Stefan Grossman: Complete Country Blues Guitar: Guitar: Instrumental Album

This book was a delight and a challenge to put together. Stefan Grossman wanted to highlight the playing of six blues players that have greatly influenced him: Big Bill Broonzy Lonnie Johnson Rev. Gary Davis Blind Blake Scrapper Blackwell and Tampa Red. Each has recorded wonderful instrumental solos that have been transcribed from the first note played to the last. These are complete transcriptions. Hopefully they will bring insight into theplaying ideas and techniques of these legendary players. Titles and artists included are: Big Bill Broonzy - Slow Blues St. Louis Blues; Scrapper Blackwell - A Blues D Blues; Blind Blake - Guitar Chimes BlindArthur’s Breakdown; Rev. Gary Davis - Bill Bailey Walkin’ Dog Blues; Lonnie Johnson - Blues for the West End Blues in G Woke Up With the Blues in My Fingers;  Tampa Red Things ’Bout Coming MyWay. How to use this book: 1) Listen over and over to the recordings available via download for this collection. 2) Get a program that can control audio files. Use this with the transcriptions and therecordings. 3) Be patient!! Practice and practice!! These are blues masterpieces and can take weeks or month or years to get under your fingers. But what fun it will be once you can play one of these instrumental.

Par GROSSMAN STEFAN. Over 50 fingerpicking guitar solos in notation and tablature in country blues, Delta blues, ragtime blues, Texas blues and bottleneck styles. An extremely comprehensive blues solo collection. 2 CD's included. / Niveau : Débutant à Intermédiaire / Blues - Solos / Tablatures / Guitare Tablatures

This extremely comprehensive blues solo collection features 260 pages and over 50 fingerpicking Guitar solos in notation and tablature in country blues Delta blues ragtime blues Texas blues and bottleneck styles.Online audio tracks are included to download.

Revised and Expanded Edition-Re-recorded and expanded version of one of the first Guitar Workshop lessons.This double DVD featuring almost four hours of music and instruction is a MUST for anyone interested in bottleneck blues Guitar. It is acomplete survey of country blues bottleneck styles and techniques featuring rare footage of Son House Fred McDowell Mance Lipscomb Jesse Fuller Furry Lewis and Bukka White. The first DVD focuses on playing in Open Gtuning (Spanish). The second DVD presents the Open D tuning (Vestapol). Left hand playing techniques are discussed as well as choice of bottleneck/slide and guitar to use. Each tune is taught phrase by phrase and played slowly ona split-screen. A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD. Each DVD also features bonus audio tracks of the original 1920s and 1930s recordings of the original artists playing the songs. This lessonis for the intermediate student. Tunes taught include: OPEN G TUNING:My Black Mama Banty Rooster Dry Spell Blues High Sheriff Blues County Farm Blues Someday Baby Blues Roll andTumble Blues Kokomo Blues OPEN D TUNING: Wake Up Mama John Henry You Got To Move Tell Me Baby Spoonful Good Morning Little Schoolgirl God Moves On The Water Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning Roll andTumble Blues Guitar Rag.