In this lesson Fernando Perez presents several tunes from West Africa. Directly learnt from African Jalis (Griots) these are traditional as well as original compositions specially arranged for Guitar. Imitating the sound of West African instruments such as Kora Ngoni or Balafon Perez demonstrates unique techniques on the Guitar in order to perform the grooves and melodies in a faithful way. All the tunes can be played on nylon or acoustic steel string Guitars. In this lesson you will learn: Understanding the sound and techniques of African instruments in order to apply them to the guitar. Different techniques imitating Korascale runs Balafon breaks etc. Several grooves from Mali Senegal Gambia. How to properly keep these grooves counting tapping and feeling. Kora picking style with thumb and index. Main scales used in West African music. How West African music connects with Blues styles. Combining West African styles with your own Blues licks. Explanations on how to further develop this music style. A West African repertoire full of variety. Each tune is taught phrase by phrase and played slowly on a split-screen. Titles include: The Mandinka Song Massina Madou Fatoudiob Sanu Mali Blues and Kulanjan. 107 minutesLevel 3Detailed tab/music PDF booklet on the DVD

World Guitar (Book And CD)-The Guitarist’s guide to the traditional styles of cultures around the world. Includes lessons on existing guitar traditions along with new guitar arrangements of non-guitar music from Asia and the Middle East. Complete with an audio CD of recorded examples including slower versions for practice. Featured techniques include:Afropop and African acoustic styles Middle Eastern oud and saz Indian veena and sitar Chinese pipa Japanese koto Spanish guitar Celtic folk Andean folk Brazilian jazz Mexican mariachi Hawaiian slack-key guitar

Whether Guy Davis is appearing on Late Night TV programs or nationally syndicated radio shows in front of 25 000 people at Madison Square Garden or an intimate gathering of students at a Music Camp Guy feels the instinctive desire to give each listener his 'all'. His 'all' is the Blues.Guy can tell you stories of his great-grandparents and his grandparents their days as track linemen and of their interactions with the KKK. He can also tell you that as a child raised in middle-class New York suburbs the only cotton he's personally picked is his 'BVDs' up off the floor. He's a musician composer actor director and writer. But most importantly Guy Davis is abluesman. The blues permeates every corner of Davis' creativity.Throughout his career he has dedicated himself to reviving the traditions of acoustic blues and bringing them to as many ears as possible through the material of the great blues masters African American stories and his own original songs stories and performance pieces. In 1993 he performed Off-Broadway as legendary blues player Robert Johnson in Robert Johnson: Trick the Devil. He received rave reviews and became the 1993 winner of the Blues Foundation's ?Keeping the Blues Alive Award?. Looking for more ways to combine his love of blues music and acting Davis created material for himself. He wrote In Bed with the Blues: The Adventures of Fishy Waters -- an engaging and moving one-man show. The Off-Broadway debut in 1994 received critical praise from the New York Times and the Village Voice. Of Davis' live performance one reviewer observed that his style and writing ?sound so deeply drenched in lost black traditions that you feel that they must predate him. But no they don't. He created them.?These days Davis concentrates much of his efforts on writing and performing his Blues music. He has released nine albums for Red House Records all of which have garnered rave reviews and