This book was a delight and a challenge to put together. Stefan Grossman wanted to highlight the playing of six blues players that have greatly influenced him: Big Bill Broonzy Lonnie Johnson Rev. Gary Davis Blind Blake Scrapper Blackwell and Tampa Red. Each has recorded wonderful instrumental solos that have been transcribed from the first note played to the last. These are complete transcript…

The perfect companion repertoire book to Bert Weedon's best-selling guitar tutor Play In A Day. Packed with tunes from all styles of music for the beginner/intermediate player, and suitable for both electric and acousti c guitar players./ Recueil / Guitare

Arrangements In Vestapol Tuning-'The Open D Tuning (D A D F# A D) also referred to as the Vestapol tuning is a powerful and evocative tuning that was widely used by guitarists in the 1920s to play country blues ballads rags and folk tunes. In this lesson I focus on arranging five of my favorite blues melodies in Vestapol plus an original instrumental.The religious tune When I Lay My Burden Dow…

Gershwin created these 18 song transcriptions between 1919 and 1931. He played the pieces at numerous private parties, often with many variations. Gershwin's impromptu performances of these 18 songs served as the basis for the transcriptions. His unique playing style can be detected in these wonderful pieces. / Piano

Guitarist educator and historian Stefan Grossman was a student of acoustic blues and gospel singer/guitarist Rev. Gary Davis. Beginning when he was 15 Stefan studied with Davis on weekends spending eight to ten hours at his house in Harlem absorbing all he could. While studying with Rev. Davis he met and studied with other country blues guitarists: Mississippi John Hurt Son House Skip James …

Of Scott Joplin James Scott and Joseph Lamb-The great ragtime pieces of the early 20th century were written mostly for Piano but many translate superbly for the Guitar and David Laibman will show you how.Here's a mystery: if the great ragtime pieces of the early 20th century were not written for Guitar and if they weren't player on the Guitar at all (until some of us started doing so half a ce…

Cette édition supersized du Jazz Play-Along série dispose d'une collection épique de 20 normes George Gershwin.Pour une utilisation avec tous Bb, Eb, C et basse instruments clef, le Jazz Play-Along Series est l'outil ultime pour tous les musiciens de jazz. Avec des feuilles de musicien sans plomb, queues de mélodie et d'autres choix split-piste sur le CD fourni, ce package premier de son genre vou…

The second lesson in this series focuses on the playing techniques of Blind Lemon Jefferson Rev. Gary Davis Tommy Johnson and Lonnie Johnson as well as many facets of fingerpicking in these keys. Focusing on the keys of D andG this is a challenging lesson that will illustrate different right and left hand techniques.As in the first lesson the aim is to give you a freedom to improvise playing …

Une collection de classiques favoris de George Gershwin, arrangé pour clavier électronique. Avec les enregistrements, doigté, symboles de la corde et graphique de la corde. / Clavier / 40 pages / Partition