He has been immersed in music for over 20 years with training in music theory and piano. Since 1990 he has been organist and choir director of various churches and groups across Barbados, and has been in consultation with several individuals and organisations on vocal technique, expression and performance.
Ryan has been involved in musical clinics in Barbados and North America and has been involved and led musical productions across the Caribbean. An institution to which he has been affiliated is The Cavite Chorale of the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, as Assistant Director.
It is about a decade that he has been arranging and composing for various productions, (and in more recent times) such as the Crop-Over Folk Concert ('05& '07), The Prime Minister's Commissioned Piece for the National Independence Festival of Creative Arts (05 & 06)
In 2006, there was Carifesta IX, the Barbados presentation to Trinidad and several other workshops & productions so far for the year 2006 into 2007, which he has participated including the capacity as Musical Director. In addition Ryan, was on the panel of judges for the (Crop-Over) Calypso National Competitions since 2007, and has worked as Musical Director in musical production Sobie which played Nov/Dec 2007...
Since then, Ryan has continued to explore the truism that music is an universal language. This lend to his creation of the 100 Voice Project Music Festival, where singers, instrumentalists, arrangers and conductors meet in Barbados every August to do charity performances. The musicians - have never met and will only perform together on arrival in Barbados. This festival created in 2010 has seen a phenomenal growth in its success. Ryan continues to be asked to sit on various national panels on music and music development, and in 2011 he became Director of music of the Cavite Chorale of the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill.
Furthermore, his expertise has been sought as recently as in August 2013 for various plays, including the 150 year celebration of the Landship Movement.
Guitar - Beginning SKU: MB.31103M Third Edition. Bluegrass, Wire b...(+)
Guitar - Beginning
SKU: MB.31103M
Third Edition.
Bluegrass, Wire bound.
World. Book and online
audio. 236 pages. Mel Bay
Publications, Inc
#31103M. Published by Mel
Bay Publications, Inc
(MB.31103M).
ISBN
9781513468792. 8.75x11.75
inches.
Adam Granger
self-published the first
edition of
Grangerâ??s Fiddle
Tunes for Guitar in
1979. A second edition
was published in 1994.
Now Mel Bay Publications
presents the third
edition of the
book.
This 236-page book
is the most extensive and
best-documented
collection of fiddle
tunes for the flatpicking
guitar player in
existence, and includes
reels, hoedowns,
hornpipes, rags,
breakdowns, jigs and
slip-jigs, presented in
Southern, Northern,
Irish, Canadian, Texas
and Old-time
styles.
There are 508
fiddle tunes referenced
under 2500 titles and
alternate titles. The
titles are fully indexed,
making the book doubly
valuable as a reference
book and a source
book.
In this new
edition, all tunes are
typeset, instead of being
handwritten as they were
in the previous editions,
making the tabs easier to
read.
The tunes in
Grangerâ??s Fiddle
Tunes for Guitar are
presented in Easytab, a
streamlined tablature
notation system designed
by Adam specifically for
fiddle
tunes.
The book comes
with a link which gives
access to mp3 recordings
by Adam of all 508 tunes,
each played once at a
moderate tempo, with
rhythm on one channel and
lead on the
other.
Also included in
Grangerâ??s Fiddle
Tunes for Guitar are
instructions for reading
Easytab, descriptions of
tune types presented in
the book, and primers on
traditional flatpicking
and rhythm guitar.
Additionally, there are
sections on timing,
ornamentation, technique,
and fingering, as well as
information on tune
sources and a history of
the
collection.
Mel Bay also
offers The Granger
Collection, by Bill
Nicholson, the same 508
tunes in standard music
notation.