John Miller: Memphis Blues Guitar: Guitar: Instrumental Tutor

Memphis has long been a landing place for musicians from the surrounding rural areas in Tennessee Arkansas and Mississippi and in the 1920s and 1930s it was a wide open town with plenty of opportunities for musicians to performtheir music and make a living. As a result of Memphis's hub status it developed a strong blues scene in the 1920s and 1930s with a host of outstanding singers and players. Many of these musicians had successful careers asrecording artists but a surprisingly large number of similarly gifted musicians went unrecorded or only got the opportunity to record a few titles.This DVD lesson offers instruction in the music of many of the finestguitarists to record out of Memphis in the 1920s and 1930s. Included on this DVD are transcriptions and teaching of performances from the spectacular and hugely influential Memphis Minnie transplanted Mississippians Furry Lewis Robert Wilkins and Frank Stokes and more obscure names from the past like Tom Dickson and Allen Shaw. The songs that are taught on the DVD have been selected for their musical merit but also to build your skills as a CountryBlues guitarist with numbers in D G E and C in standard tuning as well as Open G tuning. The technique building that will come from learning these tunes will give you tools to go in whatever direction you wish to take yourmusic.A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD. This includes all the lyrics to the songs as well as transcriptions of the guitar playing. The original old recordings of all the tunes is alsoincluded.Titles include: Tom Dickson/Happy Blues; Allen Shaw/I Couldn't Help It; Robert Wilkins/Long Train Blues; Frank Stokes/Frank Stokes' Dream; Memphis Minnie/Reachin' Pete and Furry Lewis/Good Looking GirlBlues

L'utilisation des open tunings à la guitare pour accompagner le chant est l'un des sons de la marque Country Blues. Incontestablement, les deux open tunings qui ont été utilisés le plus couramment dans le pays Blues ont été tuning espagnol, souvent appelé Open G tuning et tuning Vestapol, assez souvent appelés open tuning D. Pour cette leçon 2-DVD, nous avons choisi le nom espagnol et Vestapol pour désigner ces tunings, parce que dans la pratique, tuning espagnol n'a pas toujours été à l'écoute exactement à une corde de G ouvert et tuning Vestapol n'a pas toujours été accordé à une corde ouverte D.Chacun de ces accordages représente sa propre sorte de son univers, mais ce qui est vraiment intéressant d'entendre sont les différentes approches que les différents acteurs ont les mêmes tunings et les différents sons qui en ont découlé. Dans chacun de ces tunings, vous allez rencontrer des joueurs dont l'approche était tellement mélodie tirée qu'il finit par sonner un peu comme la guitare slide jouée sans une diapositive, et à l'extrémité opposée du spectre, grande idée, suivant une corde arrangements sophistiqués. Nous avons délibérément choisi des chansons qui sont enseignés sur la leçon pour englober autant que le spectre sonore possible.Sur le disque 1, la leçon de tuning espagnol, nous commençons par présenter un aperçu de la mise au point, la façon dont il est mis en place, et où les positions d'accords fondamentaux nécessaires pour jouer Country Blues dans cet accord sont situés. Puis nous lançons dans le répertoire: interprétation sereine d'Elizabeth Cotten de l'hymne When I Get Home, garçons dansants de Mississippi John Hurt, vous êtes les bienvenus, hypnotique Construit droit de Teddy Darby sur le terrain, uptown Dice malchance de Clifford Gibson, de Mance Lipscomb ancien- Légende obsédante de sondage Willie Poor Boy et Kenny Baker de la Brakeman siffleur.Sur le disque 2, la leçon de tuning Vestapol, nous commençons par un aperçu de la qui donne le son de la mise au point, l'approche qui convient le mieux pour elle, et les positions en accords nécessaires pour jouer Country Blues en elle. Ensuite, nous allons à la chanson: instrumental Pas le temps de Tarheel Slim At All, Jimmy Lee Williams? Locomotive barattage Avez-vous Peaches jamais vu, Old Timbrook Blues de John Byrd, Memphis Willie B. 's étrange Brownsville Blues, Blind Boy Fuller conduite Little Woman Vous êtes si doux, et l'esprit-bender de Jesse Thomas autre ami comme moi.L'enseignement est offert avec le genre d'attention patiente au détail pour lequel les leçons de John Miller ont été acclamés, et tous les spectacles originaux des chansons sont inclus sur les disques, ainsi que des onglets et solfège et les paroles des chansons. Apprenez les chansons sur ces leçons et vous serez équipé non seulement de continuer à apprendre plus de chansons dans ces accordages sur votre propre, mais peut-être même de créer vos propres arrangements et des chansons dans les tunings. / Guitare

A guide to the traditional blues playing style of the Mississippi bluesman who lived in Memphis and had a gift for storytelling and showmanship. Walter 'Furry' Lewis recorded 25 songs between 1927 and 1929 as well as severalalbums in the 1960s for Folkways Prestige and other labels after being rediscovered as part of the great blues rebirth.As a guitarist Furry Lewis was a two-finger picker with a huge vocabulary of sounds at hisfingertips. He worked effortlessly with both broad strokes and intricate detail possessing a fluidity that recalls the talents of the great Robert Johnson. Guitar authority John Miller presents a close-up analysis of the playingof this intriguing character who epitomised the showmanship and craft of the blues in a unique and highly personal way.

The Country Blues guitar duet tradition is rich and varied but it has been relatively unexplored by present day blues players. This is a shame for a couple of reasons there are a lot of great duets that merit being worked out and played for today's audiences preserving the music but there's also just the sheer enjoyment and fun involved in playing this music with a kindred spirit someone who hears and responds to this music as you do yourself.In Legendary Country Blues Duets Frank and John have selected some of the really prime guitar duets in the Country Blues tradition to teach you. The songs they've chosen for the lesson have beenpicked to provide you with a variety of different duet approaches sounds and techniques. In several instances the two guitar parts are played out of different tunings or positions. In the course of the lesson you'll work through and learn Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie's Pile Drivin' Blues Walter Beasley and Sylvester Weaver's Toad Frog Blues Will Batts and Dan Sane's Country Woman Yank Rachell and Dan Smith's Squeaky Work Bench Blues and Frank Stokes and Dan Sane's What's The Matter Blues.For each one of the songs in the lesson John and Frank take turns teaching their parts which are then shown in slowed-down split-screen versions of each duet part followed by the two guitars together. TAB and standard notation of the guitar parts and the song lyrics are included as a PDF file on the DVD as are the original recordings of the songs. You can choose to learn one or the other of the parts or learn both parts and teach one to a friend. There is a richness in shared musical performance that is yours for the taking here. Learn Legendary Country Blues Duets and find out just how rewarding playing Country Blues with another guitarist can be.