The composer says: Several musical threads led to my writing this piece of music to celebrate my friend Matanya Ophee's (AKA MO) 80th birthday - a life lived with the guitar. Jelly Roll Morton once asserted: 'In fact, if you can't manage to put tinges of Spanish in your tunes, you will never be able to get the right seasoning; I call it, for jazz.' Over the last couple of years I moved back to Jelly Roll Morton's city: New Orleans, home of my adolescence and reacquainted myself with the tinges of Spanish in its rich musical heritage. One of these pieces was the Mardi Gras Mambo, an iconic song frequently played during Mardi Gras and, in David Newman's reworking of the lyrics, at the New Orleans Saints football games as the Super Bowl Mambo. Uncited sources on both Wikipedia and Essortment say the word Mambo means 'conversation with the gods' in Kikongo, the language spoken by Central African slaves taken to Cuba where it became the name for a musical form and a dance style that developed originally in Cuba in the able hands of Cachao's (Bassist Orestes Lopez) tune: Danzon Mambo. This rhythmic style became famous in the 1950's following its use in dance bands in Mexico and through New Orleans to the United States. The infectiousness of the New Orleans re-interpretation of the Mambo's ostinato bass line and the reaction of people who are readily moved to dance when they hear it spoke to me of dance and celebration. This led me to choose some of this piece's characteristics and title for this piece: Mambo for MO. As we have progressed on the instrument, some of us may have encountered the four-chord descending minor chord progression known as the Andalusian cadence: i - VII - VI - V in many different genres and guises. After all, it appears in Ray Charles' Hit the Road, Jack, the verse on Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys, Walk, Don't Run by The Ventures, Runaway by Del Shannon and in that great work arranged and embraced by the Guitar: J.S. Bach's Chaconne from the Partita in D minor for solo violin, BWV 1004. This bass line derived from a Latin American musical style as reinterpreted in New Orleans, a chord progression that evokes the Flamenco Music of Spain, and my impressions of the sinuous lines of people dancing the Second Line in the streets of New Orleans at Mardi Gras led me to this synthesis as a tribute to a man who has contributed so much in his lifelong efforts for the guitar, its history and lore on the occasion of his birthday! Happy Birthday, Matanya! Carlos Barrientos was born on June 25, 1954 in Tela, Honduras. He began his formal music studies at the National Music Conservatory in Guatemala City, Guatemala C.A. His training with Maestro Elias Barreiro, Director of Guitar Studies at Tulane University, was supplemented with Master Classes with Manuel Barrueco, Leo Brouwer, Juan Mercadal, Michael Newman, Tommy Tedesco and Carlos Barbosa-Lima. He studied composition under the tutelage of Dr. Jerry Sieg, University of New Orleans, and Dr. Roy Johnson, Florida State University. He consulted with Michael D. Martin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Music, Albany State University, Albany, GA in the creation of a recordings library that reflects Western Art Music and American Jazz for the students at Albany State University. The New York Premiere of the First Movement of his Second Guitar Sonata was dedicated to and performed by Classical Guitarist Maestro Carlos Barbosa-Lima in 2003 at Carnegie Hall. At the request of U.S. Senator Bob Graham one of his compositions, Si Tu Te Vas (If You Go Away), was included on a recording to promote The Everglades Trail. In 2004, at the American Church in Paris, France the World Premiere of his Romance for Flute and Guitar was performed by the award-winning Serenade Duo, flutist Michelle LaPorte and guitarist Gerry Saulter. He has performed with such legendary musicians as Herbie Mann, Donald Byrd and Debbie Reynolds, led an on stage Renaissance Trio in a University of New Orleans production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, and played incidental music for their production of Bertold Brecht's The Good Woman of Sichuan. He has performed Carulli's Guitar Concerto in A, Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story and Marvin Hamlish's A Chorus Line with the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra and Okaloosa-Walton Community College, Niceville, FL, and with the Southern Art Music Ensemble, a Jazz/Latin Fusion Sextet, including an Honors Convocation in Atlanta for Mr. Ted Turner. He has been a guest performer with the Albany State University Jazz Ensemble at The Fletcher Henderson Jr., Macon and Atlanta Jazz Festivals, and played the banjo in the Albany State University /Albany Symphony's co-production of George Gershwin's Opera Porgy and Bess.

