The composer says: Several musical threads led to my writing this piece of music to celebrate my friend Matanya Ophee's (AKA MO) 80th birthday - a life lived with the guitar. Jelly Roll Morton once asserted: 'In fact, if you can't manage to put tinges of Spanish in your tunes, you will never be able to get the right seasoning; I call it, for jazz.' Over the last couple of years I moved back to Je…

Par BARREIRO ELIAS. An outstanding collection of 33 classic guitar solos transcribed from piano works by Manuel Saumell, Ignacio Cervantes, and many others. Cuban song and dance rhythms have had a global impact. These arrangements capture the rhythms, styles, and moods of the Cuban contradanza, danza, vals, canción and criolla of the 19th to early 20th centuries. The available online audio feature…

Cuba Suite Española Op..47 No.8 para 2 Guitarras

Learn the Guitar in a creative new way. Par PELLS TIM / FRANKE JENS. Learn the Guitar in a creative new way: Playing music that makes you feel good, right from the outset. Passport to Play Guitar is a tutor series which is focused on learning to play the guitar through listening, reading and playing together, and is suitable for both classical and acoustic guitarists. The sheet music includes TAB…

Presents the Contradanzas Habaneras of Manuel Saumell (1817-1870) who has been called a 'Pioneer of the Cuban danza.' Originally written for the piano this collection of contradanzas is a good example of Saumell’sinnate sensitivity to the rhythms characteristic of Cuban Music. Written in standard notation and tablature.

Guitar Solo. Ten transcriptions for solo guitar of beautiful music from many periods and styles edited and fingered by Christopher Parkening. All pieces are suitable for performance by the advanced guitarist. Contents: Afro-Cuban Lullaby · Empress of the Pagodes (Ravel) · Menuet (Ravel) · Minuet in D (Handel) · Passacaille (Weiss) · Pastourelle (Poulenc) · Pavane for a Dead Princess (Ravel…

Par KLEYNJANS FRANCIS. La habanera est née vers 1841 à la Havane. Les espagnols l'exporteront en Europe en transformant son caractère, la rendant plus fière, plus affirmée, parfois même dramatique en marquant d'avantage les basses. J'ai voulu, avec Habanera Cubana, retrouver son esprit originel, fait de souplesse, de douceur et de volupté, véritable chant d'amour, parfois nostalgique, tourné vers…

In this lesson Fernando Perez teaches several evocative instrumentals from different world music styles. The tunes are performed in standard as well as alternative tunings. Fingerstyle techniques are used throughout the lesson. Two tunes are arranged for slide Guitar. Perez takes you on a globetrotting voyage where you will explore: How to understand the sound and techniques found in the music o…

Par IRIZARRY NEFF. The most comprehensive book ever written on Latin jazz guitar playing ? from its roots in Afro-Cuban music to the great contemporary masters! Traditional lines from the Tres, cuatro and requinto adapted to the guitar in the style of Arsenio Rodriguez, Yomo Toro, El Güero Gil, etc. Piano adaptations and solutions for the guitar patterned after Bebo Valdes, Clare Fischer, Eddie P…

Celedonio Romero (1913 - 1996) was a classical guitarist and composer. Born in Cuba to Spanish parents he studied music at Malaga and Madrid but never had any formal Guitar lessons. Having became well known within Spain he was refused permission to perform outside the country by Franco’s government. In 1957 he moved to the United States and founded the distinguished Guitar quartet Los Romer…

Carlos Santana’s instantly recognisable guitar style brought the rhythms of Afro-Cuban music to generations of people who might otherwise never have heard them. His soulful playing has inspired guitarists the world over for the last three decades and continues to do so today. This guitar workshop is a powerful tool that will help you extend your stockpile of licks and fills and develop your imp…

Cuba Capricho

Though born in Cuba Celedonio Romero was a Spanish Guitarist composer and founder of the Romero Guitar Quartet nicknamed The Royal Family of Guitar -- with his sons. In addition to his role as Pepe Romero’s only Guitar teacher he was also Christopher Parkening’s first teacher. As a composer Romero wrote more than one hundred works for Guitar including this suite that recalls Andalusia…