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Jazz Chord Solos For Beginners

Fred Sokolow introduces six timeless standards that demonstrate the self-accompanying art of chord solos. Sokolow introduces the melodies and chords for familiar tunes including Fly Me To The Moon and Georgia On My Mind, detailing a variety of ways that the tune and harmony can combine in one full solo, a sound popularised by many Jazz greats including Jim Hall, Martin Taylor and Joe Pass.The melodies and chords are themselves arranged for beginners, and Sokolow expertly guides you through any tricky spots and awkward chords. Soon you will have six complete solo guitar arrangements under you fingertips, complete with a few extra ideas to expand the pieces as you vocabulary develops. Furthermore, you'll find yourself able to apply these simple ideas to create self-accompanying arrangements of other standards and even your own songs. The disc includes a booklet featuiring all examples in Tab and notation.

Rick Udler: The Brazilian Sound for Fingerstyle Guitar

Brazil has produced some of the most vibrant and exciting guitar music in the instrument's history. In this lesson, Rick Udler discusses and demonstrates styles, techniques, and rhythms of Brazil's great players. This is a unique opportunity for guitarists to delve into the beautiful sounds of this musical land. Rick begins by going over chords that are commonly used by Brazilian guitarists. He then teaches the accompaniment to singer/songwriter Gilberto Gil's beautiful composition, "A Paz", to illustrate the use of chords with open strings. A step-by-step analysis of Bossa Nova accompaniment in the João Gilberto style follows along with suggestions on how to develop a better feel for this sophisticated, syncopated groove. The solo guitar rendition of the Antonio Carlos Jobim/Newton Mendonça classic "One Note Samba" will be a welcome addition to many players repertoires with it's rhythmic drive and rich harmony. Samba rhythms are then explored with examples that are sure to enhance one's groove and arsenal of techniques. Rick also gives examples of inner string movement which will prove invaluable to those looking for ways to generate more excitement and authenticity in their comping. A sambified version of "Happy Birthday" demonstrates how to apply these techniques to a familiar tune and make it sound fresh.And, to provide an even greater challenge for all players, Rick gives a detailed analysis of his tour de force solo guitar piece "Amigo Paulo", composed as an homage to his friend, guitar legend Paulinho Nogueira (1927-2003). This tune with it's choro influences incorporates many of the techniques Rick learned directly from the master and is sure to provide much musical food for thought for players who are looking for innovative new colours and textures to add to their playing.

Fred Sokolow: Travis Picking For Beginners

How do you keep that thumb-bass independent so it doesn't get derailed when your fingers pick the melody? Fred Sokolow makes it easy for beginners or intermediate guitarists by breaking it all down and taking each song step by step. First you learn the melody, then add the bass, then add the syncopation that makes it all swing. Songs include Nine Pound Hammer, I Am A Pilgrim, Windy And Warm, Whispering and Mack The Knife.

Tom Feldman: Bottleneck Slide Guitar For Beginners

There is nothing like the feel of a bottleneck sliding across your strings nor the sound that comes forth as it screams, growls and moans. What other tool can create the sweat or raw emotion of the human voice? But some believe that there is a sort of mystery behind the use of a bottleneck slide, but the reality is, anyone can learn to do it.In this lesson Tom Feldmann teaches you the very basics of how to play with a bottleneck slide. Starting with the most important step, producing a single note, Tom then takes you through many simple exercises getting you comfortable sliding on single, double and multiple strings.Starting in Open D (Vestapol) tuning, Tom uses Bukka White's Jitterbug Swing for the single string slide exercise, Robert Wilkins' I Wished I Was In Heaven for double string exercise, an Elmore James style shuffle for a multiple string exercise and closes with Guitar Rag by Sylvester Weaver which brings together all of the elements in one wonderful instrumental.Since the basics were covered in Open D, the lesson closes with two songs in Open G (Spanish) tuning; Charley Patton's I'm Going Home and Bobby Grant's Nappy Headed Blues. These two songs will give you a solid foundation for single, double and multiple string slide in Open G tuning.Vibrato, left and right hand dampening, as well as alternating and monotonic bass are discussed in detail and used throughout the lesson. A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD. In addition the original recordings of all the tunes are included.

