Dave van Ronk: Blues And Ragtime Fingerstyle Guitar Book/3-Cd Set: Guitar:

Leçon de Dave Van Ronk de DVD couvre une grande variété de musique excitante et puissante. Le blues de Leroy Carr et Scrapper Blackwell, le 'vieux jeu' la cueillette du révérend Gary Davis, le rebond du ragtime de Blind Blake, le blues sophistiqué de Brownie McGhee, le country blues de Jim Jackson, chanson anneau pour enfants et un Van Ronk d'origine reçoivent tous l'unique Dave Van Ronk traitement. Chaque arrangement est discuté et expliqué en détail. C'est une leçon complète pour le guitariste intermédiaire qui illustre clairement comment la musique traditionnelle peut être placé dans un cadre fingerstyle. Titles include: Green Green Rocky Road, Kansas City Blues, Sportin' Life Blues, Sunday Street, Spike Driver's Moan, That Will Never Happen No More, Midnight Hour Blues, Cocaine Bluesand Down South Blues. / Guitare / niveau : Intermédiaire / Dvd

In these lessons for the intermediate fingerstyle guitarist Dave Van Ronk presents his arrangements of blues and a classic rag. The book includes a conversation with Dave a discography 6 tunes in notation and tablature and 3CDs teaching each tune phrase by phrase. LESSON ONE: A blues in 12/8 with Leroy Carr's Midnight Hour Blues. Blood Red Moon follows played in a dropped D tuning. The lesson ends with Blind Lemon Jefferson's One Kind Favor. LESSONTWO: Sunday Street is an original Dave Van Ronk song and is an excellent example of Dave's arranging skills. Four choruses are taught demonstrating how this tune can develop. Bessie Smith's classic blues You've Been A Good OldWagon is taught in the key of E. LESSON THREE: Dave's arrangement of St. Louis Tickle was the first great challenge for fingerpickers interested in classic ragtime. This four sectioned rag is played in the keys of C and F. It isan excellent example of contemporary ragtime guitar.

Dave Van Ronk's DVD lesson spans a wide variety of exciting and powerful music. The blues of Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell the 'old fashioned' picking of Rev. Gary Davis the ragtime bounce of Blind Blake the sophisticatedblues of Brownie McGhee the country blues of Jim Jackson a children's ring song and a Van Ronk original all receive the unique Dave Van Ronk treatment. Each arrangement is discussed and explained in detail. This is acomplete lesson for the intermediate guitarist that clearly illustrates how traditional music can be placed in a fingerstyle setting. Titles include: Green Green Rocky Road Kansas City Blues Sportin' Life Blues Sunday Street Spike Driver's Moan That Will Never Happen No More Midnight Hour Blues Cocaine Bluesand Down South Blues.

Rev. Gary Davis is the real thing. The authentic blind-seer. He is a genius with a brightly burning spirit enormous musical intelligence technical brilliance an encyclopedic memory driving passion deep faith araunchy and gracious sense of humor. A mystic. He is an icon of the style of Guitar he was born into known today as the Piedmont blues. Through players of the first half of the twentieth century like Alfred Shultz Mose Ranger Merle Travis and Chet Atkins this is the signature American fingerpicking style that would so deeply inform the country folk blues and even rock and roll of our day.Rev. Davis (1896-1972) was born black indeep poverty in South Carolina blind from an early age. He overcame these longest of odds to become world famous a giant of American music. He brought together black and white styles country gospel folk themes blues jazz ragtime minstrel songs dance tunes and popular song. He developed his own brilliant fingerpicking style that was deep economical and adaptable enough to easily cover all these genres. Supporting all his creativity was anunshakable faith that pulled him through the obscurity the bitter hard times and crushing poverty he would endure until the folk music awakening of the fifties and sixties caught up to him.Ernie Hawkins has transcribed 13of Rev. Davis' best known blues and ragtime arrangements. Tunes such as Candyman Cocaine Blues Hesitation Blues Baby Let Me Lay It on You Spoonful and Delia are included alongside the ragtimeinstrumental tour de forces of Slow Drag (Cincinnati Flow Rag) and Make Believe Stunt (Maple Leaf Rag).The playing of Rev. Davis has influenced generations of Guitar players from Blind Boy Fullerto Dave Van Ronk Bob Dylan David Bromberg Ry Cooder Jorma Kaukonen Bob Weir Stefan Grossman and Woody Mann. His tunes have been recorded by a host of today's finest rock musicians: The Grateful Dead Hot Tuna Bob Dylan