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Hi,

I'm looking for recommendations for DVDs of fingerstyle guitarists. Rather than a concert DVD, which would be cool for different reasons, I'm hoping to find some DVDs where I can listen and watch the hands/fingers of some great players.

I already have 2 Celtic DVDs (Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar Vol. 1: Rambel to Cashel, and Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar Vol. 2: The Blarney Pilgrim.) I'd love to find more!

Of my favorite fingerstyle players (Michael Gulezian, Don Ross, and Pierre Bensusan), Bensusan is the only one that seems to have material on DVD. (Bensusan plays what has to be just about the most beautiful Celtic fingerstyle guitar tune, Flamorgan Air, on Rambel to Cashel. That tune takes me directly to heaven!)

Anyone have any suggestions?

TIA,

Dennis

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Dennis Leahy
Duluth, MN, USA
7th Sense Multimedia

Dennis, try googling Stefan Grossman's videos online. I think it is guitarvideos.com, but not sure of that. He has all kinda of fingerstyle stuff for all levels. I believe he even has some lessons from Pierre Bensusan.

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Dave Rector
Rector Guitars

Dennis

Have a look at Acoustic Guitar Workshop

Thanls for the link Russ!

There are some Don Ross ones out there - I have one that was a workshop done at a Vancouver Guitar shop a few years back - he does a bunch of tunes and then talks abotu composing and stuff. One of my students has the Alex Degrassi one, it seems pretty good as well, more an instructional thing, 3 ro 4 tunes, none of them that easy, but thenagain, what of Alex' work is !!!
BTW - ifyou dont have either the Water Garden, or the Windham Hill collection of his - GET THEM, and prepare to be blown away by the beauty of Alex playing.

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Tony Karol
www.karol-guitars.com
"let my passion .. fulfill yours"

Dennis,
i have a Tommy Emmanuel DVD where he teaches and demonstrates some of his best songs.
i aint home right now but ill check for its proper name when i m home.
also, while perhaps not excatly what you ment when asked for fingerstyle playing - Oscar Herrero, a great flamenco player, has a series of DVDs out, called "la guitarra flamenca", and some of the tips/techniques apply to "steel-string" fingerstyle as well.

Udi.

Dennis,

All 3 of the Martin Simpson DVD's on Homespun are worth their weight in gold imho. Depends a bit on what type of fingerstyle you are into, but Tony McManus's 2 on Stephan Grossman's label are good - some interesting bagpipe tunings and tunes there too, and on Homespun the Al Pettaway ones are very good - I have them on video but suspect they are available on DVD now.

Oh . . . to keep Colin happy . . . Martin Carthy's one is good value tooDave White38869.4750462963

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Dave White
De Faoite Stringed Instruments
". . . the one thing a machine just can't do is give you character and personalities and sometimes that comes with flaws, but it always comes with humanity" Monty Don talking about hand weaving, "Mastercrafts", Weaving, BBC March 2010

Dennis,

Last year I saw Dennis Kamakahi and several others in a Slack Key concert. In the middle of a beautiful song one of his strings broke. In a matter of seconds he retuned his guitar and continued the song with 5 strings. I only noticed one or two notes that sounded My favorite guitar music has always been Hawaiian Slack Key. I have always found Slack Key to be both beautiful and relaxing. It is finger style with a bass line in a variety of different tunings. I play some Slack Key on my ukulele that sounds pretty good but I have no talent. I have included a link to Keola Beamer’s web site that has some good information on it. He also has instructional DVD’s, books, online lessons, and gives a wonderful week long music camp every year. The other link I have added is for Patrick Landeza who also has an instructional DVD.

off in an otherwise perfect performance. With my less then average abilities, I have no concept of how someone can change the conditions so rapidly and still sound great.

Philip

Keola Beamer
Patrick Landeza

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aka konacat

If you think my playing is bad you should hear me sing!
Practice breeds confidence and confidence breeds competence. Unfortunately, I'm stuck in practice.

My favorite fingerstyle player is Woody Mann (woodymann.com).
I'll admit to being biased, though, as he is also a good friend.
The ordering process for some of his material has gotten scrambled on
account of their distributor going out of business, so shoot an e-mail if you
have any trouble.
-C

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Freeborn Guitars
and home of BeauGuard©

Get the Phil Keaggy instructional DVD. He goes over a number of his songs and slows down to show you how to play.
Get any of the Tommy Emmanuel DVDs.

These guys are at the top of my list of world class players.

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"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered." G. K. Chesterton.

Some EXCELLENT suggestions here! I was not aware in several cases that these MONSTER players had instructional DVDs out!

Keep 'em coming!

Dennis

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Dennis Leahy
Duluth, MN, USA
7th Sense Multimedia

Doyle Dykes...but be prepared to spend a year working his stuff...the techniques come quicker tho...and his techniques are amazing!

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http://www.presnallguitars.com

Hi Dennis,

One guy I like is Chris Smither. He plays kind of contemporary blues fingerstyle guitar, orignial compositions. Good stuff.

http://www.younghunter.com/guitarvid.html

Sorry, don't know how to post a link.

Pete