Flights of Fancy

Jody Stecher?s guitar arrangements are blues tinged banjo influenced and highly inventive. They are fluid evolving and subject to flights of fancy and improvisation in actual performance. Yet they contain a lot thatis ?fixed? or repeated from performance to performance. The seven arrangements presented in this lesson are crystallisation's of the motifs and patterns typically used by Jody when playing these tunes. Five tunings andfour styles of picking are presented. Jody?s music has the flavor and atmosphere of traditional old time country music country blues and mountain music but the actual details of execution and arrangement are uniquelyhis. This practice of original expression is itself an important element of American traditional music which is fundamental to aspiring guitarists. Titles include: Boat?s Up The River Buddy Won?t You Roll DownThe Line Red Rocking Chair Old Country Stomp Casey Jones Riley And Spencer and Those Two Blue Eyes.

Two solos in jazz idiom for pedal or non-pedal harp-Two solos in the jazz idiom for Pedal or Non-Pedal Harp by Stewart Green. Stewart Green began writing music for the Piano at an early age. Taking up the Viola and Oboe in his teens he later went to the University College of North Wales (Bangor) where he studied composition with among others William Matthias and Reginald Smith Brindle. Gaining a B. Mus. (hons) degree in 1960 he returned to his old school in Richester to teach class and instrumental music. Four years later he enlisted as oboist to the Band of HM Coldstream Guards which opened many doors including performances of his compositions and arrangements in many National venues on discand broadcast by the BBC on Radios 2 & 3. His years at Bangor had enabled him to fulfil a childhood dream of learning the Harp which he was later able to develop when he left the army and moved with his wife Sue and young family to Lowestoft as a peripatetic woodwind tutor for Suffolk County Music Service. His Flights Of Fancy and Blistering Along! appear on ABRSM and Trinity College Harp examination syllabuses while the Spartan Press publication Saxofun is on Suffolk's own exam syllabus. Since 1999 Stewart has been senior Woodwind Tutor for Suffolk and since 2002 Harp tutor as well! Stewart's recent publication She'll Be Comin' Round The Mountain was written for the North Suffolk String Orchestra as was Haunted House. Spookily this received its first performance at Lowestoft accompanied by a July Thunderstorm!

Each piece is accompanied by a poem adding to the fun and imagery. Contents include: Bright Red Apple; Froggy Froggy; Hippo with a Toothache; Hummingbirds; If You Want to Catch a Redbird; Little Bug Upon the Rock; My Friend Weasel; One Two Howdy-do; Pineapple Sherbet; Rooster in the Barnyard; The Unicorn; Witches' Party.