight Hour, My Girl, The Wind Cries Mary,
Let It Be, Proud Mary".
(72 min)
Booklet included........................................................Price - $29.95
Fred Sokolow - Open Tunings for Beginners - DVD
Open tunings are as old as the guitar itself and they've been used to play blues, folk country rock and old-timey
music. In this DVD lesson Fred shows you how, contrary to what many beginners might think, open tunings make it
easier to play guitar. You'll learn songs from all the above musical genres in open D, open G and
DADGAD tuning. In addition to learning songs, you get some tips on how to improvise and play chords in G and D
tuning. It's a great way to expand your range on the guitar and get a whole different sound! Tunes include:
"Buckets of Rain, Statesboro Blues, Mean Old World, Little Sadie, K.C. Jones, Stackerlee, The Way I Am, I
Didn't See It Coming".
(92 min) Booklet
included........................................................Price - $29.95
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