Books / Videos

Askold has also developed a series of highly-acclaimed instructional guitar videos, where he interviewed and accompanied luminaries such as B.B. King, John Scofield, Albert Lee, Steve Morse, Jack Bruce and Hank Marvin. He is also the author of The Advanced Guitar Case Chord Book and Practical Pentatonics, which are distributed internationally.

In addition, Askold regularly contributes articles and lessons in Guitar World and Guitar World Acoustic magazines, and was a monthly columnist in Country Guitar.

Practical Pentatonics

By Askold Buk

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Every guitarist has his or her own favorite box patterns or licks. This volume shows you how to break down these licks and play them all over the fingerboard. In addition, various playing techniques, substitutions, exotic pentatonics and hexatonic scales are also introduced.

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The Advanced Guitar Case Chord Book

By Askold Buk

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If you have ever gotten stuck on a chord when playing from a songbook, or wondered how your favorite guitarists played those "magic" chords you couldn't figure out, then this book is for you. Here you will find a concise thesaurus of essential and practical advanced guitar chord forms for study and practice. Included are valuable tips on chord and music theory plus at least one musical example for each type of chord.

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Ultimate Play-Along for Guitar

by Mike Stern & Askold Buk

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B.B. King Blues Master I

An intimate documentation of King's style and technique. B.B. discusses many of the essential elements of his brilliant approach including Vibrato, Bending, Picking, Influences, Phrasing, Equipment and more. In addition, band performances and brilliant solo playing are featureed throughout.

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B.B. King Blues Master II

A continuation of the Blues Master series which documents the style and technique of B.B. King. On this tape B.B. covers: Chords, Arpeggios, Dynamics, Warm-ups, His Signature Phrases, and more. B.B. also plays several tunes with his band and analyses his playing and soloing approach in each.

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Albert Lee/Advanced Country Guitar

Features Albert Lee at his best, playing some of his all-time favotite tunes and analyzing his baffling technique in depth. Albert discusses his hybrid "Travis picking" style, chord voicings, scalar ideas, creating long seamless lines based off chord shapes, double-stop concepts and advanced double-stop runs, as well as analyses of his classicsongs "Fun Ranch Boogie" and "Tiger Rag". Of course, there is plenty of jamming throughout.

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John Scofield/Jazz-Funk Guitar I

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On this tape, John's multi-faceted style is covered in depth as he discusses intervallic ideas, choral concepts, string skipping, playing lines across the fingerboard and developing a personal sound. John provides a wealth of harmonicand melodic ideas which are sure to enhance your musical vocabulary.

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