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Rolly Brown
With 47 years of experience
on the acoustic guitar,
Rolly Brown has been a National
Fingerpicking Champion and a Philadelphia Music Award nominee. He has performed
at the Philadelphia Folk Festival, the Tasmanian Folk Festival, and tons of
places in between. He hosted The Guitar Wizards radio show which ran on public
radio in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Maine for several years, introducing
listeners to guitarists and techniques usually searched out only by total guitar
maniacs.
He has served as a sideman for Magpie, Winnie Winston, Saul Broudy,
Jack McGann, Priscilla Herdman, Jay Ansill, and many others, and has performed
extensively with National Flatpicking Champion Mark Cosgrove, and, until her
tragic death, with the late fiddler and singer extraordinaire Freyda Epstein.
For the past decade, Rolly has been a popular teacher and performer at a number
of guitar camps, appearing at Steve Kaufman's
Acoustic Kamps (Maryville TN), The Swannanoa Gathering (Asheville NC), Summer Acoustic Music Week in
New Hampshire, the convention of The Chet Atkins
Appreciation Society in Nashville TN, and many others!
Rolly Brown Plays "Autumn Leaves"
Rolly Brown - Exploring Fingerstyle Jazz - DVD
Choosing four of his favorite jazz
standards, Rolly Brown presents an inside view into his construction of a solo fingerstyle
guitar version of each tune. With a concentration on sophisticated but easily fingered
chord positions, this lesson offers an excellent introduction into the world of jazz for
folk, pop, or blues guitarists who are ready to expand their panorama of musical colors.
The tunes move from the more familiar keys, C and G, into approachable "starter"
keys for jazz: F and Bb, and move from the more predictable "The Way You Look
Tonight" to the more structurally challenging "Stella By Starlight". Tab PDFs
help the student learn specific arrangements for each tune while the video
lessons give ample ideas for expanding and improvising on the tunes. Each tune
is taught phrase by phrase and played slowly on a split-screen. Songs include: "The Way
You Look Tonight, Darn That Dream, It Could Happen To You, and Stella by Starlight".
(95 min) Printable Tab Booklet............................................Price - $29.95
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Rolly Brown - Owning A Jazz Standard - DVD
This in-depth DVD lesson focuses on developing a
comprehensive understanding of a single tune, "Back Home In Indiana", as a model for learning
and understanding jazz standards in general. You'll learn: the melody, keeping time in melody
playing, the chord progression - developing free will, playing chord changes
pickstyle and fingerstyle, understanding and implementing a bass line, combining
bass movement and chord structures for comping, developing complex chord
voicings, chord melody arranging, improvising melodically, improvising
fingerstyle, and moving to a different key!
(94 min) Printable Tab Booklet............................................Price - $29.95
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Rolly Brown - Improvising: An Interactive Approach - DVD
In this truly unique DVD, Rolly Brown leads you
through an organized approach to improvisation on the guitar! Starting with "Rolly's
Rule" which is the notion that your guitar should recall aspects of the human voice, the
lesson takes an interactive approach to exploring several different genres of
musical improvisation, with Rolly playing instructive examples of these
styles and then playing rhythm while you work through the exercises. You'll learn:
the one, two, and three note solos, soloing over blues progressions, playing
over archetypal major scale progressions, how to use chord tones and passing
tones, integrating major and blues scales to understand all 12 tones,
understanding the bluegrass mode, and soloing over jazz progressions!
(86 min) Printable Tab Booklet............................................Price - $29.95
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Rolly Brown - Where Blues Meets Jazz - DVD
Guitarist Rolly Brown has spent a good bit of his
guitar career navigating the territory between the more primal and emotional forms of blues
and the more cerebral and sophisticated elements of jazz as they apply to the acoustic
guitar. In this video lesson, he explores the large blurry area where the two closely
related genres meet. Beginning with an exploration of how the bass line can imply chords
which transform a basic 12 bar blues into a jazz progression, Rolly shows how a blues
player can add a touch of jazz to his playing, and how a jazz player can increase the blues
feel of certain jazz standards! This includes a discussion of scales, "blue notes",
chord movement, and chord substitution as you also learn several outstanding arrangements. A
detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD. Each tune is taught phrase
by phrase and played slowly on a split-screen. Songs include: "Route 66, Drown in My Own Tears,
and Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be)".
