Fred Sokolow Guitar Tabs, Tab Books, Tablature Sheet Music, Videos, DVDs, Lessons

Fred Sokolow     Fred Sokolow is an extremely versatile musician. Although he is most often seen playing jazz guitar and singing in Los Angeles night spots, he is just as likely to turn up playing 5 string banjo at bluegrass festivals or rock guitar at studio sessions. You may even spot him playing Resonator Guitar or mandolin on various folk revivals seen on cable and public television.    Besides soloing as a jazz guitarist/vocalist, Fred also has fronted his own jazz, bluegrass and rock bands. He has toured with Bobbie Gentry, Jim Stafford and The Limeliters. He has performed in such diverse settings as The Fillmore, The Fairmount Hotel and The Boarding House in San Francisco, The Denver Folklore Center, The Alladin, Sahara and Harrah's in Las Vegas and the Banjo Cafe, Donte's and McCabe's in LA.  He has written over 50 instructional books and DVDs. If you think that Fred Sokolow still isn't versatile enough, know that he has MC'd for Carol Doda at San Francisco's legendary Condor Club, accompanied a Russian balalaika virtuoso, won The Gong Show, played lap steel on The Tonight Show, played Resonator Guitar with Chubby Checker and written and performed the music score for the movie Rampaging Nurses!

Fred Sokolow - Jazz Chord Melody Solos For Beginners - DVD
If you love old standards like "Georgia On My Mind" and "Ain't Misbehavin" but always thought that only advanced guitarists could play them, you'll love Fred's easy-to-play jazz chord melody solos! In this DVD, you'll learn six timeless tunes from start to finish, how to play backup while you sing them and how to play a beautiful chord melody solo instrumental for each song. The tunes are arranged for beginners. There are no difficult chords and Fred explains each song measure by measure before playing it. Then you'll watch him re-play the song slowly on a split screen with close-ups of both hands. Chord melody soloing (playing the melody and chords at the same time) is a very complete and cool sounding guitar style! This lesson will get you started and Fred's relaxed teaching style makes it easy! Songs include: "Summertime, Fly Me To the Moon, Georgia On My Mind, It Had To Be You, What a Wonderful World, Ain't Misbehavin". 
(110 minutes)  Booklet included....................................................Price - $29.95
  "Georgia On My Mind"

Fred Sokolow - Jazz Standards For Beginners - DVD
If you love old standards like Autumn Leaves and Moonglow, but always thought only advanced guitarists could play jazz, you'll love Fred's easy-to-play jazz chord solos. In this lesson, you'll learn six timeless tunes from start to finish: how to play backup while you sing them, and how to play a beautiful chord melody solo/instrumental for each song. The tunes are arranged for beginners, with very few difficult chords. Fred plays and sings each song, then goes over the tricky spots in each tune before playing it slower, on a split screen with close-ups of both hands. Best of all, you can read all six arrangements (tablature, music and chord grids) in the booklet that comes with this lesson as a PDF file on the DVD. Chord soloing (playing the melody and chords at the same time) is a very complete and satisfying guitar style. This lesson will get you started and Fred's relaxed teaching style makes it easy. Songs include: "Autumn Leaves, Moonglow, Gee Baby Ain't I good To You, Til There Was You, Young At Heart and In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning".
(106 min) Printable PDF File...........................................................Price - $29.95
  "Autumn Leaves"

Fred Sokolow - The Music of Bessie Smith - DVD
In the 1920s and 30s, Bessie Smith was “empress of the blues.” Her passionate singing and performing style and her songwriting influenced all the blues and jazz singers that followed. Many of the songs she popularized, both blues and “tin pan alley” tunes, have become standards in blues, jazz, rock and pop music. Songs in this collection have been recorded by artists as diverse as Eric Clapton, Leadbelly, Billie Holiday, Chet Atkins, Bing Crosby, David Lee Roth, Big Bill Broonzy, B. B. King and Sam Cooke. They’re great tunes for guitar pickers, and Fred shows you how to back yourself up singing them, and how to fingerpick instrumental versions of six classics. With his explanations of the arrangements, split-screen, slowed-down versions of the songs, and with the tab and music in the accompanying booklet, you’ll learn how to play St. Louis Blues, Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out, Backwater Blues, After You’ve Gone, I Ain’t Got Nobody and the sensational Send Me To the Electric Chair. The songs sound terrific on guitar, and with Fred’s instruction, the arrangements are easy to follow. A 1920s film of Bessie Smith singing St. Louis Blues is featured at the end of the lesson.
( 98 min) Printable PDF File...........................................................Price - $29.95
  "I Ain't Got Nobody"

