Woody Mann: Fingerstyle Blues Guitar: Guitar: Instrumental Tutor

Woody Mann's Fingerstyle Blues Guitar illustrates how traditional country blues guitar techniques and styles can be extended and explored to create new textures and feelings. Woody demonstrates blues in the keys of A D and E and shows how variations and improvisational ideas can be developed. The playing ideas of Blind Boy Fuller Big Bill Broonzy Lonnie Johnson Blind Lemon Jefferson Rev. Gary Davis and Scrapper Blackwell as well as otherblues ledgends are discussed.Woody combines these playing techniques and styles into a series of instrumentals that will illustrate new possibilities for playing fingerstyle blues. A 24 page PDF tab/music booklet is included.

The evolution of Fingerstyle jazz Guitar continues today with Martin Yalor Tomy Crook Jim Nichols Duck Baker and Woody Mann. Each player has developed a distinctly different approach to interpreting and writing jazz solo Guitar by listening intently to numerous other musicians and composers - Pianists Horn players Bassists and singers as well as many Guitarists in jazz blues and other styles. What distinguishes them from more traditional jazz Guitarists (who more or less function as a linear voice in an ensemble) is their ability to play (or imply) all aspects of the music - rhythm chords bass and melody - without accompaniment. Records by Charlie Byrd Lenny Breau George Van Eps Laurindo Almmieda and Joe Pass have set a very high standard for solo fingerstyle jazz Guitar and it is from this vantage point that the solo flights of Taylor Crooks Nichols Baker and Mann take wing. Their performances not only demonstrate their technical brilliance and imagination they are a testament to the enduring power and beauty of jazz Guitar in its current evolution as a major instrumental force in American music.

Records by Charlie Byrd Lenny Breau George Van Eps Laurindo Almieda and Joe Pass have set a very high standard for solo fingerstyle jazz guitar and it is from this vantage point that the solo flights of Taylor Crook Nichols Baker and Mann take wing. Each player has developed a distinctly different approach to interpreting and writing jazz for solo guitar by listening intently to numerous other musicians and composers - pianists horn players bassists and singers as well as many guitarists in jazz blues and other styles. What distinguishes them from more traditional jazz guitarists (who more or less function in a linear voice in an ensemble) is their abilityto play (or imply) all aspects of music - rhythm chords bass and melody - without accompaniment. Their performances not only demonstrate their technical brilliance and imagination they are a testament to the enduring power and beauty of jazz guitar in its current evolution as a major instrumental force in American music.Martin Taylor: Shining Stockings My funny Valentine Just Squeeze Me Tommy Crook: Melody Of Birdland All The Things You Are It Had To Be You Wave Jim Nichols: Can't Take That Away From Me East Of The Sun Taste Of Honey Here's That Rainy Day Duck Baker: Back Home in Indiana Forty Ton Parachute Out Of The Past Seven Point One Woody Mann: Mr. Guitar Uptown Tales Gypsy Girl Cat Burglar

The Art of Acoustic Blues Guitar - The Basics. Whether your favourite blues guitarist is Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Blind Blake, John Lee Hooker, Big Bill Broonzy, or Mississippi John Hurt, studying the basic techniques presented in this program is the first step toward being able to capture the essence of their traditional styles. In this book, Woody Mann shows you practical ways to develop fundamental technique and offers you insights into the musical logic of blues guitar. Woody walks you through each song, explaining the chord positions and picking techniques. He teaches blues in the keys of D, G, C, E, and A, presenting a wide selection of classic blues songs and instrumentals from the masters of blues guitar. Included in this program are the basics of the Delta blues of Robert Johnson, the ragtime style of Blind Blake (the man with the piano-playing guitar), and the music of Big Bill Broonzy, Memphis Minnie, Willie Walker, and Willie Moore. Each song illustrates how solo players approach the guitar like a piano, playing melodies and bass lines simultaneously. Developing this independent two-line picking technique enables you to get the feel, syncopation, and subtleties of the music. The songs in themselves are studies in acoustic blues technique and present the authentic elements of the acoustic blues sound and style including blues technique and ways to play off of the chords and improvise within a song. This program is recommended for beginning acoustic blues guitarists as well as electric guitarists and acoustic fingerstyle guitarists of all levels who would like to go beyond pattern picking and develop a more dynamic and syncopated sound. Woody Mann had his first schooling as a teenager in the living room of Rev. Gary Davis, the now legendary gospel and ragtime guitarist. Mann soon went on to perform and record with blues masters Son House and Bukka White as well as contemporary innovators including John Fahey. He has recorded extensively, performed throughout the world, and is widely recognized as one of the world's leading teachers and transcribers of acoustic blues music, having taught countless guitarists through his popular books and videos.

Woody Man enseigne cinq chansons de l'édifice du répertoire arrangés pour le guitariste fingerstyle intermédiaire. Inspiré par les airs préférés blues traditionnel de Woody, ces facile à suivre les arrangements enseigne une variété de styles blues acoustique et de sons. Chaque chanson met en lumière une technique particulière pour le développement de compétences fingerpicking, grooves rythmiques et dynamique dans votre jeu. Chansons comprennent : le long de la ruelle, espagnol Blues, Feeling Bad Blues, nouveau Old Devil de Minnie, Rambling Blues / Guitare / Dvd