Stefan Grossman: Fingerpicking Blues Guitar: Guitar: Instrumental Tutor

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

Par GROSSMAN STEFAN. Ce texte fin présente dix fabuleux Stefan Grossman solos de blues fingerstyle en notation et tablature. Solos comprennent : hommage à Lonnie Johnson - Yazoo Bass and Boogie - saut du citron - Blues pour la Mann - droit de Passage et plus encore. Toutes les chansons du livre sont sur le CD. / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Blues - Solos / Tablatures / Guitare Tablatures

Fingerpicking Blues Guitar is a never ending study full of surprises and discoveries. Each key of the Guitar offers new sounds and textures. A blues played in the key of C sounds world's apart from a blues played in the keys of A G D or E. This series focuses on a single key for each lesson. The key of G offers specific advantages. It is ideal for the alternating bass technique i.e. Mississippi John Hurt's style of playing. In this lesson we start by learning an arrangement of Marshall Owens' 1930s recording of Try Me One More Time. This was originally played in an Open G tuning but is here arranged in standard tuning using a JohnHurt approach. Not all blues from the 1920s and 1930s were fingerpicked. Jim Jackson was a popular Memphis songster who basically strummed his Guitar. But his repertoire was full of wonderful songs. Stefan Grossman has taken his Wild About My Loving and has tried to keep the original feel by combining a strum approach intermingled with fingerpicking the melody. Little Hat Jones was an amazing fingerstyle bluesman. His Bye Bye Baby Blues was played in the key of G. Here his version is fully transcribed note for note. Blind Boy Fuller recorded many blues in the key of G. In this lesson we'll tackle three of his arrangements: Baby Let Me Lay It On You Baby Quit Your Low Down Ways and I Crave My Pigmeat. We study his playing note for note but also explore variations. By the end of this lesson you will know six great tunes and have an insight in to fingerpicking blues in the key of G. 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. As well the original old recordings are included in the Bonus Audio section. Titles include: Try Me One More Time Wild About My Loving Bye Bye Baby Blues Baby Let Me Lay It On You Baby Quit Your Low Down Ways and I Crave My Pigmeat. 100 minutes

Cette leçon de DVD a été conçue pour aider les débutants et les étudiants intermédiaires de fingerpicking guitare blues de pays améliorer leurs compétences en jeu et augmentent leur répertoire en utilisant une technique de basse alternée. Stefan Grossman illustre et explique en arrangements fingerstyle de détail dix dans les clés de C, D, E, A, G et f. Ces blues populaire et les chansons de ragtime viennent jouer le Mississippi John Hurt, Rev Gary Davis, Mance Lipscomb et Elizabeth Cotten. Chaque morceau est discutée et enseigné la phrase par phrase et joué lentement sur un écran de split, afin que vous puissiez voir clairement ce que fait chaque main. Une brochure détaillée du tab/musique 44 page est incluse dans cette leçon. / Guitare

As part of Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop Audio Series this comprehensive and thorough collection of fingerpicking guitar lessons contains invaluable tips and instruction implemented throughout the arrangements in this book. The online audio contains 3 full hours of note-by-note, phrase-by-phrase instruction. Lesson One: Alternating bass, dampening technique, and songs: 'Shake That Thing', 'Spike Driver's Blues', 'Joe Turner Blues', 'Casey Jones', and 'Got The Blues, Can't Be Satisfied'. Lesson Two: Songs include: 'I'm Satisfied', 'Make Me A Pallet On The Floor', 'Nobody's Dirty Business', and 'Taint Nobody's Dirty Business If I Do, Part II'. Lesson Three: Songs: 'Spider,Spider', 'Richland Woman Blues', 'Louis Collins' and 'Let The Mermaids Flirt With Me'. Includes access to online audio. / Niveau : Intermédiaire à Avancé / Etudes et exercices / Etude / Guitare Fingerpicking

Dans le cadre de guitare atelier Audio série Stefan Grossman cette collection complète et approfondie des leçons de guitare de fingerpicking contient des conseils précieuses et instruction mis en oeuvre dans l'ensemble les arrangements dans ce livre. Les trois CD audio donnent 3 heures complets d'enseignement note par note, phrase par phrase. Une leçon : Altéré tuning (Open D). Chansons: ' Avalon Blues ', glisse Delta', ' si tu ne veux pas Me ', et' dépannage '. La leçon deux : chansons comprennent: ' Blues café ', lundi matin Blues', et 'Candyman'. La leçon trois : chansons: ' C.C. Rider ', ' voir voir Rider', ' pile O'Lee Blues ', grosse jambe Blues', ' j'irai avec son Blues 'et ' Corrina, Corrina'. / Guitare (Fingerpick) / 32 pages / niveau : Intermédiaire / Partition/3-Cd Set - Format: 11,75 X 8,75