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Homespun Music Instruction
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Happy and Jane Traum started Homespun in 1967, and for more than five decades we have been producing lessons by world-class, often legendary musicians, who pass on their expertise and experiences via our successful audio and video teaching methods. We specialize in all kinds of “roots music” - bluegrass, country blues, folk, Celtic, old-time, rock, swing, Cajun - and the instrumental and vocal techniques necessary to play them. We have lessons at all levels, from total beginner to professional, always taught in a clear, easy-to-follow, user-friendly manner. We hope you’ll join us in our ongoing musical adventures.
To get in touch with us: info@homespun.com
To get in touch with us: info@homespun.com
Rhythm Guitar Mastery! Exercises for a Rock-Solid Foundation Taught by Josh Yenne lesson sample
Enjoy this lesson sample: You can purchase the lesson here: homespun.com/shop/ci1NKYoEAW2u8cdX
00:00|Start
00:37|Intro Talk
01:21|Holding the Pick
02:02|Exercise Example
02:57|More Advanced Hand Exercise
Are you a beginner guitarist overwhelmed by confusing rhythm techniques, or an experienced player frustrated by dropping the groove or struggling with certain rhythms? "Rhythm Guitar Mastery!” is your solution. This video teaches a straightforward, foundational technique that simplifies rhythm guitar, making it easier and more effective than ever.
For beginners, this method offers the fastest and most consistent path to becoming a strong rhythm player. For seasoned players, it eliminates frustration by revealing the underlying simplicity of all grooves and rhythms. Mastering this technique will also make it much easier to sing while playing guitar.
Whether you're just starting out or have years of experience, this approach to holding a steady rhythm will guide you step-by-step, ensuring that you can confidently handle any style-rock, folk, bluegrass, reggae, blues, and more. Transform your playing and unlock your full potential with this innovative approach and gain your "Rhythm Guitar Mastery!”
Below is a handy link to the metronome Josh prefers.
apps.apple.com/us/app/metronomics-metronome/id435393098
00:00|Start
00:37|Intro Talk
01:21|Holding the Pick
02:02|Exercise Example
02:57|More Advanced Hand Exercise
Are you a beginner guitarist overwhelmed by confusing rhythm techniques, or an experienced player frustrated by dropping the groove or struggling with certain rhythms? "Rhythm Guitar Mastery!” is your solution. This video teaches a straightforward, foundational technique that simplifies rhythm guitar, making it easier and more effective than ever.
For beginners, this method offers the fastest and most consistent path to becoming a strong rhythm player. For seasoned players, it eliminates frustration by revealing the underlying simplicity of all grooves and rhythms. Mastering this technique will also make it much easier to sing while playing guitar.
Whether you're just starting out or have years of experience, this approach to holding a steady rhythm will guide you step-by-step, ensuring that you can confidently handle any style-rock, folk, bluegrass, reggae, blues, and more. Transform your playing and unlock your full potential with this innovative approach and gain your "Rhythm Guitar Mastery!”
Below is a handy link to the metronome Josh prefers.
apps.apple.com/us/app/metronomics-metronome/id435393098
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Driving the Blues Highway in A Lesson Sample Taught by Javier Matos
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To purchase this lesson go to homespun.com/shop/csR0VunrWKuno5yS 00:00|Intro 00:59|Robert Johnson Intro 02:03|Blues from Louisiana and East Texas 04:06|Breakdown of Blues Scale 05:35|Reference to "Lil' Son" Jackson Join passionate blues guitar enthusiast Javier Matos on a musical adventure - driving the blues highway! In this terrific lesson Javier takes a deep dive into the key of A. He explor...
Blues Guitar Turnarounds That Every Guitar Player Should Know Sample
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To purchase this lesson go to homespun.com/shop/cNRBm3gqnmSeIQNq 00:00|Intro 00:23|About the lesson 01:15|First Turnaround 02:44|Good Key of E Turnaround 04:35|Portable A Shape 05:03|1-6-2-5 Turnaround Turnarounds are a great way to spice up any blues progression, and add excitement to your bag of tricks. In this lesson Adam Traum teaches a fun batch of turnarounds and LOTS MORE! With embedded ...
