Celtic Instrumentals for Fingerstyle Guitar - DVD

The ancient Celtic repertoire offers the fingerstyle guitarist a tantalizingly wide range of moods and emotions from sad laments to lyrical ballads to vibrant dance rhythms. This collection presents a vast array offingerpicking Guitar solos settings on timeless airs hornpipes reels planxties set dances jigs slip jigs marches songs and compositions by the renowned 17th century blind Irish bard Turlough O'Carolan. The solos are invaried Guitar tunings and are presented in notation and tablature. Performance notes and suggested listening guides are also included. Comes with access to online audio with 27 songs from this book.

Learn the fundamentals of creating and playing solo guitar arrangements from the master teachers at Acoustic Guitar magazine. Enrich your playing with the expressive dynamic symphonic textures of solo fingerstyle guitar. With the guidance of master teachers you'll learn to build simple melodies into complete guitar arrangements understand fingerings that will bring intimidating chords within your reach and put you at ease with country blues classical techniques Celtic music and more.

Intermediate Fingerstyle Guitar is the perfect continuation of Beginning Fingerstyle Guitar. This book is great for fingerstyle guitarists who already know the basics and are ready to proceed to the next level. Along with alternate tunings topics include fingerpicking patterns bass lines modes barre chords diatonic harmony special techniques and an exploration of different music styles. These range from Country Blues Celtic to contemporary new age styles. There is also a essential section on arranging with a clever step-by-step approach. Intermediate Fingerstyle Guitar comes complete with an accompanying CD to help with the learning process.

This collection of traditional music from Ireland and Scotland arranged for solo guitar is the result of a passionate study of the tradition by some of the finest musicians playing in this genre. Compiled by Stefan Grossman thisbook includes arrangements by Pierre Bensusan El McMeen Martin Simpson Pat Kirtley Duck Baker Tom Long & Steve Baughman. Looking back less than a century you would find this music performed on fiddle pipes button accordion flutes and whistles in solo and ensemble settings but never guitar even in its basic role of providing rhythm. The challenge for those who attempt to translate Celtic traditional music for fingerstyle guitar is to preserve theunique qualities which are the essence of the style. The popularity of alternate tunings in this music tends to come from two different directions. One is in the desire for production of tonalities of droninginstruments á la the bagpipes and tunings such as DADGAD and EADEAE make this effect relatively easy. On the other hand there are guitar tunings which lend themselves easily to the melodic steps and fullness found in thediatonic Celtic harp such as DGDGBD (open G tuning) and the CGDGAD.

This collection contains thirty of the most requested Celtic session tunes arranged for DADGAD tuning. Accompanying audio is available as an online download which includes performances by Rob MacKillop. To assistplaying these tunes a technique primer and specific exercises are included. With the use of aTo assist playing these tunes a technique primer and specific exercises are included. With the use of a capo youwill be able to play these tunes in their traditional keys. The tunes can be played fingerstyle or with a pick. The repertoire includes classic tunes such as Drowsy Maggie Soldier's Joy St. Patrick's Day In the Morning TheKesh The Rights of Man and The Wind That Shakes The Barley.A bonus twenty-five traditional Scottish lute pieces are included also arranged for DADGAD tuning.

16 Celtic classics arranged for solo fingerstyle guitar: Cornish May Dance - Danny Boy (Londonderry Air) - Has Sorrow Thy Young Days Shaded' - Haste to the Wedding - Hole in the Wall - Kathleen Mavoureen - Kerry Dance - Killarney - The Minstrel Boy - Molly Malone (Cockles and Mussels) - Mother Machree - Rosin the Bow - The Skye Boat Song - 'Tis the Last Rose of Summer - The Water Is Wide - Where the River Shannon Flows.

