I Can Play That! Gershwin

This book was a delight and a challenge to put together. Stefan Grossman wanted to highlight the playing of six blues players that have greatly influenced him: Big Bill Broonzy Lonnie Johnson Rev. Gary Davis Blind Blake Scrapper Blackwell and Tampa Red. Each has recorded wonderful instrumental solos that have been transcribed from the first note played to the last. These are complete transcriptions. Hopefully they will bring insight into theplaying ideas and techniques of these legendary players. Titles and artists included are: Big Bill Broonzy - Slow Blues St. Louis Blues; Scrapper Blackwell - A Blues D Blues; Blind Blake - Guitar Chimes BlindArthur’s Breakdown; Rev. Gary Davis - Bill Bailey Walkin’ Dog Blues; Lonnie Johnson - Blues for the West End Blues in G Woke Up With the Blues in My Fingers;  Tampa Red Things ’Bout Coming MyWay. How to use this book: 1) Listen over and over to the recordings available via download for this collection. 2) Get a program that can control audio files. Use this with the transcriptions and therecordings. 3) Be patient!! Practice and practice!! These are blues masterpieces and can take weeks or month or years to get under your fingers. But what fun it will be once you can play one of these instrumental.

Par . The musical appeal of the Blues, as they began to be heard in the early twentieth century, was so infectious that musicians with open minds and ears were drawn to it as soon as they heard it. And that appeal crossed the racial and ethnic divides that characterized American society. So it was, that even before African American guitarists were recorded playing fingerstyle blues guitar, their white neighbors had already begun learning the music?listening to, watching, and imitating the musicians whose music they so admired. And what these white musicians ended up expressing in their own playing and singing was not simply imitation, but their own reconfiguration of what their models did, played in accordance with their own senses of rhythm, phrasing and how to sing the music.In Hillbilly Fingerstyle Blues Guitar, author John Miller offers transcriptions, in tablature and standard notation, of twenty-eight pieces by these white fingerstyle blues players, taken from recordings made in the period 1926?1970. Some of the featured musicians in the book, like Sam McGee, Frank Hutchison, Maybelle Carter, Hobart Smith, and Roscoe Holcomb are pretty well known, but the tunes by more obscure players like Debs Mays, Lake Howard, or Lester McFarland certainly don?t suffer by comparison, and in many instances are spectacular. The pieces have been chosen for variety, too?you?ll encounter pieces played in C, E, and A in standard tuning, as well as songs in Open G, Open D tunings and an exotic offshoot of Open G tuning. Downloadable links to all of the original performances from which the transcriptions were made come with the book, so you can get the sound of the tunes in your head. The musicians in Hillbilly Fingerstyle Blues Guitar gravitated towards the Blues because the music spoke to them so strongly that they felt compelled to make it part of their own musical language. And they did just that. These performances are strong and worthwhile in their own right, but they?ll also show you how you can honor those who have inspired you by singing and playing in your own voice. And that?s an important lesson to learn. Includes access to online audio. / Date parution : 2021-11-03/ Recueil / Guitare

Arrangements In Vestapol Tuning-'The Open D Tuning (D A D F# A D) also referred to as the Vestapol tuning is a powerful and evocative tuning that was widely used by guitarists in the 1920s to play country blues ballads rags and folk tunes. In this lesson I focus on arranging five of my favorite blues melodies in Vestapol plus an original instrumental.The religious tune When I Lay My Burden Down was in the repertoire of both Black and White traditional guitarists. I have arranged it in an Elizabeth Cotten/Mississippi John Hurt style. The beautiful blues Goin' To Germany was recorded by the Cannon's Jug Stompers in the 1920s. I have always wanted to find the right setting for this melodic countryblues and the Vestapol tuning gave me the feel and textures that I was looking for. Sam McGee played guitar behind Uncle Dave Macon when he recorded I've Got The Morning Blues in Vestapol. This is a fun tune to play and leads nicely in to Hesitation Blues a song recorded by many artists. My arrangement tries to combine a sliding jug sound with some funky blues licks. Peg Leg Howell's Skin Game Blues is a rare example of an early blues song with three distinct sections. Peg Leg played this with a bottleneck but for our arrangement we will rely on our fingers to make the notes sing out.We finish the lesson with Innocence Abroard. An original instrumental that ties together the right and left hand techniques we have studied.A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD. Each tune is taught phrase by phrase and played slowly on a split-screen. Bonus audio tracks of the original 1920s recordings are included. These are the records I first heard that influenced me to rearrange the melodies to the Vestapol tuning.' Stefan Grossman

