Guitar Styles and Techniques of Jerry Reed

Product Description

Jerry Reed’s playing style is a unique blend of syncopated rhythms, banjo-style rolls, and brilliant chord voicings that have brought a new dimension to fingerstyle guitar performance. Walking bass lines, chromatic runs, double-stops and contrapuntal melodies are seamlessly joined by Jerry’s unique “claw” style right-hand technique. It is the mastery of these techniques that is the key to emulating Jerry’s sound. In this video lesson Buster B. Jones teaches the essential elements of the Reed style, and don’t doubt for a moment that he is up to the task! Jones delivers fabulous performances and teaches the fine points of: Reedology; The Claw; Jiffy Jam; Jerry’s Breakdown; Down Home; Papa’s Knee; and Lord Mr. Ford. A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD DVD is region 0, playable worldwide.

Review

Buster B. Jones is the best fingerpicker I ve heard since Jerry Reed. He plays like he s double parked –Chet Atkins

Buster B. Jones is an acoustic player, a fingerpicker, a country flavored soloist, and he s one of the finest players we’ve heard in years… His technique is only a means to an end. His true gifts are his melodic sense, innate musicianship, unfailing human, and brilliant improvisational powers. He can drive a tune with fluid rhythmic force or stroke it with sensuous, loving touch… He s a monster player with chops galore, great ideas and an encyclopedic reservoir of guitaristic influences –Guitar Player Magazine

Buster B. Jones is an acoustic player, a fingerpicker, a country flavored soloist, and he s one of the finest players we’ve heard in years… His technique is only a means to an end. His true gifts are his melodic sense, innate musicianship, unfailing human, and brilliant improvisational powers. He can drive a tune with fluid rhythmic force or stroke it with sensuous, loving touch… He s a monster player with chops galore, great ideas and an encyclopedic reservoir of guitaristic influences –Guitar Player Magazine

Buster B. Jones is an acoustic player, a fingerpicker, a country flavored soloist, and he s one of the finest players we’ve heard in years… His technique is only a means to an end. His true gifts are his melodic sense, innate musicianship, unfailing human, and brilliant improvisational powers. He can drive a tune with fluid rhythmic force or stroke it with sensuous, loving touch… He s a monster player with chops galore, great ideas and an encyclopedic reservoir of guitaristic influences –Guitar Player Magazine

About the Actor

In 1988, Brad “Buster” B. Jones entered Guitar Player Magazine’s International Guitar Competition with his own composition, “Back Porch Boogie,” and a rendition of “Lime-house Blues.” He entered on a whim, at the last minute, using a $1.50 K-Mart cassette tape and a boom box. There were almost 900 entries, and he won on the first ballot. In 1990, he won the National Fingerpicking Championship at Winfield, Kansas. In the last years he has performed with Chet Atkins, Tommy Jones, Marcel Dadi, Thom Bresh, and John Knowles. He is a regular at the annual conventions in Nashville and France of the Chet Atkins Appreciation Society. In France they have dubbed him LE MACHINE GUN. “Buster B. Jones is an acoustic player, a fingerpicker, a country flavored soloist – and he’s one of the finest players we’ve heard in years… His technique is only a means to an end. His true gifts are his melodic sense, innate musicianship, and brilliant improvisational powers. He can drive a tune with fluid rhythmic force or stroke it with sensuous, loving touch… He’s a monster player with chops galore, great ideas and an encyclopedic reservoir of guitaristic influences.” –Guitar Player Magazine