Acoustic guitar magazine, ROOTS AND BLUES FINGERSTYLE GUITAR. SHEET MUSIC BOOK WITH CD & GUITAR TABLATURE
LIBRO METODO DI MUSICA BLUES, CON CD.
SPARTITI PER CHITARRA CON:
ACCORDI, PENTAGRAMMA, TABLATURE.
TECNICA, OPEN TUNINGS, SLIDE,
Steve James presenta 25 tradizionali American blues guitar styles, per imparare il fingerpicking (suonare con le dita, senza il plettro) e la tecnica slide suonando le canzoni del repertorio di maestri come Furry Lewis, Blind Willie McTell, Sam McGee, and Mance Lipscomb. Il canto, le parole, fotografie, e altro. Take Me Back -Sugar Babe -Milwaukee Blues -Sebastopol -John Henry, e altre. CD TABLATURE
Acoustic Guitar Private Lessons
Series: Guitar Collection
Publisher: String Letter Publishing
Softcover with CD - TAB
Arranger: Steve James
PRIVATE LESSONS
25 SONGS TO PLAY
BLUES, RAGTIME, COUNTRY
Learn the Traditions techniques, and tunes
OPEN TUNINGS
SLIDE
From the publishers of ACOUSTIC GUITAR MAGAZINE
Steve James presents a treasure trove of traditional American guitar styles in this unique book/CD pack. Guitarists will learn fingerpicking and slide techniques not through dry exercises but by playing 25 songs from James' own repertoire and from such masters as Furry Lewis, Blind Willie McTell, Sam McGee, and Mance Lipscomb. Drawing on his extensive research and first-hand experience with these guitar pioneers, James tells the stories behind the songs, too. Features authentic arrangements in notes & TAB, vocal melodies and lyrics, historic photos, and more. Songs: Take Me Back - Sugar Babe - Milwaukee Blues - Sebastopol - John Henry , more! 96 pages
It's been well over three decades since I started playing the guitar. From the outset, my creative point of departure has always been American folk, blues, and old-time country styles. This fascination with our musical roots has persisted throughout my career as a performing and recording artist, writer, and teacher. I've had occasion to playa lot of styles of music, from bluegrass to rockabiIly to contemporary folk ... bar-walkin' R&Bwith sax legend Clifford Scott to Chicago blues with Buddy Guy and full-on rock 'n' roll with Bo Diddley. It always seemed that, no matter what the style, the basic musical vocabulary always came straight from the roots.
I've been a contributing editor to Acoustic Guitar magazine since the publication started in 1990, and, in recent years, I've also served as an instructor/performer at several guitar festivals that the magazine has sponsored in the San Francisco Bay area Whether writing an article or teaching a guitar clinic, my approach to presenting this material encompasses technique, repertoire, and history, along with anecdotes and lore concerning the music and musicians. Roots and Blues Fingerstyle Guitar takes a similar approach, incorporating all these elements into one book and CD.
A large part of this text is an instruction manual for the beginning- and intermediate-level fingerstyle guitarist. Twenty-five tunes are transcribed in tablature and notation along with chord diagrams and explanatory notes. These include my own arrangements for blues, rags, and country themes along with excerpts from the recorded works of some roots guitar pioneers. Specific techniques are pointed out as they occur in the music. The accompanying CDcontains recorded examples from the songs as they are transcribed, played slowly and up to tempo with reference pitches for retuning where needed. Although the material is not necessarily sequenced in order of difficulty, starting with the first chapter and playing through the basics is suggested regardless of experience level.
The balance of the book is history, homily, and hooraw in various combinations. Members of my audiences often tell me that the stories about this music and the many remarkable people and circumstances that have contributed to its development over the years make the songs more real to them. Likewise, students seem more motivated to learn and practice when they feel like the tunes are old friends (which they are). This is good, because learning to play this style is largely a function of dogged, repetitive reptile-brain, your-dinner's-getting-cold practice. The good old southern American big-thumb guitar method is originally a rural art, so it doesn't take a socio-ethnologist to figure out that the early practitioners were farmers like Mance Lipscomb and Sam McGee. Pitching hay or plowing with a mule isn't as easy on the mitts as a pre-recital warm-up; but what they lacked in interdigital articulation, the inventors of twang made up in pure squeeze powerNwhich came in handy at barn dances and country suppers where the first set was three hours long. Times have changed, but the musical work ethic persists. The express train and church bells sound of "Buckdancer's Choice" or the sledgehammer Delta crunch of "Roll and Tumble" doesn't cascade from the box with the first love pat. One way I've found to keep things jolly while working on the cusp of carpal tunnel syndrome is to recall a few of the things I've heard or experienced over the years while passing up hot meals and paychecks to verify drawled rumors about primal string noise to be heard at the fourth house after the pavement stops. So these pages include excerpts from the well-thumbed old travel guide that leads to this music. When their honky-tonk and rock 'n' roll progeny came down the road with the first electric line, some of these tunes were already rocking on the porch saying: "What took you so long?" Steve James, Texas
LEARN TO PLAY THESE SONGS:
- Amos Johnson Rag - TRADITIONAL
- Bear Creek Hop - TRADITIONAL
- Blues In A
- Buckdancer's Choice - SAM McGEE
- Buddy Bolden's Blues - TRADITIONAL
- Crow Jane - TRADITIONAL - arranged SKIP JAMES
- Guitar Rag - TRADITIONAL
- I Got To Cross That River Of Jordan - TRADITIONAL - BLIND WILLIE McTELL
- I Will Turn Your Money Green - FURRY LEWIS
- Jack O' Diamonds / Rye Whiskey - TRADITIONAL
- John Henry - TRADITIONAL
- Judge Harsh Blues - FURRY LEWIS
- Liberty - TRADITIONAL
- Milwaukee Blues - TRADITIONAL - CHARLIE POOLE
- Railroad Bill - TRADITIONAL
- Railroad Blues - SAM McGEE
- Roll And Tumble Blues - HAMBONE WILLIE NEWBER
- Sebastopol - TRADITIONAL - HENRY WORRAL
- Spanish Fandango - TRADITIONAL - HENRY WORRAL
- Stack Lee's Blues - PORK CHOP
- Sugar Babe - TRADITIONAL - MANCE LIPSCOMB
- Take Me Back - TRADITIONAL
- Things About Comin My Way - TAMPA RED
- Way Out On The Desert - ROOSEVELT T. WILLIAMS
Accessible, authentic arrangements
Standard notation, tablature, and chord diagrams
Vocal melodies and lyrics
CD with all the music played slowly and up to tempo
Background on the artists and songs
Historic photos
contents:
CD Track List
Introduction
Music Notation Key
Theory and Harmony Basics
The Box in America (a Brief History)
FUNDAMENTALS
Alternating-Bass Fingerpicking
Take Me Back
Sugar Babe
Milwaukee Blues
Open Tunings
Sebastopol
Spanish Fandango
Bottleneck Slide
John Henry
Railroad Bill
SONGS AND STYLES
Eight Views on the Blues
Crow Jane
Things About Cominl My Way
Jack o' Diamonds
Roll and Tumble
Stack Leels Blues
Blues in A
Buddy Boldenls Blues
Way Out on the Desert
Back to the Country
Liberty
Bear Creek Hop
Amos Johnson Rag
Guitar Rag
I Got to Cross That River of Jordan
Spanish Fandango
Naturals: Sam McGee and Furry Lewis
Buckdancerls Choice
Railroad Blues
Judge Harsh Blues
I Will Turn Your Money Green
FURTHER TRAVELS
Guitars and Gear
Essential Recordings
Reference Materials
Acknowledgments
About the Author
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