SKU: HL.48024601
ISBN 9781540050663. UPC: 888680933807. 9.0x12.0 inches.
Beyond the White Hand: Construction with Guitar Player, was commissioned by the Julian Bream Trust and first performed at St John's Smith Square by Andrey Lebedev in 2014. This substantial addition to the advanced solo guitar repertoire reflects and expands upon an earlier miniature from 2007: Guitar and White Hand, Birtwistles first piece for the instrument. Both pieces draw artistic inspiration from the artist Pablo Picasso: the smaller piece written for Forbes Henderson and sharing a title with the 1927 painting of the same name. The larger piece was composed in the centenary year of Picasso's Construction with Guitar Player after which the piece is named and the sculpture Guitar.Picasso made about a dozen 'sculptural' constructions during 1912-1914, many of which employ recycled or carved elements. A good number of these were destroyed and only one, Still Life was shown publically during his lifetime. Picasso's own Construction with Guitar Player was an installation of a partially drawn and painted figure to which he added arms made of newspaper that fold away from the wall to embrace a real guitar. In the foreground stands a table with a bottle of wine and this was photographed by Picassoin his studio in 1913. Musically, Birtwistles Construction is a large scale, dense work of sixteen minutes duration. It does not develop linearly, but presents fragments of detail, interruptions, digressions and loops as a “deconstructed guitar” in sound.
SKU: MB.30780M
ISBN 9781513462714. 8.75 x 11.75 inches. Transcribed by Stefan Grossman.
This collection presents six legendary blues guitarists from the 1920s to early 1940s. Each has his own unique approach, style and techniques for playing. Some like Rev. Gary Davis favored regular tuning while Josh White was equally at home playing in Open D tuning as well as standard tuning. Lonnie Johnson is unique in his playing techniques as well as use of a D G D G B E tuning. Buddy Moss??s recordings influenced generations of Piedmont guitarists, especially Blind Boy Fuller. Bo Carter had one of the most unusual tonal approaches for playing blues, ragtime and novelty songs. And lastly there is Tommy McClennan. His recordings sound ??rough and tumble? but once you explore the intricacies of his playing you will discover a powerful blues guitarist.
REV. GARY DAVIS: Cincinnati Flow ? Piece without Words ? Children of Zion ? Twelve Gates to The City
BO CARTER: Let??s Get Drunk Again ? Nobody??s Business ? Honey ? What You Want Your Daddy to Do
BUDDY MOSS: Oh Lordy Mama ? Sleepless Night ? Someday Baby (I??ll Have Mine)
JOSH WHITE Crying Blues ? Bad Depression Blues ? High Brown Cheater ? My Soul Is Gonna Live With God ? Pure Religion Hallilu
LONNIE JOHNSON: Away Down In the Alley Blues ? Stomping ??Em Along Slow ? Blue Ghost Blues There Is No Justice ? Helena Blues ? Sittin?? On A Log ? Corn Bread Blues
TOMMY McCLENNAN: Blues as I Can Be ? I??m Goin??, Don??t You Know ? Love With a Feeling ? New Highway No.51 ? Drop Down Mama
HOW TO USE THIS BOOK: 1) Listen over and over to the original recordings available via the download link for this collection. 2) Get a program that can control digital audio files. Use this with the transcriptions and the recordings. 3) Be patient!! Practice, practice and practice some more!!
