The Guitar of Furry Lewis - DVD

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

Revised and Expanded Edition-Re-recorded and expanded version of one of the first Guitar Workshop lessons.This double DVD featuring almost four hours of music and instruction is a MUST for anyone interested in bottleneck blues Guitar. It is acomplete survey of country blues bottleneck styles and techniques featuring rare footage of Son House Fred McDowell Mance Lipscomb Jesse Fuller Furry Lewis and Bukka White. The first DVD focuses on playing in Open Gtuning (Spanish). The second DVD presents the Open D tuning (Vestapol). Left hand playing techniques are discussed as well as choice of bottleneck/slide and guitar to use. Each tune is taught phrase by phrase and played slowly ona split-screen. A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD. Each DVD also features bonus audio tracks of the original 1920s and 1930s recordings of the original artists playing the songs. This lessonis for the intermediate student. Tunes taught include: OPEN G TUNING:My Black Mama Banty Rooster Dry Spell Blues High Sheriff Blues County Farm Blues Someday Baby Blues Roll

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

The blues recorded from the late 1920's through late 1930's is certainly some of the most vibrant sounds in American music history. It seems that anyone and everyone could and would be recorded which created a catalogue of stylistic diversity unmatched to date. The technique of using a slide whether a metal tube glass bottleneck or a knife was used by many of these early bluesmen.This lesson offers a look into the players from that era that used this technique. Many had only one or two patterns by which they played but we have the great fortune of gleaning from them all creating a well rounded grasp of the genre. Tom Feldmann is a master of this style and inthese two DVDs of over four hours he breaks down the complexities of this way of playing.Songs range from beginner to advanced. Most songs have a mixture of chords and fingered notes in addition to the slide making this a great lesson for those looking to expand their knowledge of the bottleneck/slide technique as well as the Open D and Open G tunings.A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on each DVD. In addition the original recordings of all the tunes are included. Titles Include: OPEN G TUNING: BOBBY GRANT Nappy Headed Blues LEAD BELLY C.C. Rider BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Love Changing Blues BARBECUE BOB Yo Yo Blues CURLEY WEAVER No No Blues CHARLEY LINCOLN Depot Blues BO WEAVIL JACKSON You Can't Keep No Brown OPEN D TUNING: RAMBLIN' THOMAS Shake It Gal FURRY LEWIS Falling Down Blues PEG LEG HOWELL Skin Game Blues KING SOLOMON HILL Down On My Bended Knee SAM COLLINS The Jailhouse Blues KOKOMO ARNOLD Rainy Night Blues TAMPA RED Boogie Woogie Dance BUMBLE BEE SLIM No Woman No Nickel

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. Inthis series we discuss some of the finest guitar arrangements played in open tunings. For the intermediate guitarist. Notation and tablature with three compact discs.