The state of Texas has had a major presence in the Blues from the earliest days of the recording era right on up to the present day. So many tremendous Blues musicians have hailed from Texas i.e. Blind Lemon Jefferson Lightnin Hopkins T-Bone Walker Freddy King. This DVD focuses on the Country Blues guitarists who first defined the Texas Blues sound and who put Texas on the map as a prime location in Blues Country.In this DVD lesson you'll havean opportunity to learn from the music of the greatest of the early Country Blues singer/guitarists Blind Lemon Jefferson Texas sharecropper and songster Mance Lipscomb the almost forgotten Otis Harris ace lyricist Funny PapaSmith the spectacular and under recorded Willie Reed and the Post-War master Lil' Son Jackson. This is powerful and challenging guitar music and the technique building that will result from learning to play these songs willtake your blues playing to a new level.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 recordingsof all the tunes is also included.Titles include: Willie Reed/Dreaming Blues; Mance Lipscomb/Tell Me Where You Stay Last Night and Rocks and Gravel Makes a Solid Road; Otis Harris/You'll Like MyLoving; Funny Papa Smith/Fool's Blues; Blind Lemon Jefferson/That Crawlin' Baby Blues; Lil' Son Jackson/Groundhog Blues
SKU: MB.31103M
ISBN 9781513468792. 8.75x11.75 inches.
Adam Granger self-published the first edition of Grangerâ??s Fiddle Tunes for Guitar in 1979. A second edition was published in 1994. Now Mel Bay Publications presents the third edition of the book.
This 236-page book is the most extensive and best-documented collection of fiddle tunes for the flatpicking guitar player in existence, and includes reels, hoedowns, hornpipes, rags, breakdowns, jigs and slip-jigs, presented in Southern, Northern, Irish, Canadian, Texas and Old-time styles.
There are 508 fiddle tunes referenced under 2500 titles and alternate titles. The titles are fully indexed, making the book doubly valuable as a reference book and a source book.
In this new edition, all tunes are typeset, instead of being handwritten as they were in the previous editions, making the tabs easier to read.
The tunes in Grangerâ??s Fiddle Tunes for Guitar are presented in Easytab, a streamlined tablature notation system designed by Adam specifically for fiddle tunes.
The book comes with a link which gives access to mp3 recordings by Adam of all 508 tunes, each played once at a moderate tempo, with rhythm on one channel and lead on the other.
Also included in Grangerâ??s Fiddle Tunes for Guitar are instructions for reading Easytab, descriptions of tune types presented in the book, and primers on traditional flatpicking and rhythm guitar. Additionally, there are sections on timing, ornamentation, technique, and fingering, as well as information on tune sources and a history of the collection.
Mel Bay also offers The Granger Collection, by Bill Nicholson, the same 508 tunes in standard music notation.