Description Open tunings have been used by many country blues guitarists. From the alternating bass styles of Furry Lewis and Mississippi John Hurt to the evocative and haunting sounds of Skip James to the ragtime blues of Blind Blake. In this series we discuss some of the finest guitar arrangements played in open tunings. For the intermediate guitarist. Notation and tablature with three compact discs.

Absolutely blues - Bee blues in C - Waiting for the train - Wild West junction blues - One way ticket blues - A blueggy rasy blues - The good, the bad and the blues - Traveler guitar blues - Pulling-off story blues - Some like it bluesy

Description In this book, six of Rev. Davis' Holy Blues are presented-- gospel songs with a taste of the blues. The accompanying three CDs of lessons teach these arrangements phrase by phrase as well as presenting the original recordings. These lessons are for the intermediate to advanced fingerstyle guitarist. All of the music is in notation and tablature. LESSON ONE: Rev. Davis played many gospel songs with a blues feel. These are referred to as Holy Blues. Death Don't Have No Mercy is an excellent example of a Holy Blues in the key of Em. Let Us Get Together follows, and is played in the key of G. This is a difficult arrangement illustrating Rev. Davis's control over his right hand. LESSON TWO: Rev.Gary Davis's religious arrangements in the key of C: I Belong to the Band and Tryin' to Get Home. LESSON THREE: For ragtime playing Rev. Davis would approach his guitar as if it were a piano. For gospel songs the guitar takes on the role of a full Baptist church! In this lesson we study two gospel arrangements, Pure Religion and I Am the Light of the World. Both are played in the key of C and have become popular in today's pop world.

Description The Mississippi Delta of the 1920s-1940s was a treasure chest of powerful blues performances. These lessons detail tunes by Willie Brown, Tommy Johnson, and Mississippi John Hurt. This book features notation, tablature, and three compact discs of phrase-by-phrase audio instruction for the intermediate guitarist.

Description : Ce recueil contient 6 versions du Plessis Blues et s?adresse aux guitaristes de 1er cycle (de la 1ère à la 5ème année). Morceau très agréable à jouer pour les débutants et s?inspirant des structures standards du Blues traditionnel. Contenu : - Plessis Blues 1 - Plessis Blues 2 - Plessis Blues 3 - Plessis Blues 4 - Plessis Blues 5 - Plessis Blues 6

Cet ouvrage est dédié aux batteurs désireux d’aborder et d’approfondir le style Blues et ses différentes tendances sur leur instrument. D’une approche à la fois simple et rigoureuse, cette méthode est construite autour de 12 chapitres thématiques essentiels, dans lesquels vous découvrirez de multiples exemples et autres exercices progressifs, à la fois techniques et musicaux, et toujours agrémentés de commentaires adéquats pour vous mettre sur la bonne voie. Chaque chapitre se termine par un ou plusieurs morceaux complets, permettant ainsi de mettre immédiatement en application les différents enseignements. Avec au menu les styles suivants : slow-blues, shuffle standard, swing shuffle, Chicago shuffle, rock shuffle, rhythm ‘n’ blues, blues funk, ballade blues, country blues... Enfin, le DVD Vidéo reprend la plupart des exercices pour faciliter votre compréhension, alors que le CD Audio propose essentiellement des playbacks pour mettre en place les différents morceaux proposés.

Description The Stevie Ray Vaughan Guitar Collection Twenty-four of his greatest songs including Couldn't Stand The Weather, Empty Arms and Pride And Joy. Includes photos. Songlist Ain't Gone 'N' Give Up On Love Boot Hill Couldn't Stand The Weather Dirty Pool Empty Arms Honey Bee I'm Cryin' Lenny Life Without You Live Another Day Love Struck Baby Pride And Joy Riviera Paradise Rude Mood Say What Scratch-n-sniff Scuttle Buttin' Slide Thing So Excited Stang's Swang The House Is Rockin' Tightrope Travis Walk Wall Of Denial

Description This in-depth blues rhythm guitar text is core curriculum of the University of Southern California's Studio Guitar Department, which is part of the prestigious Flora L. Thornton School of Music, located in Los Angeles, California. It features eighteen twelve-bar blues rhythm guitar accompaniments in the style of guitarists such as Chuck Berry, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Nine of the songs use a shuffle feel and nine use a straight eighth note feel. The play along CD contains two versions of each of the eighteen songs in the book. The first version has the guitar part and the second version is without the guitar. This gives you the ability to play along with the guitar part as a guide and also to play along with the track as the only guitarist. The examples are written using traditional musical notation and tablature. Included for each song is a short description of the important points to consider when learning each example. The book presents songs that will expand the guitarist's vocabulary by presenting a variety of different ways a guitarist can play through the twelve bar blues. A number of different chord variations, keys and tempos are used in demonstrating these eighteen idiomatic rhythm guitar parts that have been used by the masters.

Description As part of Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop Audio Series this comprehensive and thorough collection of fingerpicking guitar lessons contains invaluable tips and instruction implemented throughout the arrangements in this book. The three audio CDs give 3 full hours of note-by-note, phrase-by-phrase instruction.

Comment improviser sur le blues dans le style de Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk, Sonny Rollins...