Product Details

• Actors: Al Petteway
• Directors: Happy Traum
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: Unrated
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Hal Leonard
• VHS Release Date: May 1, 1998
• Run Time: 70 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B00005UST7
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #636,649 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Play powerful and evocative arrangements of traditional Irish and Scottish instrumentals using a variety of tunings—Standard, Dropped D, Open G and Low C. Embellishments such as bagpipe-like drone notes, moving bass lines, chord substitutions, harmonics, right hand rolls, the “Scottish Snap” and other techniques help you turn basic tunes into elegant guitar pieces. Songs: Fy to the Hills in the Morning (Johnny Cope), Light and Airy (a slip jig), Sidh beag sidh mor, Red Haired Boy, Jock O’Hazeldean and Caledon Wood.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A terrific learning experience, March 23, 2002

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Robert E Boylan (Woodstock, CT USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Celtic Instrumentals for Fingerstyle Guitar, Video Two [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Al Petteway hosts this video. He is a wonderful Celtic guitarist, and a knowledgeable, friendly and personable instructor.
The video is well produced, and the split screen technique lets the student see both right and left hand technique. Al plays each song in concert tempo so you get the full impact of the song, then breaks it up into easily learned segments and shows you step by step how to play the piece.
Petteway is a good instructor, and is generous with his advice on becoming a better fingerstyle guitarist.
The songs are wonderful. Styles range from the quiet and harp like Red Haired Boy to the complex and challenging Caledon Wood. When you learn how to play Caledon Wood, your guitar playing friends will consider you a God! If you really want to learn Celtic and Open tuning guitar, buy this video.