There are a variety of resources available for instructional materials. The internet resources have already been mentioned above. Here is a listing of other resources you might want to check out.


Mail Order Companies

The internet is great for getting tablature and lyrics, but when you want video tapes, audio tapes and authorative transcriptions of your favourite artists, mail order is the way.


Homespun Tapes

Homepun Tapes is run by Happy Traum, who has been producing quality instructional tapes for quite a while. His mail-order catalog contains lessons in all styles of guitar, both electric and acoustic, as taught by popular guitarists. The catalog contains over 150 video tape lessons, as well as audio tape lessons, and various musical suplies.

Homespun Tapes
Box 694
Woodstock, NY 12498
Phone: 1-800-338-2737
Fax: 1-914-246-5282


Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop

Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop is a mecca for fingerstyle videos in blues, ragtime, celtic and jazz. But his forte is country blues, so if you want to learn the styles of Blind Blake, Rev. Gary Davis, or Big Bill Broonzy, this is the place to go. He also has a circle of friends who provide lessons ina variety of styles from country blues to jazz. People like Duck Baker, Leo Wijinkamp and David Laibman contribute to many of the instructional tapes. (You often see these same people in Fingerstyle Guitar magazine, giving Master workshop as well).

Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop
P.O. Box 802
Sparta, NJ 07871
Phone: (201) 729-5544
Fax: (201) 726-0568


Crossroads Music

They carry all the grossman workshop stuff, plus a few other interesting bits and pieces.

Crossroads Music
439 Newchurch Road
Stacksteads
Bacup
Lancs
OC13 ONB
England
Phone: (0706) 875729


Workshop Records

Workshop Records has a wide variety of video and audio tapes, that rivals those of the other giutar mail-order big boys. But they also offer a wide array of 1/2 speed tape players, 4-track recorders, and other devices for both transcribing and recording music.

Workshop Records
P.O. Box 49507
Austin TX 78765
Phone: 1-800-543-6125
Fax: 1-512-327-6603


Magazines

Almost every guitar oriented magazine on the market has a column dedicated to guitar instruction. They will often describe a technique or style, and then provide a piece of music (standard notation and tablature) that demostrates that technique