Sample: Right Hand Training for Fingerstyle Guitar Volumes 1, 2 and 3 Taught by Josh Yenne
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Link: homespun.com/shop/c3bLhq3BLncpG9NF 00:00 Lesson 1 intro 01:32 Pattern 1 01:42 Pattern 4 03:04 Lesson 2 Intro 04:29 Combining Patterns 06:44 Lesson 3 Intro 07:58 Descending Line Monotonic Bass 09:08 Build Small, Build Slow, Combine 10:12 Contact Info Video #1: Having good picking-hand technique is an indispensable tool for all acoustic guitar players. Its proper use can create beautiful ac...
Sample: Right Hand Training for Fingerstyle Guitar Vol. 3 Taught by Josh Yenne
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To purchase this lesson go to: homespun.com/shop/c6uIZ9Ae2qKo3Zbf 00:00 Intro 01:27 Basic Monotonic Bass with Melody 02:08 Adding Alternating Thumb 2:26 Build Slow, Build Small 03:05 Adding Melody to B String 03:33 First Phrase Guitarist Josh Yenne builds on his first two right-hand training lessons, this time bringing in the left hand to show you how you can apply those exercises and start mak...
A New "Lick of the Day" by Happy Traum - A Great Ending or Fill-in in C!
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This lick is one of the most useful ones I know in the key of C, especially for bluesy or ragtime-type fingerpicking tunes. I use it all the time. It's really fun to throw it in as a cool ending or even something in the middle of a song. Try it out and let me know how you like it. - Happy Traum For more like this and hundreds of lessons by top pro players, go to www.homespun.com.
The late Jesse McReynolds Plays "Ridge Runner" from his Homespun Video
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homespun.com/shop/hs_mandolin15 Legendary mandolinist Jesse McReynolds invented "crosspicking" over thirty years ago, inspiring and influencing all bluegrass mandolin players who have come along since then. Now you can learn it too, straight from the source! Jesse takes you through the basics of crosspicking, chord formations, exercises, variations, endings, backward rolls, and his unique metho...
David Grier plays "Engagement Waltz" (Homespun)
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To learn this and other great flatpicking tunes, go to homespun.com/shop/hs_bluegrass12 Enjoy this performance of David Grier's original song "Engagement Waltz" from his terrific Homespun Music Instruction lesson Bluegrass Guitar-Building Powerful Solos. Here is an award-winning guitarist’s blueprint for taking a successful bluegrass solo. On this excellent lesson, David Grier outlines the wide...
Sample: David Grier's Flatpicking Lesson, "Building Powerful Solos" on Homespun
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For more information on this Homespun lesson go to homespun.com/shop/hs_bluegrass12 Here is an award-winning guitarist’s blueprint for taking a successful bluegrass solo. On this excellent lesson, David Grier outlines the wide variety of techniques necessary to establish solid flatpicking style and play hot bluegrass guitar. He takes all the elements of his dazzling style - slides, hammers, pul...
Happy & Artie Traum Playing Woody Guthrie's "Jackhammer Blues" at the Clearwater Festival, 1973.
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Another recently discovered gem from the Clearwater Festival, (later named the Hudson River Revival). It was recorded at the Kingson, NY waterfront. Artie and I were in our dual-flatpicking mode and obviously having fun playing this great song. Pete and Toshi Seeger were the instigators of this long-running consciousness-raising environmental effort to clean up the Hudson River.
Happy & Artie Traum at Clearwater Festival, 1973, singing "When I Paint My Masterpiece."
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This video just surfaced fifty years after it was shot at one of the early Clearwater festivals. Here we're introduced by Pete Seeger, who, along with his wife, Toshi, ran this event for decades, raising money for the Hudson River Sloop and awareness of the fragile river ecology.
"Ramblin' Round Your City" performance by Happy Traum
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For lesson info: homespun.com/shop/hs_happytraumteach-744 Woody Guthrie was a songwriter, poet, novelist, journalist, artist, and one of the most celebrated figures in folk music. The social commentary in Woody’s songs, are still as relevant today as when he penned them. Happy Traum teaches six arrangements of Woody Guthrie’s classic songs in his usual cogent, and accessible manner. Intermediat...
