Fingerpicking guitar -
Intermediate
SKU:
MB.99802M
Composed by
John Fahey. Blues,
Saddle-stitched. Grossman
Audio. American Music.
Book online audio. 56
pages. Mel Bay
Publications, Inc
#99802M. Published by Mel
Bay Publications, Inc
(MB.99802M).
ISBN
9781513466941. 8.75 x
11.75 inches.
In
this series for the
intermediate guitarist,
John Fahey teaches a wide
variety of instrumental
solos. Critics have
called Johns style
American Primitive
Guitar. The book includes
tablature and notation
with three compact discs
featuring note-by-note,
phrase-by-phrase
instruction. LESSON ONE:
A general discussion of
pattern picking and the
use of the alternate
bass. In Christ There Is
No East Or West, Take A
Look At That Baby and
Some Summer Day. LESSON
TWO: One of Johns most
requested multi-sectioned
composition is Indian
Pacific Railroad Blues,
also known as Beverley.
This tune demonstrates
how John composes in the
fingerpicking idiom. Also
taught is another very
requested and imitated
instrumental, Johns The
Last Steam Engine Train.
LESSON THREE: When The
Springtime Comes Again
and The Approaching Of
The Disco Void. A
discussion of
improvisational ideas in
relationship to
fingerstyle compositions
concludes this
lesson.