Celtic Music offers the fingerstyle guitarist many beautiful and haunting melodies as well as intriguing dance rhythms and exciting tunes. Duck Baker is one of the leading fingerstyle guitarists arranging melodies from thevast Celtic repertoire. In this DVD Duck explores the possibilities of playing a wide variety of Celtic music on your guitar. The character and feel of the Celtic style is expertly conveyed here and with a selection ofpieces to learn and practice the skills you will soon be adding melodic picking and arpeggios to your own playing. With a 24 page PDF music booklet.

French-Algerian fingerstyle guitarist Pierre Bensusan is a unique talent. His sound and style confounds classification being both profoundly original and yet familiar and expressive. His fingerprint is on it whether it is hisearlier folk and Celtic-based renderings his free-form improvisational material or in settings solo or ensemble. Undoubtedly he is one of the world’s finest DADGAD players. His music reaches far beyond the idiom of a guitarplayed in a non-standard tuning living by the rationale that music is not made for a specific instrument but about musical ingredients and how you combine them. In this second DVD lesson Pierre introduces seven more piecesthat typify his amazing skills and style as he explores the techniques and skills required to play them whilst also allowing an insightful glimpse into the mind of one of the world’s great guitarists.

Fingerstyle maître Al Petteway vous montre comment utiliser une variété d'ajustements apportés - D standard, ignoré, G ouvert et faible C - pour créer de belles dispositions des instruments traditionnels d'irlandais et écossais. Vous apprendrez comment trouver la mélodie d'une mélodie, puis il hors de la chair avec embellissements tels que les notes de cornemuse ressemblant drone, déplacement des lignes de basse, substitutions de la corde et la ' Snap écossais '. Les patrons de rythme, d'amortissement des effets, harmoniques, main droite rouleaux et autre aide techniques que vous tourner ordinaire tunes en morceaux de guitare élégant. Al fournit des exercices pour le développement de droit et la dextérité de vitesse de main gauche, avec des arrangements complètes pour cinq instruments. / Guitare

Volume 2-In this second lesson for Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar Tony McManus explores all the dance rhythms of Scottish music with its pipe-marches strathspeys single and double jigs slip jiogs and reels. McManus has been notablysuccesfull in translating the complex music of the highland bagpipes to the guitar and to maintain the integrity of the music he introduces three unusual tunings: CGCGCD CGDGCD and DAAEAE. The idea and playing of sets ispresented as well as further exploration of ornamentation techniques. Complete with a 32 page tab/music booklet of all the pieces included in the DVD.

Arrangements for Solo Acoustic Guitar 2 - more instrumentals from a national champion.Pete Huttlinger continues his exploration of the guitar arrangements that have won him accolades throughout the acoustic guitar world - and a National Fingerstyle Championship! An engaging and accomplished instructor, Pete brings his spectacular playing with dramatic performance pieces that are as challenging as they are fun to learn.Pete starts out by teaching his Merle Travis-inspired chord/melody arrangement of the great Gershwin tune I Got Rhythm. His exciting version features lightening-fast fingerpicking and a total left hand workout.Things calm down a bit as you learn Pete's somewhat easier 'Chet-style' fingerpicking tune Darcy's Guitar. Then you're off and running again, this time with an in-depth teaching of Pete's most requested tune, the showstopper, The Santa Rita Connection.McGuire's Landing in DADGAD brings us back to a mellow Celtic mood. Tommy In The Morning, written by Pete for fellow fingerpicker Tommy Emmanuel, and the lovely hymn On Eagles' Wings, played in James Taylor's evocative style, round out this terrific DVD lesson.Over the years, Peter Huttlinger has established himself as a top-notch session player, composer, arranger, songwriter and sideman. The Berklee graduate has been a featured artist with the San Diego and Housten symphonies and the Nashville Chamber Orchestra, and has performed on numerous Grammy winning and nominated projects. In 2000 he won first place in the prestigious National Fingerstyle Championship in Winfield, Kansas. Pete toured, recorded and performed with John Denver from 1994 until the singer's death in 1997. He has also written music for HBO, PBS, ESPN, and many other networks. His 2003 release Naked Pop is on Steve Vai's Favored Nations label. / Guitare