Fred Sokolow - The George Gershwin Songbook - DVD
George and Ira Gershwin's beautiful songs are timeless jazz standards and they sound great on the guitar! In this DVD, Fred plays and teaches six complete arrangements of Gershwin songs, including guitar rhythm chord backup comping (for singing) and instrumental chord melody solos for each tune. Just for fun, Fred includes the rarely-heard introductory verses to three of the songs, as well as ad-lib instrumental solos. After playing each tune, Fred gives you a run-down on the arrangement, going over tricky spots and analyzing the chord progressions and chord substitutions, Then he re-plays it slower, on a split screen with close-ups of both hands. Chord melody soloing (playing the melody and chords at the same time) is a very complete and exciting guitar style. This lesson will get you playing some of the classiest jazz tunes ever written! Songs include: "They Can't Take That Away From Me, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Our Love Is Here To Stay, Oh Lady Be Good, Someone to Watch Over Me, A Foggy Day".
(98 min) Booklet included..............................................................Price - $29.95
  "They Can't Take That Away From Me"

Fred Sokolow - The Hoagy Carmichael Songbook - DVD
In this DVD, Fred plays and teaches six of Hoagy Carmichael's best songs, including guitar rhythm chord backup comping (for singing) and chord melody solo instrumental versions of each tune! Just for fun, Fred also includes the rarely-heard introductory verses to four of the songs as well as ad-lib instrumental chord solos. After playing each song, Fred gives you a run down on the arrangement, going over tricky spots and analyzing the chord progressions and chord substitutions. Then he replays it slower, on a split screen with close-ups of both hands. Chord melody soloing (playing the melody and chords at the same time) is a very complete and exciting guitar style. This lesson will get you playing some of the classiest jazz tunes ever written! Songs include: "Stardust, Georgia On My Mind, Lazy River, Skylark, Rockin' Chair, Lazybones".
(100 min). Booklet included...........................................................Price - $29.95
  "Stardust"

Fred Sokolow - Beginner's Rock Guitar - DVD
In this DVD, Fred Sokolow uses your favorite garage-band tunes to demonstrate how to: play power-chord backup in any key - the "Louie Louie" way, solo and play Chuck Berry style boogie back up on tunes like "Roll Over Beethoven" and "School Days", use blues scales and 'substitute' scales for soloing, solo with sliding - g major pentatonic scales in the styles of Dickey Betts and Jerry Garcia, play chord-based licks and double-note Steve Cropper-style licks, and play these tunes: "Stand By Me, Midnight Hour, My Girl, The Wind Cries Mary, Let It Be, Proud Mary".
(72 min) Booklet included..............................................................Price - $29.95
 

Fred Sokolow - Better Lead Guitar Through Chords - DVD
If you're trying to improve your lead guitar playing by studying scales, that's only half the picture. The best lead guitarists base much of their improvisation and soloing on chords - even when they're playing single note solos. In this lesson, Fred Sokolow shows you several chord-based approaches to soloing and backup. He teaches you how to play arpeggios, country licks and fast flatpicking solos in country/bluegrass tunes like "Jambalaya" and "Wreck of the Old 97", solo and back-up R&B songs like "People Get Ready" and "Just My Imagination" in the colorful style Jimi Hendrix used on "Little Wing", play Steve Cropper-style licks on "Dock of the Bay" and "Under the Boardwalk" as well as improvise Django-style solos on swing tunes like "Avalon". You'll also learn some music theory and get a better understanding of the guitar as Fred shows you ways to instantly find chords up and down the fretboard - and connect them in chord families!
(90 min) Booklet included..............................................................Price - $29.95
 

Fred Sokolow - Flatpicking Country Classics - DVD
In this 75 minute DVD, Fred teaches nine standards every country picker/singer should know... from start to finish! You’ll learn an intro for each song, a backup pattern and bass runs to play while singing, an instrumental solo and an ending. Picking up where his Beginner's Country Guitar DVD left off, Fred keeps the arrangements fairly simple but also includes some up-the-neck chord positions and hot licks! You’ll learn solos and runs in five different keys. Each song is played at regular speed and then slowed down on a split-screen that gives you a close-up look at the picking hand and the chording hand. Titles include: "New San Antonio Rose, Wild Side of Life, Waltz Across Texas, The Race is On, Beautiful Kentucky Waltz, That’s the Way Love Goes, I Don’t Hurt Anymore, Someone I Used To Know, City of New Orleans".
(96 min). Booklet included.............................................................Price - $29.95
 

