DVD-A Nuts and Bolts Approach to Arranging for Fingerstyle Guitar

Brown teaches an organized approach to exploring and combining rhythm, melody, and harmony to create fingerstyle guitar arrangements. Numerous tips, tools and techniques, a look at approaching different musical styles and just enough theoretical knowledge to get you started at arranging your own versions of whatever sort of music you want to create on the guitar. Topics include: arpeggiated rolling rhythm, arranging for constant alternate bass, chord choice and substitution, the essential tones concept, arranging with a walking bass line, Bossa Nova rhythm, Ragtime, Fingerstyle blues, original compositions. Tab/music booklet included as a PDF file. Intermediate. 97 min.