(110 min) Printable Tab Booklet..........................................Price - $29.95
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Rolly Brown - The Art Of Noodling - DVD
The Art Of Noodling reflects Rolly
Brown's ongoing campaign to offer user-friendly material which helps guitarists obtain
more freedom on their instruments! In this case, "Noodling" refers to the
ability to just pick up your guitar and make the music you hear in your head, whether
it's a country blues, a folk song, or a free improvisation. The pathway is a series of
specific exercises which can be learned and memorized, but which, one hopes, will also be
used as templates or models which can lead you to interesting musical explorations. Rolly
deals with various concepts about melodic noodling and chordal noodling, covered at 3
different levels of difficulty, offering a basic place to start, as well as material to
revisit over time, as you advance. Topics include: playing from the heart,
emotional content, C major scale and E blues scale up the neck, if you know C major you
know A minor, figuring melodies by ear, higher quality noodling via pattern recognition,
noodling with basic chords, flatpicking and fingerstyle noodling, sweep picking and arpeggios,
expanding your basic chord repertoire, moving chords up the neck, composing a line and
integrating it in your noodling, and practice ideas for arpeggios.
(114 min) Printable Tab Booklet..........................................Price - $29.95
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Rolly Brown - Uncaged & Free - DVD
Understanding, Implementing And Overcoming The Caged System.
The CAGED System has become THE most popular of all the various methods for understanding how to
navigate the guitar fingerboard! In this eye-opening DVD, Rolly Brown explains
all of its' strengths and weaknesses, how to use it in order to get the maximum
result with the least effort, and how to transcend its' weaknesses by becoming
able to move up and down the neck in the most fluid and fluent fashion. Rolly
teaches in elaborate detail: the five neck positions and their chord structures,
the five most effortless major scale fingerings, superimposition of scales and
chords, understanding chord movement in each position, blues scale fingerings of
minor scales, horizontal and vertical concepts of navigation, as well as
overcoming CAGED with interval scales, horizontal scales, sliding pentatonic
scales, and arpeggios! If you've ever wanted to truly understand
all of the ins and outs of The Caged System and how it can accelerate your
command of the guitar - this is it!!
(121 min) Printable Tab Booklet..........................................Price - $29.95
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Rolly Brown - Rolly On The Blues - DVD
In this beginners' guide to playing
acoustic fingerstyle blues, Rolly Brown teaches the essential nuts and bolts for getting
acquainted with some primary forms of this wide-ranging topic. The starting point is the
solo 12 bar blues in the key of E, influenced by the primal sounds of the playing of the
great Lightnin' Hopkins.
Within this simple but eloquent structure, Rolly explores right hand skills for carrying
bass and melody simultaneously, coupled with an understanding of basic blues scale structure
and phrasing, all under the aegis of "Rolly's Rule" ("Make it sound human!").
Rolly also teaches you: * Chord shapes * Examples of rhythm, melody and chords in E
* Playing up the neck * Playing in the keys of E, A, and C * Chord figures in E
* Creating blues licks * Double stops.
(95 min) Printable Tab Booklet............................................Price - $29.95
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Rolly Brown - A Nuts & Bolts Approach To Chords - DVD
This exciting DVD lesson is designed to set you
on the road to playing chordal swing and jazz guitar with the freedom of an
accomplished improviser! It can help you hold a large repertoire of chords in
your head, without recourse to "chord dictionaries" or other written material,
and to then learn how these chords go together into sequences commonly found in
swing and jazz standards as well as other music of the past century and beyond!
