In these lessons for the intermediate fingerstyle guitarist Dave Van Ronk presents his arrangements of blues and a classic rag. The book includes a conversation with Dave, a discography, 6 tunes in notation and tablature, and 3 CDs teaching each tune phrase by phrase. LESSON ONE: A blues in 12/8 with Leroy Carr's Midnight Hour Blues. Blood Red Moon follows played in a dropped D tuning. The lesson ends with Blind Lemon Jefferson's One Kind Favor. LESSON TWO: Sunday Street is an original Dave Van Ronk song and is an excellent example of Dave's arranging skills. Four choruses are taught demonstrating how this tune can develop. Bessie Smith's classic blues You've Been A Good Old Wagon is taught in the key of E. LESSON THREE: Dave's arrangement of St. Louis Tickle was the first great challenge for fingerpickers interested in classic ragtime. This four sectioned rag is played in the keys of C and F. It is an excellent example of contemporary ragtime guitar. / Guitare (Fingerpick) / 32 pages / niveau : Intermédiaire / Partition/3-Cd Set - Format: 11,75 X 8,75

Description In these lessons for the intermediate fingerstyle guitarist Dave Van Ronk presents his arrangements of blues and a classic rag. The book includes a conversation with Dave, a discography, 6 tunes in notation and tablature, and 3 CDs teaching each tune phrase by phrase. LESSON ONE: A blues in 12/8 with Leroy Carr's Midnight Hour Blues. Blood Red Moon follows played in a dropped D tuning. The lesson ends with Blind Lemon Jefferson's One Kind Favor. LESSON TWO: Sunday Street is an original Dave Van Ronk song and is an excellent example of Dave's arranging skills. Four choruses are taught demonstrating how this tune can develop. Bessie Smith's classic blues You've Been A Good Old Wagon is taught in the key of E. LESSON THREE: Dave's arrangement of St. Louis Tickle was the first great challenge for fingerpickers interested in classic ragtime. This four sectioned rag is played in the keys of C and F. It is an excellent example of contemporary ragtime guitar.

Transcriptions authentiques par Fred Sokolow, complet, avec des notes sur le style de guitare Doc Watson. Includes 'Beaumont Boy', 'Doc's Guitar', 'Cotton-Eyed Joe' and 'Florida Blues'. / Guitare / Partition

Seven outstanding solos in the Fats Waller post-ragtime style that gain a totally new flavor and life when played on fingerstyle guitar! In notation and tablature. Includes access to online audio.

Description Advanced Fingerpicking Guitar Techniques. Contains solos that will challenge intermediate and advanced fingerstyle guitarists. These arrangements show the broad musical textures, fingerstyle techniques, and styles available to fingerstyle guitarists. Right hand rhythmic patterns, counterpoint lines, single-string runs, and alternating bass techniques are used throughout the arrangements. Many of the tunes are Stefan's original compositions, however, the arrangements of music by Big Bill Broonzy, Reverend Gary Davis and other fingerstyle guitar gurus are showcased. All of these arrangements are presented in standard notation and tab. A thorough explanation on how to read tab is included in this text. An essay by Dale Miller in Stefan Grossman's colossal role in world of fingerstyle guitar is included in this text. This book comes with three CD's which contain performances of these arrangements. Fingerstyle guitarists will enjoy playing and listening to these challenging, but workable, arrangements.

Rev. Gary Davis was an incredible ragtime guitar player. His arrangements illustrate what has become known as the Piedmont guitar style. As a young man Rev. Davis played in a string band with the legendary Willie Walker. Several of the tunes featured on this double DVD lesson come from Walker???s repertoire i.e. Make Believe Stunt. Rev. Davis used to talk about Blind Blake???s sportin??? right hand and you can hear this influence in all of Rev.Davis???s ragtime playing. These are challenging and difficult multipart arrangements. Ernie Hawkins teaches each section phrase by phrase and carefully shows you the right hand picking as well as the left hand fingerings that wereunique to Rev. Davis???s approach. You will be able to easily follow the instruction with the tab/music booklet. Also featured are split screen segments where each section is played slowly and you can study the movementsof each hand. As a bonus we have included various audio performances of Rev. Davis playing each song.