Celtic Melodies For Fingerpicking Guitar

In these three audio lessons, Duck Baker, Stefan Grossman, and John Renbourn teach six Celtic fingerstyle guitar solos. The three compact discs offer three full hours of note-by-note, phrase-by-phrase instruction, and all of the arrangements appear in the book in notation and tablature. Lesson One, by Duck Baker, teaches Planxty Irwin in Drop D tuning and Hewlett in standard tuning. Lesson Two, by Stefan Grossman, introduces Open G minor tuning for Logan Water and Captain Magan. Lesson Three, by John Renbourn, continues G minor tuning with arrangements of Mist Covered Mountains and The Orphan. This lesson concludes with five bonus tracks featuring performances by Davey Graham and Dave Evans.

Fred Sokolow: Jazz Standards For Beginners

If you love old standards like Autumn Leaves and Moonglow, but always thought only advanced guitarists could play jazz, you'll love Fred's easy-to-play jazz chord solos. In this lesson, you'll learn six timeless tunes from start to finish: how to play backup while you sing them, and how to play a beautiful chord melody solo/instrumental for each song.The tunes are arranged for beginners, with very few difficult chords. Fred plays and sings each song, then goes over the tricky spots in each tune before playing it slower, on a split screen with close-ups of both hands. Best of all, you can read all six arrangements (tablature, music and chord grids) in the booklet that comes with this lesson as a PDF file on the DVD. Chord soloing (playing the melody and chords at the same time) is a very complete and satisfying guitar style. This lesson will get you started and Fred's relaxed teaching style makes it easy.Songs include: Autumn Leaves, Moonglow, Gee Baby Ain't I good To You, Til There Was You, Young At Heart and In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning.A detailed tab/music instructional booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD.

Fiddle Tunes For Fingerstyle Guitar

It is a challenge to arrange and play American fiddle tunes and Celtic melodies on the guitar. This set of lessons presents several approaches for the intermediate guitarist with 3 CDs containing 3 full hours of instruction. Written in notation and tablature. LESSON ONE: Dave Laibman's arrangement of Colored Aristocracy features a Chet Atkins approach. Midnight on the Water, a beautiful Texas waltz, was arranged by Duck Baker and features counterpoint lines and variations on the theme. The West Wind is an evocative Irish air played with a classical feel. LESSON TWO: American fiddle tunes: Boys, My Money's All Gone played in a Nashville style and Last of Callahan, an arrangement using a counterpoint bass line played against the melody. LESSON THREE: Fiddle tunes from Ireland and America: Rights of Man and Drunken Wagoner both played in a dropped D tuning (D A D G B E).

Irish Jigs And Airs - Arranged For Fingerstyle Guitar

Arranged for Fingerstyle Guitar. This set of audio lessons contains three compact discs featuring note-by-note, phrase-by-phrase instruction. All the music is presented in notations and tablature. Lessons are taught in Drop D tuning (DADGBE). As a special bonus, this book includes an interview with Duck Baker and an explanation of the tab system.

