Laibman David - Classic Ragtime, Volume 2 - Guitar

For Fingerstyle Guitar. Par GROSSMAN STEFAN. Ragtime is in many ways the quintessential American music. It arrived at the turn of the last century with many transitions, notably the discovery of the means to record sound, and the determination of Afro-Americans of genius to be appreciated as artists. The music we call ragtime represents not only a moment of great anticipation (as the advent of jazz was on hand) but also of fulfillment. There are perhaps, 200 classic ragtime pieces that represent a corpus of extraordinary beauty - some of the most straightforward, melodious, and out and out joyful music that there ever was. In the early 1960?s guitar players started to tackle arranging this music. David Laibman and Dave Van Ronk were in the vanguard of this movement. Van Ronk?s arrangement of St. Louis Tickle became a rite of passage for fingerstyle guitarists. Laibman?s arrangements of Scott Joplin?s classic rags amazed and challenged the fingerpickers from coast to coast and across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe. By the 1970s other guitarists tried their skills playing ragtime. In the last fifty years this pursuit has carried on. This collection presents eight outstanding guitarists and their approaches to arranging and playing cake walks and classic rags. Tackling the material in this collection will greatly help your development and mastery of the fretboard and what Rev. Gary Davis called your six-string piano. Both your hands will get a complete aerobic workout! An audio download link is included with performances of each title. / Date parution : 2022-01-14/ Recueil / Guitare

100 minutes d'enregistrement pour une leçon avec David Laibman. En travaillant sur deux compositions, vous apprendrez ces arrangements. Livret de tablatures inclus. / Guitare

In this unique lesson David Laibman teaches two Classic Ragtime compositions: Red Carpet Rag and Scott Joplin???s 1899 famous Maple Leaf Rag. These are difficult arrangements but they are taught section by section includingsplit-screen segments where you can see exactly what the left and right hands are doing. David explains fingerings slides hammer-ons and pull-offs harmonics and any other technical points. Also complete music and tablatureare included. As David says often in the lesson 'Fingerstyle guitar is a creative process and there is no single right way to do things. I am always discovering new ways to play certain bits and then wondering why ittook me so long to find them. If the fingering of a passage seems difficult and you want to change it go right ahead! Fingerings should work for the music and for you. Above all ragtime should be fun. Enjoy!' A detailedprinted tab/music instructional booklet is included as well as a PDF file of the booklet on the DVD.

'Stefan Grossman one of the finest of the East Coast guitar pickers has put together a collection of some classic ragtime pieces. It's a wonderful album demonstrating all the light easy exciting sounds of ragtime. All the players perform with authority and the commitment that master musicians have.In Leo Wynkamp's Grace and Beauty Rag and Eric Shoenberg's Piano Roll Blues the players perform the walking bass and play tingling high strings with great feel and expertise. Woody Mann's Tenth Street Scratch his own composition has the great funk slapping bass and drive of the down and dirty and David Laibman's Nola is magic up and downthe neck with great grace.This is a perfect record far those interested in contemporary ragtime techniques; if you're not it's still great.'- Come For To Sing/Edward Mark HolsteinAlso included is a PDF TAB/music booklet featuring these songs from the recording: Wild Cherries Rag; The Old Piano Roll Blues; At A Georgia Camp Meeting; Nola; Livin' In The Country; Dill Pickle Rag; Bye Bye Blackbird. You will need Adobe Acrobat (a free download) to open and print this file from your computer.

Of Scott Joplin James Scott and Joseph Lamb-The great ragtime pieces of the early 20th century were written mostly for Piano but many translate superbly for the Guitar and David Laibman will show you how.Here's a mystery: if the great ragtime pieces of the early 20th century were not written for Guitar and if they weren't player on the Guitar at all (until some of us started doing so half a century ago) then why do they work so will on Guitar?Well thumb vs. three fingers on the right hand (we'll leave out thepinky for now) creates that subtle antagonism between steady bass and syncopated melody - the 'twinkle in the eye' of Ragtime. There is a theory that the original borrowing actually went in the other directed from three-finger Banjo to Piano. Who knows? But I'm finding that the 'educated thumb' is only one neat thing about ragtime Guitar. Classic rags are very expressive with moods and tempers hills and valley. You can capture some of this with left-hand notes (slides hammer-ons pull-offs) with right-hand brushes rolls nail strokes with clever use of open strings and natural harmonics. This works. It is it's own story - not an imitation of a Piano or of a dixieland or jazz band. It is simply - ragtime Guitar.In these lessons I have tried for the most part to meet two goals. First to create versions of some of the most beautiful classical rags that 'lay down' well on Guitar so when you play them you are working with the instrument not fighting it. I have tried to pitch and arrange the pieces so that a lot of the action is in first position rather than high up on the neck and to keep left hand gymnastics to a minimum. Second I didn't want these arrangements to sound like 'student' arrangements too elementary to be believable. It is all about striking a balance. I am generally pleased with the result and I hope