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Welcome to Norman Blake–Style Guitar


This lesson is part of the course Norman Blake–Style Guitar with Greg Schochet.
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About This Course

 
Learn to play guitar in the style of legendary multi-instrumentalist Norman Blake. Steeped in the tradition of Maybelle Carter, Blake’s highly personal flatpicking style combines complex picking and strumming patterns with harmonized melody lines, syncopation, and fretting-hand embellishments.
 
 
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In this video, Greg shows you how to expand on what you learned by incorporating a full Blake roll and some hammer-ons.

 
 
 
The Norman Blake–Style Guitar Subscription Includes:
  • A step-by-step approach to mastering the guitar styles of Norman Blake
  • Extensive video lessons on Norman Blake’s essential picking and fingering techniques
  • Lessons on how to play many of Norman Blake’s best-loved songs and instrumentals
  • Detailed notation/tab for all lessons
  • High-quality video with multiple camera angles so you can see closeups of both hands in action
  • Play-Along Tracks so you can practice what you’ve learned
  • New lessons each month
 
 
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Welcome to Norman Blake–Style Guitar  
 
Welcome to Norman Blake–Style Guitar  
 
Welcome to Norman Blake–Style Guitar
Welcome to Norman Blake–Style Guitar
 

Greg gives you an overview of what you’ll learn in his Norman Blake–Style Guitar course. In this video, Greg demonstrates the Norman Blake style, provides an overview of Norman’s long and varied career and musical contributions, and summarizes what you’ll learn in his Norman Blake–Style Guitar course. The course delves into Norman’s strumming and picking techniques and shows you how to apply them to traditional songs and a full range of Norman Blake’s beloved original songs and instrumental tunes.


 
 
 

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