Dvd Lewis Furry Guitar Of By John Miller

Open tunings have been used by many country blues guitarists. From the alternating bass styles of Furry Lewis and Mississippi John Hurt to the evocative and haunting sounds of Skip James to the ragtime blues of Blind Blake. In this series we discuss some of the finest guitar arrangements played in open tunings. For the intermediate guitarist. Notation and tablature with three compact discs. / Guitare (Fingerpick) / 32 pages / niveau : Intermédiaire / Partition/3-Cd Set - Format: 11,75 X 8,75

Ce DVD offre un aperçu fascinant sur le monde de la riche tradition piémontaise du Blues/Ragtime, avec des séquences extrêmement rares où l'on peut voir jouer Furry Lewis, John Jackson, Josh White, Robert Pete Williams, Rev Gary Davis, Pink Anderson et bien d'autres. / Guitare

A guide to the traditional blues playing style of the Mississippi bluesman who lived in Memphis and had a gift for storytelling and showmanship. Walter 'Furry' Lewis recorded 25 songs between 1927 and 1929 as well as severalalbums in the 1960s for Folkways Prestige and other labels after being rediscovered as part of the great blues rebirth.As a guitarist Furry Lewis was a two-finger picker with a huge vocabulary of sounds at hisfingertips. He worked effortlessly with both broad strokes and intricate detail possessing a fluidity that recalls the talents of the great Robert Johnson. Guitar authority John Miller presents a close-up analysis of the playingof this intriguing character who epitomised the showmanship and craft of the blues in a unique and highly personal way.

Memphis has long been a landing place for musicians from the surrounding rural areas in Tennessee Arkansas and Mississippi and in the 1920s and 1930s it was a wide open town with plenty of opportunities for musicians to performtheir music and make a living. As a result of Memphis's hub status it developed a strong blues scene in the 1920s and 1930s with a host of outstanding singers and players. Many of these musicians had successful careers asrecording artists but a surprisingly large number of similarly gifted musicians went unrecorded or only got the opportunity to record a few titles.This DVD lesson offers instruction in the music of many of the finestguitarists to record out of Memphis in the 1920s and 1930s. Included on this DVD are transcriptions and teaching of performances from the spectacular and hugely influential Memphis Minnie transplanted Mississippians Furry Lewis Robert Wilkins and Frank Stokes and more obscure names from the past like Tom Dickson and Allen Shaw. The songs that are taught on the DVD have been selected for their musical merit but also to build your skills as a CountryBlues guitarist with numbers in D G E and C in standard tuning as well as Open G tuning. The technique building that will come from learning these tunes will give you tools to go in whatever direction you wish to take yourmusic.A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD. This includes all the lyrics to the songs as well as transcriptions of the guitar playing. The original old recordings of all the tunes is alsoincluded.Titles include: Tom Dickson/Happy Blues; Allen Shaw/I Couldn't Help It; Robert Wilkins/Long Train Blues; Frank Stokes/Frank Stokes' Dream; Memphis Minnie/Reachin' Pete and Furry Lewis/Good Looking GirlBlues

DVD edition of this fascinating insight into the world of the rich Piedmont ragtime/blues tradition with extremely rare performance footage of Furry Lewis John Jackson Josh White Robert Pete Williams Rev Gary Davis Pink Anderson and others.