The Music of Motown : for the Fingerstyle Guitarist

We all grew up with the sounds of Motown. In this double DVD lesson Alberto Lombardi puts his fingerstyle talents to arrange four all time Motown great hits.You Can’t Hurry Love: What a happy uplifting song! The key is to get a good groove! An alternating bass reminiscent of Chet Atkins was perfect for most of the song. Alberto uses a tiny bit of percussion on the guitar to capture the original bass groove. Being an up-tempo tune, a few blues licks are added to give an electric guitar feel. Harmonics are introduced in the chorus to replicate the background vocals of the Supremes.How Sweet it is (To Be Loved By You): This arrangement is based primarily on James Taylor’s cover of Marvin Gaye’s original version. Alberto replicates Taylor’s tenderness and subtleties of his voice with embellishments, slides and legatos.My Girl: This song has a killer guitar riff! You can’t loose it in the arrangement. Alberto starts only with the riff and bass and then blends the riff with the bass part leaving room for the melodic vocals. As for all Motown vocal parts it’s full of subtleties and the arrangement preserves these.I Heard it Through the Grapevine: Marvin Gaye sang like an angel! Alberto captures this expressiveness, both using the same refined lines and also the rough sweetness of his attitude. Very close attention was focused on building a bass line that works, very close to the original but appropriate for the “fingerstyle transformation” of the song. You got to keep it snappy and grooving. Harmonics impersonate the breathy vocals of the female background singers while the bass keeps the groove riff going.

School Of Ragtime: 10 Classic Rags For Guitar By Scott Joplin

In the early 1960's guitar players from the cities started to tackle arranging classic rags onto the guitar. Prior to this period there was no recorded evidence of guitarists attempting to do this. At the turn of the century Vess Ossman and Fred Van Eps successfully transcribed classic rags for the five-string banjo. But the role of the guitar was dormant until David Laibman and Dave Van Ronk started to experiment with these ideas.This album presents ten Scott Joplin classic ragtime arrangements. They illustrate the fascinating approach that a guitar can take when playing ragtime. Plus they are great challenges for guitarists to master. In the world of fingerpicking these type of instrumentals are left for the "advanced pickers."

Spirituals For Fingerstyle Guitar : Taught by Cory Seznec

Some time ago Cory began delving fairly deeply into the rich repertoire that is African-American Spirituals. Listening to the jubilee singers of yore, and some of the terrific recordings by Alan Lomax of vocal groups spurred him to find old hymnals and songbooks in order to arrange tunes for the guitar. Give Me Jesus is a soulful number that ended up being somewhat inspired by the playing of John Fahey, with down tempo strumming followed by more classic alternate bass picking. Roll De Ol' Chariot Along has a rollicking, syncopated feel that never really stays in one place, bouncing up and down the neck à la Revered Gary Davis. Lift Every Voice and Sing, aka the Black National Anthem, has a beautiful, harmonically rich feel and the 6/8 tempo allows the guitarist a fair amount of room in which to maneuver. Also included is a spirited version of This Train Is Bound For Glory, originally inspired by Big Bill Broonzy’s walking bass line, an arrangement of A Closer Walk With Thee that taps into the feel of a New Orleans brass band funeral procession, and a heavily swung and syncopated take on Rev. Thomas A. Dorsey’s heart-wrenching piece Precious Lord, Take My Hand. Titles include: Give Me Jesus, Precious Lord, Take My Hand, Lift Every Voice And Sing, Roll De Ol’ Chariot Along, A Closer Walk With Thee, This Train Is Bound For Glory

El McMeen: Sacred Music For Fingerstyle Guitar

The body of sacred music takes many forms and, except for the area of Gospel music, has not been routinely explored by fingerstyle guitarists. Yet there are techniques available to the fingerstyle player that can be used to create evocative and beautiful arrangements of religious music. In this DVD lesson, El McMeen demonstrates the use of various techniques including harp style arpeggios and alternating bass lines, as well as the open string tuning of CGDGAD, to make the power and beauty of this music accessible and exciting to the fingerstyle player. Includes a 24 page tab/music booklet containing all the music and examples found within the lesson. Thoroughly practical, interesting and a wonderful learning tool, El McMeen?s arrangements and playing bring a unique sensitivity to this music that encourages and inspires guitar students.

