Delta Blues Guitar

Few Guitarists today can legitimately lay claim to the title 'living legend' but David 'Honeyboy' Edwards certainly qualifies. He is one of the last links to the classic Delta blues era of the '20s and '30s and the harrowing conditions that helped produce the music. Born in Mississippi in 1915 Honeyboy grew up with future bluesman like Tommy McClennan and Robert Johnson while developing his own razor-edged Guitar style. In 1942 he made field recordings for Alan Lomax and the Library Of Congress. In th e'50s he moved to Chicago to become a vital part of that vibrant scene. Honeyboy has written several blues hits including 'Long Tall Women Blues' and 'Just Like JesseJames'. This DVD is much more than an in-depth lesson on Delta blues. Taped in 1999 this is a personal visit with a truly unique individual in the history of American music. Honeyboy imparts his wit and wisdom on his life and times and the fascinating larger-than-life men and women he has met in the blues. Foremost among these is the immortal Robert Johnson whom he met in 1936. In an absolutely remarkable viginette Honeyboy gives his first person account of the death of the King of the Delta blues. Surrounding this riveting moment of living history are detailed demonstrations and thrilling performances of solo country blues slide Guitar boogie bass lines and lead Guitar. Taken all together you have the original source for Delta blues Guitar that cannot be obtained anywhere else. This package includes a detailed booklet that contains key musical examples from the DVD.

Cette troisiéme leçon de Stefan Grossman comporte une grande variété de blues en La et Mi. Depuis les blues de Lightnin' Hopkins aux morceaux jouer avec une guitare accordée en DADGBE. Les techniques utilisées dans le style Delta Blues sont expliquées grâce qux chansons et idées de Son House, Willie Brown, Charlie Patton, Tommy Johnson et Skip James. Stefan Grossman vous donnera des conseils pour gagner en liberté lors de vos improvisation blues.Il vous enseignera également à jouer les morceaux ci-dessous. Chaque morceaux est éudié phrase à phrase, joué normalement puis plus doucement. Le livret contient toutes les partitions. 85 minutes, en anglais. / Guitare

In this lesson Tom Feldmann takes you to where it all began Dockery Plantation dubbed 'The Birthplace of the Blues' and highlights the earliest recording artists that gave Dockery its legendary status Charlie Patton Son House Willie Brown and Tommy Johnson.You will learn a few songs by each artist giving you a taste of the individuals themselves as well as the genre as a whole. The majority of the lesson is done out of standard tuning focusing on E C and A positions. From standard tuning you move to Drop D tuning for Tommy Johnson's Big Road Blues and then to Open G (Spanish tuning) for Willie Brown's Future Blues. Of course no lesson on Delta blues guitarwould be complete without a look at bottleneck slide and this lesson is no exception with Tom closing with two trailblazers of bottleneck slide Son House and Charlie Patton.A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD. In addition the original recordings of all the tunes are included. Titles include: STANDARD TUNING: M&O Blues Stone Pony Blues 34 Blues Morning Prayer Blues A Down The Staff Lonesome Home Blues DROP D TUNING: Big Road Blues SPANISH TUNING: Future Blues Levee Camp Moan It Won't Be Long

Get Fruteland Jackson's Guitar Roots: Delta Blues together with the Beginning Delta Blues Guitar DVD and save! / Guitare

Country Blues Guitar styles span a wide horizon. In these three lessons the ideas and techniques of Rev. Gary Davis, Charley Jordan, Tommy Johnson and Mississippi John Hurt are presented. The arrangements vary from alternating bass to a Delta strum to a monotonic bass. In notation and tablature with three compact discs featuring 3 full hours of note-by-note, phrase-by-phrase instruction. LESSON ONE: Rev. Davis's Cocaine Blues and You Got The Pocket Book, I Got The Key both played in the key of C and in what Rev. Davis called 'old fashion' pickin'. The popular blues Crow Jane played in the key of E. LESSON TWO: Charley Jordan's Keep It Clean and Hunkie Tunkie Blues both played in the key of E and presenting Jordan's unusual blues approach. Tommy Johnson's Canned Heat played in dropped D tuning. LESSON THREE: We begin with Come Back Baby, a slow blues in A using a monotonic bass. We follow this with Mississippi John Hurt's Monday Morning Blues also played in the key of A but using an alternating bass. / Guitare (Fingerpick) / 24 pages / niveau : Intermédiaire / Partition/3-Cd Set - Format: 11 X 8,5

This extremely comprehensive blues solo collection features 260 pages and over 50 fingerpicking Guitar solos in notation and tablature in country blues, Delta blues, ragtime blues, Texas blues and bottleneck styles. Online audio tracks are included to download.

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.

Charlie Patton, considéré comme le 'père de la Delta Blues', est généralement reconnu comme l'artiste de blues les plus influents actif dans les premières décennies du XXe siècle. Aucun individu ne peut être crédité d'avoir 'inventé' le style Delta blues mais Patton était l'une des premières stars du grand public des Bleus genre Delta. Vieilles la musique de Patton pontés les traditions façonné et moderne en même temps, de musique du 19e siècle, tout en créant un cadre de son propre qui allait inspirer à peu près tous les autres musicien de blues à partir de là.Dans cette double leçon DVD, Tom Feldmann vous donne une note pour note, regard détaillé sur 18 des airs les plus célèbres de Patton. Ce qui en fait l'définitif Charlie Patton leçon. Un DVD est consacré aux chansons en accordage standard, couvrant C, E, A et F positions. Vous apprenez main droite détendue raclement de Patton, top technique taraudage, et bien sûr ses licks de signature que vous travaillez à travers des chansons comme, au bout du Dirt Road Blues and Pony Blues.Deux DVD se concentre en goulot d'étranglement le glissement de Patton et numéros non des diaporamas en espagnol (Open G) et Vestapol (Open D) tournures. Des chansons comme, Banty Blues de coq, quand votre Way Obtenir fait sombre et Screamin 'et Hollerin' the Blues deviendra poids lourds dans votre arsenal de blues.Un onglet / musique livret détaillé est inclus dans un fichier PDF à la fois sur DVD. En outre, les enregistrements originaux de tous les airs sont inclus. / Guitare

Description The Mississippi Delta of the 1920s-1940s was a treasure chest of powerful blues performances. These lessons detail tunes by Willie Brown, Tommy Johnson, and Mississippi John Hurt. This book features notation, tablature, and three compact discs of phrase-by-phrase audio instruction for the intermediate guitarist.

Hooker, John Lee (Artist) - Hooker, John Lee (Composer). Par HOOK JOHN LEE. A classic collection of 20 songs from this legendary blues guitarist. Along with Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, the Hook casts a giant shadow that covers the Delta Blues of the 30's, the primal electric Rhythm 'N' Blues of the late 40's and eclectic blendings of 60's rock and beyond. Those bumping, pumping boogies can still fire up the rampant randiness of anyone who 'has the boogie-woogie in 'em and that's got to come out.' / Niveau : 4 / Blues, Boogie / Tablatures / Guitare Tablatures avec Grilles d'Accords