Blues Classics: Guitar Solo: Instrumental Album

for Solo Guitar Vol. 1-This collection will help spark an interest in the development of an American repertoire for the classical guitar. Traditional Scottish and Irish tunes were transformed by the African rhythms of banjo players which in turninfluenced popular music and led to ragtime jazz and blues. The amount of folk music in America is staggering. The nineteenth century gave birth to many unique American styles and its songs are an important part of our musicalheritage. Even today quite a few of the tunes in this collection will seem very familiar. Written primarily in standard notation the exceptions being those tunes in altered tunings which logically appear in tablature only.

The composer says: For years, my fellow guitarists have been asking me to compose a solo classical guitar piece that reflects that most American of musical styles?the blues. Their prodding was the motivation for Periwinkle Memories; the inspiration for the piece, however, really came from a maestro of extraordinary skill, and a teacher of even more extraordinary patience, Elias Barreiro, my guitar teacher at the University of New Orleans. I have always tried to emulate in my performances the beauty of his interpretations, and to fuse in my compositions the power and emotion of the blues. The name, Periwinkle Memories was a serendipity. I was struck by the light purplish-blue hue of the periwinkle, and soon learned the history of the funnel-shaped flower (Vinca minor.) Though it now grows wild in parts of the United States it is native to Australia, some consider it an invasive weed, most admire its extraordinary beauty. Common herbicides won?t kill it. The periwinkle is too vigorous and hardy for that. And now it is not merely a begrudged part of the American landscape, it is a vibrant part of the American landscape, elegant, stubborn, and nearly native. Like the blues. And like that young recalcitrant student Maestro Barreiro worked so hard to mold so many years ago. Ogden Nash said, ?One man?s remorse is another man?s reminiscence.? Periwinkle Memories is a celebration of Maestro Barreiro, and of both facets of that adage in me. Carlos Barrientos was born on June 25, 1954 in Tela, Honduras. He began his formal music studies at the National Music Conservatory in Guatemala City, Guatemala C.A. His training with Maestro Elias Barreiro, Director of Guitar Studies at Tulane University, was supplemented with Master Classes with Manuel Barrueco, Leo Brouwer, Juan Mercadal, Michael Newman, Tommy Tedesco and Carlos Barbosa-Lima. He studied composition under the tutelage of Dr. Jerry Sieg, University of New Orleans, and Dr. Roy Johnson, Florida State University. He consulted with Michael D. Martin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Music, Albany State University, Albany, GA in the creation of a recordings library that reflects Western Art Music and American Jazz for the students at Albany State University. The New York Premiere of the First Movement of his Second Guitar Sonata was dedicated to and performed by Classical Guitarist Maestro Carlos Barbosa-Lima in 2003 at Carnegie Hall. At the request of U.S. Senator Bob Graham one of his compositions, Si Tu Te Vas (If You Go Away), was included on a recording to promote The Everglades Trail. In 2004, at the American Church in Paris, France the World Premiere of his Romance for Flute and Guitar was performed by the award-winning Serenade Duo, flutist Michelle LaPorte and guitarist Gerry Saulter. He has performed with such legendary musicians as Herbie Mann, Donald Byrd and Debbie Reynolds, led an on stage Renaissance Trio in a University of New Orleans production of Shakespeare?s Twelfth Night, and played incidental music for their production of Bertold Brecht?s The Good Woman of Sichuan. He has performed Carulli?s Guitar Concerto in A, Leonard Bernstein?s West Side Story and Marvin Hamlish?s A Chorus Line with the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra and Okaloosa-Walton Community College, Niceville, FL, and with the Southern Art Music Ensemble, a Jazz/Latin Fusion Sextet, including an Honors Convocation in Atlanta for Mr. Ted Turner. He has been a guest performer with the Albany State University Jazz Ensemble at The Fletcher Henderson Jr., Macon and Atlanta Jazz Festivals, and played the banjo in the Albany State University /Albany Symphony?s co-production of George Gershwin?s Opera Porgy and Bes

Exercises, Etudes, Solos, Duets. Par VINITSKY ALEXANDER. Cette musique originale pour guitare solo et le duo présente de belles mélodies et doigté commode et c'est très facile à effectuer. Commentaires de l'auteur expliquent comment déplacer de style classique au jazz. Les morceaux, divisés en deux chapitres, Etudes et pièces, sont écrits dans différents styles de jazz : Swing, Bossa Nova et du Blues. Les mélodies sont parfaits et leurs harmonies raffinées. Sept duos sont inclus qui peut être joué par deux guitares ou par un instrument de la mélodie et de guitare. Ils ont de belles mélodies et sont faciles à effectuer. La première partie peut être jouée par les débutants. Ces duos peuvent être utilisés dans les situations avec les professeurs et étudiants jouant ensemble d'enseignement. Ecrit en notation seulement. / Niveau : Débutant / Jazz - Solos / Recueil / Guitare Classique

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.

Book With Online Audio-The accurate interpretation of swing rhythm is the most important element in jazz music. This collection of 7 jazz etudes and 11 exercises for solo Guitar gives the student practice in playing this rhythmic pattern as well asworking on other important skills. The etudes are written in notation only in different jazz styles: Swing Latino Bossa Nova Blues and Jazz Rock. These etudes develop the ability of the right hand to sound as if two or threeinstruments are playing simultaneously. All of the etudes have bright melodies and rich jazz harmony. They are intermediate in difficulty. The exercises feature numerous skills including Swing style walking bass Latin style finger speed various rhythmic combinations and broken lines. Audio download available online.

Par SILVERMAN JERRY. This is a great resource for the guitarist interested in blues. Jerry Silverman has picked out 31 all time favorite blues classics. Each songs is presented in two ways: First with the melody line, lyrics and chords and with a written fingerpicking accompaniment part - secondly as a fingerpicking blues guitar solo in notation and tablature. / Niveau : Débutant à Intermédiaire / Blues - Songbooks / Tablatures / Guitare Tablatures

Few Guitarists today can legitimately lay claim to the title 'living legend' but David 'Honeyboy' Edwards certainly qualifies. He is one of the last links to the classic Delta blues era of the '20s and '30s and the harrowing conditions that helped produce the music. Born in Mississippi in 1915 Honeyboy grew up with future bluesman like Tommy McClennan and Robert Johnson while developing his own razor-edged Guitar style. In 1942 he made field recordings for Alan Lomax and the Library Of Congress. In th e'50s he moved to Chicago to become a vital part of that vibrant scene. Honeyboy has written several blues hits including 'Long Tall Women Blues' and 'Just Like JesseJames'. This DVD is much more than an in-depth lesson on Delta blues. Taped in 1999 this is a personal visit with a truly unique individual in the history of American music. Honeyboy imparts his wit and wisdom on his life and times and the fascinating larger-than-life men and women he has met in the blues. Foremost among these is the immortal Robert Johnson whom he met in 1936. In an absolutely remarkable viginette Honeyboy gives his first person account of the death of the King of the Delta blues. Surrounding this riveting moment of living history are detailed demonstrations and thrilling performances of solo country blues slide Guitar boogie bass lines and lead Guitar. Taken all together you have the original source for Delta blues Guitar that cannot be obtained anywhere else. This package includes a detailed booklet that contains key musical examples from the DVD.