Stefan Grossman: Folk Blues For Fingerstyle Guitar: Guitar: Instrumental Tutor

Arrangements In Vestapol Tuning-'The Open D Tuning (D A D F# A D) also referred to as the Vestapol tuning is a powerful and evocative tuning that was widely used by guitarists in the 1920s to play country blues ballads rags and folk tunes. In this lesson I focus on arranging five of my favorite blues melodies in Vestapol plus an original instrumental.The religious tune When I Lay My Burden Down was in the repertoire of both Black and White traditional guitarists. I have arranged it in an Elizabeth Cotten/Mississippi John Hurt style. The beautiful blues Goin' To Germany was recorded by the Cannon's Jug Stompers in the 1920s. I have always wanted to find the right setting for this melodic countryblues and the Vestapol tuning gave me the feel and textures that I was looking for. Sam McGee played guitar behind Uncle Dave Macon when he recorded I've Got The Morning Blues in Vestapol. This is a fun tune to play and leads nicely in to Hesitation Blues a song recorded by many artists. My arrangement tries to combine a sliding jug sound with some funky blues licks. Peg Leg Howell's Skin Game Blues is a rare example of an early blues song with three distinct sections. Peg Leg played this with a bottleneck but for our arrangement we will rely on our fingers to make the notes sing out.We finish the lesson with Innocence Abroard. An original instrumental that ties together the right and left hand techniques we have studied.A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD. Each tune is taught phrase by phrase and played slowly on a split-screen. Bonus audio tracks of the original 1920s recordings are included. These are the records I first heard that influenced me to rearrange the melodies to the Vestapol tuning.' Stefan Grossman

A three volume DVD collection taught by Stefan Grossman.In this three lesson DVD series Stefan Grossman explores the world of country blues guitar. It is a fascinating and challenging study that covers blues folk and ragtimearrangements in the keys of A C D E and G. Each tune is discussed and taught phrase by phrase and played split screen so that you can clearly see what each hand is doing.You will learn about the playing styles and techniquesof legendary blues guitarists as Rev. Gary Davis Frank Stokes Blind Blake Blind Boy Fuller Mance Lipscomb Lightnin' Hopkins Mississippi John Hurt Willie Brown Robert Johnson Sam McGee Lonnie Johnson and ElizabethCotten.A detailed 56 page PDF is included with this collection.

'C'est la quatrième collaboration enregistrées entre les guitaristes acoustiques John Renbourn et Stefan Grossman, a enregistré en 1987 et produit par Jones de Led Zeppelin John Paul. Comme sur ses trois prédécesseurs, l'appel se trouve dans le contraste entre Renbourn le style folklorique traditionnelle britannique et Grossman tendances du jazz et du folk-blues. Idéalement, comme sur 'Rites of Passage' et 'Gardien de la vigne,' Renbourn se concentre sur un réseau complexe, folk-modèle basé sur ce que Grossman décore avec des embellissements bluesy. les deux ont un intérêt déjà exprimé dans l'adaptation classiques du jazz à leur approche à deux guitares, et ils le font ici sur la norme 'Round About Midnight', puis rappelle ses travaux antérieurs sur des airs par le regretté Charles Mingus avec le lugubre 'Adieu à M. Mingus. Depuis qu'ils jouent différemment, leurs lignes de guitare peuvent être identifiés et appréciés séparément, même quand ils sont entremêlement '' -. All Music Guide De nombreux guitaristes acoustiques sans doute avoir un certain degré de familiarité avec l'oeuvre de John Renbourn et Stefan Grossman, mais pour l'inconnu, voici un bref historique: Dans les années 1970 Stefan effectue régulièrement des tournées, parfois sur double-factures avec Renbourn. Le destin est intervenu lorsque, par erreur, un promoteur, il a été annoncé que ces deux légendes en le making-serait l'exécution des duos de guitare. Bien qu'ils n'avaient pas travaillé en tant que duo avant, les guitaristes ont décidé de lui donner un aller, et les graines ont été plantées pour une série d'albums en duo fantastiques. Le jeu sur cet album ainsi que sous le volcan et leur premier album éponyme, est un melting-pot fascinant de styles européens et américains de musique, et la paire atteint un son aussi élégant que c'est vaste. Bien que leurs contributions individuelles au monde de la guitare avait été lourde avant leur partenariat, ces albums en duo servent à prendre à la fois 'guitaristes jouant à de nouveaux sommets, et leurs compositions durables continuent à sonner frais aujourd'hui.' / Guitare / Partition Cd

