From renowned teacher and performer Happy Traum, the man behind the Happy Traum: Learning to Play Blues Guitar and Happy Traum: You Can Play Guitar series, comes this program, the first in the Happy Traum: Guitar Building Blocks series. Released in 2000, Happy Traum: Guitar Building Blocks, Vol. 1 -- Barre Chords and How to Use Them is designed to help viewers get started with barre chords, one of the most useful techniques a beginning guitarist can learn. To demonstrate the newly learned chords, Traum uses several examples, including the songs "Abilene" and "Stagolee." ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi