World of Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar

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 late Lenny Breau was admired throughout the world for his complex fingerstyle jazz stylings. The first part contains Breau's Guitar workshop dealing with Building the Blues; Three Against Two and Harmonicsat Work. Section 2 presents three great Lenny Breau solos (Five O'Clock Bells; Little Blues and Freight Train). Written in notation and tablature. Contains Breau's 'master class' on fingerstylejazz Guitar. 3 songs from book are not included on the audio files. Includes access to online audio.

Morning Thunder-In The Guitar Artistry Of Chris Proctor the National Fingerstyle Guitar Championship winner talks about his style and influences as well as giving dazzling performances on both 6- and 12- string guitars.Chris Proctor falls squarely into the ?New World? steel-string guitar style. Beginning with pop and rock music Chris was soon drawn to the country blues. After exploring that tradition he studied classical and jazz music the traditional music of the British Isles bluegrass and old-time Appalachian music and finally began to investigate the world of the 12-string guitar.In 1982 Chris won the U.S. National Fingerstyle GuitarChampionship and released his first recording ?Runoff.? That recording and the 8 that followed on the Flying Fish Rounder Windham Hill and Sugarhouse labels over the next 27 years elevated Chris to the top rank in the steel-string world. Chris also wrote articles and books filmed instructional videos of his transcriptions and techniques created the guitar workshop program for Taylor Guitars and designed the Taylor Chris Proctor Signature Model guitar.Beginning in the year 2000 Chris broadened his original focus on new music to include reinterpreting music of his diverse set of original influences. His performances today are a primer on the acoustic guitar music of the ?New World.? They feature original guitar techniques and devices invented and adapted by Chris and they convey a striking array of tones textures and moods.Titles include: Tap Room Hot Spot War Games Ozymandias Beppe Ladybug Stomp Nights in White Satin Bach to Ireland Late Again Interstate Morning Thunder The Last Steam Engine Train Revisiting the Sailor?s Grave Gecko Drive and Medley:A Scarce O? Tatties/The Lyndhurst Jig??? Review: Watching Taylor fingerstylist and original workshop clinician Chris Proctor in his new DVD Morning Thunder is an enlightening exercise. Proctor has

Pat Donohue is recognised worldwide as a virtuoso fingerstyle jazz guitarist with a genre-blending fusion of techniques. The overall theme of these lessons is to show the roots of classic Jazz; leading on to how to arrange a jazzcomposition and then how to improvise around the arrangement using various techniques. In this second lesson Donohue builds on the skills developed in Volume one and introduces three more classic arrangements. An exhaustivelesson the DVD holds archival footage of the featured songs including Fats Waller performing ‘Ain’t Misbehavin’ in 1941. A 24 page PDF booklet of the music accompanies these 78 detailed and practical minutes of Jazz classicswhich will aid and improve your playing.

Media : Book/CD Set
Author : by Jimmy Wyble edited and recorded by David Oakes
Level : Intermediate
Date published : 6/26/2001
Style : Contemporary
Type : Solos
Description :
This collection of etudes, written during the 1970's, was composed as a result of Jimmy Wyble's explorations into the musical worlds of counterpoint, harmony and chord melody improvisation for the jazz guitar. The right and left hand fingerings presented in this book were also developed as techniques needed to improvise jazz in two lines. Jimmy uses very standard jazz guitar chord shapes in these etudes. however, these shapes move through the harmony in lines rather than block chord structures. This broken chord technique creates a unique contrapuntal sound that separates Jimmy from the rest of the fingerstyle jazz guitar world. It is hoped that jazz and classical guitarists playing and working through these etudes will see many familiar chord shapes moving in new ways and creating new sounds. These new harmonic sounds combined with beautiful melodies will inspire any quitarist to new levels of musical creativity. Written in notation and tablature. 92 pages.

