Stefan Grossman: Fingerstyle Ragtime: Guitar: Instrumental Album

Hot Fiddle Tunes and Rags-The study of fiddle tunes and rags offers the fingerstyle guitarist an array of styles and techniques with which to embellish and enrich their playing. The DVD features five hot instrumentals that combine alternating basstechniques counterpoint lines single string runs complex chord fingerings and rhythmic licks. Wonderfully presented this fantastic DVD lesson is taught by guitar tutor and player extraordinaire Stefan Grossman. Themulti-sectioned arrangements illustrate just how American fiddle tunes and ragtime compositions can be adapted arranged and transcribed for fingerstyle guitar. With a DVD including a 32 page PDF music/tab booklet this lessonwill help you to improve you general guitar skills and progress through the advanced fingerpicking techniques.

Solos-This DVD lesson is for the intermediate and advanced fingerstyle guitar player. It is for the student who feels comfortable with an alternating bass technique and wants to expand and explore ideas in blues and ragtime using moreadvanced right and left hand techniques. The four instrumentals featured in this lesosn are all extended compositions offering a variety of musical ideas. Piano sounding blues in the key of A are presented in 'Mississippi Blues'and 'Blues For The Mann'. A Blind Blake approach in the key of C is used for the 'Glory Of Love'. 'Struttin' Rag' in the key of E Brings together thress distinct sections. It opens with a blues piano sounding motif and then stepsinto a more country atmosphere. It finishes with a series of bass licks reminiscent of Merle Travis's 'Walkin' The Strings'.

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

Les styles de la guitare et les techniques de Blind Blake, Big Bill Broonzy et le Révérend Gary Davis combinent les techniques de blues et de ragtime dans un style qui peut être décrit comme raggine le blues. Cette approche passionnante et stimulante pour jouer fingerstyle combine complexe main droite cueillette avec doigtés complexe main gauche, seule chaîne s'exécute et rythmiques licks. Dans cette leçon, Stefan Grossman illustre et explique les instrus de blues de ragtime célèbre sept. Une brochure de 44 pages détaillées onglet musique est incluse. / Guitare

Cette leçon de DVD a été conçue pour aider les débutants et les étudiants intermédiaires de fingerpicking guitare blues de pays améliorer leurs compétences en jeu et augmentent leur répertoire en utilisant une technique de basse alternée. Stefan Grossman illustre et explique en arrangements fingerstyle de détail dix dans les clés de C, D, E, A, G et f. Ces blues populaire et les chansons de ragtime viennent jouer le Mississippi John Hurt, Rev Gary Davis, Mance Lipscomb et Elizabeth Cotten. Chaque morceau est discutée et enseigné la phrase par phrase et joué lentement sur un écran de split, afin que vous puissiez voir clairement ce que fait chaque main. Une brochure détaillée du tab/musique 44 page est incluse dans cette leçon. / Guitare