John Lee Hooker recorded hundreds of songs throughout his career that spanned from the late 1940's until his death in 2001. Very few blues musicians reached the heights that Hooker achieved among his many awards Hooker wasinducted into the Blues Hall of Fame the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. John Lee Hookers trademark one chord blues style can betraced back to his Mississippi roots where he first learned to play guitar and although often described as a simple technique the rhythm found in his playing is the bedrock by which all things blues fingerstyle rock etc. isbased upon. John Lee Hooker played out of standard tuning E position and Spanish tuning typically Open A and nearly all his recorded works fall into either category. Breaking this collection into two parts Feldmannwalks you through every aspect of Hookers playing style in both Standard and Spanish tuning. You'll even be treated to live video footage of Hooker performing the tunes taught out of Standard tuning on electric and more rare acoustic guitar. Whether your looking to learn Hookers songs licks or playing style you'll find those elements in spades plus most importantly you'll improve your rhythmic technique which will benefit your own playingregardless of genre. Tunes include: 'Maudie' 'Tupelo MS' 'I'll Never Get Out of These Blues Alive' 'Boom Boom' 'Boogie Chillen' 'Hobo Blues' 'I'm A Crawling King Snake' 'Bundle Up and Go'.
SKU: MB.31103M
ISBN 9781513468792. 8.75x11.75 inches.
Adam Granger self-published the first edition of Grangerâ??s Fiddle Tunes for Guitar in 1979. A second edition was published in 1994. Now Mel Bay Publications presents the third edition of the book.
This 236-page book is the most extensive and best-documented collection of fiddle tunes for the flatpicking guitar player in existence, and includes reels, hoedowns, hornpipes, rags, breakdowns, jigs and slip-jigs, presented in Southern, Northern, Irish, Canadian, Texas and Old-time styles.
There are 508 fiddle tunes referenced under 2500 titles and alternate titles. The titles are fully indexed, making the book doubly valuable as a reference book and a source book.
In this new edition, all tunes are typeset, instead of being handwritten as they were in the previous editions, making the tabs easier to read.
The tunes in Grangerâ??s Fiddle Tunes for Guitar are presented in Easytab, a streamlined tablature notation system designed by Adam specifically for fiddle tunes.
The book comes with a link which gives access to mp3 recordings by Adam of all 508 tunes, each played once at a moderate tempo, with rhythm on one channel and lead on the other.
Also included in Grangerâ??s Fiddle Tunes for Guitar are instructions for reading Easytab, descriptions of tune types presented in the book, and primers on traditional flatpicking and rhythm guitar. Additionally, there are sections on timing, ornamentation, technique, and fingering, as well as information on tune sources and a history of the collection.
Mel Bay also offers The Granger Collection, by Bill Nicholson, the same 508 tunes in standard music notation.
SKU: MB.WBM76M
ISBN 9781736363096. 8.75x11.75 inches.
This comprehensive book contains the solos found in five William Bay guitar solo collections.á The solos range from colorful foot tapping reels, breakdowns, hornpipes, jigs, fiddle tunes and sea chanteys to country and Celtic ballads and waltzes.á Also included are numerous original guitar solos.á All 143 solos in this collection are recorded by the author and online access to the recordings is included. All solos are presented in notation and tablature.
