Whispering Stones

Par AL PETTEWAY. Whispering Stones won the award for 'Best Recording' from the Washington Area Music Association and has continued to be a favorite with fans of fingerstyle guitar music throughout the world. The book features Celtic-inspired original and traditional tunes performed on solo acoustic guitar with the occasional addition of flute, mandolin, cello, piano, or bells. The tunes appear in the same order as in the recording. Al Petteway is an award-winning fingerstyle guitarist and composer. His many 'Wammie' awards from the Washington Area Music Association include 'Artist of the Year' and 'Musician of the Year'. Al's playing fuses Celtic/British ideas and tunings with American themes and drive. Acoustic Guitar Magazine praised his 'concise, clean arrangements similar to John Renbourn's better work'. In notation and tablature. / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Tablatures / Guitare Fingerpicking

Par AL PETTEWAY. Master guitarist Al Petteway ventures into new territory with 15 Celtic-inspired, traditional, and New Age fingerstyle compositions in standard and alternate tunings. Derived from Al's award-winning solo recording of the same title, each piece bears the inimitable Petteway signature of profoundly graceful, inspired innovation. Written in standard notation and tab with several pieces in alternate tunings. Al began his professional music career at the age of 11. He played guitar, drums, and string bass with a variety of rock and folk acts in the Washington D.C. area during the 60's, becoming a local legend by the time he went to college to study music composition in 1970. In1977, Al took a job with The National Geographic Society. His work as Supervisor of Picture Editing for the society's Image Collection, gave him the artistic freedom to develop his own acoustic guitar style. While long recognized as one of the country's foremost bluegrass and folk sidemen, Celtic music specialty label Maggie's Music signed Al in 1993 and released Whispering Stones following by The Waters and the Wild-exposing his solo acoustic guitar work to an international audience for the first time. Al left the National Geographic to become a full-time musician in the spring of 1995, just before the release of Midsummer Moon. / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Tablatures / Guitare Fingerpicking

This amazing collection transcribes nearly 150 of the best-known jazz solos (regardless of the instrument) exactly as recorded by icons of the trade, including: After You've Gone Airegin All The Things You Are Almost Like Being In Love Anthropology Autumn Leaves Back To The Land Before You Go Belem Bernie's Tune Bésame Mucho (Kiss Me Much) Billy Boy Birk's Works Blackbird Blue In Green Blue Seven Blue Train (Blue Trane) Blues By Five Body And Soul Bolivia Boogie Stop Shuffle Bop Boy The Breeze And I Bright Size Life Celia Close Your Eyes Coffee Pot Con Alma Confirmation Cotton Tail Delauney's Dilemma Deluge Django Dolphin Dance Doodlin' Driftin' Easy Living Firm Roots Five Brothers Footprints Freight Trane The Golden Striker Grand Slam Groovin' High Hook Up How Deep Is The Ocean (How High Is The Sky) I Didn't Know What Time It Was I Do It For Your Love I Mean You I Remember Clifford I'll Close My Eyes I'll Remember April I'm Getting Sentimental Over You I'm Old Fashioned In A Sentimental Mood Invitation Israel Just An Old Manuscript K.C. Blues The Lady Is A Tramp Lucky Southern (I'm Afraid) The Masquerade Is Over The Maze Mean To Me Midnight Waltz Miles Ahead Milestones Minor Mood Minor Swing Minuano (Six-Eight) Mrs. Parker Of K.C. (Bird's Mother) Moment's Notice Moose The Mooche My Funny Valentine My Romance Never Let Me Go Never Say Yes Never Will I Marry New Orleans Night Train Nuages Once I Loved (Amor Em Paz) (Love In Peace) Opus De Funk Perdido Pure Imagination Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars (Corcovado) Rainsville Recorda Me Remember Riverboat Shuffle Robbins Nest Safari St. Thomas Senor Blues Seven Steps To Heaven Shawnuff Shoe Shine Boy Shutterbug Sidewinder Since We Met Singin' The Blues Till My Daddy Comes Home Sippin' At Bells Spain Speak Low Speak No Evil Spring Ain't Here Stealin' Apples Stella By Starlight Stolen Moments Take Five Tangerine That Old Feeling This Is New Three Little Words Too Close For Comfort Unit 7 Waltz For Debby 'Way Down Yonder In New Orleans The Way You Look Tonight West End Blues While We're Young Whisper Not Wild Man Blues (Ted Lewis Blues) Windows With A Song In My Heart Woodyn' You You Go To My Head You're A Sweetheart You're My Everything / Instrument en do / Hal Leonard