It's How You Play the Game

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 Jelly Roll Morton's city: New Orleans, home of my adolescence and reacquainted myself with the tinges of Spanish in its rich musical heritage. One of these pieces was the Mardi Gras Mambo, an iconic song frequently played during Mardi Gras and, in David Newman's reworking of the lyrics, at the New Orleans Saints football games as the Super Bowl Mambo. Uncited sources on both Wikipedia and Essortment say the word Mambo means 'conversation with the gods' in Kikongo, the language spoken by Central African slaves taken to Cuba where it became the name for a musical form and a dance style that developed originally in Cuba in the able hands of Cachao's (Bassist Orestes Lopez) tune: Danzon Mambo. This rhythmic style became famous in the 1950's following its use in dance bands in Mexico and through New Orleans to the United States. The infectiousness of the New Orleans re-interpretation of the Mambo's ostinato bass line and the reaction of people who are readily moved to dance when they hear it spoke to me of dance and celebration. This led me to choose some of this piece's characteristics and title for this piece: Mambo for MO. As we have progressed on the instrument, some of us may have encountered the four-chord descending minor chord progression known as the Andalusian cadence: i - VII - VI - V in many different genres and guises. After all, it appears in Ray Charles' Hit the Road, Jack, the verse on Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys, Walk, Don't Run by The Ventures, Runaway by Del Shannon and in that great work arranged and embraced by the Guitar: J.S. Bach's Chaconne from the Partita in D minor for solo violin, BWV 1004. This bass line derived from a Latin American musical style as reinterpreted in New Orleans, a chord progression that evokes the Flamenco Music of Spain, and my impressions of the sinuous lines of people dancing the Second Line in the streets of New Orleans at Mardi Gras led me to this synthesis as a tribute to a man who has contributed so much in his lifelong efforts for the guitar, its history and lore on the occasion of his birthday! Happy Birthday, Matanya! Carlos Barrientos was born on June 25, 1954 in Tela, Honduras. He began his formal music studies at the National Music Conservatory in Guatemala City, Guatemala C.A. His training with Maestro Elias Barreiro, Director of Guitar Studies at Tulane University, was supplemented with Master Classes with Manuel Barrueco, Leo Brouwer, Juan Mercadal, Michael Newman, Tommy Tedesco and Carlos Barbosa-Lima. He studied composition under the tutelage of Dr. Jerry Sieg, University of New Orleans, and Dr. Roy Johnson, Florida State University. He consulted with Michael D. Martin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Music, Albany State University, Albany, GA in the creation of a recordings library that reflects Western Art Music and American Jazz for the students at Albany State University. The New York Premiere of the First Movement of his Second Guitar Sonata was dedicated to and performed by Classical Guitarist Maestro Carlos Barbosa-Lima in 2003 at Carnegie Hall. At the request of U.S. Senator Bob Graham one of his compositions, Si Tu Te Vas (If You Go Away), was included on a recording to promote The Everglades Trail. In 2004, at the American Church in Paris, France the World Premiere of his Romance for Flute and Guitar was performed by the award-winning Serenade Duo, flutist Michelle LaPorte and guitarist Gerry Saulter. He has performed with such legendary musicians as Herbie Mann, Donald Byrd and Debbie Reynolds, led an on stage Renaissance Trio in a University of New Orleans production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, and played incidental music for their production of Bertold Brecht's The Good Woman of Sichuan. He has performed Carulli's Guitar Concerto in A, Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story and Marvin Hamlish's A Chorus Line with the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra and Okaloosa-Walton Community College, Niceville, FL, and with the Southern Art Music Ensemble, a Jazz/Latin Fusion Sextet, including an Honors Convocation in Atlanta for Mr. Ted Turner. He has been a guest performer with the Albany State University Jazz Ensemble at The Fletcher Henderson Jr., Macon and Atlanta Jazz Festivals, and played the banjo in the Albany State University /Albany Symphony's co-production of George Gershwin's Opera Porgy and Bess.