Fred Sokolow - Bottleneck Slide Guitar - DVD
Acoustic and electric guitar techniques taught by Fred Sokolow. Nothing sounds as bluesy as a slide guitar, and this 70 minute lesson shows you how it's done on electric and acoustic, solo or with a group. Using classic blues tunes - "Little Red Rooster, Sittin' On Top Of The World, Reconsider Baby, The Sky Is Crying, Farther On Up The Road, One Way Out", Fred Sokolow shows you how to play and improvise slide in the styles of the great bluesmen - Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Mississippi Fred McDowell and Duane Allman. In this lesson you will learn: solos, backup licks, turnarounds and fills in three tunings: open G, open D and standard, how to play slide in any key and how to improvise slide solos in standard and open tunings using moveable blues boxes. Close-ups of both hands help you see just how it's done and Fred's teaching is clear and easy to understand. This lesson is a great introduction to the soulful world of bottleneck / slide guitar!
(70 min) Booklet included..............................................................Price - $29.95
 

Fred Sokolow - Rockabilly Guitar - DVD
Rockabilly is the roots of rock. It combines electric blues, country blues, Merle Travis style fingerpicking and more. Using classic rockabilly tunes like "Blue Suede Shoes, Little Sister, That's All Right Mama, Matchbox Blues, and That'll Be The Day" Fred Sokolow shows you the styles and techniques needed to play rockabilly guitar solos and backup. By the end of this hour plus session, you'll know how to play: boogie woogie backup licks, turnarounds, classic key of E blues / rock licks, moveable blues / rock scales, fingerpicking patterns as well as licks and solos by Buddy Holly, Carl Perkins, Eddie Cochran, Scotty Moore and Chuck Berry. Fred Sokolow's teaching is clear and easy to understand. It's fun to follow this lesson and play along with him and it's a sure-fire way to learn rockabilly guitar!
(73 min) Booklet included..............................................................Price - $29.95
 

Fred Sokolow - Open Tunings For Beginners - DVD
Open tunings are as old as the guitar itself and they've been used to play blues, folk country rock and old-timey music. In this DVD lesson Fred shows you how, contrary to what many beginners might think, open tunings make it easier to play guitar. You'll learn songs from all the above musical genres in open D, open G and DADGAD tuning. In addition to learning songs, you get some tips on how to improvise and play chords in G and D tuning. It's a great way to expand your range on the guitar and get a whole different sound! Tunes include: "Buckets of Rain, Statesboro Blues, Mean Old World, Little Sadie, K.C. Jones, Stackerlee, The Way I Am, I Didn't See It Coming".
(92 min) Booklet included..............................................................Price - $29.95
 

Fred Sokolow - Building a Jazz Chord Solo - Book and CD
A guitarist's guide to the art of chord melody playing. Whether you're a beginner or an intermediate guitarist, this book/CD will help you to understand and learn the art of jazz chord soloing in 4 stages. Four jazz standards are presented, each with 4 arrangements at varying levels of difficulty: a beginner's arrangement, using mostly first-position chords • an intermediate arrangement, using moveable chords and featuring a more developed chord vocabulary • an advanced arrangement, including ample chord substitutions and reharmonizations • an improvisational chord solo that leaves the melody behind. Songs include: "Indiana, Avalon, April Showers, My Melancholy Baby". This teaches how to improvise a chord solo over a given set of changes. Plenty of information is presented along the way that will teach you how to build your own chord solos as well as understand and play jazz progressions.
Notation, tab and chord diagrams..................................................Price - $14.95

Fred Sokolow - The Roots of Jazz Guitar - Book and CD
Contains: history and development, biographies of the pioneering artists, instruction in the essential playing styles, 6 note-for-note transcriptions as well as exercises and licks! Tunes include: "Dinah" -Eddie Lang, "East Of The Sun" -Barney Kessel, "Rose Room"-Django Reinhardt, "Honeysuckle Rose" -Charlie Christian, "I'll Remember April" -George Van Eps, "Yesterdays" -Wes Montgomery  Detailed performance notes for each song are included to help you understand all of the details.
Notation and tab...........................................................................Price - $14.95 