Metodo Per Chitarra is a Guitar tuition method by Giovanni Unterberger which takes the beginner through the basics of Fingerpicking & Ragtime techniques and theory. Featuring studies songs and exercises along with tablature this is an excellent introduction to this style.

The guitar styles and techniques of Blind Blake Big Bill Broonzy and Rev. Gary Davis combine blues and ragtime techniques into a style that can be best described as raggin' the blues. This exciting and challenging approach tofingerstyle playing combines complex right hand picking with intricate left hand fingerings single string runs and rhythmic licks. In this lesson Stefan Grossman illustrates and explains seven famous ragtime blues instrumentals.A detailed 44-page tab/music PDF booklet is included.

Description This is a challenging set of three lessons presenting a variety of tunes from string band rags to classic rags to novelty instrumentals. The three audio CDs give 3 full hours of note-by-note, phrase-by-phrase instruction. LESSON ONE: Two New Orleans standards are presented in this lesson. Both are played in the key of C with a style that combines an alternating bass with single-string runs and counterpoint lines. Mabel's Dream was popularized by the King Oliver Band. High Society is a well known Mardi Gras instrumental. LESSON TWO: Two rags are presented in this lesson. We begin in a dropped D tuning with the classic rag Powder Rag. This is followed by an arrangement of the 1928 Dallas String Band recording of Dallas Rag. This combines alternating bass with counterpoint techniques and single-string runs. LESSON THREE: One of Rev. Davis's most popular show instrumentals was Soldier's March. It has sections played in the keys of F and C and is a challenging guitar solo that takes the listener from early morning to lights out in the day of a soldier.

100 minutes d'enregistrement pour une leçon avec David Laibman. En travaillant sur deux compositions, vous apprendrez ces arrangements. Livret de tablatures inclus. / Guitare

Rev. Gary Davis was a musical giant. His ideas spanned a wide range of techniques and styles and his repertoire featured blues rags show instrumentals and gospel songs.Davis playedwith his thumb and index finger to pick out complex melodies rhythmic licks and lightning fast single-string runs. In this book seven of Rev. Davis's blues are presented. These arrangements have beenperformed and recorded by a host of great artists including Bob Dylan Taj Mahal Hot Tuna David Bromberg John Renbourn Bert Jansch and many others.These lessons are for the intermediate to advanced fingerstyleguitarist. The accompanying three CD lessons teach these arrangements phrase by phrase as well as presenting the original recordings.Lesson one highlights two of Rev. Davis's most popular bluesarrangements. Hesitation Blues is played in the key of C. Baby Let Me Follow You Down is played in the key of G.Lesson two explores the party tune Sally Where'd You Get Your Liquor From (madepopular by Hot Tuna). Rev. Davis used to joke that he could play Candyman in so many different ways that he would be able to play it nonstop for at least 8 hours without repeating himself. We look at twoversions of this very popular folk blues with the regular Candyman followed by the Two-Step Candyman.In lesson three all 14 verses from Raggin' the blues are transcribed and studied on how thisarrangement develops.

Classic Ragtime Arranged for Fingerstyle Guitar Volume 1 presents staples of the ragtime repertoire as interpreted by David Laibman. The 'rags' are presented in standard music notation as well astablature. The book includes three CDs worth of instructional audio covering each of the six pieces broken down section-by-section. These are complex and challenging arrangements but ones that will certainly tickle yourfingers!

Dave Van Ronk's DVD lesson spans a wide variety of exciting and powerful music. The blues of Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell the 'old fashioned' picking of Rev. Gary Davis the ragtime bounce of Blind Blake the sophisticatedblues of Brownie McGhee the country blues of Jim Jackson a children's ring song and a Van Ronk original all receive the unique Dave Van Ronk treatment. Each arrangement is discussed and explained in detail. This is acomplete lesson for the intermediate guitarist that clearly illustrates how traditional music can be placed in a fingerstyle setting. Titles include: Green Green Rocky Road Kansas City Blues Sportin' Life Blues Sunday Street Spike Driver's Moan That Will Never Happen No More Midnight Hour Blues Cocaine Bluesand Down South Blues.

Nine Original Pieces in Classical Ragtime Style for Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar. TAB/Music of all the tunes on this CD is included as PDF files. You will need Adobe Acrobat (a free download) to open and print this file from your computer.