Mountain View, CA (PRWEB) June 29, 2010

Guitar enthusiasts eager to learn acoustic guitar lessons and easy guitar tabs will be pleased to learn that new Deep Purple and Ritchie Blackmore guitar tuition DVDs are now available in the market.

Lick Library released the Deep Purple and Ritchie Blackmore guitar tuition DVDs in celebration of the sixty-fifth birthday of legendary Ritchie Blackmore, guitarist of Deep Purple. These four DVDs are a part of the vast library of titles that feature the particular style of play that Blackmore is recognized for. These DVDs include lessons by Danny Gill, a former student of Joe Satriani. Joe Satriani completed the 1993/94 tour of Deep Purple and successfully passed his experience to Gill.

As founding member of Deep Purple and Rainbow, Ritchie Blackmore is recognized as one of the greatest guitar players of all time. Blackmore has remained a central figure in the rock world and has inspired many guitar enthusiasts to hone their skills. It is for this reason that Lick Library selected Ritchie Blackmore as the best choice to feature in their guitar lesson tutorials.

On offer is a “Jam With Deep Purple” double DVD set that is accompanied by a CD of tracks without the guitar, which enables learners to jam along as they sharpen their skills. The DVD is two hours long and features the following 7 classic tracks by Deep Purple: Lazy, Woman From Tokyo, Smoke on the Water, Black Night, Burn, Highway Star and Strange Kind of Woman. The backing tracks are featured on this high quality recorded jam along CD that has been recoded with a complete professional backing band. This way, pupils are able to learn the classic Deep Purple tracks at their own pace. They also get to jam along with a live band complete with keyboards, rhythm guitar, bass and drums which enables them to keep in time and have their rehearsals anytime they feel like.

All the guitar DVD tutorials have been filmed in high definition and feature a double screen that enable the pupil to see exactly what both hands are supposed to be doing simultaneously. This is one of the reasons why these DVD tutorials are a must have for anyone who wishes to play as well as Ritchie Blackmore.

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Mountain View, CA (PRWEB) July 8, 2010

Guitar enthusiasts can now learn to play the guitar like The Shadows, the most successful vocal and instrumental group in Britain, through the use of the Hank Marvin guitar tuition DVDs now available. The beginner guitar lessons include easy guitar songs featuring some of the groups 69 UK hit charted singles.

These guitar tuition DVDs were produced through collaborations between Lick Library and Lee Hodgson, a highly respected guitar tutor. Hodgson’s versatility as a studio musician is widely recognized as well as his vast experience as a stage performer. He has played thousands of gigs including arenas in which he toured with Odyssey, the number 1 chart topping act. He is known for communicating passionately and confidently with a legendary attention to detail.

The Shadows are remembered as a pioneer 4-member rock-group in the UK, due to their format comprising of lead guitar, rhythm guitar, bass guitar and drums. They had a distinct sound that featured variety of tone and a rhythmic bite. Hank Marvin’s guitar sound and appearance were individually recognized mainly because of his clean sound, distinctive echo and vibrato which gave audiences a dreamy effect. Moreover, Marvin’s expressive use of the tremolo arm made his guitar sound one of the most distinctive ever.

The first DVD in this collection comprises of two hour long guitar lessons broken down into manageable pieces of 5 classic tracks by The Shadows: Wonderful Land, Apache, Guitar Tango, FBI and Man of Mystery. The lessons are conducted by Lee at 3 varying tempos: Dead Slow enables beginners to learn to play the guitar notes; Medium Tempo helps the student to practice and the Up To Tempo lets you play along to the backing track.

Other topics covered in the tuition DVD include muting, scales, as well as the single and twin note walk ups. The lessons also share with learners clever tricks to enable them to remember the rhythms and phrases that Lee is tutoring on, such as through the use of little rhymes and a metronome. The second Double DVD set contains three hour long guitar lessons featuring classic tracks such as Kon Tiki, Geronimo, Sleepwalk, Riders in the Sky and Foot Tapper.

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