Rev. Gary Davis

Taught By Ernie Hawkins-Rev. Gary Davis was a musical genius bridging the gaps between blues ragtime folk gospel marching songs and tin pan alley hits. In this series of four lessons Ernie Hawkins teaches fourteen of Rev. Davis's most requested and famous gospel guitar arrangements. Ernie gives a detailed rundown of each arrangement analyzing the structure and timing of each phrase verse and chorus with slow motion replays. A comprehensive 80 page tab/music PDF booklet is included. All in all almost six hours of instruction are featured.

Rev. Gary Davis was an incredible ragtime guitar player. His arrangements illustrate what has become known as the Piedmont guitar style. As a young man Rev. Davis played in a string band with the legendary Willie Walker. Several of the tunes featured on this double DVD lesson come from Walker???s repertoire i.e. Make Believe Stunt. Rev. Davis used to talk about Blind Blake???s sportin??? right hand and you can hear this influence in all of Rev.Davis???s ragtime playing. These are challenging and difficult multipart arrangements. Ernie Hawkins teaches each section phrase by phrase and carefully shows you the right hand picking as well as the left hand fingerings that wereunique to Rev. Davis???s approach. You will be able to easily follow the instruction with the tab/music booklet. Also featured are split screen segments where each section is played slowly and you can study the movementsof each hand. As a bonus we have included various audio performances of Rev. Davis playing each song.

Rev Gary Davis a un répertoire très étendu allant du gospel au blues, du rags à la chanson folk. Dans ce double DVD, Ernie Hawkins présente les chansons les plus connues de Rev. Plus de 2h30 d'enregistrement, en anglais. / Guitare / Dvd

And Novelty Instrumentals Of Rev. Gary Davis-Rev. Gary Davis is the real thing. The authentic blind-seer. He is a genius with a brightly burning spirit enormous musical intelligence technical brilliance an encyclopaedic memory driving passion deep faith araunchy and gracious sense of humour. A mystic. He is an icon of the style of Guitar he was born into known today as the Piedmont blues. Through players of the first half of the twentieth century like Alfred Shultz Mose Ranger Merle Travis and Chet Atkins this is the signature American fingerpicking style that would so deeply inform the country folk blues and even rock and roll of our day.Rev. Davis (1896-1972) was born black indeep poverty in South Carolina blind from an early age. He overcame these longest of odds to become world famous a giant of American music. He brought together black and white styles country gospel folk themes blues jazz ragtime minstrel songs dance tunes and popular song. He developed his own brilliant fingerpicking style that was deep economical and adaptable enough to easily cover all these genres. Supporting all his creativity was anunshakable faith that pulled him through the obscurity the bitter hard times and crushing poverty he would endure until the folk music awakening of the fifties and sixties caught up to him.In this book and accompanyingaudio Ernie Hawkins has transcribed 9 of Rev. Davis' best known rags minstrel shows tunes and novelty instrumentals. These are challenging and very rewarding to master. Included are: Buck Dance Devil's Dream Sally Where'd You Get Your Liquor From Fast Foxtrot St. Louis Tickle Darktown Strutter's Ball and his tour de forces Twelve Sticks and SoldiersMarch. The unique bottleneck/slide tune Whistlin' Blues is also presented played in an open D6 tuning.The playing of Rev. Davis has influenced generations of guitar players from Blind Boy Fuller to

A Tribute to Reverend Gary Davis-British journalist and writer Robert Tilling lovingly compiled this touching tribute to the great American Guitar genius Reverend Gary Davis. His enthusiasm for the Reverend's powerful music startedafter seeing him on his first UK concert tour in 1964.Reverend Gary Davis (1896-1972) was an African American blues and gospel singer and guitarist. His fingerpicking style was extremely influential; hisstudents in New York City in the 1960s included Stefan Grossman Roy Bookbinder Woody Mann and Ernie Hawkins. Davis' musical influence extends throughout modern American music from theGrateful Dead and Bob Dylan to Keb Mo and Olabelle. Chapters in this revised and updated biography include a detailed Chronology Discography Concert and Record Reviews quotations contributions from musicians and admirers as well as over 100 photographs.

Rev. Gary Davis had an enormous repertoire that spanned from gospel to blues rags to fok tunes and old minstrel show songs. In this double DVD lesson Ernie Hawkins presents some of Rev. Davis's most requested rags and minstreltunes. These vary from Sally Where'd You Get Your Liquor From to the complex dance rhythms of Buck Dance and Twelve Sticks to Devil's Dream an instrumental played in the Key of F. These arearrangements that will challenge any Guitarists. Ernie Hawkins teaches each tune phrase and carefully shows you the right hand picking as well as the left hand fingerings that were unique to Rev. Davis's approach. Youwill be able to easily follow the instruction with the tab/music booklet. Also featured are split screen segments where each section is played slowly and you can study the movements of each hand. As a bonus we have includedvarious audio performances of Rev. Davis playing each song.

In this lesson Ernie Hawkins teaches three Rev. Davis arrangements that will challenge your fingers. Rev. Gary Davis's tour de force in concert was his Soldiers March. This is a multipart instrumental played in the Key of F and Cand is a showcase in demonstrating the genius of Rev. Davis's playing and arranging skills. Few country blues guitarists played in the Key of F but Rev. Davis explored this key with religious as well as old pop standards. DarktownStrutters Ball is a fascinating arrangement that captures the atmosphere of the 1920s. Rev. Davis use to tell his students that playing with a bottleneck was ???cheating???. Yet his Whistlin' Blues uses this technique combined with anOpen D6 tuning to create an unusual boogie piano sound. Ernie Hawkins teaches each tune phrase by phrase and carefully shows you the right hand picking as well as the left hand fingerings that were unique to Rev. Davis'sapproach. You will be able to easily follow the instruction with the tab/music booklet. Also featured are split screen segments where each section is played slowly and you can study the movements of each hand. As a bonus we haveincluded various audio performances of Rev. Davis playing each song. Titles include: Soldiers March (United States March) Darktown Strutters Ball and Whistlin' Blues.