Initial to Grade 2. Trinity's new Acoustic Guitar syllabus reinvents the popular Plectrum Guitar syllabus, keeping it vital and relevant to today's guitarist by giving teachers and learners the flexibility to develop fingerstyle and plectrum playing. A selection of the best-loved pieces from the previous syllabus has been retained at every grade for continuity. This book contains all the exam pieces for Initial to Grade 2, covering a wide range of styles at each grade ' folk, acoustic, rock and pop styles, jazz, blues, country ' allowing candidates to follow distinct stylistic pathways as they progress. All pieces are printed in both tablature and standard notation so are accessible for any learner.

Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar-To find a unique voice on so ubiquitous an instrument as the acoustic Guitar is quite an achievement; to do so within a centuries old idiom where the instrument has no real history is truly remarkable. Tony Manus has come to be recognised throughout the world as the leading Guitarist in Celtic music. In this DVD Tony talks about his influences and approach to Guitar playing as well as performing a wide array of tunes from jigs to reels to pop and jazz classics.

111 Songs! The Complete Resource for Every Guitar Player-A top-notch resource for every guitarist this 111-song collection contains songs in all musical genres and Guitar styles. The Ultimate Guitar Songbook: Second Edition includes everything from pop/rock hits to jazz standards Motown masterpieces to movie classics traditional tunes country favorites Broadway blockbusters and beyond. Features note-for-note transcriptions (Evil Ways Give It Away Photograph) riffs (All Right Now Deuce Iron Man Start Me Up) arrangements for easy Guitar (Change the World Crazy Jump Roxanne) chord melody (The Christmas Song Stella by Starlight Yesterdays) fingerstyle(Come Sail Away Linus & Lucy My Funny Valentine) classical (Lagrima Minuet Pavane) and more.

With a new introduction by Woody MannJazz and blues guitarist Woody Mann learned from the legendary Rev. Gary Davis and then played and recorded with Son House Bukka White and John Fahey. He has performed throughout the world recorded over a dozen CDs and is an internationally renowned guitar teacher.Six great lessons from the masters of rockabilly guitar:Lesson 1: Arlen Roth-shows you Travis picking heel damping and alternating bass licksLesson 2:James Burton-the legendary pioneer of rockabilly teaches techniques from his days with Ricky NelsonLesson 3: Danny Gatton-teaches pick-and finger style trills and special chordsLesson 4: Brain Setzer-ex-Stary Cats-shows you hisspecial tricksLesson 5: Joe Dalton-country and rockabilly specialist Joe demonstrates hot chromatic runs double stop licks and arpeggiosLesson 6: Scotty Anderson-gives you an intense workout on Chet Atkins fingerstyle guitar andboogie licksYou'll never miss a note!-You see the music and the tablature on screen as it's being played!-All right- and left-hand techniques are shown in close-up and with helpful split-screen effects to make learning easy-Slowmotion segments with standard pitch sound-Artist biographies-Suggested listening-Booklet with music examples included

Thomas Fellow, author of the successful standard work Fellow Guitar Book and a famous concert guitarist who performs all over the world (European Guitar Quartet, Friend `n Fellow, Hands on Strings), expands his Guitar Music Collection with this and the following volume 2 with an extensive amount of compositions in his own modern, stylistically open sound language.This book of 18 DELIGHTFUL CROSSOVER PIECES is aimed at interested students, concert guitarists as well as ambitious amateurs. The pieces are demanding (difficulty level 4 ) and, thanks to the additional notation in TABS, are a perfect addition to the repertoire of modern guitar literature, even for players who cannot read sheet music.FINGERFOOD XXL Vol. 1 includes shorter compositions (STARTER) and a whole series of ballads (SWEET). All pieces are concertante, but each in its own way. And so fingerstyle influences can be recognised as well as Brazilian sounds, sometimes Fellow approaches jazz, sometimes pop music and always conveys joy of playing and listening pleasure.STARTER: The PostmanWakashPilgrimThe FalconerSilence (Nocturne)Can You Kepp A SecretFlow MachineZardozSWEET: The River Flows To The OceanGalapagos IslandsSuaveMimosaDreamcatcherTiffanySilent BeautyBrokenVelvet WaltzEmilia / Guitare / Schott