Format : DVD
SKU: MB.GW1075
5.75x4 inches.
This lesson is intended for advanced players looking for ways to voice chords and arrange tunes in ways that sound rich and complex but feel nimble under the hands. We?ll look mostly at arrangements I?ve made of blues and fiddle melodies, and also look at the playing of the remarkable Johnny St. Cyr.We begin our lesson with Ma Rainey?s Yonder Comes the Blues. This is followed by Jelly Roll Morton?s Jelly Roll Blues. Composed in 1915 and was one of the first published jazz compositions. Johnny St. Cyr was a famous New Orleans musician who played both guitar and the six-string banjo. He recorded with Louis Armstrongs Hot Five and Hot Seven bands. He also played with Jelly Roll Mortons Red Hot Peppers. His Guitar Blues is a tour-de-force and challenge for any fingerstyle guitarist. We finish our lesson with the Mineola Rag first recorded by the East Texas Serenaders. Titles include: Yonder Come The Blues, Jelly Roll Blues, Guitar Blues and Mineola Rag Detailed tab/music PDF file on the DVD. 96 minutes. DVD is region 0, playable worldwide.
SKU: HL.49047072
UPC: 196288115038.
Thomas Fellow, author of the successful standard work Fellow Guitar Book and guitarist who gives concerts worldwide (European GuitarQuartet, Friend `n Fellow, Hands on Strings), expands his Guitar Music Collection with this and the following volume by an extensive number of compositions in his own modern, stylistically open tonal language. This booklet with 18 DELIGHTFUL CROSSOVER PIECES is aimed at interested students, concert guitarists as well as ambitious amateurs. The pieces are demanding (level of difficulty 4 - difficult) and, thanks to the additional notation in TABS, are a perfect addition to the repertoire of modern guitar literature, even for players who are not familiar with music. FINGERFOOD XXL Vol. 1 includes shorter compositions (STARTER) and a whole series of ballads (SWEET). All pieces are concertante, buteach in its own way. And so fingerstyle influences can be recognized as well as Brazilian sounds, sometimes Fellow approaches jazz, sometimes pop music and always conveys joy of playing and listening pleasure.
SKU: HL.390187
ISBN 9781574244069. UPC: 196288027584. 8.5x8.5x0.403 inches.
Guitar Dreams is a collection of interviews, articles and photographs that celebrate plucked string musicians and luthiers whose work delights, challenges, and inspires all of us who care passionately about the back stories behind the music and the instruments we love. Many of these pieces first appeared (some in different form) in the pages of The Fretboard Journal and Acoustic Guitar magazine, while others appear here for the first time. Included are many previously unpublished photographs. Contributors include Nato Lima (virtuoso nylong string guitarist), Jerry Byrd (steel guitar pioneer), Gabor Szabo (jazz and world music pioneer), Amos Garrett (Telecaster master), Muriel Anderson (fingerstyle virtuoso), George Barnes (seminal jazz guitarist), and many others.