Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar with Rick Ruskin

Product Description If you're expecting some nice safe guitar muzak, then you're in for a real shock! Rick Ruskin's remarkable style captures all the nuances of a band/rhythm-section and transforms the parts into amazing, in-the-pocket fingerstyle grooves like you've never imagined on a single guitar! Split-screen video format covers: Right- and left-hand technique, walking-bass and counterpoint lines, open-voiced triads, simultaneous bass/rhythm/lead parts, pedal-steel effects, double-stop bends, harmonics and more. The techniques are immediately put to use in extraordinary instrumental versions of: Rikki Don't Lose That Number (Steeley Dan), Georgia On My Mind and four originals, each in standard tuning. His meticulous blow-by-blow analysis of each phrase is loaded with variations and insight that show how to transform the essence of any tune into dynamic arrangements of your own. Musical notation and tab is printable from the disc (DVD-ROM). Review ...so brilliant at times that he seems to transcend normal approaches to the guitar. --Guitar Player Magazine Rick Ruskin's Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar is a brilliantly executed video, with excellent split-screen work. Ruskin is a superb player with an almost pianolike approach to the guitar. He is a unique and powerful stylist, and the advanced fingerstyle player will find enough material in this single video to last a year or two. The guitar is clearly recorded and Ruskin's playing is flawless. --Acoustic Guitar Magazine Ruskin is one of the finest fingerstyle guitarists. His innovative playing is packed with melody, harmony, counterpoint, bass technique and all around flawless ability. He and David Schaub put together one of the best instructional aides I've seen. Included are 4 originals and 2 familiar arrangements that demonstrate the techniques that make his style so appealing. Each is taught section by section and broken down into measures. Included are clear explanations, with split screen imagery showing both right and left hand technique simultaneously - up close - so there can be no question as to what is done. His teaching is superb with step by step instruction covering problems, solutions, variations, and the techniques of alternating bass, hammers, pulls, slides, walking basses, and bass patterns. His teaching is meticulous, in a manner that is encouraging and complete. This video demo