Rainer's Blues Picking School Sample
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For more information on this lesson go to homespun.com/shop/hs_rainibluespicki-438 This course is different than anything that we have offered before, and we know that all aspiring blues pickers will love it. Rainer Brunn, one of Homespun’s most popular instructors, has developed this course of study based on his love of traditional American blues guitar styles as well as his long experience as...
"Keep It Clean" performance by Del Rey
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Lesson info here: homespun.com/shop/hs_uke1 This informative and entertaining video will teach you a myriad of fingerpicking and chording techniques. Del takes a guitar player’s approach to the instrument, using her three fingers to get syncopated melody and harmony lines against a steady thumb beat. She teaches you how to play cool riffs, turnarounds, blues songs and up-beat dance tunes. Tunin...
"Toby Walker's "Easy Moveable Chords for Dynamic Blues Soloing"
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Lesson info here : homespun.com/shop/hs_easymoveachord-205 Here’s a really fun and informative lesson for players at all levels. Toby Walker has long been among our most popular guitar instructors, and on this session, he shows early-intermediate players how certain chord shapes, particularly the “long A,” can be used to get around the fretboard and create authentic-sounding fingerstyle blues s...
"Study in Bm" Performance by Frederic Hand
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"Study in Bm" Performance by Frederic Hand
"Rocky Top" Performance by Sonny Osborn
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"Rocky Top" Performance by Sonny Osborn
Bill Monroe at the White House performance w/Doc Watson
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Bill Monroe at the White House performance w/Doc Watson
"Vaghe Belleze" performance by Fredric Hand
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"Vaghe Belleze" performance by Fredric Hand
"Jan's Song" performance by Mike Dowling
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"Jan's Song" performance by Mike Dowling
"The Water is Wide" performed by Frederic Hand
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"The Water is Wide" performed by Frederic Hand
"Rope Stretching Blues" performance by Rainer Brunn
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"Rope Stretching Blues" performance by Rainer Brunn
"Another Colorado" performance by Jimmie Dale & Colin Gilmore from their Homespun lesson
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"Another Colorado" performance by Jimmie Dale & Colin Gilmore from their Homespun lesson
"Darcy Farrow" Performance by Peter Huttlinger
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"Darcy Farrow" Performance by Peter Huttlinger
Rainer Brunn plays "Going Down The Road Feeling Bad"
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Rainer Brunn plays "Going Down The Road Feeling Bad"
"Rocky Mountain High" performance by Pete Huttlinger
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"Rocky Mountain High" performance by Pete Huttlinger
"El Randa" performance by Sonny Osborne
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"El Randa" performance by Sonny Osborne
Jim Weider Plays in the Paul Burlison style
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Jim Weider Plays in the Paul Burlison style
Hi , what book do I buy that has this exact song on its as I am keen to learn it. Cheers
been a fan of his since I first heard him on Richie Haven's "Something Else Again' lp
I love those sounds! Thank you for sharing how it's made.
I watched this video today, and went out and bought a 12 string. I am playing better than this guy already and it has only been 3 or 4 minutes.
Just came across the sad news of Happy's passing. I was a regular student/watcher of his Licks tutorials. God bless Happy and happy pickin' in the Golden Land. Thanks for all the music.
I absolutely love Chris Smither!
Wow and to think she's often only picking with two fingers 🤯
Etta was the best!
Are we able to purchase this in digital format instead of DVD or VHS?
Homespun no longer carries physical products. Check out homespun.com where all our lessons are available digitally. Thanks for commenting and asking a good question!
@@HomespunMusicInstruction thank you!
What kind of finger picks do you use???
Not sure, but it looks like plastic national thumb and fingerpicks.
@@HomespunMusicInstruction So, basically do you think it's a set of banjo picks??
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Marvelous performance! Thank you for sharing.
It's a great version of one of the best songs!
OMG! Were they ever really THAT young!?! Such a great memorial. Thank you for sharing.