Fred Sokolow - Beginner's Fingerpicking - Folk, Blues & Country - Book and 3 CDs
Book and 3 CDs. These lessons contain 3 full hours of instruction featuring note-by-note, phrase-by-phrase instruction taught by Fred Sokolow. Includes the following tunes: "Nine Pound Hammer, Careless Love, Red River Valley, Worried Man Blues, Stealin', Spikedriver's Moon, Railroad Bill, Hesitation Blues, John Henry, Bury Me Beneath The Willow, The Wreck of Old 97".
Notation, tab and lyrics..................................................................Price - $24.95

Fred Sokolow - Beginner's Fingerpicking: Ragtime, Blues, Jazz - Book and 3 CDs
These lessons contain 3 full hours of instruction featuring note-by-note, phrase-by-phrase instruction taught by Fred Sokolow. Includes the following tunes: "Stealin', Cocaine, Oh Babe Ain't No Lie, Bill Bailey, Maple Leaf Rag, The Entertainer, Bully Of The Town, Nine Pound Hammer, Wabash Cannonball, Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Bury Me Beneath The Willow Tree".
Notation, tab and lyrics..................................................................Price - $24.95

Fred Sokolow - Country Classics - Book
Contains 30 all-time country favorites arranged for fingerpicking and flatpicking guitar including: "Act Naturally, Always On My Mind, Any Time, Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain, Born To Lose, Crazy, Faded Love, Folsom Prison Blues, Funny How Time Slips Away, Heartaches By The Number, Help Me Make It Through The Night, I Can't Stop Loving You, I Fall To Pieces, I Walk The Line, I'm Movin' On, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, If You've Got The Money (I've Got The Time), It Makes No Difference Now, King Of The Road, Making Believe, Mama Tried, Oh Lonesome Me, Pick Me Up On Your Way Down, Release Me, Rocky Top, Sweet Dreams, Tennessee Waltz, Together Again, Walking The Floor Over You, Your Cheatin' Heart". 
Notation, tab and lyrics..................................................................Price - $14.95

Fred Sokolow - Country Guitar: Fretboard Roadmaps - Book and CD
Includes the essential patterns that all great guitarists know and use.  Fred Sokolow teaches you to play lead and rhythm anywhere on the fretboard - in any key.  Play a variety of lead guitar styles using moveable scale patterns, sliding scale patterns, chord-based licks, double-note licks and more. You will play basic country progressions, boogie licks, steel licks and other melodies and licks. He uses easy-t0-follow diagrams and instructions with CD recorded examples and practice tracks.
Notation, tab and chord diagrams..................................................Price - $14.95

Fred Sokolow - Hank Williams Songbook - Book
Contains 26 of Hank Williams' classic songs arranged for fingerpicking and flatpicking guitar including: "Baby, We're Really In Love, Cold Cold Heart, Half As Much, Hey Good Lookin', Honky Tonkin', I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love With You), I Saw The Light, I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, Jambalaya (On The Bayou), Kaw-Liga, Long Gone Lonesome Blues, Lovesick Blues, Mansion on the Hill, May You Never Be Alone, Mind Your Own Business, Moanin' the Blues, Move It on Over, My Sweet Love Ain't Around, Take These Chains from My Heart, There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight, There's a Tear in My Beer, Why Don't You Love Me, You Win Again, Your Cheatin' Heart, Honky Tonk Blues". 
Notation, tab and lyrics..................................................................Price - $14.95

Fred Sokolow - Western Swing Guitar- Book
Includes: "Across The Alley from the Alamo, A Big Ball in Cowtown, Bring It on Down to My House, Choo Choo Ch'Boogie, Don't Let Go, Red Wing, Yearning" -Asleep At The Wheel, "The Blues Come Around, Honky Tonkin" -Hank Williams, "Cajon Stomp"-The Farr Brothers, "Corrine Corrina, Fat Boy Rag, My Window Faces the South, New San Antonio Rose, Stay a Little Longer, Steel Guitar Rag" -Bob Wills, "Faded Love" -Eldon Shamblin, "Hesitation Blues, Right or Wrong"-Milton Brown, "Hide Your Face" -Spade Cooley, "My Bucket's Got a Hole In It" -"T" Texas Tyler, "A Six Pack To Go" -Hank Thompson, "Won't You Ride In My Little Red Wagon" -Hank Penny, "Smoke Smoke Smoke, You Waited Too Long" -Tex Williams. All guitar parts transcribed note-for-note from the original recordings.
Notation, tab and lyrics..................................................................Price - $19.95

