Red River Valley taught by Fred Sokolow

Chord soloing (playing chords and melody at the same time) is one of the most beautiful sounding and fun things you can do on guitar...if you know how! In this 90 minute video lesson, Fred Sokolow shows you how to make up your own arrangements in the chord/melody style - playing melodies on the treble strings and supporting them with chords. You'll learn two arrangements of each song. One with first position chords and one up-the-neck playing moveable chords. There's also plenty of music theory, lots of new chord shapes and several ways to play each chord. General knowledge about navigating the fretboard is included!

Fred plays very well-known songs to illustrate the chord/melody method: Red River Valley, Amazing Grace, Careless Love, Greensleeves, Take Me Out To The Ball Game, Nine Pound Hammer, For Me and My Gal and Let The Rest Of The World Go By.

When you follow the arrangement method Fred lays out, you'll be able to play these songs in any key...and, hopefully, make up similar arrangements of your own favorite songs.

A PDF book has all the arrangements written out in tab, music and chord grids, and there's a song sheet for each tune, with lyrics and chords. So you can sing and play the songs in addition to playing instrumental solos. Split-screen closeups of both hands make it easy to see what Fred is doing.

90 minutes • Level 2 • Detailed tab/music PDF file on the DVD

[ChrisSwafford]

Thanks Fred! I have MANY of your DVD's. They're all FANTASTIC buddy.

[deniseholmes]

Fred, if this gets to you thank you so much for your many fine lessons which have taught me to play guitar. All the best to you and yours.

[ralph_s]

Just bought his "Jazzing It Up" Book, which also deals with Chords. This seems to be a nice complimentary lesson.