Fred Sokolow: The Irving Berlin Songbook
Fred Sokolow: The Irving Berlin Songbook
DVDRip | 640x480 | AVI | XVID 1200 kbps | 29.97 fps | Aspect ratio: 4:3 | Audio: MP3 128 kpbs @ 44.1 KHz | 922 MB
Actors: Fred Sokolow | Studio: Stefan Grossman Guit | Run Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: October 20, 2004
Genre: Guitar Training
Irving Berlin wrote some of the most popular songs of all time, and they sound great on guitar. In this DVD, Fred plays and teaches six Berlin favourites, including guitar backup and instrumental versions of each tune. This lesson will get you playing some of the classiest jazz tunes ever written!
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Fred Sokolow: Travis Picking For Beginners
Fred Sokolow: Travis Picking For Beginners
DVD | 720x480 | VOB | 9000 kbps | 29.97 fps | Aspect ratio: 4:3 | MP3 192 kpbs | 4.2 GB
Actors: Fred Sokolow | Studio: Grossman's Guitar Workshop | Run Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: March 31, 2004
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 closeups of both hands will help you learn Travis style, and the booklet that comes with this video has all the tunes written in tablature and music ... it's a great introduction to fingerpicking!
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Fred Sokolow - The Gershwin Songbook
Fred Sokolow - The Gershwin Songbook
DVDRip | 640x480 | AVI | CVID 2504 kbps | 29.97 fps | Aspect ratio: 4:3 | MP3 1411 kpbs | 701 MB
George and Ira Gershwin's beautiful songs are timeless jazz standards, and they sound great on guitar. In this dvd, Fred plays and teaches six complete Gershwin arrangements, including guitar backup (for singing) and instrumental chord solos for each tune. Just for fun, Fred includes the rarely-heard introductory verses to the songs, as well as ad-lib instrumental solos. After playing each tune, Fred gives you a rundown on the arrangement, going over tricky spots and analyzing the chord progression and substitutions.
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Fred Sokolow - Beginner's Fingerpicking Guitar [Video Training]
Fred Sokolow - Beginner's Fingerpicking Guitar [Video Training] | 668 MB
Fingerpicking is essential to the blues, country, rock and folk music ...and it's a way to solo or accompany your own singing. In this DVD lesson, Fred Sokolow starts at the beginning (tuning up and playing simple chords), and shows you patterns, licks and grooves you can use to play any style of music.
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Fred Sokolow - Beginners Blues Guitar [Video Training]
Fred Sokolow - Beginners Blues Guitar [Video Training] | 698 MB
AVI | 104 kbps | 480 x 368
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 wrote and performed the music score for the movie Rampaging Nurses!
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