Description
DADGAD is the kind of tuning that sparks the imagination. Put your fingers down on the fingerboard and suddenly a new musical world opens up. More and more guitarists are discovering the powerful harmonies and rich chord formations that this popular guitar tuning makes available.
Your guitar will come to life as you apply Artie Traum’s easy DADGAD techniques to traditional mountain ballads, fingerstyle blues, and contemporary songs and instrumentals. You’ll learn to play mysterious Appalachian modal sound and a haunting Skip James style blues. Artie’s original songs Niagara, Blue Hotel, Yankee Swamp, and Fourteen Turtles provide invaluable lessons in fingerstyle jazz, Celtic sounds and funky blues. They teach chord shapes and progressions up and down the neck, composing tips for aspiring songwriters and deeper jazz positions designed to expand your knowledge of the fingerboard.
These DVDs move you firmly into advanced beginner territory, providing the tools to use DADGAD to discover new musical ideas on your own through experimentation and exploration.
Artie Traum has been a performer, recording artist, producer, composer and session player for more than thirty years. His CD Letters From Joubee was #1 on the smooth jazz radio charts for six weeks. Artie has toured and recorded with his brother, Happy Traum, and has played guitar with The Band, Livingston Taylor, Tony Levin, Michael Franks, John Sebastian, Sam Bush, David Grisman and many other top recording artists. His recent recordings are on Narada and Roaring Stream Records. In addition to his busy concert and recording schedule, Artie is a popular clinician for Taylor Guitars.
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