String Training - Part 01 of 06 with Kelly Valleau (2016)

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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