Jazz Classics For Fingerstyle Guitar - Volume 1

Pat Donohue is recognised worldwide as a virtuoso fingerstyle jazz guitarist, with a genre-blending fusion of techniques which makes him the perfect teacher for these jazz classics. The overall theme of these lessons is to show the roots of classic Jazz; leading on to how to arrange a jazz composition and then how to improvise around the arrangement using various techniques. In the first lesson, with the help of three great Jazz compositions, Pat describes the arrangements in detail and then guides you towards improvising over them. An exhaustive lesson, the DVD holds archival footage of the featured songs, including Duke Ellington performing Stormy Weather in 1943. A 24 page booklet of the music accompanies these 81 detailed and practical minutes of Jazz classics which will aid and improve your playing.

John Miller: Improving Your Ear For The Country Blues Guitarist

In this lesson John Miller will provide you with the tools you need to develop your ability to tell what position or tuning a Country Blues performance was played out of simply by listening to the recording. Believe it or not, this is a learnable skill and John, who has taught it for many years, will show you what to listen for and help you get started hearing the various auditory clues that identify the distinctive sound of the different playing positions and tunings most commonly used in Country Blues guitar playing. Developing your ability to do this kind of informed listening, or listening with knowledge will reap significant rewards for your playing, most especially improving your ability to learn by ear and increasing the speed with which you're able to pick up new material.One of the real advantages of having this material presented in this 2DVD format is that it allows John to go over the material in real detail, presenting the sound characteristics of the different playing positions and tunings at length, and providing you with memory devices to help you remember the sound of alternating bass for the different positions and tunings. The material is not presented in the abstract, either - as John goes along, he plays a host of examples drawn from Country Blues performances that help illustrate and exemplify the characteristic sound of each playing position. The PDF study guide that accompanies the lesson includes a summary of the sound characteristics that identify each of the playing positions/tunings presented in the lesson, as well as the memory devices that will help you remember the sound of the bass in the different positions. Also included on the DVD is a test to take when you have completed the lesson, with a selection of recordings of Country Blues played out of different positions and tunings for you to identify using your new skills. Disc One: E position, standard tuning ? C position, standard tuning ? D position, standard tuning ? A position, Standard tuningDisc Two: G position, standard tuning ? F position, standard tuning ? Dropped-D tuning ? Vestapol tuning ? Spanish tuning230 minutes ? Level 1 ? Detailed PDF booklet file on the DVD

Christmas Carols And Songs For Fingerstyle Guitar DVD

The variety of Christmas songs and Carols provides a fertile ground for fingerstyle guitarists. At the same time the familiarity of these tunes requires the guitarist to explore creative approaches in order to bring new textures and meanings to these timeless melodies. Employing various tunings, unusual chord voicings, counterpoint lines, alternating bass, arpeggio techniques and lost more, El McMeen explains his arrangements of Christmas favourites that range from Jingle Bells, a tender version of Away In A Manger to an evocative and breathtaking arrangement of We Three Kings. Three different tunings are explored: standard, DADGAD and CGDGAD and the lesson includes a 40 page tab/music booklet of the pieces within.

See What The Lord Has Done For Me : Rare & Unreleased Recordings

The songs on this collection, recorded in 1968 and 1970 at the Pittsburgh apartment of Ernie Hawkins find Reverend Gary Davis in a relaxed mood. The playing is light and loose at times as he reaches back into his vast musical memory to pull one surprise after another from his “bag of tricks” (his nonchalant term for guitar playing). Fingerpicked on the Rev’s Gibson J-200 and a borrowed Martin D12-35, these performances were not for the stage or the recording studio; rather, they chance upon Davis playing reflectively to himself and Ernie, you the listener privy to the intimate musical camaraderie caught on tape. So while not every note is perfectly played, it is perfectly Davis, who wows us with marvelous additions to his songbook and performances that stretch out in masterly ways: a “Blow, Gabriel” that swells in fiery exhortation over twelve minutes; an emotionally wrenching “Crucifixion” just under twenty minutes with neither note nor word wasted. As the title says, these are rare and previously unissued recordings, ones of historic and musical value. It’s uncommon for an artist to bemuse us anew nearly fifty years after his death, but Davis does so here. “That suits me,” he sings joyfully on the opening track, and I guarantee it will suit you, too.

