Lick Library - Effortless Guitar - Essential Blues Fusion - Richard Smith

Lick Library
EFFORTLESS GUITAR - BLUES FUSION DVD
By Richard Smith

This easy-on-the-fingers intermediate DVD deals specifically with developing ones melodic voice, or melodic guitar 'signature'. Every artist spends a lifetime developing the artistic signature that makes them unique; 'Effortless Blues Fusion' provides some of the techniques that go into the actual personality of a guitar player's own sound. Like a singer, these techniques can be practiced and reinforced by methodical, enjoyable practice. Learn what it takes to expand your musical personality effortlessly through fun-to-play fusion songs. Learn about: - new sounds with bluesy octaves - new tones with the thumb and fingers - various picking techniques: - expressive double stop snaps - finger and pick combinations - dramatic new left and right hand techniques, - cool hammer-on, slur and bending runs.


About Richard Smith

Richard Smith rivals Roy Buchanan as the greatest guitarist you probably never heard. A master of timing, tone, phrasing and composition, Richard really is a pleasure to listen to and an even greater pleasure to learn from.
Having a long relationship with USC, Richard's role as an educator shines, but it's as a recording musician where Richard has shined the most, receiving acclaim from journalists and players the world over. His last release, L.A. Chillharmonic is a tour de force of tasty guitar playing.

Richard has also developed a groundbreaking course entitled “Contemporary Popular Music, a Global Perspective’, in which he takes a class of students, from a range of degree programs at USC to collaborate with the international student body at The Institute of Popular Music Performance, (ICMP) in London, England.His students are working professionally in venues from Broadway and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, to recording and touring with such luminaries as Oliver Stone, B.T., Marc Anthony, Snoop Dog, Blink 182, Beck, The Back Street Boys, Josh Groban, Michael Buble, Elton John, Clay Aiken, Christina Aguilera, Miley Cyrus, Drake Bell, Madonna. Michael Bolton, Bono, the Edge, Maroon 5, and current hit television programs American Idol and Glee.

http://www.richardsmithguitar.com


Content Runtime: 1hour 31mins 32secs

Jam tracks (backing tracks) MP3 44100Hz stereo 320kbps Quality : WEBRip Format : MP4 Video codec : H.264 Audio codec : AAC Video : Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 25fps Audio : Audio: AAC 48000Hz stereo