Fred Sokolow - Blues Guitar: Fretboard Roadmaps - Book and CD
Includes the essential patterns all great guitarists know and use. Fred Sokolow teaches you to play lead and rhythm anywhere on the fretboard - in any key. Play a variety of lead guitar styles using moveable blues boxes, chord-based licks, blues scales and double-note licks. You will play boogie woogie licks and moveable turnarounds and  will know your way around the fingerboard like a pro.  He uses easy-to-follow diagrams and instructions with CD recorded  examples and practice tracks. 
Notation, tab and chord diagrams..................................................Price - $14.95

Fred Sokolow - The Dictionary of Strum & Picking Patterns - Book and CD
If you play rock, blues, country, pop, soul/funk, heavy metal, or folk, here are all the strumming and picking patterns you need to help you cover any musical situation.  It contains over 150 picking patterns and nearly 100 strums with a recorded example of every pattern.  Musical styles are cross-referenced and tips on equipment and effects are also included. 
Notation and tab...........................................................................Price - $14.95

Fred Sokolow - Electric Blues & Rock Guitar: The 1930s, 40s & 50s - Book and 3 CDs
Lesson 1: The Roots of Electric Blues - Electric blues stylists grew out of the guitar picking of versatile single-string soloists like Lonnie Johnson and Scrapper Blackwell and the country bluesmen, turned electric, like Lightnin' Hopkins and John Lee Hooker. Fred slows down and analyzes the licks, scales and techniques of these players. Lesson 2: Electric Slide Guitar - Using several sample tunes, Fred teaches how to play electric slide guitar in the styles of the blues masters, the players who inspired Johnny Winter, The Allman Brothers, Ron Wood and the rest of today's rock slide guitarists. Several techniques are covered as you learn the techniques of Tampa Red (open D), Muddy Waters (open G), Elmore James (open E) and Robert Nighthawk (standard tuning) and how to apply these techniques to rock progressions. Lesson 3: Early Blues/Rock: Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley  - These two guitarists defined rock guitar in their day. The licks and styles they used, derived from blues players, are still an important part of every rock guitarist's repertoire. These lessons include 3 CDs (3 full hours of instruction) featuring note-by-note, phrase-by-phrase instruction!
Notation and tab...........................................................................Price - $24.95

Fred Sokolow - Electric Blues & Rock Guitar: The 1960s & 70s - Book and 3 CDs
Lesson 1: King of Modern Blues: BB. King, Albert King, Freddie King and T. Bone Walker  - By analyzing sample tunes, Fred teaches how to play electric single-string blues licks. You will learn several scale positions and how to improvise with them, how to do the "blues vibrato" and how to use fill-in licks, chords and turn-arounds. Lesson 2: Modern Rock: English Blues and Heavy Metal - This lesson concentrates on the licks, scales and playing styles of Eric Clapton, Eddie Van Halen, Ted Nugent and Jimmy Page - guitarists whose playing directly derives from the blues masters. This lesson includes instruction in effects (distortion, vibrato bar, etc.), blues and sliding scales. Lesson 3: Jazzy Electric Blues - Our last lesson in the series illustrates how to jazz up the 12-bar blues progression, how to vary the blues scales with diminished scales á la Charlie Christian, how to apply blues scales to jazz tunes, how to "substitute scales" and the special techniques used by Wes Montgomery and George Benson. These lessons include 3 CDs (3 full hours of instruction) featuring note-by-note, phrase-by-phrase instruction!
Notation and tab...........................................................................Price - $24.95

Fred Sokolow - Slide Guitar: Fretboard Roadmaps - Book and CD
Include the essential guitar patterns that all great guitarist know and use. Fred Sokolow teaches you to play lead and rhythm anywhere on the fretboard - in any key. Play a variety of slide guitar styles using moveable scale patterns, common licks, and slide techniques. Play slide guitar in open G tuning, open D tuning, open A tuning, open E tuning, and standard tuning. You will know your way around the fingerboard like a pro using easy-to-follow diagrams and instructions with CD recorded examples and practice tracks.
Notation, tab and chord diagrams..................................................Price - $12.95

Fred Sokolow - Beginner's Blues Guitar - Book and 3 CDs
This book contains 3 full hours of instruction featuring note-by-note, phrase-by-phrase instruction taught by Fred Sokolow. Includes the following tunes: "Early Morning Blues, Twelve Bar Blues, That's Alright, Airport Blues, Hesitation Blues, Cocaine, Worried Blues, Call Me a Dog".
Notation, tab and lyrics..................................................................Price - $24.95

Jazz Guitar Chords & Arpeggio Patterns - Stacy McKee - This unique book 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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