In this double DVD lesson of over 4 hours of instruction Ernie Hawkins teaches ten of Big Bill’s greatest guitar solos and arrangements. Each tune is taught phrase by phrase and then uses the split-screen so you can carefully study what each hand is doing.Detailed tab/music booklets are included as PDF files on both DVDs. Also included is rare footage of Big Bill as well as bonus audio tracks of Big Bill’s recordings of the tunes on this lesson. Big Bill Broonzy (June 26 1903 August 15 1958) was an incredible Americanblues singer songwriter and guitarist. His career began in the 1920s when he played country blues to mostly black audiences. Through the 1930s and 1940s he successfully navigated a transition in style to a more urban blues sound popular with white audiences. In the 1950s a return to his traditional folk-blues roots made him one of the leading figures of the emerging American folk music revival and an international star. He was one of the first bluesmen to tour in Europe and his performances and records influenced folk guitars from John Renbourn Martin Carthy Stefan Grossman and Davey Graham to rock guitarists as Eric Clapton (who recorded several Big Bill tunes on his Unplugged CD) to Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones who said: 'Big Bill’s Guitar Shuffle was one of the first tracks I learnt to play but even to this day I can't play it exactly right.'

For Fingerstyle Guitar. Par GROSSMAN STEFAN. As aspiring fingerpicking guitarists started expanding their horizons from folk, blues, and ragtime in the 1970s, it was only logical to look towards early jazz tunes as a vast source for new possibilities. For one thing, they could follow the same evolutionary path from ragtime to jazz that had been taken by pianists such as Jelly Roll Morton and Harlem stride players like James P. Johnson and Fats Waller. These musicians all composed in a variety of styles, but their most ambitious piano solos expanded on the classic ragtime format developed by the likes of Scott Joplin, James Scott, and Joseph Lamb, using several strains that usually changed keys at least once. Morton, the self-proclaimed inventor of jazz, would record versions of tunes like King Porter Stomp and The Original Jelly Roll Blues that are similar to straight ragtime performances, and others where there is lots of room left for embellishment and jazz improvisation. The present collection is a bonanza for guitarists who want to tackle advanced arrangements along the lines of ragtime but featuring jazz age harmonies from the playing of Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, WC Handy, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band and other early jazz legends. The 32 arrangements included are by a wide assortment of guitarists including Ernie Hawkins, Pat Donohue, Lasse Johansson, Duck Baker, Ton Van Bergeyk, Sandy Shalk, Steve McWilliam, and Dorian Henry. / Date parution : 2022-01-14/ Recueil / Guitare

The Music and Thoughts of Buster Miller Stefan Grossman and John Miller arranged for DVD. Country folk blues and jazz fingerstyle guitar at its best.

Volume Two-The performances in this DVD series present two generations of artists who have advanced the acoustic guitar’s cause with formidable boldness. We clearly hear their folk blues and country roots even as they develop other distinctly personal harmonic and melodic pathways. Thinking coupled with the 90% perspiration 10% inspiration formula is evident in the performances here no less than in the artful arrangements in the original compositions. There are English guitarist playing original music tinged by American blues and American guitarists picking with English accents. There are guitarists from everywhere bringing music from the keyboard and othersources to the guitar. There is an apparent user-friendly adaptability happening around the instrument: the example of these players encourages the rest of us to tinker with arrangements explore open tunings try varied techniques of picking. The means they demonstrate are flexible. And the ends? Endless. As the redoubtable Claw Jerry Reed once remarked I don’t go to see a man pick. I go to see a man think. Dave Evans Stagefright John Renbourn Rosslyn Stefan Grossman Tightrope John Knowles Coastin' Pat Donohue The Mooch Marcel Dadi Saturday Night Shuffle Duck Baker Blood Of The Lamb Chris Proctor Interstate John Renbourn Little Niles Stefan Grossman Bermuda Triangle Exit El McMeen My Mary Of The Curling Hair Joe Miller Ivory Coast John Knowles Waltz Forever Pat Donohue High Society Duck Baker 'Round Midnight Chris Proctor Morning Thunder El McMeen Angels We Have Heard On High Marcel Dadi Je Te Veux Bonus Instructional Tracks: Stefan Grossman Diddie Wa Diddie and Pat Donohue High Society