Ton Van Bergeyk: Famous Fingerpicking Guitar Solos: Recorded Performance

Ton Van Bergeyk launched his career as a musician during the late 1960s playing blues Harp and Ukulele in a duo setting, but he then switched to the acoustic Guitar and quickly learned and mastered the instrument using fingerstyle techniques. He started to transcribe and arrange classic ragtime compositions for fingerpicking Guitar and was discovered by Stefan Grossman during a tour in Holland. Stefan produced Ton's first solo album, Famous Ragtime Guitar Solos, in 1973. This contained 14 of Ton's arrangements of classic ragtime pieces and became a best seller. In 1975, Ton's second solo album, Guitar Instrumentals To Tickle Your Fingers, was released containing transcriptions and arrangements of novelty rags, early jazz and popular tunes of the 1930s and 1940s. In 1980, Ton's third solo album was released and continued his exploration of arrangements for solo fingerpicking Guitar, this time with a repertoire covering jazz, blues, contemporary pop and country and even Mexican folklore. This album was titled Lulu's Back In Town, Hot Guitar Solos. Ton also participated in several anthology projects, i.e. Novelty Guitar Instrumentals, I Got Rhythm, Masters of Ragtime Guitar, The Entertainer and How To Play Ragtime Guitar. All of Ton's albums are available as CDs as well as direct downloads from Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop, (www.guitarvideos.com) and include tab PDF booklets on the CDs. Ton recorded the audio lesson series Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar to teach phrase by phrase and measure by measure some of his most requested arrangements. This second volume presents Ton Van Bergeyk's renditions of Duke Ellington's Jubilee Stomp and Take It Easy, Thelonious Monk's classic Blue Monk and the George Gershwin standard I Got Rhythm. / Niveau : Facile / Tablatures / Guitare Tablatures

From The Golden Era Of American Pop Music-The music on this recording represents a pinnacle in the range of fingerstyle Guitar music. It contains some of the best tracks recorded by a superb musician at the exact moment of discovering his full powers of expression. The result is a feast for Guitar music lovers whose tastes run to substantial fare. This was Ton Van Bergeyk's second solo recording. It was originally released in 1976.This enhanced CD release includes tab/music of all the tunes (except Jazz Me Blues) as PDF files. You will need Adobe Acrobat (a free download) to open and print this file from your computer.Song list:1. Junk Man Rag2.Mustard Swing3. Zither Melodies4. From Soup To Nuts5. Kansas City Stomp6. Rondo Caprice7. Ragtime Medley: Bantam Step and Springtime Rag8. Notoriety Rag9. Medley: If I Had You and Moonlight Serenade10. Jazz Me Blues11. Divertisement12. Georgia Grind13. Coconut Dance14. Florida Rag