A Step-by-Step and Song-by-Song Guide for Absolute Beginners. Par . Learn how to play guitar with this effective guitar method successfully used by thousands of busy New Yorkers in their classes at New York City Guitar School. You'll learn the fundamentals of guitar with this motivating step-by-step comprehensive course for beginners which covers all the basics of guitar playing, and includes detailed practice session plans, motivating stories and great song examples. Topics covered include: The fundamental habits of great guitar players; The rest stroke; How to read chord diagrams; The D and G chords; How to tune your guitar; How to practice; The A7 Chord; How to play with a pick; The secret to memorizing songs; How to read tab and play cool licks; Pivot changes; G Major; E Minor; D 7th; The concept of chord progressions; The small barre--gateway to future guitar greatness; and much more. You'll get to play great songs while learning, too! Songs include: Chain of Fools · DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love · The First Cut Is the Deepest · I Fought the Law · Mirrorball · Mustang Sally · Old Town Road (I Got the Horses in the Back) · Pumped up Kicks · Rebel, Rebel · Sons and Daughters · Truth Hurts · Up on the Roof · and more. This book is ideal for use with a teacher or in a class, and has also been used successfully around the world as a self-study course. / Date parution : 2023-06-01/ Méthode / Guitare

Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop-Many southern blues musicians performed and recorded gospel songs; spirituals or church songs as they were called. Some like Blind Willie Johnson and Edward W. Clayborn strictly adhered to a religious message earning them the handle 'guitar evangelists' while others like Fred McDowell and Charlie Patton blurred the socially imposed lines and mingled gospel with the blues.In this anthology of Bottleneck Gospel Guitar Tom Feldmann highlights the fervent and aggressive slide playing of Fred McDowell Robert Wilkins Muddy Waters Bukka White Blind Willie Johnson Edward W. Clayborn and Charlie Patton. Each player offers a distinct style and Tom breaks down theirtechniques allowing you to imitate the masters as well as build a repertoire of classic bottleneck gospel blues.A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD. In addition the original old recordings of all the tunes are included.Titles include: OPEN D TUNING: FRED McDOWELL Jesus Is On The Mainline ? ROBERT WILKINS Wished I Was In Heaven ? MUDDY WATERS Why Don't You Live So God Can Use You ? BUKKA WHITE I Am In The Heavenly Way ? BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON It's Nobody's Fault But Mine ? BLIND WILLIE McTELL I Got To Cross That River of JordanOPEN G TUNING: EDWARD W. CLAYBORN Gospel Train Is Coming and There'll Be Glory ? CHARLIE PATTON Lord I'm Discouraged and I'm Going Home

VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Rock and Roll. VH1 sent ballots to over 700 musicians, songwriters, disc jockeys and radio programmers and asked them to vote on the 100 greatest songs of rock and roll. The results were shown in a much-publicized feature, and selections from that show are here in this awesome collection of the best and most influential rock songs of all time! Songs are arranged by their ranking with artists listed, and include: All Along the Watchtower ? American Pie ? Blowin' in the Wind ? Born to Run ? California Dreamin' ? Fire and Rain ? Good Vibrations ? Hey Jude ? Hotel California ? I Heard It Through the Grapevine ? Imagine ? In the Midnight Hour ? Jump ? Layla ? Light My Fire ? Like a Rolling Stone ? London Calling ? Louie, Louie ? Maggie May ? My Generation ? No Woman No Cry ? Proud Mary ? Respect ? Roxanne ? Smells like Teen Spirit ? Stand by Me ? Start Me Up ? Tangled Up in Blue ? Walk This Way ? We Are the Champions ? Wild Thing ? Yesterday ? and more.