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Dear Guitar Player

Master acoustic guitar in various styles, with step by step lessons that take you to a high level of fingerstyle competence...

Here's your chance to take your acoustic guitar playing to a new level and master all those professional techniques that will have your listeners gaping with rapt awe. Join the Acoustic Guitar Workshop and learn how to play the ultimate, stand-alone-don't-need-nuttin-else guitar which is Fingerstyle.

Fingerstyle is the most satisfying form of guitar playing. The guitar becomes the entire band, playing bass, rhythm and melody. And you can apply it to whatever style you're into - blues, jazz, classical, country, folk, rock...Surely the most fun you can have with your clothes on!

A great player and a superb teacher

Your tutuor will be Rick Payne. His credentials are impeccable. Apart from pursuing a thriving solo career, Rick is a highly respected teacher in his hometown of Bristol, UK, teaching in schools and colleges. He has been playing and teaching for well over 30 years. The knowledge of half a lifetime has been distilled in these courses. And it's all yours for less than 25 bucks!

Join up today for a a one-off subscription of only $12.50

Get started right now? You'll be able to access the Member's Area as soon as your payment is approved. Or read on...

Is the Acoustic Guitar Workshop right for me?

It doesn't matter where your guitar playing is right now; you're going to expand the horizons of your playing dramatically when you join.

Maybe you've been playing electric guitar and you want to brush up your acoustic technique... Or maybe you can strum a few chords but want to move your playing on some... Perhaps you want to learn how to create professional fingerstyle arrangements to accompany your favorite songs...

"I have played guitar for over 15 years now and have taken everything from private lessons to University level jazz guitar lessons. My playing has improved by leaps and bounds with this course. This was the best $$$'s I have ever spent. Keep up the outstanding work! Outstanding customer support, too."
Joe Maroli
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Whatever you want, get ready to have a whole bunch of fun in the Acoustic Guitar Workshop. And here's an important point to realise: whatever style of playing you like - blues, jazz, classical, folk - there is a common ground of techniques applicable to all forms of fingerstyle.

For example, when you master the art of arpeggiating, you can apply this to an acoustic rock song, or a cool piece of Spanish guitar. It's handy to put labels on music, but the underlying techniques you use to express the music with your guitar are remarkably similar.

7 cool acoustic guitar courses - and counting

These are focused acoustic guitar courses, specifically designed, with step by step excercises and pieces to take you to a high level of acoustic fingerstyle competence. Currently we have six online courses available, but more are planned and in the pipeline.

How do the courses work?

The lessons are arranged in a series of step by step sessions, each one designed to take you further along the road to mastery. You are guided through the process with clearly written notes, diagrams and tablature. The exercises and pieces are supported with Real Audio files and mp3's, played by the teacher. So you can hear what you're supposed to be playing.

Online courses currently available...

Fingerstyle Acoustic Blues: A 10 lesson course in the art of acoustic fingerstyle blues that gives you a real insight into the music pioneered by legends such as Robert Johnson and Big Bill Broonzy. You'll learn all the techniques necessary to give your playing a real authentic feel.

Fingerstyle Blues 2: A 10 lesson course that follows on from and expands on "Fingerstyle Acoustic Blues."

Pentatonic To The Blues: A course in 9 lessons that illuminates the link between Pentatonic and Blues scales. Once you've got to grips with this, you'll be able to create your own authentic blues riffs and play dynamic solos over common blues progressions.

Acoustic Blues Slide & Bottleneck Guitar: A 10 lesson course in the haunting art of acoustic slide playing.The course includes 6 great acoustic slide instrumentals and takes you in logical steps, assuming no prior knowledge of the style, to playing like a regular Ry Cooder!

Beginning Fingerstyle: A 10 lesson course introducing you to the art of fingerstyle.This is a more general course and gives you a mixed bag of styles, including Classical, Blues, Ragtime and Country.

Beginners Guitar: 19 lessons ideal for people new to the acoustic guitar and guitar in general. You'll get to cover all the bases: blues, rock, folk, fingerstyle, learn cool strumming patterns, basic scales and chords. Plus you'll also learn some classic all-time monster riffs to impress your friends.

Jazz Blues Chord Workshop: This 11 session course takes the 12 bar format and shows you how to really stretch it with a knowledge of jazz chords, substitutions, key changes and other tricks.

But that's not all...

There's a whole bunch more resources in our member's area to help you become the best acoustic guitarists you can be. You also get all this:

• High quality acoustic mp3's recorded by the Acoustic Guitar Workshop and others. Preview one of our FREE Mp3 download page now? This is not purely for your enjoyment, but to help you learn by example.
• A growing archive of single lessons culled from some of the best resources on the web. No need to trawl around endlessly in cyberspace looking for stuff. We've done all the work for you. You'll find lessons in all kinds of styles here: Blues, Jazz, Classical, Pop, Rock, Folk, Celtic and Country.
• A growing collection of acoustic guitar tab. Some tunes that have been recently added include: "The Entertainer", "Yesterday" and "Maple Leaf Rag".
• Lessons from top contributing guitarists. At present Tim Sparks, Joe Bennett, Gilbert Isbin and Gert de Meijer have some cool lessons in our members' area. And yes, you guessed it, more are coming soon.
• Free subscription to our popular monthly ezine - Acoustic Guitar Review. Featuring interviews with top players, news, reviews, tips and cool links. Plus updates on what's happening in the members' area. You also receive our free bi-monthly supplement, MP3 Spotlight which gives you direct links to superb acoustic guitar mp3's across all genres - blues, folk, celtic, classical etc.

Bluesingly yours

acousticguitarworkshop.com

PS: Subscribe to The Acoustic Guitar Workshop now for just $12.50US and you'll get everything we have online today and what we're gonna put up next week and the week after that and the week after that...You get the picture.

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TESTIMONIALS

"I have played guitar for over 15 years now and have taken everything from private lessons to University level jazz guitar lessons. My playing has improved by leaps and bounds with this course. This was the best money I have ever spent. Keep up the outstanding work! Outstanding customer support, too."
JOE MAROLI

"Your ezine (Acoustic Guitar Review) is one of the best."
PAUL ADAMS

"Subscribing to this site is probably the best money I have ever spent! I initially subscribed to start learning slide. Never thought I could do it before, all those different tunings.... but now I'm off and running, improvising along with all kinds of stuff. In fact I'm playing so much slide, my fingerstyle playing is beginning to suffer!"
MARTIN WOOD

"I am very impressed."
DONALD STIVERSON

"Great stuff and received the CD in record time. Giving this sort of service is rare, it's easy to take the cash and not give the service. well done, it's worth every penny."
COLIN LYNNE

"Just wanted to let you know the 60 Day Fingerstyle Blues Camp CD's are just great. Doing the exercises has helped my finger independence beyond words. Keep up the good work and thank you."
BOB ANDERSON

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