Par BARTOK BELA. Béla Bartók’s “For Children” is one of the best known pedagogical works for piano teachers of the twentieth century, second only perhaps to the same composer’s “Mikrokosmos”. It was based firmly on the huge number of folk songs he collected, recorded and studied with his colleague Zoltán Kodály. At the time, Bartók was offering something very new to piano teachers and their students. Siegfried Steinkogler became acquainted with “For Children” at the beginning of his guitar studies and, from them, learnt a great deal about melody and harmonisation. He has chosen 38 of the original 79 pieces to offer in arrangements for the guitar. They are presented with helpful fingerings, technical solutions and aids to familiarize the younger students with common notations. For beginners, ten of the pieces are played exclusively in the first position before a gently increasing level of difficulty helps the player broaden their skills. In these arrangements, Bartók’s ingenious teaching pieces will be as invaluable to guitarists as they have been to your pianists for over one hundred years./ Répertoire / 2 Guitares

Now you can play over 250 of your favorite songs from Broadway, movies and television, all in one book! This book provides the lyrics along with piano and chord arrangements for some of the greatest hits ever written for the stage and screen. / Miscellaneous, Scores, Songbooks / Recueil / Piano, Voix, Guitare et Clavier

Bert Jansch was one of the most influential and unique guitarists to emerge from the British folk music scene of the sixties.His influence can be traced in the playing of Neil Young Jimmy Page Johnny Marr andcountless others. Over the course of nearly fifty years he produced a prodigious body of work as a solo guitarist singer and songwriter as a member of the seminal'folk-baroque' band Pentangle as a duo with his equallyrevered friend John Renbourn and in a variety of other ensemble situations.On The Guitar Of Bert Jansch Taught By Rolly Brown we explore a representative selection from the folk traditional and bluessegment of his Guitar arrangements ranging from simple early folk Guitar settings like 'Running From Home' to his most iconic sophisticated and original accompaniments(e.g. Reynardine Black Waterside). These are carefullyarranged little gems and his virtuosity as a guitarist allowed him to have a very specific and beautifully wrought arrangement while still showing an ability to create a number of subtle variations which occurred in hisrecordings over the years.Rolly Brown first heard Bert's playing in the mid-60s and has been a fan ever since. Along with basic arrangements Rolly discusses variations introductions and endings whereappropriate.Titles include Running From Home Blues Run The Game Strollin' Down The Highway In The Bleak Midwinter and more.

un livre contenant cinquante chansons cultes de ces cinquante dernières années. Avec des titres comme 'Memories are made of this', 'Whatever will be will be', 'Eloise', 'Mull of Kintyre' et bien d'autres encore. Edition allemande / Niveau : Elémentaire / Rép International / Recueil / Piano, Chant et Guitare

If you're new to the guitar, you are probably eager to learn some songs. This book features special arrangements in standard notation of a variety of songs from pop/rock hits and standards to show tunes and movie themes that guitarists can play with a teacher or band. Includes: Chopsticks · Clocks (Coldplay) · Eleanor Rigby (The Beatles) · Game of Thrones Theme · Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen) · Linus and Lucy (from A Charlie Brown Christmas) · Memory (from Cats) · Over the Rainbow (from The Wizard of Oz) · Star Wars (Main Theme) · What a Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong) · You Raise Me Up (Josh Groban) · and many more.

Description Learn how to play Guitar using the songs you know and love from the incredibly popular video game! This all-tab method is designed for anyone just learning to play Acoustic or Electric Guitar. It is based on years of teaching guitar students of all ages, and it's the perfect guide to help make the transition from video game console to a Guitar fun and easy. Songs include: Creep; Don't Fear the Reaper; Mississippi Queen; Say It Ain't So; Wanted Dead or Alive; When You Were Young and more! The CD contains 99 tracks, including full-band tracks for demonstration or play-along. This title is included in the Rock Band Beginning Guitar Pack (HL00650735) along with the Rock Band: Easy Guitar album (HL00702242) for those who wish to also obtain repertoire for when they've finished learning! Songlist Are You Gonna Be My Girl [Jet] Creep [Radiohead] Detroit Rock City [Kiss] Don't Fear The Reaper [Blue Oyster Cult] Highway Star [Deep Purple] In Bloom [Nirvana] Long Time [Boston] Maps [Yeah Yeah Yeahs] Mississippi Queen [Mountain] Paranoid [Black Sabbath] Run To The Hills [Iron Maiden] Say It Ain't So [Weezer] Should I Stay Or Should I Go [Clash, The] Wanted Dead Or Alive [Bon Jovi] When You Were Young [Killers, The]