One Fret Beyond - Tricks of the trade from a top player

Sit back and enjoy this series of entertaining and oh so helpful guitar films. Subjects tackled include tone production, harmonics, bar chords, slurs, stretches and fret buzz. These are fascinating, behind the scenes insights into the ergonomics of playing the guitar from a full time professional player with a gift for communication and a love of the instrument.

Each episode explores a single, technical concept and guitarist Richard Durrant's musical observations and commentaries offer direct practical advice throughout. These films have been created to help you approach your playing from a position of knowledge and certainty no matter which style of playing you are most interested in. The aim is for you, the player, to feel how the wonderful mechanics and fluent articulations of the human body can work with and not against the physics of producing musical notes on the guitar.

The visual content of these films was carefully developed by Peter Lisney and Richard Durrant to underline the simplicity of good instrumental technique. The footage of the player's hands clearly illustrate the benefits of an open and relaxed playing position which is Richard Durrant's trade mark. This level of physical simplicity is, of course, the result of much thought and hard work but the clarity and ease of this approach is there for all guitarists to benefit from no matter the musical style.