Material covered includes: the simple "240 chords exercise" - 3 minutes a day to
develop a great chord repertoire, the 5 string sets for 4 note chord voicings,
the 3 basic chord families - how they work with each other and how the art of
"chord substitution" provides an infinite amount of variability, the 3 most
common systems of chord progressions and their variations, and how to start
applying this material to actual tunes!
(102 min) Printable Tab Booklet..........................................Price - $29.95
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Rolly Brown - A Nuts & Bolts Approach To Melody - DVD
This comprehensive DVD lesson is designed to start you
on the road to playing improvisationally over all manner of chord progressions!
It will teach you how, with just a couple basic scales, you can understand how
all of the twelve tones fit into a framework for soloing and then, how you can
develop great soloing chops without even thinking about scales! Material covered
includes: major and blues scales - the basic building blocks, understanding how
each note sounds within a key signature by training your ear, "altered" and
"hybrid blues" scales for more advanced ear training, pentatonic major scales
for country-rock guitar, how to approach solo fingerstyle blues improvisation, Rolly's
3 step process for non-scale soloing, based on chord shapes and arpeggios, chord
melody playing. physical mechanisms for expressive soloing. and making your
music sound human!
(80 min) Printable Tab Booklet............................................Price - $29.95
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Rolly Brown - Arranging For Fingerstyle Guitar - DVD
A Nuts & Bolts Approach. Rolly Brown teaches an organized approach to
exploring and combining rhythm, melody, and harmony to create fingerstyle guitar
arrangements. This lesson includes numerous tips, tools and techniques, a look
at approaching different musical styles and just enough theoretical knowledge to
get you started at arranging your own versions of whatever sort of music you
want to create on the guitar. Numerous examples are shown and discussed. Topics
include: arpeggiated rolling rhythms, arranging for constant alternate bass,
chord choice and substitution, the essential tones concept, arranging with a
walking bass line, Bossa Nova rhythm, ragtime, fingerstyle blues, and original
compositions!
(97 min) Printable Tab Booklet............................................Price - $29.95
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Rolly Brown - Waste Not Thy Time - DVD
A Nuts & Bolts Approach To
Get More Bang For Your Practice Buck! Rolly Brown has been practicing the guitar
for 50 years, and, in that time, he's developed a large armamentarium of tools
to aid and motivate himself and his students. In this two hour DVD, starting
with his rule of "half work - half play", he shares many of these ideas,
interspersed with teachings to help you better enjoy and understand music and
the guitar from a simple "nuts and bolts" point of view. Whatever style of music
you play, you want ways of practicing rhythm, harmony, and melody, the 3
building blocks of music. Whether you flatpick or fingerpick, play bluegrass,
jazz, or folk music; whether you're trying to learn your first F chord,
or looking for a method of practicing arpeggios to inform your jazz solos, this
video offers tools and advice to improve your playing! Topics include:
creativity and structuring your time, scales and modes, how to rapidly master
new chords, arpeggios - bridging the gap between chords and melody, right hand
technique, using a metronome, practicing with rhythm tracks, and sample practice
routines!
(120 min) Printable Tab Booklet..........................................Price - $29.95
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Rolly Brown - Ear Training For The Guitarist - DVD
Rolly Brown leads you through a series
of lessons designed particularly to help guitarists hear, understand, and learn guitar music.
The emphasis here is on hearing and identifying sound, with only the bare minimum of music
theory information required to help you organize sound into understandable patterns.
Included are quizzes and exercises about some very basic scales and melodies,
then on to some chords and chord progressions. These give you ample opportunity
to test your listening skills on the included material, while also suggesting a
protocol for creating any number of your own quizzes at any level from beginner
to advanced.
(103 min) Printable Tab Booklet..........................................Price - $29.95
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You can own the entire 12
volume "Rolly Brown Guitar Course" today for only $295.50!
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