Fingerpick guitar -
Intermediate
SKU:
MB.95552
Award-Winning
Fingerstyle Guitar
Solos. Composed by Al
Petteway.
Saddle-stitched, Solos.
All styles. Book. With
transcribed solos. 76
pages. Mel Bay
Publications, Inc #95552.
Published by Mel Bay
Publications, Inc
(MB.95552).
ISBN
9780786605828. UPC:
796279026826. 8.75 x
11.75 inches.
Master guitarist
Al Petteway ventures into
new territory with 15
Celtic-inspired,
traditional, and New Age
fingerstyle compositions
in standard and alternate
tunings. Derived from
Alâ??s award-winning
solo recording of the
same title, each piece
bears the inimitable
Petteway signature of
profoundly graceful,
inspired innovation.
Written in standard
notation and tab with
several pieces in
alternate tunings. Al
began his professional
music career at the age
of 11. He played guitar,
drums, and string bass
with a variety of rock
and folk acts in the
Washington D.C. area
during the 60â??s,
becoming a local legend
by the time he went to
college to study music
composition in 1970. In
1977, Al took a job with
The National Geographic
Society. His work as
Supervisor of Picture
Editing for the
societyâ??s Image
Collection, gave him the
artistic freedom to
develop his own acoustic
guitar style. While long
recognized as one of the
countryâ??s foremost
bluegrass and folk
sidemen, Celtic music
specialty label
Maggieâ??s Music signed
Al in 1993 and released
Whispering
Stones following by
The Waters and the
Wild-exposing his
solo acoustic guitar work
to an international
audience for the first
time. Al left the
National Geographic to
become a full-time
musician in the spring of
1995, just before the
release of Midsummer
Moon.
New Moon
