BLUEGRASS GUITAR Wayne Henderson 10 titoli LIBRO CD TABLATURE SPARTITI CHITARRA flatpicking

BLUEGRASS GUITAR, Wayne Henderson. 10 titoli. CD TABLATURE

Series: Guitar Solo
Softcover with CD - TAB
Composer: Various Composers
Arranger: Wayne Henderson

This book/CD pack contains

10 classic solos for flatpicking and fingerstyle in standard notation and tablature.

Each tune includes the main theme along with creative variations. The CD features renowned picker Wayne Henderson performing each tune note for note. Includes: Black Mountain Rag - Fisher's Hornpipe - John Hardy - Leather Britches - Lime Rock - Sally Ann - Snowflake Reel - Take Me Out to the Ball Game - Temperence Reel - Twinkle Little Star. 56 pages.

This book provides intermediate and advanced guitar players-both flatpickers and fingerpickers-with ten classic Bluegrass tunes that can be played either solo or with backing musicians. These aren't "hot licks" or canned solo breaks; they're complete tunes, with intros, themes, variations on the melody, and endings. They should help you both build your repertoire of songs and learn some new playing and arranging techniques. Compared to other traditional guitar styles, guitar as a lead or solo instrument in Bluegrass music has a relatively recent history. Don Reno and Doc Watson were early prominent players of lead guitar on fiddle tunes in the late Fifties and early Sixties, followed by notable players such as Clarence White, Dan Crary, Norman Blake, Tony Rice, Charles Sawtelle, Russ Barenberg, and many others. These players not only used the guitar to play the melody of the tune, but were known for the "hot breaks" they played when it came time for instrumental solos. They used the tune's melody as the basis for creative variations and, in some cases, departed entirely from the melody to improvise solos from scratch. This was more akin to jazz-style soloing than traditional Bluegrass playing. The growing importance of Bluegrass lead guitar was reflected in, and likely reinforced by, the rise of Bluegrass guitar contests in venues such as the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas and the Old Fiddler's Convention in Galax, Virginia. Anew generation of skilled players-including Wayne Henderson, Steve Kaufman, David Grier, Bryan Sutton, Steve Lewis, Robin Kessinger, Scott Fore, Allan Shadd, and many others-are both carrying on the tradition of lead Bluegrass guitar and continuing to push its boundaries. Relatively few notable Bluegrass guitarists have recorded as solo performers, a format that requires the player to subtly or radically vary the melody, register, or his or her picking techniques in order to maintain energy and interest over the course of the performance. Norman Blake recorded a few solo f1atpicked instrumental pieces on his seminal Whiskey Before Breakfast in 1976. More recently, David Grier released the highly acclaimed I've Got the House to Myself, an all-instrumental solo flatpicking recording (with the exception of some low-key second guitar on two tunes). In 2005, Wayne Henderson released a recording of solo Bluegrass/Old-time/Folk guitar performances called Made & Played. The tunes in this book and the accompanying CD were chosen from the Made & Played release and the session outtakes as the best examples of solo Bluegrass-style guitar. Wayne grew up listening to the fiddle playing of his father and the guitar playing of neighbors, who skillfully accompanied their own vocals and other instrumentalists. He was heavily influenced by the lead playing of Doc Watson, whom he still calls his musical hero, and his playing shares Doc's hard-driving energy and clean articulation, even at break-neck tempos. Also like Doc, Wayne uses variations on the melody as the foundation for many of his solos and enjoys playing "up the neck" to provide more energy, melodic variation, and interest for the listener. Unlike Doc Watson and most other Bluegrass lead guitarists, Wayne uses a thumbpick and metal fingerpicks instead of a flatpick. However, the arrangements we chose for this collection work equally well for flatpicking or fingerpicking. As shown in the following musical excerpt, his picking technique on these tunes follows the same down-up pattern that flatpickers use with their picks. Wayne picks the downstrokes with his thumbpick (p) and the upstrokes with his index finger (i). (continua)

Titoli:

Black Mountain Rag
Fisher's Hornpipe
John Hardy
Leather Britches
Lime Rock
Sally Ann
Snowflake Reel
Take Me Out To The Ball Game
Temperence Reel
Twinkle Little Star