Rev. Gary Davis: Oh What a Beautiful City: Vocal: Biography

In this double DVD lesson Ernie Hawkins teaches in detail nine of Rev. Gary Davis???s best known blues arrangements. These songs have become well known through the playing of Bob Dylan (Baby Let Me Lay It On You) Jackson Browne(Cocaine Blues) Hot Tuna (Hesitation Blues) John Renbourn Stefan Grossman Ramblin??? Jack Elliot Hot Tuna and a host of other musicians (Candyman). Rev. Davis approached playing the blues in several different styles.Each had unique characteristics and ranged from what he called old fashion picking to complex playing that explored and extended the blues tradition on the fingerboard. Each arrangement is broken down phrase byphrase and then played slowly on a split screen. You can easily follow the playing with the tab/music booklet. As a bonus we have included various audio performances of Rev. Davis playing each song.

This set of three CDs captures Rev. Davis at home and church - teaching talking and philosophizing. The first two CDs are material recorded at his Bronx home. Religious songs folk tunes blues rags and memories are included. The music ranges from the heavenly to the bawdy and the third CD features a recorded service where Rev. Davis plays and delivers sermons.Disc One (At Home):1. Twelve Sticks 3:472. Sally Where’d You Get Your Liquor From 1:523. Babylon Is Falling 6:364. What Could I Do 3:235. Children of Zion 7:056. Hesitation Blues 4:057. Candyman (on 5 String Banjo) 1:238.Steal Away And Pray 5:369. Goin’ To Chattanooga 5:0210. Packing Up Get Ready To Go 3:3711. Untitled 0:3912. You Cry Because I’m Leaving 4:1613. Don’t Let My Baby Catch You Here 5:1414. Lord Let Me Live Longer 2:2115. I Want To be Saved 2:4716. Waltz Time Candyman 3:1717. Little Boy Who Made Your Britches 4:3818. Talks about Verses Not Sung 2:2119. C Rag 5:4120. Two Step Candyman 2:51Disc Two (At Home):1. Piece Without Words 3:512. Lord Search My Heart 4:053. Slippin’ To My Gal Comes In Partner 2:564. Sun is Going Down 2:445. Raise A Ruckus Tonight 2:146. Save Up Your Money John D. Rockefeller Put the Panic On 5:597. Soon My Work Will All Be Done 3:578. You’re Gonna Need King Jesus 2:449. I’m Going Back To Jesus 2:0210. Blues in C 5:1211. Saddle It Around 3:0012. People Who Use To See 4:5213. Italian Rag 3:1614. Candyman 4:2415. Nobody Don’t Care For Me 3:1216. Fox Chase 4:5117. Talk on Blind Boy Fuller 9:39Disc Three (In Church):1. Amazing Grace 3:262. Sermon 3:113. I’m a Soldier In The Army Of The Lord

The Guitar Playing of Lonnie Johnson, Bo Carter, Rev. Gary Davis, Buddy Moss, Josh White and Tommy McC. 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!! / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Date parution : 2019-05-27/ Recueil / Guitare Flatpicking et Fingerpicking

Country Blues Guitar styles span a wide horizon. In these three lessons the ideas and techniques of Rev. Gary Davis, Charley Jordan, Tommy Johnson and Mississippi John Hurt are presented. The arrangements vary from alternating bass to a Delta strum to a monotonic bass. In notation and tablature with three compact discs featuring 3 full hours of note-by-note, phrase-by-phrase instruction. LESSON ONE: Rev. Davis's Cocaine Blues and You Got The Pocket Book, I Got The Key both played in the key of C and in what Rev. Davis called 'old fashion' pickin'. The popular blues Crow Jane played in the key of E. LESSON TWO: Charley Jordan's Keep It Clean and Hunkie Tunkie Blues both played in the key of E and presenting Jordan's unusual blues approach. Tommy Johnson's Canned Heat played in dropped D tuning. LESSON THREE: We begin with Come Back Baby, a slow blues in A using a monotonic bass. We follow this with Mississippi John Hurt's Monday Morning Blues also played in the key of A but using an alternating bass. / Guitare (Fingerpick) / 24 pages / niveau : Intermédiaire / Partition/3-Cd Set - Format: 11 X 8,5

Arranged For Fingerstyle Guitar-This DVD lesson could be titled The Music of Louis Armstrong for Finger-picking Guitar or Gary Davis Meets Louis Armstrong. Born in 1896 the brilliant Piedmont guitarist Gary Davis came of age in the teens and the twenties. Hewas in his prime during the Jazz Age and his playing shows it. His guitar style and techniques came out of the twenties. It enabled him to play like a band. His thumb playing the rhythmic sections of the band while his indexfinger soloed over this. Rev. Davis only used his thumb and index fingers to pick. When asked why he replied with a smile: ?That?s all I need!? In Rev. Davis?s playing you can hear the drive of Louis Armstrong as well as Louis?sbugle call riffs.Rev. Gary Davis's style is made to order to play Louis Armstrong tunes on guitar. As I learned most of what I know and do on the guitar from Rev. Gary Davis this is how I see it and how I have approachedarranging the tunes on this DVD lesson. Once you find the right key on the guitar these early jazz masterpieces seem to fall right into place. Putting Cornet Chop Suey into the key of C for instance enables you to play thepatented ?Gary Davis Slow Drag G form C run' throughout as the statement of the initial melody.This lesson is over 2 hours and forty minutes. The arrangements are for the intermediate to advance players. They aremulti-section compositions with lots of fingerpicking challenges. But all your hard work will be very worthwhile as these tunes are some of the greatest in the early jazz repertoire. Ernie teaches phrase by phrase and then usesthe split-screen so you can carefully study what each hand is doing. Detailed tab/music booklets are included as PDF files on both DVDs.

A three volume DVD collection taught by Stefan Grossman.In this three lesson DVD series Stefan Grossman explores the world of country blues guitar. It is a fascinating and challenging study that covers blues folk and ragtimearrangements in the keys of A C D E and G. Each tune is discussed and taught phrase by phrase and played split screen so that you can clearly see what each hand is doing.You will learn about the playing styles and techniquesof legendary blues guitarists as Rev. Gary Davis Frank Stokes Blind Blake Blind Boy Fuller Mance Lipscomb Lightnin' Hopkins Mississippi John Hurt Willie Brown Robert Johnson Sam McGee Lonnie Johnson and ElizabethCotten.A detailed 56 page PDF is included with this collection.

This DVD lesson has been designed to help beginner and intermediate students of fingerpicking country blues guitar improve their playing skills and increase their repertoires using an alternating bass technique. Stefan Grossmanillustrates and explains in detail ten fingerstyle arrangements in the keys of C D E A G and F. These popular blues and ragtime songs come from the playing of the Mississippi John Hurt Rev Gary Davis Mance Lipscomb andElizabeth Cotten. Each tune is discussed and taught phrase by phrase and played slowly on a split screen so that you can clearly see what each hand is doing. A detailed 44 page tab/music PDF booklet is included with this lesson.