I had a dream last night............. that my atoharp was in tune and all of the dampers were working correctly and all of the tuners were light as a feather
hey man..... i bought an autoharp by chord, and cannot find a tuner key for it, any ideas, man
Merci !
¡Muy buen gusto! Sonido tradicional y melódico, excelente.
When I was a teen someone gave me three of your fingerpicking tapes featuring mostly folk and country melodies. This piqued my interest in fingerstyle which developed to my later teens when I began RCM classical guitar lessons. One of the most complicated instruments when you have some Bach sheet music in front of you. Thank you for fanning that flame in my childhood, though struggling with a classical performers piece sometimes that might elicit a frustrated glare. Hard to admit it but that was thirty years ago.
Love John Hartford and i think about him all the time.
Man, RIP Happy! I learned so much for you and homespun. This vid is a real gem, w Pete Seeger in the background, just chillin.
thank you HAPPY ,, for a lifetime of brilliance !
RIP Happy. You taught so much to so many, with fun always part of the lesson. Your life was a blessing
Fare thee well, Happy. Oh, you will be missed.
This is extremely interesting, even for a instrumentally challenged viewer like me.
RIP Happy , talented nice guy!
That was totally BADASS dude!!!!😅😅😅😅😅
I have loved his music for years. His album "Slow Guitar" is a masterpiece.
In lo def blurry vision
Only now I get why he was so appreciative of Zappa.
Beautiful.
Oh My Gosh. Random...Looked you up and found this. I love that I met you on your journey from MN to CA in like 2020-ish. After my husband died, and I was a widow on fire; but before covid.
If other teachers are watching, this is how it's done. Just give a good view of the chord changes and play the song. If we can play guitar at this level, there's no call for making a 3-minute lesson last 20 minutes.
What course / dvd name does this come from?
Man oh man What a story teller Beautiful and so soulful Thank you sir
Steve is in Heaven playing with the worship team.
Need more of the clips from this event!
Thank you for sharing your talents and thoughts and blessed gift from our Lord God. I have been using your Technique books, sheet music and DVD. I have been playing classical guitar and strumming Christian contemporary. But now I have been learning how to play flatpicking bluegrass from your materials. I also been using the tortex standard .73mm picks. After trying many styles and thicknesses I have settled for this one pick for everything. Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior, John
Pete passed away some years ago. I am old enough to remember the movement to stop the war in Vietnam as well as the toll it took. I turned 18 shortly after the draft ended. I still had to go sign up for it though. I had several friends and family members who went none of whom were even the same after returning. Pete, I wish you were still here with us today with all your friends. You really made a difference. R.I.P
Well this isnt going to teach me anything. Im trying to learn fiddle not a damn guitar
Playing an Alvarez Yairi.
Como se llama la primera canción, tengo como 13 años tratando de averiguarlo :c
Thanks for taking a look at this sample!
hasta los buenos pegan gallos en los bendings soplados jajaj lo raro es que no lo repitieran
I have a DVD somewhere which looks like this was taken from , where he teaches 6 songs in full. I guess it can be purchased at homespun.
You are correct! It's a terrific lesson. One of our favorites. homespun.com is where you can find it.
Youre right i have it on VHS video
Special thanks to "The Equalizer" TV show for having mentioned you and refreshing my failing memory. I always loved your playing, but this is special. Love that distinctive voice and I Love your Blues side. Good Stuff!!! Stay Well.
Cпасибо!
Happy birthday Jack!
pedal steel licks! awesome
2 incredible musicians!
Maybe you should look at the banjeurines that were made at the end of the 1880s through around 1910. These were five string banjos with a larger rim and shorter neck. S. S. Stewart made many of them and you can find them on the internet. At that time “classic” playing that included waltzes, marches and ragtime was all done on five string instruments with gut strings and a typical ensemble included the regular banjo, piccolo banjo, banjeurine and even bass banjo alone with guitars and mandolins. The early evolution of the tenor banjo comes from removing the fifth peg from a banjeurine and tuning in fifths so that violin and cello players could easily adapt to play for dance bands. I don’t think you’ve heard much tenor banjo playing if you think it’s limited and not as energetic as five string playing. Google tenor banjo playing. 😄
Sounds great!