Holiday Songs for Fingerstyle Guitar

For Fingerstyle Guitar. Par MILLER JOHN. Fingerstyle guitar provides the perfect medium for capturing the beautiful chords and unforgettable melodies of Christmas Carols and Holiday Standards. In this collection John Miller has put together arrangements of twenty such songs designed to appeal to guitarists with a wide range of fingerstyle skill and experience. What a range of expressions and moods these songs communicate! From the ancient-sounding O Come, O Come Emmanuel to the high spirits of Deck the Halls, the uplifting quality of Go Tell It on the Mountain and the serenity of Silent Night, you?ll find it all here. The arrangements also cover a lot of ground in terms of the keys and tunings. You?ll be playing pieces in C, A, A minor, D, D minor, G, and B minor in standard tuning; D and A minor in dropped-D tuning and four in Open G tuning. You?ll be building your chordal vocabulary at the same time you?re building your repertoire. All of the arrangements are notated in standard notation and tablature, and links to downloadable sound samples of the arrangements are provided so that you?ll be able to hear how the arrangements sound when played. Lyrics for the songs are provided, too, along with: ? An explanation of the TAB used in the book ? Guidance on how to go about selecting and learning the arrangements ? Playing tips that describe the most efficient ways to finger the songs in the fretting hand ? An appendix, which offers diagrams indicating fingering for the chord shapes you?ll encounter most often in the book. Here?s an opportunity to build the skills that will enable you to boost everyone?s spirits at the next holiday gathering. People really respond to a beautiful fingerstyle performance of a favorite Christmas Carol or Holiday Standard, and it could be you doing one at the next party. / Date parution : 2022-01-14/ Recueil / Guitare

John Fahey is truly an original and distinctive voice in the musical world revered by artists and performers the world over for his unusual compositions and cross-pollination of genres. His recording career has drawn influencefrom Country Blues Old-Time music Indian ragas the European classical tradition and Gregorian tonalities. He formed a loosely defined 'school' of American Primitive guitarists that included such diverse characters as LeoKottke and Robbie Basho.In 1968 Fahey released his first album of Christmas songs and holiday melodies to great critical acclaim. The arrangements reflect Fahey's preference for slightly Jazzy and upbeat styles - hedemonstrates and dissects nine of his most popular and requested versions. These songs will showcase your fingerstyle techniques and slide-style playing in both standard and open G tunings.

John Fahey est véritablement un original et distinctif voix dans le monde musical, vénéré par des artistes et des interprètes du monde sur pour ses compositions inhabituelles et la pollinisation croisée des genres. Sa carrière a tiré influence de Country Blues, de la musique old-time, de ragas indiens, la tradition classique européenne et des tonalités grégorien. Il a formé une école vaguement définie des guitaristes American Primitive qui inclus ces caractères variés comme Leo Kottke et Robbie Basho. En 1968, Fahey sort son premier album de chansons de Noël et les mélodies de vacances très acclamé par la critique. Les arrangements reflètent la préférence du Fahey de styles légèrement Jazzy et optimistes - il illustre et dissèque neuf de ses versions plus populaires et les plus demandées. Ces chansons présentera votre fingerstyle techniques et la diapositive-style jouant en standards et ouvertes g ajustements apportés. / Guitare / Dvd

The blues has always been spiced with suggestive metaphors. This collection of bawdy blues songs celebrate the off-color blues repertoire: Bessie Smith is wild about her kitchen man's turnip tops but Bo Carter's pencil won'twrite no more! There's lots of variety with songs from the 1930s 40s and 50s; some are simple three-chord blues tunes and others have beautiful ragtime chord changes. Fred shows you how to play accompaniment and solosfor all the songs. The evocative titles include Ain't Got Nobody to Grind My Coffee (Clara Smith) She's Your Cook But She Burns My Bread Sometimes and My Pencil Won't Write No More (Bo Carter) Kitchen Man (Bessie Smith) Big TenInch (Bull Moose Jackson) You Can't Tell the Difference After Dark (Alberta Hunter) and the holiday perennial Let's Make Christmas Merry Baby (Amos Milburn). You'll learn to accompany yourself singing the songs and howto play a fingerstyle instrumental version of each one. Fred's easy-going instructional style his tips on playing the arrangements and his slowed-down split-screen performances of each tune make learning easy. All thearrangements are written out in tab and music as well...both the backup and solos. 76 minutes - Level 2 - Detailed tab/music PDF file on the DVD.  DVD is region 0 playable worldwide.