Adrian Ingram: Jazz For The Electric Blues Guitarist DVD

An informative and interesting DVD lesson, taught by Adrian Ingram, into the techniques and concepts of advanced chords and styles for aspiring jazz guitarists. It helps beginner and intermediate players reach a higher plateau, and, the wealth of skills, styles and secrets contained in this indispensable DVD lesson, will enable you to join the illustrious ranks of jazz/blues fusionists! Learn the secrets of Jazz substitution and improvisation. Includes 32 page tab/music booklet. Turnarounds, chord families and further elaborations and inversions are explained. Colouristic devices such as Charlie Christian?s worry notes and Wes Montgomery?s octaves/ are also explored discussed.

Hot Licks : Exercises and Creative Tips for the Acoustic Guitarist

In this double DVD lesson Alberto Lombardi explores his approach to lick techniques on the acoustic guitar. Alberto has been an electric guitarist for most of his life. He had to adapt the things he does on electric to the acoustic guitar. He had to learn how to incorporate these techniques to his thumb picking arrangements. Obviously the biggest challenge was doing alternate picking with a thumbpick and not a flatpick. Alberto also found that hammer-ons and pull-offs needed a bit more strength, as the strings on his acoustic were heavier than his electric guitar. His approach and method has been almost exclusively the “rock approach” that uses repetitive patterns and then combines them, as opposed to the jazz way that studies entire phrases over changes. The aim of this lesson is to build a collection of patterns and ideas to develop a basis for further expansion and personal adaptation. You will study: • Legatos, • Alternate picking with the thumbpick • Hybrid picking • Harmonics - natural and artificial • Finger strengthening exercises • Lots of Hot Licks In this double DVD lesson Alberto Lombardi explores his approach to lick techniques on the acoustic guitar. Alberto has been an electric guitarist for most of his life. He had to adapt the things he does on electric to the acoustic guitar. He had to learn how to incorporate these techniques to his thumb picking arrangements. Obviously the biggest challenge was doing alternate picking with a thumbpick and not a flatpick. Alberto also found that hammer-ons and pull-offs needed a bit more strength, as the strings on his acoustic were heavier than his electric guitar. His approach and method has been almost exclusively the “rock approach” that uses repetitive patterns and then combines them, as opposed to the jazz way that studies entire phrases over changes. The aim of this lesson is to build a collection of patterns and ideas to develop a basis for further expansion and personal adaptation. You will study: • Legatos, • Alternate picking with the thumbpick • Hybrid picking • Harmonics - natural and artificial • Finger strengthening exercises • Lots of Hot Licks

Lasse Johansson: Early Jazz for Fingerstyle Guitar (DVD)

The ragtime and early jazz music pioneers during the first decades of the last century didn?t know that the sounds they created would echo in the music that people loved for years to come. They started an American music tradition that is alive to this day. I was born and raised in Sweden and I have always enjoyed the music from that era but being a Guitarist, I never thought that playing back-up in a jazz band was for me. I?d rather do something with these songs so that they would fit my approach playing fingerstyle Guitar.Many of the early jazz songs and of course classical ragtime often is played as Piano music, with a steady left hand playing bass notes and chords together with the right hand playing a syncopated melody on top. This style of playing is very similar to the alternating bass style on the Guitar. So these tunes easily lend themselves to a fingerstyle arrangement.With classical ragtime I approach arranging by transcribing the original Piano sheet-music. The important thing is to find keys that suit the Guitar and then decide what notes not to play since it is not technically possible to play all the notes in a Piano score on the Guitar. I like to play in keys that will give me the opportunity to use open strings in the bass while the melody moves up and down the neck. This is especially important since my aim is to make my arrangements not too difficult to play, so that the player can concentrate on the music instead of being too concerned with the technical aspects of his/her playing. The most important challenge though, is to make the tune sound like Guitar music, not Piano music played on the Guitar.

