Artie Traum Guitar Tab Books, Instruction DVDs, Solos, Arrangements, Video Lessons

    The late Artie Traum was an award-winning guitarist who had been featured on over 30 albums, including "South of Lafayette," (a "hip fusion of folk and jazz esthetics," writes Sing Out! Magazine) and his 2007 release "Thief of Time." "Letters From Joubee" (1994) spent six weeks at #1 on the smooth jazz radio charts, while "Meetings With Remarkable Friends," with The Band, Sam Bush, Béla Fleck, Tony Levin, Laurence Juber, John Sebastian and other top musicians, was awarded Best Acoustic Instrumental Album of 1999 (NAV Award) and voted Best CD of 2000 by Hudson Valley Magazine. In 2001, Artie released "The Last Romantic," which was placed "on this year's list of best releases" by Jazz Times.

    Performing since the 1960's, Artie Traum had worked with his brother Happy Traum, songwriter Pat Alger and The Woodstock Mountains Revue. Artie's songs have been recorded by The Band, David Grisman and Tony Rice, among others. He has produced CDs for Tony Levin, Laurence Juber, Livingston Taylor, Diane Ziegler and many other top artists. Artie performed at dozens of festivals, including the Catalina Jazz Trax Festival, Philadelphia Folk Festival and the Newport Folk Festival, and composed music for film and TV shows. For twelve years Artie Traum was a popular clinician for Taylor Guitars, performing guitar workshops around the world. "Artie Traum has the natural, soulful touch that other guitarists only dream about," says Donald Fagen of Steely Dan.

Artie Traum - Basic Jazz Guitar - Book and 3 CDs
Artie Traum teaches jazz guitar techniques to help you enrich your favorite styles and explore new musical colors and tonalities! Includes lessons on: jazz-blues progressions, turnarounds, swing progressions, advanced chord positions, scale-chord relationships, arpeggios, chord substitutions and extensions, rhythm techniques, single-note lead lines and rhythm play-along tracks. Songs include: "Cold Front, Life On Earth, Sailor's Lullaby".
Tab and chord diagrams.................................................................Price - $37.50

Artie Traum - Guitar Chord Magic - Vol I - DVD
This unique and powerful rhythm guitar method is guaranteed to bring your playing to a whole new level! Song accompaniments will swing like never before as you learn new inversions and progressions that will add interest and excitement to your music. These easy-to-learn ideas will help you make a quantum leap in your knowledge of chords and your approach to the entire guitar fingerboard. On this 60-minute DVD, Artie Traum builds jazz chords, showing you how to move them around the fingerboard and substitute them for the more ordinary major and minor chords you may be using now. Within minutes you'll be playing the turnarounds and progressions you've always wanted to learn but couldn't quite figure out. You'll also learn to apply these techniques to several great blues and original pop songs. If you're looking for new ways to expand you harmonic sense and chording styles, then this DVD is for you!
(60 min) Booklet included..............................................................Price - $29.95


Artie Traum - Guitar Chord Magic - Vol II - DVD
Here is a superb DVD guitar lesson that will help you add rich chords and harmonic ideas to your songs and compositions, and allow you to break new ground in your playing! Artie Traum continues his exploration of the guitar's harmonic possibilities with easy but effective chord shapes, progressions, moving basses and harmony lines. This video shows you the techniques you can use to compose beautiful fingerstyle instrumentals and song accompaniments. The "Chord Magic" method emphases expansion, or becoming "unstuck" as you grow as a guitarist. You'll learn some of the techniques Artie used in composing the tunes for his critically-acclaimed album Cayenne, as well as the accompaniment to a wonderful Pat Alger song "Born Among The Lion". If you are a folk, country or pop player, you'll find the songs and techniques taught on this DVD invaluable for adding, new and exciting textures, harmonies and musical ideas to your playing.
(60 min) Booklet included..............................................................Price - $29.95

Artie Traum - Set of both DVDs (Chord Magic Vol 1 & 2) on sale now $49.95!

Artie Traum - Easy Guitar Chords & Progressions - DVD
By moving just 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! This lesson is fun, easy and filled with guitar tips, musical ideas and great songs including: "Sloop John B, Corrina, Worried Man Blues, Barbed Wire, The Water Is Wide, Diamond Joe" and others!.
(85 min) Booklet included..............................................................Price - $29.95
 

Artie Traum - Essential DADGAD For Beginners - Vol 1 - DVD
Here is an easy introduction to DADGAD for those who are new to alternate tunings and want to explore its' unique sounds on the guitar. It brings beautiful progressions, unique chords, ringing open strings and rich tones to your playing. In his "guided tour" guitarist Artie Traum shows you how to retune your guitar quickly and easily, form the important chords in the key of D (some using only one finger), improvise instrumentals, write songs and get funky with country blues ideas. Using the folk classic "The Water is Wide" as an example, Artie reveals how a song can be harmonized using basic chord positions in this tuning, Playing in DADGAD tuning will transform the way you create music on your guitar. Its unique tonality will help you improvise beautiful fingerstyle pieces and its sounds will inspire you to go on to more advanced studies in alternate tunings.
(55 min) Booklet included..............................................................Price - $29.95


Artie Traum - Essential DADGAD For Beginners - Vol 2 - DVD
More and more guitarists are discovering the powerful harmonies and rich chord formations that become magically available in this poplar guitar tuning. Artie Traum helps bring the guitar to life by showing DADGAD applications in traditional mountain ballads, fingerstyle blues and his own contemporary songs including "KC Moan, East Virginia Blues, Niagara, Serpa".
(60 min) Booklet included..............................................................Price - $29.95


Artie Traum - Essential DADGAD For Beginners - Vol 3 - DVD
This lesson is perfect for early-intermediate players who have already explored the basics of  DADGAD and want to move to the next level. Artie Traum's guitar compositions "Blue Hotel, Fourteen Turtles" and the bluesy "Yankee Swamp" illustrate how he uses chord positions and progressions up and down the neck, and how to play melodies against powerful bass lines.
(60 min) Booklet included..............................................................Price - $29.95
Artie Traum - All 3 DVDs (Essential DADGAD Vol 1 - 3) on sale now $69.95!

Jazz Guitar Chords & Arpeggio Patterns - Stacy McKee - This unique book includes 300 jazz guitar chord formations and matching single note arpeggio patterns in a quick reference format that no one has ever done before! Cross indexing makes this manual extremely easy to use and regardless of what style of music you play, we know you will find this to be a valuable, "must have" addition to your library.  Stacy McKee was the featured guitarist with "Les Brown and The Band Of Renown" and for a limited time only, we will include an exclusive copy of his book FREE with your first order!
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