Woody Mann teaches the sounds and techniques of the classic ragtime blues guitar style.

Woody Mann teaches five repertoire building songs arranged for the intermediate fingerstyle guitarist. Songs included are: Along the alley, Minnie's Spanish blues, Feeling bad blues, New old devil, Rambling blues.

Takes a look at Open G tuning (Spanish tuning), Open D tuning (Vestapol tuning), and Open E minor chord tuning (Crossnote tuning). Also discusses Delta blues ideas in Open G tuning and how to apply bottleneck techniques to open tuning. Seven tunes are taught, one phrase at a time, and these include: "Vestapol," "John Henry," "If you don't want me," "Working on the new railroad," "Special rider blues," "Hard time killin' floor blues," and "I'm so glad."...

"Woody Mann carefully explains Big Bill's techniques and style in this lesson. Also presented is rare footage of Big Bill from the 1950s. Also presented is rare footage of Big Bill from the 1950s as well as bonus audio tracks of his 1930-1934 recordings that are taught in this lesson ..."--Container.

"John Miller provides you with the tools you need to develop your ability to tell what position or tuning a country blues performance was played out of simply by listening to the recording. Believe it or not, this is a learnable skill and John, who has taught it for many years, will show you what to listen for and help you get started hearing the various auditory clues that identify the distinctive sound of the different playing positions and tunings...