African Guitar DVD: Guitar: Instrumental Album

The golden age of African fingerpicking guitar was in the 1950s and 1960s. The great players and recording artists of that time included Jean Bosco Mwenda and Losta Abelo from Zaire and George Mukabi from Kenya. Guitaristsfrom other parts of the world have rarely if ever had a chance to learn their songs and playing techniques. On this DVD their arrangements are taught by John Low who has lived worked and studied with African musicians includingthose mentioned above. There are some interesting links with American guitar styles but there are just as many differences including rhythms borrowed from traditional African music and catchy up-beat patterns. Africanfingerstyle guitar is usually accompanied by rhythms played on a bottle. John Low is accompanied on this DVD by Frans Maathuis and Keith Jackman on bottles.

In this lesson Fernando Perez presents several tunes from West Africa. Directly learnt from African Jalis (Griots) these are traditional as well as original compositions specially arranged for Guitar. Imitating the sound of West African instruments such as Kora Ngoni or Balafon Perez demonstrates unique techniques on the Guitar in order to perform the grooves and melodies in a faithful way. All the tunes can be played on nylon or acoustic steel string Guitars. In this lesson you will learn: Understanding the sound and techniques of African instruments in order to apply them to the guitar. Different techniques imitating Korascale runs Balafon breaks etc. Several grooves from Mali Senegal Gambia. How to properly keep these grooves counting tapping and feeling. Kora picking style with thumb and index. Main scales used in West African music. How West African music connects with Blues styles. Combining West African styles with your own Blues licks. Explanations on how to further develop this music style. A West African repertoire full of variety. Each tune is taught phrase by phrase and played slowly on a split-screen. Titles include: The Mandinka Song Massina Madou Fatoudiob Sanu Mali Blues and Kulanjan. 107 minutesLevel 3Detailed tab/music PDF booklet on the DVD

Par KIBISI DOUGLAS. Apprendre à jouer de la Rumba et Soukous style africain basse dans cette étape par étape les DVD Kibisi Douglas - bassiste d'exercices Baka Beyond et Kanda Bongo Man. 28 pour développer votre ton, le phrasé et la technique pour les styles africains. Approprié pour les débutants et vers le haut. / Niveau : Débutant / World Music - Rhythm/Backup / Accessoire / Guitare Basse

As the Country Blues began to be recorded in the mid-1920s it soon became apparent that the music was being played and appreciated not only by African-American musicians and audiences but by white musicians and audiences as well. Many of these white musicians played with and learned from black musicians for even in the Jim Crow Era there was always a good deal of musical interaction and exchange. So it is that the term 'Hillbilly Blues' can be used to describe the music made by white musicians of that era in the Country Blues style. Included on this DVD are songs from Clarence Greene known mostly as a fiddler but an ace guitarist Dick Justice who in his one dayin the recording studio waxed ten masterful performances Frank Hutchison who excelled at lap slide harmonica on a rack and conventional blues picking Sam McGee a banjo and guitar master who went on to star on the Grand Ole Opry Hobart Smith a musical powerhouse Maybelle Carter a rocksteady and beautifully lyrical player who may have been the most influential of the bunch and Emry Arthur a soulful singer and player who recorded one of the earliest versions of Man Of Constant Sorrow.The songs selected for inclusion on the DVD have been chosen to introduce you to a variety of different keys and playing positions as well as a host of different right hand techniques.A PDF included on the DVD offers not only detailed transcriptions of the songs but the songs' lyrics too. All of the original performances by the musicians are included on the DVD as bonus tracks both as references and for your listening enjoyment.

Take an exciting musical journey of folk song and dance traditions to all corners of the globe. Learn how to do an Israeli circle dance the German Schottische the Brazilian Samba folk dances from Austria Russia and Mexico an African welcome dance and even country line dancing from the U.S.A!Read about these rich cultures in engaging student articles written at an age-appropriate level and experience their music through folk songs and easy-to-learn dance steps that are child-friendly. The value-packed Book/CD format features reproducible articles and songsheets with lyric translations exceptional standards-based lesson plans complete with lyric pronunciations assessment and extension activities piano/vocal arrangements with choreography and a performance/accompaniment CD recording.There are even recorded pronunciation guides on the CD. And there's more! A DVD is also available (separately or in the classroom kit) with visual instruction for each dance as demonstrated by John Jacobson and a group of young students. We've got a lot of miles to cover so let's get started!