How to Fingerpick Songs on Guitar

Rev. Gary Davis was a musical giant. His ideas spanned a wide range of techniques and styles. His repertoire featured blues, rags, show instrumentals and gospel songs. He played with his thumb and index finger to pick out complex melodies, rhythmic licks and lightning fast single-string runs. In this book, seven of Rev. Davis's blues are presented. These arrangements have been performed and recorded by a host of great artists including Bob Dylan, Taj Mahal, Hot Tuna, David Bromberg, John Renbourn, Bert Jansch and many others. These lessons are for the intermediate to advanced fingerstyle guitarist. The accompanying three CD lessons teach these arrangements phrase by phrase as well as presenting the original recordings. LESSON ONE: Our first lesson highlights two of Rev. Davis's most popular blues arrangements. Hesitation Blues is played in the key of C. Baby, Let Me Follow You Down is played in the key of G. LESSON TWO: The key of C was a favorite for Rev. Davis. In this lesson we explore the party tune Sally Where'd You Get Your Liquor From (made popular by Hot Tuna). Rev. Davis used to joke that he could play Candyman so many different ways that he would be able to play it nonstop for at least 8 hours without repeating himself! We look at two versions of this very popular folk blues with the regular Candyman followed by the Two-Step Candyman. LESSON THREE: 'Raggin' the blues' was a great part of Rev. Davis's repertoire. His Walkin' Dog Blues is a tour de force in a blues in C. All fourteen verses are transcribed here, and we study how this arrangement develops. Buck Rag is a fascinating rag played in the key of C. Single-string runs, counterpoint lines, rhythmic variations and syncopated bass patterns are featured. / Guitare (Fingerpick) / 40 pages / niveau : Intermédiaire / Partition/3-Cd Set - Format: 11,75 X 8,75

Sound like a pro with these 15 solo guitar arrangements carefully written for intermediate-level guitarists. Each solo combines melody and harmony in one superb fingerpicking arrangement. The book also includes an easy introduction to basic fingerstyle guitar. Songs include: Creep - Daughters - Everybody Hurts - Fast Car - Hey There Delilah - Iris - Sunny Came Home - To Be with You - Wake Me up When September Ends - and more.

Les arrangements de ce songbook sont soigneusement écrits pour les guitaristes de niveau intermédiaire. Chaque solo combine mélodie et harmonie dans un superbe arrangement en fingerpicking. / Guitare / Cassette

Par SILVERMAN JERRY. This is a great resource for the guitarist interested in blues. Jerry Silverman has picked out 31 all time favorite blues classics. Each songs is presented in two ways: First with the melody line, lyrics and chords and with a written fingerpicking accompaniment part - secondly as a fingerpicking blues guitar solo in notation and tablature. / Niveau : Débutant à Intermédiaire / Blues - Songbooks / Tablatures / Guitare Tablatures

Learn Music By Ear. Par MURPHY HENRY. (Formerly titled Basic Bluegrass Runs on Guitar Volume 1) Tired of just strumming the guitar? Wish you could add a little variety to your ryhthm playing? These runs will do it! Each run is explained note-by-note in Murphy's easy-to-learn style. She also shows you how these runs fit into simple three-chord bluegrass songs. Most of the runs are taught in the key of G, but we also introduce the runs in the key of C. In addition, we show you how to make the F chord and do the 'rocking bass.' These are basic, professional-grade runs that all good bluegrass rhythm players use. Yet, the are explained so clearly that even beginning guitar players can use them. This video is a direct follow-up to our Beginning Guitar DVD. If you can make G, C, and D, and play a few songs using these chords, you can learn these runs. Also for folks who have been playing a while but don't yet do any runs. A great way to take your basic strumming rhythm to the next level. / Niveau : Débutant / Bluegrass - Methods / Méthode / Guitare Flatpick et Fingerpick

The complete music instruction package. Read the easy-to-understand instruction book designed to get you playing right away and watch the expert teacher explain and demonstrate techniques and songs on the DVD. / Niveau : Facile / Méthode en anglais / Méthode / Guitare

Absolute Beginners: Acoustic Guitar is the complete guide to playing the Acoustic Guitar from the first time you pick it up all the way to playing your first songs along with backing tracks. With clear images, easy-to-understand text and demonstrations of every exercise on an Audio Download, this book is the easiest way to learn the techniques that are essential to learning to play the Acoustic Guitar.Absolute Beginners: Acoustic Guitar opens with a clear introduction to the parts of the Guitar, how to choose one and the different types. After this, you'll learn the differences between playing with a plectrum or your fingers, you'll tune up then you'll be ready to play! A guide to your first chords and strumming will get you making music, before you learn more chords, different strumming patterns and some scales. Throughout this, the included Audio Download allows you to hear each exercise as it should sound, ensuring you play everything correctly and train your ear at the same time.As you learn fingerpicking, the twelve-bar blues, some tunes and other techniques, you'll find you've gone from knowing nothing about the Guitar to being able to play songs, chords and even with others. The Audio Download also features professionally-recorded backing tracks for the songs so that you can play along and sound great. The book also features a handy guide to the notes of the neck and a chord reference sheet. If you're an Absolute Beginner with no knowledge of how to play the Acoustic Guitar, this book will guide you on this journey with pictures, an audio download, and practical advice from expert author David Harrison. The Absolute Beginners series has taught millions to play from novice to confident player over the years. Now it's your turn! / Guitare

Ernie Hawkins provides an in-depth examination of the guitar style of one of the most distinctive Blues originals, Blind Willie McTell.McTell made his name recording blues records from 1927, scoring a lasting 'hit' with the now-standard Statesboro Blues. His swift and clean fingerpicking technique, played on a Stella 12-string Guitar, inspired countless greats including Bob Dylan and Keith Richards. McTell was also a master slide player, able to melt hearts with both blues and gospel gems.In this DVD tutorial, Ernie Hawkins teaches Blind Willie's greatest songs, including Come Around To My House Mama and Broke Down Engine / Guitare

Travis-picking is a fingerpicking style that uses on-the-beat, alternating bass patterns picked by the thumb to support treble notes picked by the fingers. This book presents a dozen classic songs from a variety of genres and eras arranged beautifully in this distinctive style for intermediate to advanced fingerpickers. Songs include: Fields of Gold - Clocks - Happy Together - Brown Eyed Girl - House at Pooh Corner - Moonshadow - She Will Be Loved - In the Summertime - I Will Follow You Into the Dark - Jennifer Juniper - Walk Away Renee - Three Little Birds. The accompanying CD is a full-length, stand-alone listening recording. 'I keep running into folks who have attended your camp and they play great arrangements that you taught them. Well done, Mark!? -Pete Huttlinger, national fingerpicking champion. / Guitare

Par CARR JOE. This book helps guitarists who are currently stuck playing simple melodies develop fiddle-tune-like solos to bluegrass songs and tunes. Thirteen songs are presented in both a simple 'Carter-style' melody-based arrangement followed by a more 'fleshed out' fiddle-style arrangement. Using the licks and concepts presented here, guitarists can develop their own unique solos to popular songs. 'Angeline the Baker' is presented in a special four-part arrangement that details how to take a simple quarter-note-type melody and develop it into a full eighth-note-based flatpicking solo. Includes access to online audio. / Niveau : Facile / Etude / Guitare Fingerpicking

15 Songs Arranged for Solo Guitar in Standard Notation and Tablature. Carefully written for intermediate-level guitarists, each solo in this book combines melody and harmony in one superb fingerpicking arrangement. Includes an easy introduction to basic fingerstyle guitar./ Tablatures / Guitare