Fred Sokolow: Bawdy Blues For Fingerstyle Guitar

The blues has always been spiced with suggestive metaphors. This collection of bawdy blues songs celebrates the off-colour blues repertoire: Bessie Smith is wild about her kitchen man's turnip tops, but Bo Carter's pencil won't write no more! There's lots of variety, with songs from the 1930s, 40s and 50s; some are simple three-chord blues tunes and others have beautiful, ragtimey chord changes.Fred shows you how to play accompaniment and solos for all the songs. The evocative titles include Ain't Got Nobody to Grind My Coffee (Clara Smith), She's Your Cook But She Burns My Bread Sometimes and My Pencil Won't Write No More (Bo Carter), Kitchen Man (Bessie Smith), Big Ten Inch (Bull Moose Jackson), You Can't Tell the Difference After Dark (Alberta Hunter) and the holiday perennial Let's Make Christmas Merry, Baby (Amos Milburn).Fred shows you how to accompany yourself singing the songs, and how to fingerpick an instrumental version of each one. His easy-going instructional style, his tips on playing the arrangements, and his slowed-down, split-screen performances of each tune make learning easy. All the arrangements are written out in tab and music as well... both the backup and solos91 minutes • Level 2 • Detailed tab/music PDF file on the DVD

Fred Sokolow: Open Tunings For Beginners (DVD)

Open tunings are as old as the guitar itself, and they?ve been used to play blues, folk, country, rock and old-timey music. Who?s known for using open tunings? Artists as diverse as Robert Johnson, Bob Dylan, Maybelle Carter, Bo Diddley, Blind Willie McTell, Keith Richards, Doc Watson, Muddy Waters, Joni Mitchell, Ry Cooder, Neil Young, Fred McDowell, Jimmy Page, Son House, John Renbourn, Leo Kottke, Ani DiFranco, Alex de Grassi and Pierre Bensusan! In this 92 minute lesson, Fred shows you how, contrary to what many beginners might think, open tunings make it easier to play guitar. You?ll learn songs from all the above musical genres in open D, open G and DADGAD tuning. In addition to learning songs, you get some tips on how to improvise and play chords in G and D tuning. It?s a great way to expand your range on the guitar and get a whole different sound! Tunes include: Buckets of Rain, Statesboro Blues, Mean Old World, Little Sadie, K.C.Jones, Stackerlee, The Way I Am and I Didn?t See It Coming. Also included are bonus audio tracks featuring recordings from the 1920s to 1940s of some of these tunes so that you can hear how these songs can be played and sung.

Hot Licks : Exercises and Creative Tips for the Electric Guitarist

In this lesson we will explore Alberto Lombardi’s approach to single note techniques on the electric guitar. The electric guitar has always been Alberto’s main instrument, despite his deep love for fingerstyle acoustic guitar. Growing up as a musician in the early 1990s, there was a lot of focus on technique but at the same time Alberto was fascinated by the players that used their instrument in a very musical way, i.e. with unusual picking and note choice solutions. He was oriented by “pure” techniques like speed with alternate picking or super fast tapping, but he also loved fast flying phrases that were at the same time flashy and musical. As in his “Hot Licks for the Acoustic Guitarist” lesson, the aim in this lesson is to collect patterns and ideas to build a vocabulary, strengthen the hands and open a path to further exploring. Two recommendations: 1) Consider this lesson just a starting point, make your own variations and adaptations. 2) Start slowly and always use a metronome, this will help build a clean technique and sound. In this lesson we will explore and study: Legatos Alternate Picking Hybrid Picking Sweep Picking Bending Notes Finger Strengthening Exercises And lots of Hot LicksIn this lesson we will explore Alberto Lombardi’s approach to single note techniques on the electric guitar. The electric guitar has always been Alberto’s main instrument, despite his deep love for fingerstyle acoustic guitar. Growing up as a musician in the early 1990s, there was a lot of focus on technique but at the same time Alberto was fascinated by the players that used their instrument in a very musical way, i.e. with unusual picking and note choice solutions. He was oriented by “pure” techniques like speed with alternate picking or super fast tapping, but he also loved fast flying phrases that were at the same time flashy and musical. As in his “Hot Licks for the Acoustic Guitarist” lesson, the aim in this lesson is to collect patterns and ideas to build a vocabulary, strengthen the hands and open a path to further exploring. Two recommendations: 1) Consider this lesson just a starting point, make your own variations and adaptations. 2) Start slowly and always use a metronome, this will help build a clean technique and sound. In this lesson we will explore and study: Legatos Alternate Picking Hybrid Picking Sweep Picking Bending Notes Finger Strengthening Exercises And lots of Hot Licks

