"Director: Jody Stecher"

• Downhome Flatpicking Guitar | DVD | (12/05/2008) from £31.03   |  Saving you £-4.04 (-15.00%)   |  RRP £26.99

  Jody Stecher has long been America's least generic flatpicker. From the teenage hotshot who won the 1966 World's Champion Flatpicking Cup at Union Grove North Carolina to the mature and reflective artist who was twice Grammy nominated in the 1990s Jody has always played his own style. Here he presents the technical nuts and bolts for you to make your own personal style. This lesson is both a roadmap of Jody's development as a flatpicking guitarist of mostly American vernacular music and a guide to how any flatpicker can expand their expressive technique. It's a graded course starting with basics in which the technical relationship between fingerpicking and flatpicking is made clear. The first few pieces are great songs with memorable melodies but minimal fingering so that right hand fundamentals can be mastered. With each new tune more techniques are introduced and more of the fingerboard is used both horizontally and vertically. The second half of the lesson is purely instrumental music and the tunes are more complex. Titles include: Carter's Blues It's Hard To Love I Got A Bulldog Leake County Blues Arkansas Traveler The Dawn The Ship in Full Sail

• Celtic Melodies for Flatpicking Guitar | DVD | (12/05/2008) from £18.34   |  Saving you £8.65 (32.00%)   |  RRP £26.99

  Jody Stecher has developed a unique approach to flatpicking Celtic music drawing on the sounds and techniques of the harp fiddle and pipes. This lesson presents a graded course starting with simpler fingering with special attention to picking techniques. Building on a base of a confident and deliberate right hand more challenging left hand work is gradually introduced. The typical ornaments of Celtic music are shown to be manageable and effective on the guitar - including rolls which have been thought by some to be too difficult to achieve on the instrument. Jody presents memorable tunes in the keys of G D and A which are played in either dropped-D or standard tuning. Titles include: Reel Sheehan's Reel Jig The Connaught-man's Rambles March A Trip To Mabou Ridge Strathspey The Devil In The Kitchen Reel Muilleann Dubh Reel Doctor Gilbert