String Training - Part 01 of 06 with Kelly Valleau 2016

P2P | Nov 19 2016 | 11 GB

Kelly Valleau was born and raised in Belleville, Ontario and started playing guitar at 15. He was in a hard rock band at 17, got ripped off by a club owner when he was 19, and by 21 had made his first indie cd. By 22 He was playing professionally in and around Ontario, Quebec and New York. Kelly hung up the electric guitar a few years back and grabbed the nylon string acoustic guitar. Why? "well, on a whim, I entered the Canadian fingerstyle guitar championship…to my suprise I placed second at this international competition. It landed me a record deal with Candyrat Records, I haven't looked back since."

Kelly Valleau, the self-taught virtuoso fingerstyle acoustic guitar player who hails from Canada has made a living wowing listeners with his phenomenal technical skills as a fingerstyle guitarist. He transports listeners from a thunderous crescendo of complex rhythm work interlaced with equally impressive lead skills to some of the most delicate displays of impressive fingerwork ever seen. His technique can go from compact to mind-bending with his use of his finger-picking, strumming, lead work, interspersed with solid rhythm punctuated by his command of beat-tap (a technique used by acoustic guitar players which consists of a series of light tappings that basically transform the acoustic guitar into a percussive instrument).

He runs a website at kellyvalleau where students can learn (or at least attempt to learn) this technical skill with this use of videos and tabluature worksheets he has put together which slowly increase the student in skill level from 1 to as many as 6 levels.

He no longer accepts students. Many wonder why? This seems kind of unfair. Why should potential students, who number in the millions if Youtube statistics are to be trusted, be denied access to a man with such an awe-inspiring gift.

=== Installment One ===

A-ha - Take On Me

ACDC - Highway to Hell

ACDC - Thunderstruck

Adele - Rolling In The Deep

Adele - Skyfall

Adele - Someone Like You

Aerosmith - Dream On

Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion

All Of Me (John Legend)

Andy Griffith Theme

Anna Kendrick - Cups

Ariana Grande - Break Free

Ariana Grande - Problem

Avicii - Addicted To You

Avicii - Hey Brother

Avicii - Levels

Avicii - The Days

Avicii - The Nights

Avril Lavigne - What The Hell

Baauer - Harlem Shake

Back To The Future Theme

Bad Meets Evil - Lighters

Bastille - Pompeii

Beatles - Here Comes The Sun

Beatles - Let it Be

Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive

Beethoven - Fur Elise

Best Day of My Life (American Authors)

Bill Withers - Lean on Me

Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling

Black Eyed Peas - Just Can't Get Enough

Black Eyed Peas - The Time (Dirty Bit)

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Bob Dylan - Blowin In The Wind

Bob Marley - Buffalo Soldier

Bob Marley - Could You Be Loved

Bob Marley - I Shot the Sheriff

Bob Marley - Is This Love

Bob Marley - Jamming

Bob Marley - No Woman No Cry

Bob Marley - One Love

Bob Marley - Redemption Song

Bob Marley - Three Little Birds

Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry Be Happy

Bon Jovi - It's My Life

Bon Jovi - You Give Love A Bad Name

Boston - More Than A Feeling

Boston - Peace Of Mind

Bruno Mars - Grenade

Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are

Bruno Mars - Locked Out Of Heaven

Bruno Mars - The Lazy Song

Bruno Mars - Treasure

Bruno Mars - When I Was Your Man

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