Ernie Hawkins: The Music Of Louis Armstrong Arranged For Fingerstyle Guitar

This DVD lesson could be titled The Music of Louis Armstrong for Finger-picking Guitar or Gary Davis Meets Louis Armstrong. Born in 1896, the brilliant Piedmont guitarist Gary Davis came of age in the teens and the twenties. He was in his prime during the Jazz Age and his playing shows it. His guitar style and techniques came out of the twenties. It enabled him to play like a band. His thumb playing the rhythmic sections of the band while his index finger soloed over this. Rev. Davis only used his thumb and index fingers to pick. When asked why he replied with a smile: ?That?s all I need!? In Rev. Davis?s playing you can hear the drive of Louis Armstrong as well as Louis?s bugle call riffs.Rev. Gary Davis's style is made to order to play Louis Armstrong tunes on guitar. As I learned most of what I know and do on the guitar from Rev. Gary Davis, this is how I see it and how I have approached arranging the tunes on this DVD lesson. Once you find the right key on the guitar these early jazz masterpieces seem to fall right into place. Putting Cornet Chop Suey into the key of C, for instance, enables you to play the patented ?Gary Davis Slow Drag G form C run' throughout as the statement of the initial melody.This lesson is over 2 hours and forty minutes. The arrangements are for the intermediate to advance players. They are multi-section compositions with lots of fingerpicking challenges. But all your hard work will be very worthwhile as these tunes are some of the greatest in the early jazz repertoire. Ernie teaches phrase by phrase and then uses the split-screen so you can carefully study what each hand is doing. Detailed tab/music booklets are included as PDF files on both DVDs.

Scott Joplin: The Entertainer - Classic Rags Arranged For Six String Guitar

The 1960s ragtime revival was the coming of age of a generation of fingerpicking guitarists. In ragtime, they found a music that was vastly challenging, great fun to play, and one that adapted well to the instrument. These were, for the most part, players who had taken up the guitar during the '60s folk revival and learned how to fingerpick Elizabeth Cotten or John Hurt tunes and were looking for more demanding material. Ragtime more than filled the bill - even 'easy' guitar ragtime is a workout.The first guitar ragtime recording, by Dave Laibman and Eric Schoenberg, was released in the late 60s and shows how high a level of skill young fingerpickers had reached in their attempts to master the idiom. This present collection features arrangements by a slightly younger Europeans inspired by Laibman, Schoenberg and Stefan Grossman. The Swedish team of Johansson and Palmqvist are possibly the most accomplished guitar duo to play ragtime. As with tennis, playing duos requires a particular skill.Two Dutch soloists are presented here - Ton Van Bergeyk and Leo Wijnkamp Jr. - two of the finest fingerpicking virtuosi of the day. The United Kingdom is represented by Welshman John James, who has gone on to a very active career on the British folk scene and Englishman Ton Engels, who has, like most of the performers here, gone off into other pursuits. This is also true of the fine Canadian guitarist, Jim McLennan. Dick Fegy has remained very much on the scene as David Bromberg's most dependable bandmember over the years, playing mandolin, fiddle, banjo, and acoustic and electric guitars. He is also a first-rate solo fingerpicker, as you will hear. He must toss off Paganini encores in his spare time!

Arranging Ragtime and Jazz Piano for Guitar