DVD One – Starting from Scratch: Veteran guitarist and Homespun Tapes founder Happy Traum offers this unique course in acoustic blues guitar, especially designed for novice players. He breaks it all down into “easy steps,” including syncopated strumming patterns, 12-bar and 8-bar blues progressions, bass runs, and more than a dozen variations for the all-important blues turnarounds, intros and endings. 60-MIN. • INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB • BEGINNER LEVEL

DVD Two – Essentials of Fingerstyle Blues: Happy Traum's “easy steps” learning concept breaks down the all-important steady thumb blues style into modules that can be digested one element at a time. This nearly foolproof method for building solid guitar technique includes shuffle and boogie-woogie bass lines, blues scales, playing solos up the neck, variations on blues chord progressions and arrangements of Rock Me, Baby, Baby Please Don't Go, Trouble in Mind and other blues classics. 90-MIN. • INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB • EARLY INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

Publisher: Homespun Video
Series: Instructional/Guitar/DVD
Medium: DVD
Format: 2-DVD Set
Credits: taught by Happy Traum
Artist(s): Happy Traum