Rev. Gary Davis was a musical giant. His ideas spanned a wide range of techniques and styles. His repertoire featured blues, rags, show instrumentals and gospel songs. He played with his thumb and index finger to pick out complex melodies, rhythmic licks and lightning fast single-string runs. In this book, seven of Rev. Davis's blues are presented. These arrangements have been performed and recorded by a host of great artists including Bob Dylan, Taj Mahal, Hot Tuna, David Bromberg, John Renbourn, Bert Jansch and many others. These lessons are for the intermediate to advanced fingerstyle guitarist. The accompanying three CD lessons teach these arrangements phrase by phrase as well as presenting the original recordings. LESSON ONE: Our first lesson highlights two of Rev. Davis's most popular blues arrangements. Hesitation Blues is played in the key of C. Baby, Let Me Follow You Down is played in the key of G. LESSON TWO: The key of C was a favorite for Rev. Davis. In this lesson we explore the party tune Sally Where'd You Get Your Liquor From (made popular by Hot Tuna). Rev. Davis used to joke that he could play Candyman so many different ways that he would be able to play it nonstop for at least 8 hours without repeating himself! We look at two versions of this very popular folk blues with the regular Candyman followed by the Two-Step Candyman. LESSON THREE: 'Raggin' the blues' was a great part of Rev. Davis's repertoire. His Walkin' Dog Blues is a tour de force in a blues in C. All fourteen verses are transcribed here, and we study how this arrangement develops. Buck Rag is a fascinating rag played in the key of C. Single-string runs, counterpoint lines, rhythmic variations and syncopated bass patterns are featured. / Guitare (Fingerpick) / 40 pages / niveau : Intermédiaire / Partition/3-Cd Set - Format: 11,75 X 8,75

A Comprehensive Guide For Drummers. Par GRASSMANN WALTER. Big Band Drumming will show you in a step-by-step manner how to improve your chart reading and interpretation competence, how to create the suitable drum part for each jazz big band chart and how to become an even more musical drummer. You will develop a whole repertoire of big band fills. You will learn more about the possibilities of creatively interpreting and employing them at the drum set and practice what you have learned by means of play along tracks. The CDs contain all the practice play-alongs, the recordings of the exercises, the songs and the playbacks that go with them. / method with CD / Recueil / Set de Percussions

12 iconic songs arranged for solo classical guitar. Par GERSHWIN GEORGE. This dynamic collection brings together 12 of Gershwin?s iconic songs arranged for solo classical guitar by the late John Duarte. Suitable for classical guitar players from intermediate to advanced level, this unmissable compilation is complete with a unique foreword containing insights from the acclaimed guitarist himself. Including online audio of each piece available to download. / Date parution : 2023-03-11/ Recueil / Guitare

Music from the church always featured in the repertoires of Country Blues Guitarists. In this lesson we explore several styles of fingerpicking gospel tunes. We start with playing in the key of C and two well known songs played in the style of Mississippi John Hurt and Elizabeth Cotten. We then tackle I'll Fly Away which introduces a new right hand technique that combines fingerstyle with strumming. This technique will add a different texture to your playing. We then begin to explore playing in open tunings and Just a Closer Walk with Thee played in an Open G Tuning. We then go to an Open D tuning to learn Death Come Creeping and Will the Circle BeUnbroken.Two bonus sections are included. The first demonstrates how to change your Guitar strings so that they will not slip. The second is an audio section that features recordings showing variations and other approaches to the tunes taught.A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD. Each tune is taught phrase by phrase and played slowly on a split-screen.Titles include: I Am A Pilgrim What a Friend We Have In Jesus I'll Fly Away Just A Closer Walk With Thee Death Come Creeping and Will The Circle Be Unbroken.

Atlanta in the period 1920-1940 rivaled Memphis St. Louis Jackson and Chicago in the strength and vitality of its blues scene. It was home to a unique school of 12-string guitarists that included Blind Willie McTell BarbecueBob Charlie Lincoln Willie Baker and George Carter.Also on hand were the slick slide guitarist Fred McMullen the accompaniment king Curley Weaver and the spectacular up-and-comer Buddy Moss. The scene was rounded outby an earlier generation of players Peg Leg Howell foremost among them who kept alive musical traditions that were in the eclipse.Included on this DVD are transcriptions and teaching of recorded performances from theyouthful Buddy Moss a player who influenced generations of East Coast players that followed him George Carter a mysterious 12-string guitarist who recorded only four titles Curley Weaver a player's player widely acknowledgedto be among the finest accompanists in the blues Julius Daniels who came down from North Carolina to Atlanta to record early on and Peg Leg Howell a bootlegger-turned musician who busked in the streets of Atlanta both as asoloist and in a trio with the fiddler Eddie Anthony and guitarist Henry Williams.The songs presented in the lesson will expand both your right hand techniques and your knowledge of the neck with one song employing the almostnever encountered Open B flat tuning.A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD and contains all of the songs' lyrics as well as transcriptions of the Guitar parts. Also included are the originalsource recordings from which the transcriptions taught in the lesson were taken.Titles include Curley Weaver: Ticket Agent George Carter: Rising River Blues Buddy Moss: New Lovin’ Blues andOh Lordy Mama Julius Daniels: 99 Year Blues Peg Leg Howell: Turtle Dove Blues and Low-Down Rounder Blues