Product Details

• Actors: Artie Traum
• Directors: Happy Traum
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Homespun
• DVD Release Date: April 4, 2008
• Run Time: 85 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001795G20
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #51,476 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
By moving one finger to a different fret, a familiar chord takes on a whole new quality! Move a chord shape to a different position on the neck and you have a rich, advanced-sounding progression! Welcome to Artie Traum s lesson in how to use chords to enhance basic folk, country, blues and rock songs. Artie has designed the perfect lesson for anyone who s looking for ways to make guitar accompaniments come alive. He focuses on the basic chord shapes you probably use all the time (D, G, E and C) and shows you how you can transform their sound by incorporating altered notes, open strings, bass lines, barre chords and a variety of other techniques that will help you create beautiful accompaniments. So, if your songs are sounding a little ordinary, or you want to jump-start a new one you re writing, this world-class player s easy solutions will simply make them sound better. Artie s lesson is fun, relaxed and filled with numerous guitar tips, musical ideas and easy songs, including Sloop John B, Corrina, Worried Man Blues, Barbed Wire, The Water is Wide and Diamond Joe.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars magic!, August 16, 2008

By	Peter Hyatt "reader, Martin guitar fan" (Orrington, Maine) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

it is with real sadness that I pen this review; as Artie has passed on recently. What is left, however, is his gift.

Is his gift performance? talent? his ability to love his family? For that, I have no answer; but as to his gift of teaching, I can address.

Artie is a gifted teacher and he communicates well. His instructional DVDS are excellent and full of enthusiasm. This is no different.

Artie branched out over the years to include jazz chords into his vast collection. This DVD is like possessing a library for chords along with a teacher who not only does not take himself too seriously, but is just SO impressed with this sound, or that sound, that you cannot help but be infected by his contagious enthusiasm.

Even for beginners, this is an important DVD for your guitar instruction library, but it is also great for intermediate guitarists who wish to expand their expression of chords.

Artie's teaching is terrific. Also check out his DVDs on lead guitar---he can make a single note, bent just so, sound like the most important note of your life! He is that much fun!

5.0 out of 5 stars Great help for beginner-intermediate, April 19, 2009

By	B. Bomer (Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

My husband started guitar about a year and a half ago. (He's over 50) He says that this dvd has been one of the best instruction tools he has used. He was anxious to try it when I surprised him with it, and was not disappointed. The illustrations are clear and the instructions are easy to follow. If an instructional dvd can teach a mid-lifer with little musical background, I think that's pretty impressive!